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Two protests broke out around Springfield on Jan. 30, and several Missouri State students used these protests to voice their concerns.

The protests, one held in front of Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt’s office and the other at Park Central Square, were in regards to President Donald Trump’s recent executive order, which has temporarily banned refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. These countries are Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia and Yemen. This ban is set to last 90 days, according to The Telegraph. Blunt recently spoke in favor of this ban.

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If you were driving on Sunshine Street this morning, you might have noticed the first protest outside of Blunt’s Springfield office. There were about 40 protesters. Caleb Hearon, who organized this protest, said this protest would send a message to Blunt.

“We want his staff to get the message to him that we don’t support what (Blunt) did and that he didn’t speak on behalf of all of us,” Hearon, a senior socio-political communications major, said.

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Students protest outside of Senator Roy Blunt’s office in Springfield.

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Bears head football coach Dave Steckel remembers Richard Nelson during Sunday’s service.

Once a Bear, Always a Bear Missouri State remembers Richard Nelson

Wyatt Wheeler Sports Editor @realYitWheeler With a No. 20 maroon Missouri State jersey to his left and a picture of the iconic smile that everybody spoke so highly of to his right, head football coach Dave Steckel remembered his freshman tailback Richard Nelson.

“As I sat in Vegas last Sunday, I listened to all these people talk; I had a better understanding of my player,” Steckel said while choking up. “I listened to everybody speak, and it hit home with me. I realized it’s an unbelievable honor to be a coach.

“It was an honor to be Richard’s coach.”

Teammates, coaches, friends, family, brothers, sisters, administrators and athletes from multiple Missouri State athletic teams gathered to celebrate the life of Nelson.

Nelson was shot and killed the night of Jan. 14 in his hometown of Las Vegas while defending his sister, according to court documents.

Nelson’s teammates had their arms around each other and wiped away tears while coaches shared their favorite memories and thoughts on their “son” who passed, and the team chaplain prayed over Nelson and the Bears. u See NELSON, page 6

The lineup for the 2017-2018 theater season was recently announced with “Chicago” headlining the season, but, as of recent developments, Missouri State University’s Department of Theatre and Dance no longer has rights to the show.

“The rumor is true, and we will not be producing ‘Chicago’ as part of our mainstage season next year,” said Michael Foster, associate professor of lighting design. “The reason is very simple: Samuel French, the licenser, did not give us the right to produce.”

It is believed by students in the department that the sudden pull of the rights to produce was due to the band Chicago, who is coming to Juanita K. Hammons Hall to perform this upcoming summer.

With the news of the show being pulled, there was tangible disappointment in the department.

“Everyone is always bummed when you get excited to do a show (and) then you don’t get to,” Seth Brown, a sophomore technical theater design major, said.

Even though the department is disappointed, they still plan to move on.

“That’s how the business goes,” Brown said. “Those companies

hold the rights so, professionally, you have to come to terms with it.”

After nearly selling out every showing of “Legally Blonde: The Musical” and “Angels in America: Part 1” last semester, there was an excitement for “Chicago” next fall.

However, the department has a strong track record of attracting students and faculty alike, regardless of the shows they put on based on previous shows turnouts.

Brown said he is confident that this won’t have a lasting effect on the department.

“Every show we do here is usually good,” Brown said. “So, whatever show it is, it will have a great cast and crew working on it to make it just as good or better.”

There is no word on what show will replace “Chicago,” but Brown said he expects something similar to the show “in taste to keep the variety of the show.”

“Chicago” was not set to be produced until the 2017-2018 season, so there is still plenty of time for the department to find a replacement, according to Brown.

As of now, the rest of the season is set the perform, it includes; “The Crucible,” “The Diary of Anne Frank,” “Heathers: The Musical,” “Twelfth Night,” the Fall Dance Concert and the Spring Dance Concert.

Car Thefts threaten Springfield community Casey A. Struble; Katie Haynes Staff Reporter; Reporter Trainee @Casey_A_Struble; @MoodyMusician The freedom of owning a vehicle makes life possible. It’s a channel to jobs, classes and loved ones. The sudden loss of a car could lead to isolation.

From October to December 2016, the Springfield Police Department reported 556 stolen vehicle reports –– over twice the amount in the same quarter of 2015. Last year saw a seven-percent decrease in crimes against people (assault, homicide, etc.), but crimes against property increased by 22 percent –– 4,157 reports for the year of 2016.

“Car thieves are usually repeat offenders,” said Lt. Grant Dorrell, issuer of the 2016 Springfield Safety Report. “Those convicted of auto theft are typically receiving lighter sentences, getting back out into our communities sooner and re-offending.”

“A first time felon, no criminal history, who has stolen a car, is going to look at the whole range. One day to one year,” said Johnathan Barker, the first assistant prosecuting attorney for property fraud.

What starts as a class D felony is put through much consideration. The attorney and court go though the defendants’ history and personal life – age, recurring crime, and drug addiction all affect the outcome.

The usual outcome is probation from a plea.

Probation officers and/or “shock incarceration” (120 days in the department of corrections that releases to probation rather than parole) serve to give those newly-lawful a chance.

“We don’t want to put a lot of people in prison if we think we can solve the problem,” said Barker.

With lighter sentencing, the crime can seem low-risk, especially with the right opportunity.

According to Dorrell, 30-40 percent of auto thefts occur when the keys are left in the ignition. This is called a “warm-up” theft as many leave their car running and unattended to warm up while they run into a store.

The problem has expanded to Missouri

State’s campus. In the last three years, at least four cars have been stolen on campus annually –– one of which was owned by MSU. Jenora Allen, senior nursing major, discovered an open parking spot where her car should have been behind Beacon Apartments. “(It was) basically a stone’s throw from campus,” Allen said, whose car was stolen Oct. 8, 2016.

Allen’s car was found about a week later in Kaiser, Missouri; It was littered with illegal drugs. There could have been potential damage to Allen’s academics as well. Allen struggled to make it to Mercy Hospital, where her clinical orientation was held.

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Suspect not found New dorm may be in armed robbery coming by fall 2019 Cortlynn Stark Staff Reporter @Cortlynn_Stark At about 2:12 p.m. on Friday, Springfield Police Department officers received a report of an armed robbery and were dispatched to Hutchens House at Missouri State University.

A text alert sent by MSU at about 2:41 p.m. said, “A report of an armed AfricanAmerican Male, wearing a camo vest and hat, last seen fleeing Hammons House. Report suspicious activities.”

An email sent to students said that after a preliminary investigation, the location was actually Hutchens House.

All residence halls, Greenwood School, the Child Development Center and Taylor Health Center were locked down for about an hour and 15 minutes.

According to an email sent to students, the suspect was described as an African-American male wearing a camouflage vest and hat, and gray sweatpants. A SPD news release described the suspect as about six feet tall, 190 pounds and in his 20’s.

Lt. Grant Dorrell said that the suspect was described as having scruffy hair and sideburns, carrying a tan backpack and wearing Nike shoes.

“What was reported to us was that a suspect was on the sixth floor of Hutchens House,” Dorrell said. “And he displayed a weapon to one of the residents, and he was able to leave the scene with a cell phone and an undisclosed amount of cash.”

According to the email, the suspect displayed a silver handgun.

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Paul Williams tweeted that the reports of an armed robbery were true and there was not any type of shooting incident.

No injuries have been reported.

According to MSU’s status update, the suspect was last seen near McDaniel Street and Hampton Avenue.

Students and the surrounding campus community were advised to stay where they were and to not travel to campus.

The all-clear was given at 4 p.m. According to the news release, the suspect left on foot and has not been found. The SPD is actively investigating the situation.

