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MSU Chorale to sing at Presidential Inauguration Cortlynn Stark Staff Reporter @Cortlynn_Stark When Sen. Roy Blunt came to Missouri State’s Juanita K. Hammons Hall on Friday, practically no one knew why. Turns out, he was inviting the Missouri State Chorale to sing at the 58th Presidential Inauguration in January.

Missouri State University President Clif Smart was quick to accept the invitation.

“I have no doubt that the millions of Americans watching the ceremony will be as impressed with these incredibly talented students as all of us who have had the opportunity to hear them perform,” Sen. Blunt said.

A few members of the group started to tear up in shock after Blunt’s announcement. They were all shocked, as choir director Cameron LaBarr didn’t tell the students so they had no idea.

“At first I was like ‘this isn’t real,’” Luke Thomas, a junior socio-political communications major, said. “I think collectively we all took it in at once…this is crazy.”

Senior music major Kaylee Osborne felt the same way.

“It’s so exciting,” Osborne said. “We weren’t told at all. It feels amazing. I want to call my mom. It’s a wonderful opportunity.”

Missouri State University President Clif Smart was partially responsible for the news.

At the announcement, Smart said he called Sen.

chairman of the 58th Presidential Inauguration Committee. He has a Masters in History from MSU. Blunt said they’ll be performing in front of 40 million people, with a particular emphasis on 40 million, which made some Chorale members shake their heads in disbelief.

“Getting to experience this is a once-in-alifetime opportunity,” Thomas said.

Fifty students make up MSU’s flagship touring choir. The Chorale has performed across the U.S. and throughout Europe and South Africa. They also perform regularly at conferences of the American Choral Directors Association, Missouri Music Educators Association and the National Association for Music Education, according to an MSU press release.

“They are truly one of the great collegiate American choirs, and we are so proud of them,” Smart said.

The Dean of MSU’s College of Arts and Letters, Gloria Galanes, introduced the Chorale. They performed “Shenandoah” to kick off the event.

Chairman of the Board of Governors Peter MEGAN BURKE/THE STANDARD Hofherr introduced Sen. Blunt who started off his speech with a joke apologizing for his MSU Chorale will perform at the 58th Presidential Inauguration in Washington tardiness. After a brief introduction on some D.C. this January in front of an audience of 40 million people. past inaugurations, Sen. Blunt broke the news.

“Dr. LaBarr has said from the beginning Blunt on his cell phone and pitched the idea to mediately supportive of making this happen.” it was going to be a year to remember,” ThomSen. Blunt is part of the Joint Congressional as said. “I think I can speak for the whole choir, him.

According to Smart, Sen. Blunt “was im- Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies and is the that we’re all very excited.”

She/He to They

‘Bombs away’ at Presidential Debate Chloe Skaar Staff Reporter @chloeskaar Presidential candidates Sen. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump each appeared at Washington University in Saint Louis on Oct. 9 for the second Presidential Debate of the 2016 election. The debate was moderated by CNN’s Anderson Cooper and ABC’s Martha Raddatz.

This debate was the first town hall meeting style of this election, meaning half of the questions came directly from the moderators and the other half were submitted from audience members--100 undecided, registered voters from the Saint Louis area.

“Bombs away,” were Raddatz’s foreshadowing, introductory words--appropriately so.

Commentators and politicians from both major parties have declared the debate a loss for both candidates. MSNBC reporters, in a post-debate discussion, described the particularly heated and hateful debate as “a bad night for American politics.” Reporters also expressed frustration at the lack of “information and illumination” from either candidate and even said that there seemed to be “nothing but cheap shots from both sides.”

Unsurprisingly, one of the first questions of the evening was specified for Trump, regarding his expressions of a rather vulgar attitude towards women that were leaked earlier this week from a conversation captured by Trump’s lapel mic when appearing on Access Hollywood in 2005. Cooper said the release of this footage has been one of the most talked about events in the entire 2016 election.

Cooper initiated the topic by repeating direct quotes from Trump that can be heard in the video, and asking if he understood that “kissing women without consent” and “grabbing them by the genitals” is defined as sexual assault. Trump said he disagreed with this allegation.

“No, that is not what I said at all,” Trump said. “I think you misunderstood greatly what you heard.” Trump also said, in regards to the conversation in its entirety, that these kinds of discussions are not only common, but inevitable.

“Frankly, you do hear these things,” Trump said. “They are said. As much as I hate it …

and I do have the highest respect for women … it is just locker room talk.”

Sen. Clinton was quick with her retaliation to Trump’s dismissal and said that the scandal is a summary, not only of Trump’s campaign, but of Trump’s character.

“It was clear to anyone who watched the video, through what we heard and what we saw,” Clinton said, “that what we heard was what Donald thinks about women, what he says about women and what he does to women. He has said that it does not reflect him as an individual, but it was clear to anyone who watched it that it perfectly reflects who Trump is.”

Beginning the debate with a question of this controversial topic led the conversation to turn spiteful, rapidly. Immediately following the acknowledgment of possible sexual assault on Trump’s record, he steered the conversation’s focus to similar scandals of former presidents.

“What we’re talking about here … mine were only words,” Trump said. “Bill Clinton’s (scandal) was all action.” Trump went even further to describe the politician’s actions while serving in office as the most abusive towards women “out of anyone in the history of politics.”

Hillary appeared to be prepared for the topic of infidelity to arise and made a clear attempt to return the audience’s focus to the questions voiced by the moderators.

“Donald can run his campaign based on whatever grounds he chooses to,” Clinton said.

“And instead of answering your questions or telling you how he is going to better our country, this is what he chooses to discuss tonight.”

Although Trump was seemingly under fire after the first few questions of the evening, he made evident his beliefs that Clinton is the greater criminal of the election, describing Bernie Sanders’ endorsement of the Clinton campaign as “signing on with the devil.” Trump also promised to Clinton, and to voters, his intents to imprison her upon his election.

“If I win, I am going to get my Attorney General to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation,” said Trump, in regards to Clinton’s private email server scandal. “I hate to say that, but I am going to say it … you’ll be jailed.”

SGA changes constitution to gender-neutral pronouns Cortlynn Stark Staff Reporter @Cortlynn_Stark When the student body votes for their Homecoming King and Queen, they’ll also get to vote on pronoun changes to the Student Government Association’s bylaws. If the student body approves, SGA’s bylaws will use the gender neutral “they” instead of he and she pronouns.

SGA passed a resolution on Oct. 4 approving the changes. Now, they need the student body’s approval.

“I feel that changing these pronouns from masculine and feminine pronouns to neutral pronouns is a great step toward inclusion,” junior literature major Evan Pyle said. “It’s a great step toward inviting more students to senate. It’s a great way to set an example for other student organizations.”

The change to the bylaws means that all feminine and masculine pronouns, such as “he” and “she,” will be replaced with gender neutral pronouns like “they” and “their.”

However, the resolution was not passed unanimously.

“There’s been a few objections,” Student Government Association’s Director of Diversity and Inclusion Bree Moore, a senior psychology major, said. “There’s been a few students who felt like they were losing their identity along with the change.”

Moore said they aren’t taking away others identity. According to Moore, they are simply included everyone with it.

During the Oct. 4 SGA meeting, there was minimal debate about the changes, and it passed easily.

“We have a lot of students who are still trying to find their place, and if we have documents that are just catering to certain genders (it) doesn’t help the others who don’t identify the way we do,” Moore said.

Pyle said he hopes this helps make students who maybe wanted to join SGA feel more included and see the steps that are taken toward inclusion by SGA. “I’m hoping that these students who may have felt excluded before, even if they’re not gender non-conforming or not gender binary, if they’re students who belong to other groups who are unfortunately succumb to systems of oppression can see that SGA is making efforts to one group that can eventually affect other groups,” Pyle said.

Pyle also emphasized that this is not an exclusive act, but an inclusive act. He said he knows that people often feel like their identities are erased when certain words are removed and when more inclusive language is used.

“But if anything, it’s just to make sure that everyone’s represented,” Pyle said. “Whether you’re using masculine pronouns, feminine pronouns, neutral pronouns, ze, pers, self-pronouns even, everyone is included in they. No one is being erased; everyone’s just being brought in.”

The ballot opened on Oct. 10, and students can vote online through CampusLink, a resource for student activities and organizations.

“I’m hoping that everyone is for it,” Moore said. “I hope it works out in everyone’s favor, especially our students who don’t identify with “she or he.” I would definitely want everyone to be included, and I know that this is just one small step to bigger change on-campus.”

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Counseling Center participates in National Depression Screening Day Hanna Sumpter Staff Reporter @hannasumpter

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Events such as Design for Life occupy student parking at Missouri State.

Designed for Life, not for parking Matt Campanelli Staff Reporter @THE_MattyCamp It’s no secret that the parking situation on Missouri State University’s campus is less than ideal. When outside organizations hold events on campus, finding a parking spot can almost be impossible and can cause problems for students.

“I think it depends on what organization is renting (JQH Arena) for whatever reason,” Logan Mercer, a junior public relations major, said. “They might still let students park in the lots they are using, so that’s what I’m fine with.”

But sometimes that’s not always the case.

“It’s really annoying when we’re students and we can’t even park in our own lots,” Mercer said.

Every fall, the James River Church holds their annual womens conference “Designed for Life” on Missouri State’s campus at JQH

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Arena. MSU rents the arena out to other organizations, like James River Church and PBR, to help fund other student activities like new student convocation and graduations.

“I think it’s a great idea to rent JQH to help fund student events when it’s not in use by the university,” Jonathan Curry, a senior finance major, said. “However, I don’t like that they allow these events to use student-paid parking while they are using the arena. I need to be on campus at a certain time and expect to be able to get to school around a certain time to get to class on time.”

The conference began Thursday Oct. 6 in the afternoon and ran through Saturday Oct. 8 and used to be scheduled the same weekend as MSU’s fall break. Since students weren’t on campus, parking wasn’t an issue.

Last year, fall break was not scheduled by the university and students were given a full week for Thanksgiving break instead.

Friday morning is when the problems ensued. u See PARKING, page 8

The Counseling Center at Missouri State participated in National Depression Screening Day last Thursday by offering free mental health screenings to students.

National Depression Screening Day was created over two decades ago by the Screening For Mental Health corporation and is held annually on the Thursday in the first full week of October.

According to their website, National Depression Screening Day was created “to educate, raise awareness, and screen individuals for common behavioral and mental health disorders and suicide.”

The website described National Depression Screening Day as “an education and screening event conducted by hospitals, clinics, colleges, and community groups nationwide. Much like the medical community screens for diabetes and high blood pressure, we wanted to offer large-scale mood disorder screenings for the public.”

Missouri State’s Counseling Center has been participating in National Depression Screening Day almost every year since it began back in 1990.

According to Tammy Dixon, a mental health clinician from the Counseling Center, the amount of students that participate each year varies depending on the current state of the world, such as the economy or social justice issues.

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Tammy Dixon, mental health clinician, believes that screening day can help students before they commit to the counseling center.

The screening is anonymous, and when students are participating in the screening, they are given a questionnaire which covers topics such as depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and mood disorders.

Once students completed the screening, they were able to meet with a mental health clinician from the Counseling Center and discuss their responses. If the clinician feels as though the student could benefit from counseling they then offer to set up meetings at the center or refer them to other professionals in the field which they feel could help the student with whatever they may be struggling with.

“This gives the students the opportunity to test the waters before committing to the Counseling Center,” Dixon said. She later added “(The

screenings) can be validating for (students) that there is something there; they are not just overstressed.”

Apart from the screenings given on National Depression Screening Day, students are always able to visit the Counseling Center’s website where they are able to participate in anonymous and confidential online screenings as well.

The Counseling Center also offers individual and group counseling, which typically covers anxiety, depression and relationship issues.

Students making use of the counseling services has risen in recent years with a 33 percent increase from 2014 to 2015 which follows the national trend in counseling which has also risen. In 2015, there were over 5,737 clinical services hours conducted.

Pence, Kaine face off in only Vice Presidential Debate 4. The debate was hosted on the campus of Longwood University, in Virginia, and was moderated by CBS anchor Elaine Quijano.

Participants in the debate were Senator Tim The first and only Vice Presidential Debate Kaine, running mate of Hillary Clinton and of the 2016 election was held on Tuesday, Oct. Governor Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s running Chloe Skaar Staff Reporter @chloeskaar

mate. The debate ran about 90 minutes, and the discussion topics of biggest focus included: foreign policy, economic advancements, presidential leadership, social security and racism in policing.

The candidate’s conversation first turned

from mere discussion to spirited debate over the topic of foreign policy. Clinton and Trump’s individual campaigns have strongly opposing viewpoints of how America should conduct its international relations, which was made evident during Tuesday’s VP debate. Pence, who deu See DEBATE, page 8

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Red or Royal: We can all be maroon and white Andrew Webster Columnist @anjrew12

Fake Clif Smart account tweets at The Standard editors about the chain of command.

Stop Tweeting @ClifSmart 2k16

Follow the Chain of Command when you have a problem Spencer Martin Columnist @Spencer_XC Picture this: you’re commuting to campus for class for the first time ever. You get to Bear Park South and there’s not a spot in sight. You mosey across Grand Street to one of the many commuter lots in search of a spot and, again, no luck. You circle the lot for what seems like 15 minutes and then you give up hope.

Then, you get an idea. An idea just crazy enough it might work. You whip out your handy smartphone, jump on the Twitter-verse and tweet at your old pal Missouri State President Clifton M. Smart III. He, in his goodwill and apparently infinite time, graciously tweets back to look for a satellite lot a few streets off campus and to ride the BearLine. You begrudgingly take the advice and scramble to make it to class on time.

This is but one of many instances that happens all too frequently around our lovely campus. In this day and age of widely available communication technology, we are more closely connected than ever before. But that doesn’t mean we can just go straight to the top with all of our problems.

Well, I mean, I guess we can take our problems to the top. But that doesn’t mean we should.

You see, there’s this thing called chain of command. It’s actually a quite simple topic, but with how easy it is to communicate with big name public figure, this concept has quickly gone by the wayside.

Usually, when you have a problem, you take that issue to the person that is directly above you in the chain of command. Since I’m a student, if I have a problem with something on campus, I would take that problem to someone like a building staff member.