MSU tweeted that residence halls would remain under lockdown throughout last weekend.

Career Center under new roof

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The Career Center’s satellite office moved out of Glass Hall last week to open up space for the ongoing construction and renovations in the building.

According to David Meinert, the associate dean of the College of Business, approximately 80 percent of the renovations are complete within the existing building, and most of the occupants on the first floor have to be relocated to continue the remodeling.

Todd Euglow, a career resource specialist with the Ca-

reer Center, said that the satellite office has been a convenient resource to the College of Business.

According to the enrollment report from the fall 2016 semester, the College of Business is the most populated college at Missouri State University. The satellite office was formed to create a more convenient location for students on a different part of campus and to accommodate for the large number of students in the College of Business.

Euglow said they have tried to make this move as seamless as possible for students. The staff has been working with students while also

Cortlynn Stark Staff Reporter @Cortlynn_Stark Missouri State University students could live in a new residence hall as early as the fall of 2019 if the plan is approved by the Board of Governors.

“As a result of continued enrollment growth, we’ve been pretty pressed to have enough room to accommodate everybody,” Gary Stewart, director of residence life, housing and dining services said.

All first-year students under 21 years old are required to live on campus unless they have more than 30 credit hours after graduating from high school.

“There’s so many benefits to being on campus,” Dr. Dee Siscoe, vice president of student affairs, said. “Proximity’s great, but just the ability to be close to your classmates, to have people close by that you can study with, go to events and programs with. There’s just such a positive situation if you live on campus, so we’d love to have more students be able to do it.

Students who live on campus also perform better academically.”

“We know, based on our research and national research, that students who live on campus are more likely to stay and they’re more likely to graduate and have a higher grade point average,” Siscoe said.

According to Stewart, residence life doesn’t receive state funding and is required to be self-funded.

“We would take out what the average person would consider to be a mortgage, and we would do a bond issue or maybe have somebody else build it,” Stewart said.

Stewart said it would be a traditional style residence hall with 400 beds and community privatized bathrooms.

“It would also need to probably have a dining center,” Stewart said. “Garst and Blair Shannon’s dining centers are pretty much maxed out. If you go to lunch right at lunch time, it’s going to be really busy –– dinner is the same way.”

He estimated the cost of the new residence hall would be between $18 and $20 million.

“We want to be frugal and

conservative and do what’s right that would be sustainable for the future and, at the same time, provide additional beds for first-year students,” Stewart said. “It’s kind of a juggling act because we can only spend, budget for, what I take in. I want to maintain as low a room-and-board rate as possible.”

MSU is cheaper than all but three competitors: Southeast Missouri, Missouri Southern and Lincoln.

Student input is a huge factor in making decisions about the residence hall. Stewart said he wants to know what would make students want to live in the new hall.

The location for the new residence hall has not been picked yet.

On Feb. 3, Siscoe will present again at the board meeting that starts at 1 p.m.

“We’ll see what the board thinks, whether they think it makes sense or it doesn’t right now, and we’ll go from there,” Siscoe said. “If they give us a thumbs up, then we’ll really start planning more. If they say no, the time’s not right, we’ll say OK and wait until the time is right.”

managing the process of moving.

“It is an inconvenience anytime you have to move,” Euglow said. “It has been our goal to be available to all students.”

Euglow also said the staff at the Career Center is well trained and capable of handling almost any student’s situation, even if staff members seem unfamiliar.

So far, Euglow has not received any complaints about moving back to Carrington Hall. He said he has only heard excitement from most students about the new facilities the NINA TODEA/THE STANDARD Career Center’s satellite office will be moving back into after The Career Center is moving back to its old home in Carrington Hall while Glass u See CAREER, page 8

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TRUST, TRUTH AND THE PURSUIT OF HONESTY Ryan Welch Photo Editor; Columnist @_Rxan I’m going to be honest; the moment I heard Kellyanne Conway mutter the phrase “alternative facts” to the American people during “Meet the Press,” I cussed.

It wasn’t out of anger but more out of a frustration comparable to when it is 10 p.m. and you suddenly find out that the paper you’d been double-spacing must be in single space type.

Even though President Donald Trump and his administration have only been in office for little over a week, he has already started a war.

“I have a running war with the media. They are among the most dishonest human beings on earth, right?” Trump said from the lobby of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

The first war Trump has started is a domestic war against American news.

If this sounds stupid, that’s because it is. Though, I won’t say that we don’t deserve this.

American trust in the media is low, like … “only 32 percent of people trust the media” low. This number was pulled from a Gallup poll published in September 2016, for those of you wanting evidence.

Here is a question, though: Does that statistic mean that 68 percent of Americans don’t trust the media, or does it mean that 68 percent of Americans don’t like the media? I lean to the latter as being more true than the former.

Understand, we live in an era when sharing ideas has never been easier with endless social media platforms at our fingertips. The only problem is that some ideas need not be shared, such as Ms. Conway’s thought that you can have “al-

ternative facts.”

A fact is a thing that is indisputably true. An example would be that I am the photo editor for The Standard. There is no alternative to this, and any alternative should be called what it is: false.

Have you ever heard of an echo chamber? An echo chamber is a situation where information is shared inside a system, like Facebook, by like-minded people. This idea was confirmed by an academic study published in June, aptly named “Echo Chambers on Facebook.”

The large problem with echo chambers in social media is that, just like an echo, it only repeats what was already said, similar to closed communities on social media.

With every like of a page and every share of a story, Facebook algorithms design your feed to show you more of what you like and less of what

you don’t, which is great ... for entertainment purposes, not for news.

You don’t have to look far for evidence of this. Remember when everyone was deleting or muting friends that were voting differently than themselves during the 2016 election?

You see, while these closed echo chambers might make your Facebook feed feel like less of a war zone, they aren’t helping anyone at all.

The problem also stems from the fact that more and more people are getting news from sites that generally exist to entertain us. A recent Pew poll had 61 percent of millennials and 51 percent of generation X getting their news from Facebook.

News flash — sometimes the truth isn’t entertaining, sometimes it sucks. Sometimes it bashes the conceptions of what you thought to be true,

As college students, we are usually struggling for money. Many of us have one job, but some have several. According to a survey administered by Citigroup and Seventeen Magazine, “four out of five college students work part time.

About 18 percent actually pay their way through college.”

The jobs students have can vary as you get further along in school — seniors usually have jobs for practicums in their future profession, while underclassmen are usually still working in an entry-level, minimum-wage job. While these jobs are sometimes fun, they are almost always stressful, and the people with these jobs feel like they don’t make enough money for it to be worth it. I like my job because it is an escape from homework, and I love my coworkers, but dealing with customers makes the job very unpleasant at times.

Most people have worked a part-time, minimum-wage job at some point in their lives. People know what it is like to be the server, cashier, associate, etc. on the other side of the transaction. So, then, why are people so nasty when they are the customer?

No matter what day of the week or time of day I work, I always have at least one or more of the following: a customer angry about prices; a customer who confuses himself and blames me; and a customer who has had the worst day ever and has decided to take it out on all of us to ensure that our day is as bad as his.

I work at a movie theater. If you’ve been to a movie recently, then you know what I mean when I say “high prices.”

Yes, movie theaters do charge an obnoxiously high price for the items sold. It is a wide-known fact. Movie theaters fall in the entertainment category of business, meaning theaters can get away with charging so much, just like an amusement park can.

Besides that, movie theaters make all of their profits from concessions sales alone, with the exception of theater rentals, but those are rare these days. Ticket profits go straight to the film studios and those studios even take part of the revenue brought in from concessions as well.

I understand that you can get that same popcorn, drink and candy from a gas station (which there is one conveniently located right in front of the theater … hint, hint) for about five dollars, which is the equivalent to the soda price at the theater, but I am only 19 years old. I have worked at this job for a year-and-a-half; I am just an associate. I have no control on the prices. Please do not tell me to tell my boss to tell his boss to lower the prices. The prices are never going down, no matter how much you complain. Buy your snacks somewhere else or please stop whining.

If you’re reading this article, then I think it is obviously safe to assume that you can read. Knowing this, I find it concerning that so many people who come to the theater, most of which are college students or the elderly, can’t seem to read the menu directly above my head.

The elderly don’t bother me; I understand they actually might not be able to see the screen. I’m not trying to shame adults who can’t read, because I know there are many adults who can’t. What I’m focused on are my peers who are too lazy to read the board, so they read part of it, order the wrong thing, and then get mad at me because they didn’t order what they meant to.

Just. Read. The. Menu. Or ask me about something if you’re not sure.

I also find that the people who can’t seem to figure out the menu are the same people who respond to my “Hello” with “I would like…” and treat me like I am not a person or like I am somehow less than them because I’m on the other side of the counter.

And as for the customer having a bad day; I hope your day gets better. I will

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try my best to make sure your interaction with me improves your visit, and I will not let your bad attitude bring me down.

Next time you go out for dinner and a movie, be aware of the fact that the person serving you at both places is most likely a student who is struggling through college just like you. Don’t be a jerk.

Adding diversity to theater Ali Spies Columnist @alicethespy Something I am most passionate about is theater. I love everything about it, from late night rehearsals, stressing over if the show will be ready in time and then opening night when everything just magically comes together.

Being a part of a theatrical performance is one of the most amazing things in the world. I cannot even describe the feeling of completing a show successfully and everyone going backstage and hugging before

greeting the audience. Even being part of the production team and not on stage, this still gives me an adrenaline rush.

One of the things I love most about theater is how inclusive it can be. For many years, theater was mainly for white, able-bodied actors. Recently, it has branched out and included many actors of different color, shape and ability. This is so important because theatre is a place where people can go to relate to the situations put on stage. How can someone relate to a show or a character if all of the characters look, move and speak exactly the same?

One of my favorite shows is called “Spring Awakening.” This show is about teenagers in 18th century Germany and how limited information about sex education was to them. The show itself is very interesting and tells how important the need for communication is.

In 2015 a theater company called Deaf West decided to do a run of “Spring Awakening,” but half of the cast was to be deaf. This adds a whole new level to the story of the communication issues, since only some of the characters could speak, and only some could fully sign.

In the 18th century, anyone who

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Do you want to know if you are thin enough by Chinese beauty standards? Stand up straight. Take your left hand and wrap it around you back. Can you reach your belly button? Try to reach. Still no? You have failed the belly button challenge that young Chinese females are obsessed with.

It doesn’t matter if you succeed or fail the game. It’s just one more way of society manipulating women’s bodies to see if they are good enough.

It is no secret that Asian girls are crazy about the beanpole skinny, chopstick-like legs look. They want the slim waistline that can pull off any type of crop top. Boys will wait in line to ask for your phone number if you also have a pointy chin, watery eyes and white-as-snow smooth skin.

Unlike me, most of my Chinese friends are fortunate enough to have chopstick-like legs. So, I have always been called a “fat” girl in China, and this word haunted me through high school and followed me to Xi’an International Studies University, where the vast majority of the students are female.

At Xi’an International Studies University, I looked around and saw 90 percent of the girls wearing skinny jeans and miniskirts, while I had no choice but to cover myself in black men’s shirts and loose sports jeans. I feel heavy mentally and physically. Peer pressure deepened when my roommate Zhu, who is thin as paper, still wanted to lose a few pounds.

When every Chinese girl I know works out or skips dinner to keep in good shape, I always feel stressed to do the

was deaf was forced to speak in school, even if they couldn’t. This production of the show depicts this in a heart-wrenching way, with a teacher physically abusing a student for not being able to speak.

Because of this production, many of the deaf actors from this show have gone on and done more acting. I think this is so incredibly important because in mainstream media, there is so little representation of deaf, blind or other disabled actors. Television shows and movies will often cast abled people to play these roles instead of actors who are fully capable of doing the same job with their disability. I am

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you’ve become aware of it.

This has been a trend ever since media went digital. It is easier to sell a story to someone who agrees with you than having to fight tooth and nail against someone who disagrees.

That brings us to where we are now, stuck hunting for the facts because there are 10 alternatives to what you have been told.

But don’t worry; this sounds worse than it is.

All this means is that now, instead of a select few asking the tough question and reporting back, society as a whole needs to be asking tough questions, demanding sources and calling out people who try to sell alternative facts as the truth.

Society, welcome to being a journalist.

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like a game of whack-a-mole.

And just like the mole in that game would probably be the worst salesman for that game, so is the reader whose view has just been challenged and possibly proved wrong.

When a journalist throws a dash of alternative facts into a story, this doesn’t make a reader of opposing viewpoints more likely to share a story.

But I digress. Gone are the days when news, regardless of whether you agreed with it or not, was given to you on a platter and served with a side of cold, hard truth.

Now are the days when I subscribe to news outlets that support my views and block the ones that threaten them, thus changing our reality so that it supports what we think has never been easier.

However, here is the catch: it’s not your fault this has happened, though it will be your fault if this continues after

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same. When I reunite with old friends, the first question they tend to ask is, “Have you gained/lost weight?” Several friends even messaged me asking if I have become fatter since coming to America.

The belly button challenge and A4 paper waist are intended to examine if you have the perfect waistline and have gone viral on the Internet, distorting our perception of beauty in recent years. Because of these disgusting challenges that are trying to scrutinize the female body, women constantly feel insecure. It is because of these dominant standards constructed by mainstream media in China that women get buried into the dead abyss.

It also saddens me to see more and more Asia women are suffering from eating disorders, according to the National Association of Eating Disorders.

What is beauty? In my view, no measurement can define a woman’s beauty, and it certainly should not be confined to body weight and shape. If you respect your family, you are beautiful. If you work hard and get a high GPA, you are beautiful. If you love yourself, you are beautiful.

True beauty, self-worth and validation comes from within –– your personality, experience and empathy.

There is no amount of weight loss that can change what’s inside; there is no amount of makeup that can change what’s inside.

The most important and hardest thing is to be healthy and happy, both mentally and physically. Once you do that, you will realize you may never look perfect, but you will learn to accept and love your imperfections with ease, gratitude and far less resistance.

proud of the theater community for showcasing these actors, especially in a live musical theater setting.

Deaf West also showcased the first actress who uses a wheelchair on Broadway, Ali Stroker. It is insane to think that it took until 2015 to have an actor in a wheelchair perform on Broadway, but now that it has happened, hopefully more shows will consider casting actors in wheelchairs or with other physical limitations.

When I graduate and (hopefully) start my professional theater career, I will strive to help cast as many different people in my productions as there are in the world.

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The Chinese Students and Scholars Association kicked off celebrations for the Chinese New Year by presenting the Chinese New Year Banquet and Show on the night of Jan. 28.

Welcoming the Chinese New Year with dance Trinh Nguyen Staff Reporter People from many Asian countries are celebrating the Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year, of year 2017. In the spirit of this special festival, MSU and Chinese students celebrated the first day of the new year with the 2017 Chinese New Year Banquet and Show.

The banquet, presented by the Chinese Students and Scholars Association, was a Chinese cultural evening with traditional food, dance, music and art. The event had two parts: the dinner from 5:30-7 p.m. in the PSU Ballroom and

the performances from 7-9 p.m. in the PSU Theater.