If I saw a plate of food spilled on the floor in a dining hall, I wouldn’t call up Resident District Manager of Dining Services, Tony

Hein, to come clean it up. There are specifically people who have jobs to keep the dining hall clean, while Mr. Hein has a job to manage the whole operation.

My good friend Alec Herr put it this way on Twitter, “Y do people still tweet at Clif about dumb problems on campus? There’s like 30 ppl between you & him that can unlock that side door in Glass.”

I know that it’s easier than ever before to simply tweet at President Smart or at the Missouri State Twitter account to try and solve your problems, but they have important jobs to do that likely far outweigh your problem.

Now, that isn’t to say that your problem isn’t worthy of someone’s time — it certainly is — you just have to find the right person to talk to. If your needs exceed the abilities of your first point of contact, they can, and should, send you up the chain of command to the person with the next highest level of authority.

If, and only if, your problem makes it through the entire chain of command without getting solved is it time for you to go talk to someone like President Smart. He’s happy to help solve problems for students when they arise, but it’s much more efficient and a much better use of our student dollars to let President Smart do his job while we seek aid at the appropriate levels first.

Imagine if you asked the CEO of your future place of employment to come fix a paper jam in your printer at work — exactly, you wouldn’t. You’d either learn how to fix the problem yourself or you’d ask a coworker.

Failing that, you’d ask your supervisor or maybe an IT member.

It’s the same way here at MO State. In the same way you wouldn’t use a sledgehammer to kill a fly, you wouldn’t ask President Smart to help you with your basic everyday needs like finding a parking space or fixing a printer in the PSU basement.

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At Missouri State, a quasi-rivalry exists between our students from Kansas City and our students from St. Louis. October is usually the peak of baseball-related trash talk, but this year, neither team will be playing.

The season is over for the Cardinals and Royals, and now there is nothing left to bicker about. There are only 250 miles that separate Kansas City from St. Louis, and ideally, we could be loving neighbors. Perhaps the lack of rivalry will lead to a stronger community down here in the melting pot we call Missouri State.

I am a Saint Louisan and will spend the rest of the year rooting for the Blues to win the Central Division in the NHL. I’ve spent most of my life watching the Cardinals and Rams during October in what used to be one of my favorite parts of the year.

This year, with the absence of football and baseball, my attention to sports will be significantly less. I’ll still watch football on my lunch breaks at work, but I’m left without a home team to root for. For me, and for most baseball fans, the season is over once their team is knocked out. Seriously, nobody watches the World Series anymore.

If you hail from Kansas City, be thankful for your Chiefs. You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. I’ve lived in Missouri for my entire life, but I’m just not ready to pledge my allegiance to a city I’ve always considered a rival. Sorry, Chiefs and Royals fans.

My Saint Louis Blues lost some serious talent this offseason and might have a long

season in front of them. The whole thing is a disaster.

Even though 2016 has been a terrible year for professional sports in Missouri, and we can all agree this baseball season was heartbreaking for both major cities, there is one team that I can always support, win or lose.

I need you to #BearUp this fall. I think we can work together to make sports-related memories this fall.

Men’s soccer is having a good season and has plenty of home games left, including a big game at home against Drake this upcoming Saturday. The softball team has an upcoming alumni game on Oct. 15.

The baseball team has their annual Maroon and White Fall World Series, where the team scrimmages against itself in the last three games of a seven game series this week.

We won’t get to see the baseball team again until February when they play in the McNesse State Tournament.

Swimming and Diving has a lot meets including an alumni/intrasquad meet on Oct. 15. Women’s Volleyball has plenty more home games stretching all the way to late November.

Finally, the Missouri State Football Bears still have a homecoming game to win. After Homecoming, there is an opportunity to see the football team again on family weekend.

The last game of the football season is our senior day, when we say thanks to the seniors that left their blood, sweat, and tears at Plaster Stadium.

The lack of professional sports in Missouri is not a total loss. There are plenty of collegiate athletics to look forward to before our lives are consumed by final exams.

Have zero “chill,” be genuine Caleb Hearon Columnist @calebsaysthings Send your friend a really sappy text today.

Tell the person you haven’t talked to in awhile all the things you love about them.

I’m being serious. And not because they recently did something for you, necessarily, or because you know they’re going through something. Those are both great reasons to say a nice thing but an even better reason is, “just because.”

I know this reads like one of those annoying inspirational graphics that your mom shares on Facebook, but I really mean it. I feel as if it’s become uncool to be emotional. We value people “having chill” and I can’t, for the life of me, understand why.

Have zero chill. Be very, very open about the way you feel.

Consider me vocally against “having chill.”

I want us to care about things. I want us, especially the us that are men, to cry about things that affect us. The “women us” should absolutely tell the person they’re talking to if something is happening that they don’t like.

Stop hiding your feelings because it’s not cool to be genuine.

Again, I acknowledge here that this has the potential to feel like a tired reminder to be nice.

But, really, be nice to the people you care about.

When was the last time you told your best friend how talented they are? Reminded somebody you love that they mean the world to you? When was the last time you texted somebody you don’t know super well and just told them what you admire about them from afar?

Send a five-paragraph text to your mom or dad or aunt or grandpa about how much you appreciate them. Do that because it’s Tuesday.

There doesn’t have to be some other reason.

And if you get mad about something, be mad about it. That’s not to say you should let small things ruin your whole week. But let yourself feel things.

I find most criticisms of our generation to be annoying and baseless. But I worry that one thing we may be guilty of is replacing real, valid and important emotions with “having chill.” I don’t understand why I sometimes worry that saying a nice thing to a friend will come off as fake or over-the-top.

So, have no chill, and let yourself feel things and don’t ever feel weird for saying nice things to people. Because we need more genuine kindness and less aloof coolness.

How do you get through midterms?

“I wing it. I know what I know.”

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“Dr. Pepper, Qdoba and plenty of sleep.”

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“Coffee and mental breakdowns. In that order.”

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“Reminding myself I would never last more than one day on the streets.”

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Letter to the Editor

Security cameras are a waste of student funds Dear Editor,

The decision to spend more than $60K of student funds for security cameras to “... (get) the student body to be more safe … (sic)” is an example of bad decisions based on silly suppositions by members of the FBA (Future Bureaucrats of America). One corpse ends up in a public restroom and everyone panics, running around like Chicken Little (a.k.a. Henny Penny).

Safety isn’t the issue. The administration simply wants no more letters home from little Susie or sensitive Billy complaining about stray corpses in public restrooms and the SGA is the administration’s cat’s-paw to get that job done.

Enter “Captain Coddle” in the guise of the SGA to protect the delicate sensibilities of students who are old enough to drive, to vote and

to enlist in the military but who are not mature enough to deal with Life’s unpleasant realities.

The MSU administration implies that MSU students are childlike, if not actually childish, and the SGA accepts that as if it were scripture.

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s heroine is 13-years-old and has more sense than the SGA gives the average MSU senior credit for “Captain Coddle” insists that yet another protective envelope be imposed on the student body and, this being the Midwest, where everyone is super trusting and super polite, no one objects, relying on the flawed conviction that “it’s for our own good.” It’s a Disney film writ large.

Even Springfield’s benighted city fathers don’t give MSU students credit for an iota of common sense: they lower the speed limit on East Grand Street during class hours lest we stroll stupidly into traffic. What’s next? Will

we have to hold hands crossing the street or answering Nature’s Call?

Ms. Howe’s convoluted explanation of the decision’s rationale beggars credulity. Surely security cameras are best used in lonely, unfrequented venues, not in “... one of the most populated buildings on-campus; it definitely sees the most traffic.”

Wastefulness aside, think what could instead be done with that money. For example, planting some stately deciduous trees in the bleak mall between Strong Hall and Carrington Hall would certainly improve the stark Eastern Bloc look that, while not altogether depressing, is certainly not particularly inspiring.

Ms. Howe went on to say that “... we want to make sure that this building has the accountability and completely supports all the integrity of the student body.”

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Alia Aaron Staff Reporter @AliaFaith29 Kolby Eller, a junior socio-political communications major at Missouri State, is a member of the Student Advisory Committee for the It’s On Us campaign, a movement to stop violence against women driven towards college campuses. While Eller has been passionate about this organization for a while, putting on programming and doing PSAs for the campaign, he never thought it would lead him to where it did this past Wednesday: Vice President Joe Biden’s home.

On Sept. 20, Eller received an email from Biden’s social secretary inviting him to a reception for the It’s On Us campaign that would be held on Oct. 4 at the Naval Observatory (Biden’s home, he later found out).

“I forwarded (the email) to my advisor for It’s On Us and I was like, ‘Hey, just so you know, some spam is going around, someone’s pretending they’re the vice president.’ And she was like ‘No no, no, it’s real!’” Eller said.

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couldn’t afford airfare and stay with such short notice. They were excited to provide the funds he needed and even offered him the national chapter’s snapchat account to document his experience.

When Eller arrived in Washington, D.C., he immediately had a meeting at the White House in the Dwight Eisenhower Executive Offices where he met the entire It’s On Us council.

They spoke on what kind of awareness events were being hosted on different campuses for the campaign and how they could keep making strides in their efforts as an organization.

The reception at the Naval Observatory was a social gathering of sorts. “We were all sort of mingling and then Vice President Biden walked down the stairs and stood at a little podium he had set up.” Eller said. During the reception, “It’s On Us awards” were given out by the vice president to members of the community that have been outstanding bystanders by preventing

something from happening. with him, he would be in the “He talked for probably study taking pictures with evway longer than he eryone. So I was was like, ‘GO TIME.

This is my time.’” supposed Eller said. to … At the end of his All the members of the Stuspeech, he said that if anyone dent Advisory Committee filed was not embarrassed to be seen into a line where they received

a business card with their information that a speaker would read to the vice president when they walked into the study.

When Eller walked in, it was just him, Joe Biden and a photographer.

“I went up, shook his hand, and he asked where I was from. I said Chillicothe, Missouri, and he goes ‘... is that the home of Sliced Bread?’ and I lost it.”

Eller told Biden that he attends Missouri State University and Biden that MSU is a great school and that Springfield is a great town.

“And then he said, ‘Kolby, promise me something’ and I said ‘Um, literally anything.’

He said ‘Make sure you have students at your school who are younger than you who are passionate about this as well, because whenever you graduate, I don’t want the legacy of It’s On Us to leave with you...

The only way we’re going to end this epidemic is to keep on it for years and years.’”

Eller’s experience in D.C. was important to him, not only

because Joe Biden is a political figure he greatly respects, but also because the It’s On Us campaign is personal to him.

In high school, Eller had an idol whom he admired immensely. She was attending Missouri State when he decided to enroll here but it was then later disclosed that she was dropping out and would not be returning because she had been sexually assaulted on campus.

“It was just so devastating because she was such a happy person and a really important person in my life. So I did some research, and I found that it happens all too often and that one in five women that come to college will experience something like this,” Eller said.

This experience was special to Eller personally, but it was also a huge step career-wise.

“It meant the world to me, not only to be there, but to be recognized for hard work. I got to network while I was there, I got to talk to Sen. Jill Brand, and I got to meet Michelle Obama’s Chief of Staff,” Eller said.

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Mid-America Emmy awarded to Chance Nichols, MSU acting major

Chloe Skaar Staff Reporter @chloeskaar

Missouri State University has always attracted an increasingly diverse student population, which now includes Emmy Award winning writer and producer Chance Nichols.

Nichols, a senior acting major, was awarded a Mid-America Emmy for his role in the writing and creating of the comedic viral video, “Instagram Husband.” The video was initially aired on Nichols’ television series, “The Mystery Hour,” and went viral when posted to YouTube—quickly gaining well over 6 million views.

Instagram Husband was also aired on “The Today Show” and featured on Buzzfeed.

“The video was framed as a ‘reach out and help’ distress call for men whose wives only use them for pictures to post to Instagram,” Nichols said. “Think of it as a plight of men who live their lives around picture-taking. They can’t eat or even walk down the street without being captured in a photo first.”

Those appearing in the video, as well as the production team, consisted of the cast of “The Mystery Hour.”

“The Mystery Hour” is staffed by students Jeff Houghton, Nate Black, Sarah Jenkins, Michelle Houghton, Katie Day, Chance Nichols and Ty Lewis. The entire cast was also honored at the Mid America Emmy awards, as “The Mystery Hour” won in multiple categories.

“We submitted our content to be

nominated in three different categories and won two out of the three,” Nichols said. “Our video, ‘Instagram Husband,’ won the Arts and Entertainment Program Feature Segment.

‘The Mystery Hour’ was also the winner in the category of Arts and Entertainment Program.”

The excitement of winning the awards was preceded by lots of anticipation to be nominated, according to Nichols.

“First, you have to be rated as a legitimate TV show to qualify and submit any work,” Nichols said.

“Then you enter work for consideration and wait a very, very, very long time. Eventually, they streamed the nominees and we all got to freak out.”

The Emmy Awards is the name for the annual showcase and competition hosted by the National Academy for Television Arts and Sciences.

The awards ceremony is held at a regional level, across smaller divisions of the country, and at a national one—known as the Prime Time Emmys.

“The biggest difference between the Regional Emmys and the Prime Time is the size of the audience, the gigantic budget for the Prime Time ones, and the channels that stream each ceremony,” Nichols said. “You typically won’t see someone like Amy Poehler hosting the Regional Emmys, but it is the exact same award, just with a different sector.”

Nichols also said that he wants to use this achievement to show college students that success doesn’t have to wait until graduation or after obtain-

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Chance Nichols, senior acting major, won a Mid-American Emmy for writing and producing “Instagram Husband.” ing a degree. He said that students should strive to accomplish their goals as soon as possible in life.

“The person who handed me my Emmy at the ceremony was a college kid, just like myself, who had earned the right to be there as a part of a scholarship program,” Nichols said.

“Which I thought was so cool. So

many kids tend to think they’re not really good at anything because no one’s handed them that expensive piece of paper yet that says so. But it’s never too early to start making your mark.”

Nichols is the president of Missouri State Improv and often performs stand-up comedy at several places

around Springfield. This year marks his third season writing and performing for “The Mystery Hour,” which fans can watch on local channel FOX 5 at 9 p.m. each Saturday.

The Springfield Adventure Race sends participants on wild chase

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Members of MSU’s Handball Team participate in the Springfield Adventure Race on Saturday, Oct. 8.