According to Junyu Sun, a marketing management senior and the head organizer of the banquet, CSSA prepared for the event for half-a-year, including the staff, decoration, schedule of selling tickets; they also had a meeting lasting for five hours on Monday before the banquet presented on Saturday.

“The plans ran pretty well and were organized,” said Xingjie Wang, junior accounting major and member of CSSA. Lunar New Year originally came from China; the festival is not only celebrated in Main-

land China but also in countries that have been influenced

by China such as Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia, according to the MSU directed website.

The evening before the Chinese New Year’s Day was the time families gathered for the annual reunion dinner.

They also went shopping, cleaned houses and swept away the bad luck to welcome the fortune.

“The New Year festival is prepared by the parents; we, as the kids, just enjoy the festival, but we do help our parents to prepare like shopping, but the most important jobs are done by the parents,” Wang

said.

Many non-Chinese students also came to the Banquet and Show in celebration with Chinese students.

“I’m really excited just to learn more about the Chinese culture and especially about New Year’s; I know it’s a really big event in their cultures and countries,” Cindy Her, a middle school education senior, said. “I’m introduced to new foods, new type of dances and music and the cultures.”

Following the dinner was the show performed by Chinese students.

Shelby M. DeTienne, a senior dietetics transfer student who performed a Chinese hip-

hop dance with Chinese students at the show. She described her dance as a combination of Tai Chi— which is a Chinese martial art—modern hip-hop and modern jazz. “(The dance) is very mature and edgy, and it’s a balance between the traditional dance and hip-hop,” DeTienne said.

According to DeTienne, students started preparing the dance three months ago. They had a dance instructor who learned the dance and taught everyone.

For Chinese students who are studying and working at MSU, the banquet is a chance to celebrate their biggest hol-

iday and get together with other Chinese students.

Wang said that the celebration helped him overcome homesickness.

“The whole program kept us busy; we could have fun and enjoy it,” Wang said.

Starting from Feb. 1-4, a series of events celebrating the week of the Chinese New Year week will be presented on campus. They include a Chinese song performance, a variety of demonstrations and workshops, and the week will end with the traditional lion and dragon dances.

MSU Professor teaches theatre cross-culturally On the third floor of Craig Hall, between the blue and white hallways, Melanie Dreyer-Lude sits in her office. Posters and drawings hang on one wall, while a bookcase full of textbooks, books and scripts extends the length of another wall. Different colored leather Commedia dell’arte masks from a play she directed hang next to the door, smiling down at her.

Melanie, an assistant theatre professor at Missouri State University, has had a long history in the theatre world. Her interest in theatre has led to trips to several different countries. From helping students with projects to creating a performing arts school in a different country, she is leaving a lasting impact not only abroad, but also at Missouri State.

Inspiring Ugandans through acting

Melanie says she wanted to go to Africa but wasn’t sure which part of Africa she wanted to visit. While she was teaching at Cornell University in New York, she got an email from the Teacher Tour Sojourners asking if she wanted to give a lecture in Uganda.

Instead of going by herself, she took four students with her.

While there, they traveled to different villages, learned tribal music and dances and studied Ugandan culture.

When she started teaching at MSU in 2014, she says she knew she wanted to set up another trip to Uganda and provide a learning experience for students. After traveling to Uganda a second time to set up plans for the trip, she and seven MSU students went to

Uganda in May 2016.

“It’s a completely different world,” Melanie says. “We have our problems here in Missouri. There’s plenty of poverty, and there’s plenty of conflict, but (Uganda) makes our problems seem small, because we really are a first-world country with first-world problems. There’s nothing that will teach you more about cultural difference than traveling to a place that is very different from your own.”

Students not only dove into the culture but also directed a play based on an Uganda folktale called “Namugga, the Strong and the Brave.” This play was for the Ndere Troupe, which consists of about 100 musicians and dancers who perform traditional Ugandan dances.

Before Melanie’s third trip to Uganda, the founder and director of the Ndere Troupe, Stephen Rwangyezi, told her the troupe’s focus is on dance and music, but they know little

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After Melanie and the MSU students successfully directed this play, she says she and Stephen decided to set up a performing arts school. The school will be primarily for the Ndere Troupe, but Melanie says it might expand to something more.

The school and the troupe are part of the Uganda Development Theatre Association, which “organize, develop and enable the artistically talented, but socially disadvantaged young people, to break the vicious cycle of poverty and misfortune and realize their full potential,” according to the Ndere Troupe website. Melanie says Stephen auditions people from all over Uganda and tries to give them the chance at a better future.

“It would be like if someone grew up on a farm ... in the middle of Missouri, far away from anything, and they never had any aspirations for education, just wanted to finish high

The differences of a culture are often what create conflict, and all you have to do is get to know a culture in order to diminish the fear that surrounds that.

about theater. He wanted to expand the troupe’s skills and asked Melanie to adapt a play based on a traditional Ugandan folktale and help direct it. Adaptation is when someone takes a story and turns it into a play by breaking the story up into scenes and giving the characters dialogue.

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school, but happen to be really good at political debate,” Melanie says. “Somebody found them and said, ‘You need to go to Harvard Law School, and I’m going to make that happen,’ and then found a way to pay for that kid’s undergraduate education and get them to Harvard law … That’s what it’s like for (the Ugandans who are

picked for the UDTA). It really transforms lives for people who wouldn’t even imagine what it would be like.”

About 20 percent of Uganda’s population lives below the poverty line, according to the United Nations Development Assistance Framework for Uganda 2016-2020, a detailed plan to help Uganda develop its economy and society. According to this plan, the rate of poverty has gone down by four percent. However, Melanie says she believes poverty is still an issue within the nation.

She says she thinks the UDTA and the performing arts school will give more Ugandans a chance to get out of poverty.

Setting up a performing arts school is not an easy task, though, and Melanie says there’s a lot of planning involved. She and another student are creating the curriculum for the school, but when they create the curriculum, they have to consider the cultural norms in Uganda.

Another challenge with setting up the performing arts school is that the troupe understands body-based acting, but not textbook-based acting.

“If you try to teach bodybased acting like, ‘Do this dance or step,’ they know immediately what you’re talking about,” Melanie says. “But if you’re trying to do any textbook-based acting, they’ve never done it before, so they don’t have the vocabulary.”

However, the biggest challenge will be the language barrier. While English is one of the languages in Uganda, several of the troupe members grew up in tribal villages.

These tribal villages might speak different languages, which makes creating the curriculum and teaching the classes more difficult.

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Melanie Dreyer-Lude Melanie is confident the rewards produced at the performing arts school will outweigh the challenges that lie ahead.

“It’s a way for (Ugandans) to get out of poverty (and) have a chance to do something extraordinary with their lives,” Melanie says.

Observing society’s complexities in Germany

When Melanie isn’t in Uganda, she is traveling to other countries, one being Germany. For two and a half months, Melanie was in Germany, studying racism and

stereotypes. She received the Fulbright Fellowship grant, which allows recent college graduates and professors to travel to other countries and conduct research.

Most of Melanie’s time was spent in Berlin, observing immigrants and exploring how racism has changed in Germany. She says immigrants from Turkey have been coming to Germany over the last several decades. Now, Syrian refugees are also seeking shelter there.

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Social group calls for sensitivity and open-mindedness Asia Key Reporter Trainee “What is said here stays here.

What is learned here leaves here,” is one of the group’s sayings scrawled on an orange sheet of construction paper. It hangs adjacent to a rainbow colored flag on the wall in the Multicultural Resource Center Annex.

The statement was written among others that called for open mindedness and sensitivity to fellow members of the Queer Trans People of Color social group that met on Tuesday, Jan. 24. According to QTPOC attendee Millicent Bean, who is a queer multiracial woman of color, the purpose of this meeting was to get connected with people who share a similar identity.

“It was for people who identify as queer/trans and people of color to meet each other,” Bean said. “We

also discussed what we would like from the group in the future, which is becoming an official student organization.”

Bean said she is looking forward to planning for this group—so they feel like the university values and supports them—an effort that she said Missouri State has an obligation to fulfill.

“Universities are always seeking to create opportunities so that all students feel as though they belong, especially since MSU has made a commitment to diversity and our Public Affairs Mission pillar of cultural competence is important,” Bean said. “Some students felt like they were not being granted that, so we created it.”

Senior psychology major Brianna Moore doesn’t identify as queer or trans, but she is a woman of color and an ally to the LGBTQ+ commu-

nity. She said it is important to show support for every marginalized group.

“With a campus as big as ours, it’s so hard to find support groups,” Moore said. “Even if it’s outside the LGBTQ+ community, even for the black community. We all need allies.

We all need support somewhere on this campus. We won’t progress until we are reaching out to all groups across the campus.”

Students met to share their experiences as members of the QTPOC community while telling each other how they identify.

Junior and social work major Sadie Carrillo is Mexican and pansexual, which she said means she’s attracted to people for who they essentially are and not how they appear.

“Pansexual means that I am attracted to any and all genders,” Car-

rillo said. “Pansexual is kind of like, all types of people. My thing is, I don’t base how I feel about someone based on their appearance, how they look, their gender or their sexual orientation. I base it more on their personality and intellect, how they are and what they’re into.”

Aryne Say, an Asian-American junior interdisciplinary studies major, identifies as agender and demi-sexual. Say uses they/them/their pronouns.

“Demisexual is on the asexual spectrum, which means I have to have a strong emotional connection to someone before I’m sexually attracted to them,” Say said. “Asexual is when you don’t have sexual attraction, just like agender –– I don’t have a gender at all. I’m neither male nor female.”

Say wanted the group to build solidarity and to gain insight from

people who understand and go through the same things at a university that is majority white and heterosexual.

“Here you feel automatically like you’re out of the whole,” Say said.

“So when you have a group where you can feel safe, then we can build in the community.”

Bean said that creating this group is essential because of the opinions that are prevalent across the political landscape.

“It is an important space because in the current political climate, being LGBTQ+ and being a person of color comes with safety risks,” Bean said. “There are also systems and institutions that keep queer/trans people of color oppressed. A queer and trans student of color organization creates a support system for students who encounter the barriers of homophobia and racism.”

Visiting author shares short story collection Noah Standish Staff Reporter @NoahjStandish Author and Associate Professor of Creative Writing Alexander Weinstein visited Missouri State on Friday, Jan. 27 as part of the English department’s ongoing reading series. Sponsored by the creative writing program and the College of Arts and Letters, the series features guest speakers over the course of the fall and spring semesters to read literary works.

Weinstein read from his most well-known work, a collection of short stories entitled, “Children of the New World,” to a large and attentive crowd at the Plaster Student Union Theater.

The author also shared his experiences as an author and professor during a Q&A session prior to the reading, citing Stephen King and George Saunders as a few of his influences before offering advice to aspiring writers.

“It’s important to be

cognizant of your inner critic but to believe in what you’re doing,” Weinstein said. “I was rejected over 100 times before ‘Children of the New World’ was published, but that was such a great moment in my career.”

Weinstein also shared some of his rewarding experiences as an associate professor of creative writing.

“It’s important to realize how much of an impact (a teacher) can have on a student’s life,” he said.

In addition to being an author and a professor, Weinstein is also the director of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, a weeklong summer writing program based in Massachusetts.

“I love seeing a student begin to set sail and become inspired to think critically, creatively and openly,” Weinstein said.

Assistant Professor of English and Event Coordinator Michael Czyznie-

jewski, who teaches Weinstein’s novel in his ENG 562: Contemporary American Poetry/Fiction course, spoke highly of the reading series.

“This series serves primarily as an opportunity for students not only to listen to authors and poets, but to be inspired to build communities through reading, even off-campus in places like coffee shops,” Czyzniejewski said.

Assistant Professor of English Erin Kappeler also offered praise for the ongoing series, as well as an appreciation for the opportunity that it provides MSU students.

“The English department does a wonderful job offering not only a balance of student opportunities, but the historical context for their events as well,” Kappeler said.

After the reading, Weinstein took questions from the audience and held a book signing in the Paw Prints bookstore before departing for a reading in St. Louis the fol-

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Alexander Weinstein signs copies of his book, “Children of the New World,” at Paw Prints on Jan. 27. lowing night. Attendees had the chance to meet the author and purchase “Children of the New World.”

The visit to MSU marked the fourth visit to

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a university for Weinstein in January. The author has spoken at other colleges in Missouri recently, including University of Central Missouri and University of Missouri in

Columbia.

“I can tell there’s a great literary community in the state of Missouri,” Weinstein said of the traveling.

The next speaker in the

English department’s reading series is MSU alum Duane Gilson, visiting on Feb. 24 for a memoir and poetry reading.

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Rousseau to step away from basketball Wyatt Wheeler Sports Editor @realYitWheeler Junior guard Ronnie Rousseau III has decided to step away from the Missouri State basketball program at this time, head coach Paul Lusk announced Monday.

Since stepping away from the team for personal reasons on Jan. 7, Rousseau has been with his family in Cincinnati.

“From our standpoint, it’s been a heartbreaking thing to see — because Ronnie’s such a great kid — and to see

Rousseau, in the press release which announced him stepping away from the team, released the following statement: “Missouri State has been home since day one; I love my coaches and my brothers on the team. They’ve been nothing but a pleasure to be with every day.

“I appreciate the opportunity I was given to play for such a great university, and MEGAN BURKE/FILE PHOTO I appreciate everyone’s support for me.”

Rousseau III drives the lane during Nov. 11 game Lusk stresses that Roushim go through some strug- said. “First and foremost, we seau’s decision to step away gles has been tough,” Lusk support him and his family. from the team has not been

because of a wrongdoing.

Since transferring to Missouri State from State Fair Community College in Sedalia, Rousseau was a fixture in the starting lineup when available.

Rousseau averaged 11.6 points per game and 2.9 assists per game.

Lusk was also hesitant when questioned about the door being open for Rousseau’s return in the future “We haven’t even talked about that,” Lusk said. “Basketball is so far removed regardless of what anyone is saying. We’re worried about

the young man’s well-being; that’s the only concern we have at this point.”

In the last games without Rousseau, the Bears are 3-5.

“He’s not able to be here on campus,” Lusk said.

“He’s gone through some things, and he’s back with his doctor back in Cincinnati. We certainly wanted him back.

“I’ve never dealt with a situation like this ... We’re more concerned about Ronnie the person instead of Ronnie the basketball player.”

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Lions defeat Ice Bears, oh my!

Alec McChesney Staff Reporter @Alec_McChesney Just one week ago, the Missouri State University Ice Bears picked up two momentum-building victories over upstate rival Mizzou. But over the weekend, the Lindenwood Lions squashed all of the Ice Bears’ momentum, sweeping them in a dominant display of hockey.

Lindenwood, the reigning American Collegiate Hockey Association champions, dominated MSU in the twogame series, outscoring the Ice Bears 17-1 along the way.

The Lions are ranked 13 in the ACHA rankings, and demonstrated why they are ranked so high this weekend.

In the first contest on Friday night, the Ice Bears played the Lions extremely tough for the first 20 minutes of action.