Cortlynn Stark Staff Editor @Cortlynn_Stark When four members of the Missouri State Handball team participated in the first annual Springfield Adventure Race on Saturday, the last thing they expected to do was take a

shot of hot sauce.

“It sounded like a fun idea to give back to the community,” junior entertainment management major and handball team member Sam Esser said. “I thought it was a lot of fun. A lot of the activities we enjoyed.”

The four students were part of 49 contestants and 13 teams who com-

peted in the race for a $200 prize.

The event kicked off at the Ozarks Area Community Action Corporation headquarters. OACAC works toward helping those in poverty. Lindsey Dumas-Bell, OACAC’s resource development manager, led the planning team.

In a twist-off of the “Amazing

Race” reality television competition, participants raced through nine different challenge stops at locations across Springfield, according to Dumas-Bell.

The Handball team won the “Lil Mama” award for doing a good job at Mama Jean’s Market. Here, they had to find products based on riddles.

“I say it was hard, but it was the one we won the award for,” Esser said.

At Incredible Pizza, contestants had to make, bake, slice a pizza and have a customer take a slice.

The farmers market saw one of the more dangerous challenges. Participants got to choose between hot or trot. Choosing trot meant they had to carry a hay bale from one area to another, do five jumping jacks and repeat the challenge three times.

Choosing hot meant they had to say a tongue twister, take a shot of hot sauce, do another tongue twister, eat three crackers and do a final tongue twister.

“My favorite part—honestly, it might have been at the farmer’s market,” public health graduate student and handball team member Mikaila Mitchell said. “Because I can handle hot sauce and none of them could, so I thought it was funny. You had to take a shot of it. I took the whole shot ,which you didn’t have to the first time. So it wasn’t a big deal to me, but all of them—they couldn’t handle it.”

Esser said in the group before

them, one man vomited because of the hot sauce.

“He warned us right before we did it,” Esser said.

They also had challenges at 417 DIY, a local do-it-yourself company, the Discovery Center, Dungeons of Doom, Barnes and Noble, Vintage Stock and Urban Flee Market.

“I think the hardest part … was directions because we didn’t really know where we were supposed to go,” Mitchell said. “It really helps to know Springfield. Some of the areas were familiar like the farmer’s market and stuff like that. But the first place we had to go to was Dungeons of Doom and we were like, ‘What is that?’ It was a very random place. But it was fun going to different places, too.”

According to the race registration website, proceeds from the race go to the OACAC Grant Assistance Fund which funds different OACAC programs. All of the money is used to help the community, the website said. “(The) first year doesn’t really raise a lot of money,” Dumas-Bell said. “But it’s great awareness and sets a foundation for years to come.”

Dumas-Bell said they plan to start planning for next year’s race soon.

“We’re going to do it again,” Mitchell said. “We’re winning next year.”

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Alumni share strides in graphic design, Celebrating National Hispanic showcased at Student Exhibition Center Heritage Month with Latin dances Trinh Nguyen Staff Reporter You probably have heard of National Hispanic Heritage Month when people celebrate to honor Hispanic and Latino Americans’ contribution to their heritage and culture. To celebrate this month, students came to Foster Recreation Center to learn Latin dances and culture.

This event was the collaboration between the FRC’s and Bearfit Program and the Multicultural program to teach students.

“This is the very first series that we started with the heritage and cultural movement series,” Teresa Brandenburg, assistant director of campus rec-fitness and wellness, said.

Cultural movement series is created to help students learn about different cultures and Latin culture is one of them.

The Hispanic Heritage Month was changed to “Latino heritage month” at MSU. The purpose of changing was “to be more inclusive for all genders,” Brandy Garcia, junior international business administration major and the president of Uniendo Nuestros Origenes, said.

The event opened last Tuesday from 6:30-8:30 p.m. During two hours, instructors taught students two well-known Latin dances, zumba and Argentine tango.

The first 30 minutes were dedicated to Argentine tango. Instructed by Zuzanna Fraczak, students learned the first four important postures of tango.

“Chest them,” Fraczak, sophomore cell and molecular biology major, said when she talked about the first posture was always pointing at your partner.

After getting to know the basic steps of tango, students partnered up to practice their dance moves.

“The most difficult dance move was probably the crossover step when we had to step on the outside of our partner’s foot, because that was awkward for both of us; we were tripping over each

other all the time, ” Daniel J. Hebert, junior global studies major, said.

The most difficult dance move was “getting your feet down,” Morgan Wetzel, sophomore global studies major, said.

Though students had difficulty learning the moves, there were plenty of laughs, fun and interactions among them. They either knew each other before or met for the first time.

The second part of the event was for zumba. Unlike Argentine tango that is partner, slow dance; zumba is more of individual, energetic dance.

To prepare for zumba, students had to do stretching first. Instructor Arianny Pujols-Mancilla, freshman health services major, challenged learner with caballo dorado, a dance that has slow steps at the beginning and fast steps later on, to see who could follow the rhythm.

According to Pujols-Mancilla, caballo dorado means “golden horse” or “square dance.”

When the music was played, participants started to dance at the same time following the instructor.

“I’m a little tired,” Wetzel said.

According to Garcia, to prepare for this dance event, instructors “practiced a month in advance how to teach the class.” The recreation center “advertised it, marketed for it, sent out information regarding the upcoming event,” Brandenburg said.

MSU has many students of different cultures and ethnicities.

Everyone is encouraged to participate in cultural movement series.

“Not only is it a fun and interesting to learn about other cultures, it’s also important so the world can learn to work together and separate ourselves by small differences,” Garcia said.

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Art enthusiasts observe the work of Frank Norton and Daniel Zender at the Student Exhibition Center.

Casey Struble Staff Reporter @Casey_A_Struble In the quaint, white house that is the Student Exhibition Center, an unusual and interesting art display of illustrations, posters and beer bottles is open to students.

From Oct. 3-21, the Student Exhibition Center will showcase the work of various MSU Art and Design alumni. Frank Norton and Daniel Zender’s pieces are housed together in the “Dirty Pictures” series.

Frank Norton, former design and illustration double major, visited campus Oct. 7, during First Friday Artwalk.

In his lecture at Brick City and his reception at the Exhibition Center, Norton showcased the practical, collaborative and cultural significance in product design.

Norton’s work involves company branding along with fine-art pieces used in collaboration of others’ works. His clients include Boulevard Brewing Company, The Sundry Market and Kitchen, and International Architects Atelier.

The exhibit showcased work such as posters, beer and wine bottles, and even branded construction helmets.

Displayed in the middle of the exhibition center were cases of Boulevard Beer cans and bottles. Norton, who approached the brewery as a freelancer, was soon working with Payton Kelly, Boulevard’s creative director.

Norton explained that he had to combine his own style with what Kelly had already designed since the Brewery’s founding in 1989. “One of my favorite pieces would be the Tropical Pale Ale. It was inspired by the art deco houses associated with tropical areas … but you can’t assume the customer knows what’s going on in my mind, so the colors also reflect the fruity taste,” Norton said.

The majority of Norton’s clients are from the Midwest

– specifically in the Kansas City and Ozark area. Norton, a Springfield native, draws much of his inspiration from his love of Ozark Culture. “People think about Missouri as not having a lot of culture, but once you dissect it, there’s a lot we take for granted,” Norton said.