Lindenwood picked up an early goal off of a lucky bounce to take a 1-0 lead into the first intermission.

From that point on, however, it was all Lindenwood. It took less than three minutes in the second period for the Lions to lead the Ice Bears 3-0.

By the end of the second period, MSU trailed Lindenwood 6-0. The Lions would tack on three more goals and take the first of the two-game series 9-0.

“Lindenwood moved the puck very well, and with us playing a run-and-gun style, their backcheck was slowing us down and forcing chaos for us,” freshman defenseman Chris Brown said.

The lone bright spot for the Ice Bears in game number one was the lack of penalties. Between MSU and Lindenwood, only three penalties were called, which is the lowest amount of penalties in any game for the Ice Bears this season.

The second game of the weekend set went much like the first. Less than 30 seconds into the first period, the Lions scored to take a 1-0 lead.

“Lindenwood is one of the fast opponents we will play all season, and they were able to get on us quick and cause us to make some snap-second decisions,” junior forward Andrew Kovacich said.

And once again, after two periods of play, the Ice Bears trailed the Lions 6-0.

Unlike the first game on Friday, Saturday’s contest saw both teams combine for 66 total penalty minutes on 16 penalties, including four 10-minute game misconducts.

The Ice Bears would take advantage on one of their power play opportunities scoring in the third period as senior captain Ryan Hogland found Kovacich on a backdoor pass, and the junior found the back of the net.

The goal would be the only one for the Ice Bears on the weekend, and MSU would eventually fall to Lindenwood 8-1.

“We need to learn from these last two games and make sure we don’t make the same mistakes going forward,” Kovacich said. “We are going to need to watch film and turn over a new page for this upcoming weekend to be successful.”

The Ice Bears will play host to the University of Central Oklahoma on Thursday and the University of Oklahoma on Friday and Saturday. Following the three-game homestand, the Ice Bears will hit the road to take on the University of Arkansas.

“There is plenty of hockey left, and the future is looking even better,” Ice Bears’ head coach Bob Bucher said.

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TOP RIGHT: Nelson’s family member covers her mouth as she watches the memorial service. TOP LEFT: Missouri State football players comfort each other during prayer. CENTER: A Missouri State football player fights back tears during memorial service.

BOTTOM: Members of the football team stays after the service to hug Nelson’s mother, Roxanne Bruce, after the service.

Amongst the crowd was Nelson’s family, who made the trip to Springfield from Las Vegas. They took the front row in the Plaster Student Union Theater.

“It’s still hard,” Roxanne Bruce, Nelson’s mother, said.

“It’s still so hard to swallow sometimes because he was just right here. He was a wonderful kid.

“He was always trying to prove himself to me, but he never had to. He was always good in my eyes. He was always the best.”

Bruce said the most memorable thing about her son was his smile. Steckel, quarterback coach Mack Brown and running back coach Munir Prince told the PSU crowd that they also remember Nelson by his smile, whether he was smiling on the field or just walking into a room.

Along with Nelson’s smile, Steckel will remember his tailback in the definition of his trademarked ‘Bear Up.’ “‘Bear Up’ means to encourage and support,” Steckel said. “It means to show resolve, courage, strength and it’s to have great work ethic. Bear Up is a way of life.

“I cannot think of a better example than our teammate— our brother — that proved Bear Up all the way to his last breath.”

Fifteen days after the night of Nelson’s death, Steckel stressed the importance of having Nelson’s mother and family in attendance as the football team celebrated the life of her son.

Steckel wanted to show her how much he meant to the football team in his one year as a Bear.

“It makes me happy to know he was loved, not only by me but by a lot of other people,” Bruce said.

Steckel said the Bears will come together to find a way to honor Nelson next season.

In addition to honoring Nelson symbolically, Steckel said the Bears will honor him on the field in pursuit of something Bruce said Nelson was going to bring Steckel.

“As me and the coaches were leaving the funeral in Las Vegas, (Bruce) gave me a hug and thanked us for coming and she looked me right in the eye and said ‘Richard was going to bring you a championship,’” Steckel said.

“Now it’s our time to bring Richard a championship.”

Men’s hoops drop back to back in OT Wyatt Wheeler Sports Editor @realYitWheeler Same story. Different game.

With Missouri State leading Southern Illinois by 13 points in the first half, Southern Illinois rallied to take the Bears to overtime, where the Salukis came away with a 8584 victory.

“They made a run; they’re going to make a run,” Bears head coach Paul Lusk said on his postgame radio show.

This time, Missouri State (14-9, 5-5) allowed Southern Illinois (12-11, 5-5) to shoot 60 percent in the second half, while junior forward Sean O’Brien punished them down low. O’Brien scored 24 points on the night.

“We decided to not overhelp on O’Brien because he makes everyone better,” Lusk

said. “We put (Church) on him one-on-one, and that didn’t work.

“That was a scouting report decision. That was my decision.”

Southern Illinois held a three point lead until junior forward Jarrid Rhodes hit a game-tying 3-pointer with eight seconds remaining. The Bears held on to force overtime.

Rhodes, who has been quiet in recent games, scored 14 points in a bounce-back game.

“I thought he was solid,” Lusk said. “We need those guys to produce.”

With six seconds left in overtime, and while trailing the Salukis by three, senior guard Dequon Miller took an in-bounds pass with his foot on the line to eliminate the possibility of a game-tying 3-pointer.

Southern Illinois sunk their

free throws and opted to play the foul game to put away the Bears.

“It’s a tough game,” Lusk said. “You have to find a way to win it, and we didn’t win it.”

Junior forward Alize Johnson hit a meaningless halfcourt 3-pointer with under a second remaining to give the Bears their second straight one point overtime loss.

“It is tough, but we have to bounce back,” Lusk said.

“There’s a lot of games left to play.

“It’s the dog days right now.”

Missouri State held a 13-point lead with 2:12 left in the first half and led 40-28 at halftime.

Lusk blamed SIU’s zone and their 60 percent second-half shooting.

“Sixty percent (shooting) in the second half — that’s not

good — they’re going to make a run if you do that,” Lusk said. “In the past, runs have been made because of our missed free throws or maybe some turnovers but it was simply that we couldn’t get stops.”

Johnson hit a 3-pointer with 17:10 left in the game to give the Bears a 43-32 lead.

On his way down, he rolled his ankle and had to come off the court.

Southern Illinois responded with a 10-3 run to pull the game within four.

The Salukis would take their first lead of the game with 8:16 left in the game.

Johnson did return to the game and still came away with 26 points.

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in the early evening. In fact, his day is just beginning.

Once he’s done with his day job, Bucher gets in his car one more time and drives a few hours down Interstate 44 from St. Louis to Springfield to his home away from home: Mediacom Ice Park.

“I am pretty much all over the place, and it in of itself is a total grind,” Bucher says.

But, you won’t ever hear of Bucher complaining. As a matter of fact, most of the players on the Ice Bears’ roster look up to the amount of heart their coach shows on a daily basis.

Bob Bucher leaves his home in St. Louis, Missouri at 5:45 a.m. and heads to the Veteran’s Hospital in St. Louis for his first of several appointments on the day. He follows up his first appointment by traveling to St. Anthony’s Hospital to see three more patients.

Once he is done at St. Anthony’s, he hops in his car and drives an hour and a half to Rolla to help place two pacemakers into two new patients. His day finally comes to an end around 6:00 p.m.

That’s a typical Thursday for the sales representative of Boston Scientific. Bucher sells pacemakers and defibrillators for the Massachusetts’ based company.

Bucher has worked as a sales representative for over 20 years, and he’s had the opportunity of treating both Mother Theresa and Jack Buck’s pacemakers.