This love of Ozark culture translated into Norton’s collaboration with Curtis Harrington’s podcast, “The Ozarks Explored.” The podcast, which played during the exhibit, explored the myths and folklore of the southern Missouri and northern Arkansas area: The Crescent Hotel, The Ozark Howler, Momo the Missouri Monster and others.

“I loved how (Harrington) was doing this on his own accord, not for money,” said Norton. Norton contacted Harrington to start doing the illustrations—or album art as Norton describes it—for each podcast.

To students, Norton explained how he took his first steps in the industry. He encourages students to find new businesses with a clear mission but not a clear visual aspect.

“It’s about looking at design as a communication tool,” said Norton, 2010 graduate. “I teamed up with new businesses and helped their visual identity reflect their conceptual identity.”

On Oct. 14, Zender will give a lecture to reach out to students and the public. Afterwards, a homecoming reception will be held that day.

During the exhibit’s stay, the gallery, located on the corner of Walnut Street and John Q. Hammons P, will be open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays and 12 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturdays.

The public is encouraged to come see where their education and passion can take them.

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Wheeler: Bears played well against top team Wyatt Wheeler Sports Editor @realYitWheeler

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A pair of Bison piles on Bears tight end Erik Furmanek.

No. 1 Bison stop Bears Turnovers doom Bears in loss to North Dakota State Wyatt Wheeler Sports Editor @realYitWheeler It was too good to be true.

After opening the game with a promising opening drive which was enough to give the Bears a 3-0 lead at the end of the first quarter, the Bears stalled on offense and No. 1 North Dakota State was able to scratch out enough points to defeat Missouri State 27-3.

The Bears offense ended the game with 176 total yards and four turnovers; two of them were interceptions and two of them were lost fumbles.

“We need to protect the ball and do the little things that we’re supposed to do,” Bears head football coach Dave Steckel said. “We need to do the simple little things. We need to do our jobs better.”

The Bears were able to keep it close and looked like they were going to make it a game multiple times throughout the afternoon, but the cost-

ly mistakes put the nail in the Bears’ coffin.

Senior quarterback Brodie Lambert fumbled the ball with 13:14 left in the game after junior quarterback Malik Earl made a few catches to have the Bears looking like they were going to make it close. The Bison recovered a fumble with the Bears driving. The next play, King Frazier ran in a 22yard touchdown to put the game out of reach.

Lambert finished the day 20-for-35 with 146 yards and two interceptions. Lambert also fumbled the ball twice.

“It’s hard to score points when you have four turnovers,” Lambert said. “It’s something that I need to get better at.”

Lambert was able to move the Bears down the field on the opening drive. The Bears opened up with a 13-play drive that went for 30 yards that resulted in a field goal to go up 3-0.

The Bears led the Bison 3-0

after the first quarter and weren’t able to hold on.

Cam Pederson hit a 38-yard field goal with 8:14 left in the half. Darrius Shepherd would catch a 21-yard touchdown with 1:40 left in the half. The Bison would finish the game with 27 unanswered points while shutting out the Bears for the final 54:43 of the game.

“We have to play four quarters, obviously,” senior linebacker Dylan Cole said. “We have to keep our focus for the duration of the game and make sure each play we play, we have great effort.”

Turnovers weren’t the only mistakes that the Bears made throughout the game. The Bears had a number of dropped passes, and the six penalties for 52-yards would come at inopportune times.

“Drops and turnovers can kill an offense,” Lambert said.

“We need to execute and have better focus. We’ll go back to the drawing table and have a better game next week.”

Last season, the Bears went into the fourth quarter down 55-0. This year, the Bears went into the fourth quarter down 13-3. Even with the improvement, Steckel still isn’t taking away any moral victories from Saturday’s loss.

“I don’t care about last year,” Steckel said. “There are no moral victories; It’s either you win or lose.”

The Bears (3-2) will go back to the drawing table when they take on Western Illinois next weekend. No. 1 North Dakota State will continue their journey for a sixthstraight national championship next week against South Dakota State.

“There’s a reason that they won five-straight championships,” Lambert said. “They’re a physical team; they’re disciplined. They do their job and I give them props.”

Missouri State will look to get back on track when they play Western Illinois at 2 p.m. at Plaster Stadium on Saturday.

You didn’t really think that the Bears were going to beat North Dakota State, did you?

Of course you didn’t. Because you weren’t there.

Come on guys, the student section was practically empty.

You’re going to see the final 27-3 score and be like “Wow! They suck!” Now I’m here to tell you that they don’t suck.

North Dakota State is really good, you see. They’ve won five national championships in a row and for a team that was 1-10 last season to go in and keep a team like North Dakota State to 13 points in the first three quarters is pretty exciting.

You weren’t at the game, but I was. Here’s what I saw in Missouri State’s 27-3 loss to the number one team in the country:

The Bears will go as far as their offense will take them Four turnovers will rarely beat the Bison.

The offense looked very basic and conservative on Saturday, and that’s probably the way that they were going to have to play against the highest of quality opponents.

Long developing plays on stretches to the outside and long developing screens were not going to work against the Bison. The Bears tried to throw the ball downfield early, but balls were dropped when corners were right there with open receivers.

Lambert threw some good balls that weren’t caught,t and he also had some turnovers that ended any hope of the major upset.

He’s capable of winning these big games. We saw it against Indiana State.

This team will be built around its very good defense for years to come. The defense will benefit from long drives and the rest that the offense

generates. Scoring points is also very important to winning football games.

Just like in the Bears’ 35-0 loss to Kansas State, the defense didn’t get much help from its offense and the defense was put in a tough spot on multiple occasions.

After the Bears went on a drive that lasted 5:17, their offense didn’t have a drive that lasted more than two minutes until a drive with 8:10 left in the third quarter. The defense was on the field a lot.

When the Bison did score, they started with the ball in very good field position.

Bison scores came with the following field position: field goal when they started with the ball at their own 41; touchdown when they started with the ball at the MSU 21; field goal when they started at the MSU 45; touchdown when they started at the MSU 22; touchdown when they started at their own 28.

Twenty of the Bison’s 27 points came when they started with good field position.

Cutting back on the turnovers and getting a few first downs will do wonders for the final outcome of these games.

What is a Leatherneck?

Here’s a weird team.

Western Illinois has been designated as our homecoming opponent. They’ve had an odd year.

They can look really good one week and then look not really good the next.

Sure, they took down the mighty FCS Huskies of Northern Illinois, but who hasn’t beaten Northern Illinois this year? Ball State didn’t, I guess. Northern Illinois is 1-5.

This past week, Western Illinois won in a thriller with Indiana State a week after the Bears beat the Sycamores by 21.

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Ice Bears destroy Huskies Alec McChesney Staff Reporter @Alec_McChesney After a tough stretch of road games, the Missouri State University men’s hockey team came home for a two-game series against Northern Illinois University. The Ice Bears dominated the Huskies in both games.

“It was nice coming home after a tough week on the road in Oklahoma,” senior forward and captain Brendan McClew said. “We really love the fan support we get and it can completely change the momentum of the game.”

On Friday Oct. 7, the Ice Bears manhandled the Huskies 9-2. According to McClew, the Ice Bears played their style of hockey. Although the Bears won in dominating fashion on Friday, the sentiment in the locker room was the same: Victories are good, but there is plenty of room for improvement.

“Overall, we were happy to get the win but everyone knows we have another level we can reach,” freshman defenseman Chris Brown said.

We need to continue to work on the little things to keep on winning.”

The victory on Friday night snapped a sixgame losing streak for Missouri State. Like Brown said, the winning continued on Saturday evening.

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The second game of the series saw the same result. This time, however, the Ice Bears shutout the Huskies. MSU took down Northern Illinois 4-0.

“I think we got a little frustrated at the beginning of the game, but we came out in the third period and showed a lot of heart,” McClew said. “We worked hard to get those three goals, and a win is a win.”

McClew netted one goal on Saturday night.

Sophomore forward Sasha Perron from British Columbia added two more goals, and junior forward Alex Turin scored one as well for the Ice Bears.

What’s next for the Ice Bears?

MSU heads to Colorado for a quick threegame road trip. The first two games of the trip will be against the University of Colorado, and the last game will be against Colorado State University.

Earlier in the season, the Ice Bears fell to Colorado 9-2. As for Colorado State, MSU split a two-game series at MediaCom Ice Rink in September.

“We are a much better hockey team than we were opening weekend when we played Colorado,” junior forward and Alberta, Canada native Chase Dobler said. “We understand how good Colorado is, but we also understand how we can beat them.”

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Senior Brendan McClew controls puck during big win over Northern Illinois.

Following the road trip, the Ice Bears will return home for 13-straight games. The home stand will begin on Oct. 21 against Southern Illinois University and finish on Dec. 3 against the University of Arkansas.

“Coming home this weekend and getting two wins to break our six-game skid definitely

helped our confidence as well,” Dobler said.

“We believe in our ability as a team, and we firmly believe the outcome will be different this upcoming weekend.”

Men’s soccer shuts out the week

The Missouri State Men’s soccer team pitched two shutouts at home last week against Eastern Illinois and Central Arkansas and improve to 7-31 this season. Seven wins is more than the Bears had last year, and they have won three consecutive games. The Bears have also continued to make Allison South a difficult place for opponents to win; as they have not lost a home game in two years.

On Wednesday the Bears defeated EIU 3-0 and Saturday night defeated UCA 1-0.

The Bears are now 3-0 against Missouri Valley Conference opponents, and they currently sit second in the standings behind Loyola.

“I think, we are just getting better; thats a goal for us every week. When we keep teams off the board, we are going to get points, and we feel like the longer it goes, the better it will be for us,” head coach Jon Leamy said.

Junior goalie Liam Priestley has recorded 15 shutouts in his career and he credits the RYAN WELCH/THE STANDARD shutouts to a team effort.

Jordy Robins outruns Eastern Illinois defenders.

“It’s a whole team effort.

It’s not just me, the back four with 11 guys on the bench all week were by four different Bears. Redshirt senior Emmerwho are charged with defend- defending,” Priestley said. ing; it’s a team effort. Along The four goals scored this ich Hoegg, sophomore forward

Harry Lewis, and junior forward Scott Midgley scored in the game against EIU. Tyler Swanner assisted on two goals against EIU and scored a goal of his own Saturday.

“Our key to success is our team movement together,” Swanner said. “Getting players to the right spots, getting players to follow and working as a team to get to those spots and helping each other out once we get there. That’s what it is.”

Swanner said that UCA was a tougher game than EIU because conference games are more difficult. Swanner’s goal came in the 78th-minute, and it was his first goal of the season.

The Bears have scored five goals in the last 10 days. Associate head coach Michael Seabolt credits practice habits with the latest offensive success.

“We’ve been on a good run.

It’s just teamwork, a lot of hard work with pressing and squeezing the field and defending hard. The team attacking as a group with a lot of commitment to try and score goals,” Seabolt said.

The Bears will travel to Edwardsville, Illinois to play Southern Illinois-Edwardsville on Tuesday. The Cougars are 4-4-3 this season, and the Bears are 4-9-2 against the Cougars.

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VolleyBears hoping for a strong finish Eric Knifong Staff Reporter @e_knifong The Missouri State Bears volleyball team (14-7, 4-2) has completed two-thirds of the regular season, and they are looking for a strong run to close out their final 11 matches.

The Bears are currently in the heart of conference play right now, and while they started off with two defeats to the current top two teams in the Missouri Valley Conference, they have won their last five matches.

Those losses were to MVC leading Wichita State (13-5, 6-1) and second place Southern Illinois (15-7, 6-2). The five wins were all matches they should have won and needed to win.

“No room for error this year in the Valley.

There really isn’t,” head coach Melissa Stokes said. “There is so much parody across the country … I don’t want our team to feel the pressure.

To me, it’s not talking about winning, we just talk about that kind of gritty mentality and playing hard; winning will take care of itself.”

The Bears have started to round into form over the past couple of weeks with two hard fought victories and three dominant victories.

Stokes was impressed with the team’s showing Saturday night and feels if they can continue to play with that kind of energy, then the team

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The VolleyBears stand in their new 5-1 rotation. will be fine moving forward.

Stokes says she wanted the team to run a 6-2 rotation with junior setter Lauren Boone’s setting ability, but freshman setter Daniele Messa made her change the strategy a bit.

“We weren’t supposed to be in a 5-1 with a current fifth setter and I give her a lot of credit, cause she’s doing a great job with our team, a veteran team. So honestly, I’m really, really happy with where we’re at right now,” Stokes

said.

The switch to the 5-1 happened because of how the players were performing in the new rotation compared to the 6-2. Stokes says the team has been supportive of each other no matter who is playing. The Bears have needed each player to stay consistently engaged, too, because it seems every player has had an impact on the outcome of at least one match throughout the season.

“We’ve got people ready to come in off the bench, contribute in a lot of different ways, and I think our players if they stay supportive of one another and keep that mentality - it’s a long season and people are going to get their opportunities,” Stokes said.

The Bears have had their ups and downs this season. They had a seven-match win streak followed by a four-match losing streak and have now won those five matches in a row.

MSU will return to Hammons Student Center in two weeks when they face Drake (11-9, 2-4) on Oct. 28 and Northern Iowa (13-7, 4-3) on Oct. 29. In the meantime, the Bears travel to Normal, Illinois, to face third-place Illinois State (12-7, 5-2) on Friday and then it’s off to Terre Haute, Indiana, for a matchup with Indiana State (8-10, 2-4). They will then have a week of preparation to face WSU in Wichita, Kansas, on Oct. 21.

Women’s swimming: Back in the pool Brian Wright Staff Reporter @WWritersNews The Missouri State women’s swimming team took first place at the MSU W Swimming Invitational. The team

was crowned co-champions along with the University of Houston.

MSU tied with the University of Houston for 347 points.

Nine Hammons pool records were broken by swimmers on Saturday; three of those re-

cords were broken by MSU swimmers.

“This was a lot of fun for us to race and compete as well as we did early in October; I’m really happy,” head coach Dave Collins said.

The Bears only raced nine swimmers on Saturday.

The MSU Invitational was preceded by the Show- Me Showdown in Columbia, Missouri. The men’s team finished second place overall while the women’s finished fifth.