“Mother Theresa was just a one-time shot when she and the Pope visited St. Louis in 93 or 94, BAILEY VASSALLI/THE STANDARD but Jack [Buck’s] pacemaker was Bob Bucher one of ours so I saw him more often,” Bucher says.

“He’s got so much intensity to But as Bucher knows more than him, and you just don’t question anyone, his day doesn’t come to his heart ever,” senior captain an end after he sees his last patient Ryan Hogland says. “He’s all-in,

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Ice Bears head coach Bob Bucher draws up a play during the team’s practice on Thursday. all the time.”

So, how did a sales representative for Boston Scientific become the head coach for the Missouri State Ice Bears? Believe it or not, it almost didn’t happen for Bucher.

After spending the majority of his early years on the ice, Bucher took a 10-year hiatus from the game of hockey after the death of a former teammate and best friend.

Then one night, he decided to venture to the rink for old times’ sake to watch his old juniors team play; And that was that, he found his love for hockey again.

“I saw a bunch of buddies that I used to play with who were now coaching, and by the time the game ended, I think I agreed to help coach three teams,” Bucher says. “It started out with just a lot of younger kids who needed help with the basics of skating and hockey, but it evolved into one of

the elite leagues in all of St. Louis with 16-year olds and 18-year olds.”

As it turned out, coaching that elite level juniors team in St. Louis was exactly where Bucher needed to be. During his time there, he would meet several players whom he would eventually coach at Missouri State.

Before Bucher even accepted the position as head coach for the Ice Bears, he coached MSU in a victory against Saint Louis University. Shortly after the game, Bucher signed on to replace Tony Dunseith as head coach.

That was just under five years ago.

Since then, he has strived to impact the way hockey is played at Missouri State. He helped transition the club from a Division II team to Division I, and he has made a lasting impact on his players.

“He makes a huge commitment every day and it means a lot to us players, because we know how much he cares about us,” senior captain Bobby Brown says. “He really cares about his players and he is such a fun coach to have; one that I have loved having over the past few years.”

One thing is certain: although he has put extra miles on his vehicle and had many sleepless nights, Bucher has loved every minute of being the Ice Bears’ head coach.

“It’s been a great gig for me; I tell Stan Melton, who is the founder of the Missouri State Hockey Club, all the time how blessed I am,” Bucher says. “To be down here with this group of guys, with this organization, with this school, with this fanbase that we have in the Springfield community, it’s amazing.”

Lady Bears win nail-biter and blowout Cortlynn Stark Staff Reporter @Cortlynn_Stark The Lady Bears held Loyola to just 32 points Friday evening, the best defensive effort in 25 years. They followed up with a 3-point win over Indiana State on Sunday.

The Lady Bears kicked off the 60-32 win over Loyola by racing to a 14-0 lead in the first part of the first quarter. It took Loyola over five minutes to break down Missouri State’s defense. After another 9-0 run, MSU led 23-2 with 2:31 left in the quarter.

At the end of the first quarter, the Lady Bears led 26-8.

The Ramblers never got closer than a 14-point deficit.

“It was great early on,” head coach Kellie Harper said in a halftime interview. “We knocked down shots. We were

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able to do that because we got shots.”

The Ramblers cut the lead to 37-18 at halftime but couldn’t get any momentum going.

MSU continued to dominate, shooting 46 percent, compared to Indiana State’s 24 percent, and led by as many as 29 points. The Lady Bears out-rebounded the Ramblers 42-25.

The last time MSU held an opponent to just 32 points was on Jan. 2, 1992 when the Lady Bears beat Eastern Illinois 8032 and then made their way to the Final Four.

Junior guard Liza Fruendt hit three 3-pointers, tying her with Melody Howard’s 1994 six-game streak with three 3-pointers, the longest streak in program history.

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Continued from page 1 of Sunshine Street. Student Body Vice President Brianna Duda was also there with signs that read, “SGF welcomes you and Roy should too” and “Let’s be Blunt, this isn’t about safety.” Duda said she thought Blunt should not have spoken in favor of Trump’s executive order because his view doesn’t represent all of Missouri.

“In my opinion, I think that’s very unethical,” Duda, senior socio-political communications major, said. “I think that if he were to listen to the people in Missouri, I don’t think that would be the majority opinion, so I think it was wrong for him to make a statement like that on our behalf, and I don’t appreciate it.”

Collette Kramer, junior

Continued from page 1 Center satellite office and the Advising Center, new interview rooms will be placed nearby for students to use for face-to-face interviews, as well as online interviews.

Euglow said he encourages students to visit when the building is reopened in the fall and see what the Career Center will be able to offer in its new facilities.

Meinert said that the construction is still scheduled to be completed by the fall semester of this year.

The satellite office is scheduled to move back into Glass Hall as soon as occupants are allowed in; facilities should be set up in time to be fully functional by the start of the fall semester. psychology and sociology major, agreed with Duda and said this ban is causing division in the United States.

“I’m hoping that (Blunt) realizes that we as a community don’t want the separation and a division between us that President Trump is causing,” Kramer said. “Religion shouldn’t be a factor to living in this country.”

Several people driving by let their voices be heard too.

While the majority of cars honked, some drivers waved, yelled, cussed and gave the protesters a thumbs up. One driver yelled, “Get a f***ing job,” while another driver stopped to take a photo.

Rob Robbins, 45, of Springfield, spoke to Hearon during the protest. He said Trump is trying to make sure that immigrants aren’t taking everything for free.

“My deal is, if you’re an illegal immigrant, you should

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Germans were still biased against Turkish immigrants.

Her research found that Germans are still biased against Turkish immigrants, which she says wasn’t too surprising.

“The Syrians haven’t replaced that (bias),” she says.

“All they’ve done is sort of widened the net, so now we have more people who Germans can be biased against and annoyed with.”

The part of Melanie’s research that surprised her the most was there were several outreach programs, such as housing and language classes to help the refugees.

“There will always be racism,” Melanie says, “but on the other side, there were people going out of their way to make sure that these outsiders felt included and welcomed in this country.”

This was not Melanie’s first trip to Germany, though. While directing “Cabaret,” a play that follows several love affairs and takes place in Berlin when Nazism is gaining momentum, she started taking language classes to learn German.

She was told by several people, including her professor, that she could not become fluent in another language since she was in her 30’s. Melanie says the big motivator,

however, was when she was being interviewed about her theater company in St. Louis.

“There was a journalist who said, ‘You can’t learn German.

You’re too old,’ so for me, that was like an absolute invitation (to learn it),” Melanie says with a determined smile.

She became fluent in German after studying it for three years. Part of her learning process was to travel to Germany.

It was then that she learned about the culture and immigrant population. She also studied cultural differences and “(watched) how Germans responded to my American-ness and how I responded to their German-ness, and (in the process) recognizing how our basic humanities are the same.”

Melanie directed a play about cultural stereotypes that was performed in English one night and in German the next night. She says she used theater to help encourage cultural competence.

“Theater became a platform for conversation about, ‘Who are we?’ and, ‘Who can we be?’ and, “How can we get to know each other?’” she says.

“The differences of a culture are often what create conflict, and all you have to do is get to know a culture in order to diminish the fear that surrounds

Right before a critical exam, Allen said she “had to spend the day filling out paperwork and crying.”

“At least we got it back and it wasn’t totally ruined,” she said.

Auto theft damages are rarely covered by insurance, as in the case of Zac Wilkerson, whose truck was broken into twice, in addition to his motorcycle being stolen.

“He tried to roll-start it in fifth gear,” Wilkerson, a graduate student at the College of Agriculture, said. “Luckily, he wasn’t smart enough to turn off the kill switch.”