Collins believes the women’s team is motivated to race faster after their streak of seven straight Missouri Valley Conference championships was snapped last season.

“I see a lot of motivation.

We had a really good summer of training. Last year’s conference meet is still in their minds and it’s serving as good motivation for them, so we’re just in a really good place,” Collins said.

Sarah Allegri, Lauren Pavel, Sydney Zupan and Loretta Stelnicki broke the pool record in the women’s 400 yard medley relay with a time of three minutes 43.79 seconds.

That group also won the women’s 200-yard medley relay.

“I think everyone is very focused and very ready to come into conference with a strong attitude,” Pavel said.

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Women’s swimming looks to rebound after finishing 2nd last season in the MVC. “This year, the coaches have been doing a different training schedule, which is fantastic—I think it’s going to give everyone a great opportunity to swim their fastest.”

Zupan set the new pool record for the women’s 100-yard butterfly, with a time of 55.12 seconds. Zupan credits working on her underwater techniques for her early success.

“The coaches have been helping me work on my under-

waters a lot, and it’s just helping me in the pool a lot,” Zupan said.

Josie Pearson finished first in the women’s 400-yard individual medley.

Pearson set numerous MSU records last season and is swimming even faster this fall with a lot more confidence.

“I think I have a different mentality when it comes to practice. I’m not afraid this year to really push myself,”

Pearson said. “It’s exciting when you have a group of girls like this cheering you on. They know your goals, and they are cheering for you saying you can do it.”

Oct. 15, the Bears have an intrasquad meet and Oct. 21 -22. The team will then travel to Lawrence, Kansas, for a trimeet against Kansas and North Dakota.

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The parking situation became so bad last year that parking turned into a free-for-all where students were told they could park anywhere there was an available spot minus handicap zones.

While not as bad as last year, the parking situation was still rough for some students.

Even though Curry agrees with the University being able to rent the arena for events, he thinks more of an emphasis is placed on the funds made off renting JQH than a student’s education.

“I go to Missouri State to get a degree. From my perspective, administration cares nothing about my education but only cares for making money to ‘fund’ things,” Curry said. “Parking is extremely important to my education, as I live off campus and can only commute via automobile.”

The Missouri State Parking Administration sent out a warning on their Twitter account Tuesday, Oct. 4 notifying students about the conference that would be affecting parking on Friday, Oct. 7.

Curry felt that more could have been done to notify students saying he never received an email or saw any announcements on MyMissouriState or the MSU website.

Parking lots that were north of Bear Boulevard were designated for those who were attending the Designed for Life conference, according to a message from the MSU Parking

Administration.

Parking lots south of Bear Boulevard, with the exception of the parking lot next to the soccer field, were off limits to attendees and re-

mained in normal operation, according to a ing motorists that vehicles without a MSU message from the MSU Parking Administration. parking permit would be ticketed.

All parking lots that weren’t designated for Curry, like many others, thinks there should those attending the conference had signs warn- be more parking and that for the time being students should have the right to the parking they pay for.

“I don’t think they should allow conference parking to interfere with student parking during the school week. Administration should take students concerns more seriously, as we pay tuition,” Curry said.

Bear Park North was full by 8:15 a.m. By 8:50, the lot next to Sunvilla Tower was full and an hour later, Bear Park South was full. By 10:45 both parking garages and three other lots were full.

Natalie Regenold, a sophomore history major, said she understands MSU will hold outside events, but it is still a frustrating situation.

“As someone who pays for parking, it is extremely frustrating for me to arrive to campus three hours early just to see that I have to park somewhere not on-campus,” Regenold said.

The MSU Parking Administration kept students updated with parking lot availability through its Twitter account during the morning.

By 12:40 p.m., spaces had opened up again and only Bear Park North and lot 44 were still full.

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-scribed Clinton as an “architect of the Obama administration’s foreign policy,” said that international terrorism, and America’s plan of defense, should be among voters’ highest concerns.

“Iraq has been totally overrun by ISIS,” Pence said, “because Hillary Clinton failed to re-negotiate our status of forces on the grounds of other countries and where we need them the most.”

The Trump-Pence campaign has repeatedly brought light to certain strict, yet effective defenses that would be implemented upon their election into office, but has not officially confirmed any details of these plans. Trump has stated that the reasoning for withholding details are safety concerns and confidentiality purposes.

Kaine retaliated Pence’s statements by listing Clinton’s achievements of defense overseas during her time serving as Secretary of State.

“When Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State, Osama bin Laden was still alive, we had 175,000 troops deployed and Iran was racing to develop nuclear weaponry,” Kaine said.

“Under Secretary Clinton’s leadership…she revived the dormant hunt against Bin Laden

and wiped him off the face of the earth. She worked with several countries to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program without firing a single shot.”

The candidate’s proposals for advancing and stabilizing the economy were another topic of particularly strong dispute. Pence said that an expanding economy was crucial in lowering the nation’s debt, while Kaine believes that investing in our own economy provides the highest chance of seeing it recover from recession.

“Donald Trump and I have a plan to get this economy moving again,” Pence said. “Just the way it worked in the ‘80s and in the ‘60s. That plan is to lower taxes across the board for working families, small businesses and family farms.

It is also ending the war on coal and repealing Obamacare immediately.”

Kaine presented his and Clinton’s plans for economic growth as a choice to be decided upon by voters, describing them as “You’re hired” President Clinton and “You’re fired” President Trump. Kaine also outlined their five -step plan for expanding the economy, dubbing it the “You’re Hired Plan.”

“First, we must invest in manufacturing,

infrastructure and research in clean energy jobs,” Kaine said. “Second, we are going to invest in our work force, and third, we need to promote fairness by raising the minimum wage and paying women equally. Step four is promoting the growth of small businesses, and the last step is our tax plan--to target tax relief to the middle class and ask those who have benefited from the recession to pay more.”

The controversy surrounding the presence of racism among police forces, a highly anticipated debate topic, surprisingly led both candidates to come to certain agreements on principle. Kaine and Pence both supported the idea of community policing, each candidate displaying an emotional investment in the issue.

“The way you make citizens and police officers safer is through community policing,” Kaine said. “You have to build bonds of understanding between officers and the people in order to narrow that gap.”

Kaine also specified his and Clinton’s intents to lower crime rates and acts of violence, stating that gun control is a high priority of Clinton’s.

“We will also focus on a mental health reform package and enforce restrictions to fight

this scorch of gun violence,” Kaine said.

Pence, who stated that 330,000 members of the Fraternal Order of Police endorse Trump as a presidential candidate, said that his and Trump’s plans are centered on efforts to increase citizens’ safety in the streets.

“Police officers are the best of us,” Pence said. “Donald Trump and I will make sure that law enforcements have the resources and tools to be able to restore law and order to our cities and communities.”

Supporters of both parties have expressed gratitude and frustration from the face-off between Pence and Kaine. Shortly after the debate aired, CNN released data from a focus group that stated Kaine was seen as the “overwhelmingly the clear winner.” However, a CNN instant poll released hours later showed that 48 percent of voters who watched the debate believed Mike Pence to have outspoken Time Kaine, who won 42 percent of voters. While there won’t be any additional vice presidential debates, the next presidential debates are scheduled for Oct. 9 and 19.