Wilkerson had watched the security video footage of a man rolling Wilkerson’s mo-

torcycle out of Bear Park North. The other people in the garage paid no mind to the thief.

The thief had driven to the motorcycle in a car. When the car’s plates were run, it was proven to be stolen as well.

The motorcycle was found near Wehr Band Hall, abandoned near a university vehicle. The motorcycle had scratches on the gas tank, which were minor compared to his truck’s past situation.

Wilkerson’s truck had been broken into twice at the parking lot north of Sunvilla Apartments. One of the incidents left his truck’s window smashed and door dented.

The car was ransacked for

not be in the United States. If you are a legal immigrant, I have no problem with it,” Robbins said. “Don’t try to get something for free. That’s not how this country is supposed to be. You have no rights if you are an illegal immigrant in the United States, and that’s what Trump is trying to say.”

Robbins also said protesters should “give Trump a chance.”

“He hasn’t been in office for a month, and everybody keeps protesting, but give him a chance to let him do what he says he’s going to do,” Robbins said. “Six months down the road, if he’s not, then you have a foot to stand on to gripe or complain about something.”

A representative from Springfield Welcome Home, a refugee support agency, was also at the protest. Katie Webb runs Springfield Welcome Home and said this ban is impacting several of the refugees she is trying to help.

“We have refugees here in Springfield that were expecting family in January and it looks like that door has been shut for awhile, and that’s very upsetting,” Webb, senior socio-political communications major, said. “We’ve lost sight of the fact that the United States was built on immigration, and perhaps we’re too removed nationwide, so I think (this protest) is a good reminder to citizens.”

Several students said they hope their message will encourage other students to stand up against the ban.

“We hope that (students) see that a lot of our students are from different countries, and we want those students to see that we’re with them, we stand with them,” Kayla Burns, senior entertainment management major, said.

that.”

Traveling around the world

Outside of Uganda and Germany, Melanie has traveled to other countries: Turkey, France, Russia, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Czech Republic and Poland. She says she wants to travel to different Asian countries, like China, Japan and Malaysia.

The number one spot on her list of countries she hasn’t been to but wants to visit is not an Asian country, but Australia.

She wants to adapt the novel, “A Town Like Alice,” which takes place in Australia, into a play.

“It fascinates me because it’s a giant chunk of Earth,

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an iPod and a pocket knife that Wilkerson had had since he was 13.

“There was so much that I wish they had taken instead,” Wilkerson said.

Wilkerson said there were other people who had their cars broken into at the Sunvilla parking lot.

The MSU Transportation and Security office substation, which is obligated to send patrol to any on-campus crimes at any time, told Wilkerson that he would have been lucky to get the same support for an off-campus crime.

However, strides are being taken to remedy the auto theft situation.

“We’ve recovered a lot of

local cars, about 81 percent,” Tom Johnson, campus security director said.

The Transportation and Security office has plans to step up patrols and security cameras.

In the meantime, Johnson urges students to lock their doors and never leave their possessions in the car.

“Each report of a stolen vehicle is investigated individually,” Dorrell said. “When those stolen vehicles are recovered, officers make every effort to collect physical evidence and identify a suspect.

Detectives present charges to the prosecutor when appropriate.”

Street died down, a second was already underway. On Park Central Square, the evening of the same day, “No Ban, No Wall” and “Love Trumps Hate” were being chanted.

The faces behind Springfield’s Black Lives Matter protests, Karina Bratkov and Leila Ismaio -- Nixa High School seniors -- organized the downtown protest in two days.

The two students, who have been best friends since sixth grade, actually found out they were making two Facebook event pages at the same time.

They called each other and decided to consolidate.

“Silence is compliance,” said Ismaio to the crowd before it began marching around the square.

Around 60 people joined in the evening’s protest.

“I just think people should respect people,” said Andy Park Central Square Shanders, freshman art and As the protest on Sunshine design major. “We all belong

to groups that are discriminated against.”

The protest wound down at 6 p.m. The attendees gathered around the square’s stage. People took turns jumping at the podium and explaining why they were protesting.

“I have a friend from Iran who is very distraught over this,” said Jason Blinzler, who works at MudLounge Coffee and Cocktails. “We are here because we don’t want 90 days to turn into a lifetime.”

Bratkov and Ismaio took the stage, and announced that they planned to protest Roy Blunt along with other Missouri government officials.

The protest ended with the national anthem, hugged, and scattered away.

Another protest is planned for Jan. 31 at 7 a.m. on the corner of National Avenue and Sunshine Street.

granted,” she says. “When you get plucked out of your habits and dropped into a place where you have to reinvent a daily routine and learn basic everyday things, you begin to learn who you are, how you handle situations, what you care about and what you’re curious about.

Other cultures have so much to teach us about our own culture, about ourselves and about how to be better humans.”

‘Yeah, you can.’”

Hannah Finger, senior acting major, says Melanie helped her several times on her projects.

“She pushes us to always research, explore and discover more,” Hannah says, “and she has a keen way of perceiving what each student needs to pushed through in order to grow further, and how she should interact with that individual to get the most out of them.”

Hannah says the first time she talked to Melanie about a project, Melanie said to “make it happen.” Since then, Hannah has worked on five theater projects outside of the university and classes and says Melanie has been her “sounding board” for these projects.

While Hannah says she likes receiving help on her projects, Melanie has also taught her how to think on her own.

“She’s taught me how to think through things and for myself, as my own artist, that I won’t need her when I leave.

That’s how teaching is supposed to work anyway, isn’t it?” Hannah says.

After teaching her classes, Melanie walks into her office, sits down at her chair and starts typing on her laptop. She prepares for her next adventure as the colorful leather Commedia dell’arte masks look on.

Teaching life lessons

While traveling, Melanie was also making big strides in the theater business. She was an actress, working on several stage performances, commercials, voiceovers and independent films. While she loves

took my first directing class, it was like, ‘Ah, that’s why. I need to be in charge of the vision.’”

Melanie has directed 60-70 plays, and she is also trying to add adaptation to her set of skills. Melanie says adaptation takes a certain skill and she is still working on refining those skills.

Because of her extensive background in the theater and different perspectives due to traveling, Melanie says she tries to bring different ideas to her classes. She teaches directing, acting fundamentals, scene study, stage performance and other theater classes, as well as an empathy class for the MSU Honors College.

There’s nothing that will teach you more about cultural difference than traveling to a place that is very different from your own.

much of which is uninhabitable, so I want to go see what that is,” Melanie says while laughing. “I want to understand what that feels like.”

Melanie says she encourages students to travel as much as possible because it’s a good way to get to know themselves.

“It’s hard to see who you are when you’re in the middle of everything you take for

acting, she says she felt herself being pulled towards directing.

“I found that, as an actor, I was doing a ton of research, trying to figure out why the play was written that way and what the context was and what the history was,” she says.

“Those are some things that actors do, but I was asking questions that went beyond what an actor does. When I

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the renovations and construction on Glass Hall is complete.

A video released by MSU in 2015 showing the planned renovations for Glass Hall shows that the satellite office will be relocated to the second floor of the Student Success Center, the new addition to the Glass Hall building.

The satellite office will be connected with the advising office for business students.

This will allow students to receive advice about their degrees and their careers in the same place.

Euglow called this new space a “one-stop shop” for business students who frequently use both resources.

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Since she has unique ideas and ways of researching, she says she tries to help students develop their ideas. “(Students) have great ideas, and great ideas should be realized,” Melanie says.

“I’ve been there, and as a student, you think, ‘That’s just an impossible project. I could never go there or do that,’ but since I’ve done it, I can say,