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MSU alumni elected to Board of Governors AFTON HARPER Staff Reporter @affie888 The Missouri State University Board of Governors has elected two MSU alumni as chair and vice chair for the next year.

Gabriel Gore, the current vice chair, will be replacing Carrie Tergin as chair, and Craig Frazier will become vice chair.

Due to his seniority on the board and amount of time left on his term, Gore said he will move from vice chair to board chair.

As the chair, Gore will conduct the board meetings.

“As board chair, I will also be the one who University President (Clif) Smart comes to directly to talk about how to engage the board over issues,” Gore said.

Gore also said he expects it to be a much busier year for him with more responsibilities because he will need to be more engaged in all aspects of what is going on with the Board of Governors.

Gore said the board has always focused on diversity and he feels the board has made a lot of progress because of Smart’s leadership.

Gore said another thing the board always focuses on is supporting students at MSU to improve graduation rates.

“I really want to bring some focus to supporting disadvantaged students,” Gore said.

Gore is from St. Louis and is a partner with Dowd Bennett LLP, according to the MSU website. He is also a former assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri.

Craig Frazier, vice chair-elect, said his work for the board will not differ much from what he has been doing, except he will conduct the meetings if Gore isn’t able to attend.

Frazier is also on the board for the E-Factory at Robert W. Plaster Free Enterprise Center, which is part of the IDEA Commons district north of downtown Springfield.

Frazier said he personally wants to do a good job by attending all the meetings and bringing his business perspective.

Frazier is from Springfield and moved away to Jefferson City to work at IBM for nine years. He also has experience in health care management and insurance, according to the MSU website.

Steve Foucart, chief financial officer, and Kristan Gochenauer, secretary for the Board of Governors, were also elected to positions. Foucart will serve as treasurer and Gochenauer as secretary, according to a university press release.

The new officers start on Jan. 1, 2019.

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Workers at Blair-Shannon Dining Hall run a food waste display, visually demonstrating how much food is wasted per day.

Behind kitchen doors A look at Missouri State’s composting process KATHRYN DOLAN | CLAYTON FRYE Staff Reporter | Staff Photographer In a university dining hall setting, an incredible amount of meals are made per day.

Unfortunately, this often results in a significant amount of food waste.

Rather than dumping unused food into a landfill, Missouri State University decided to put its leftover food to use.

In a joint effort between Residence Life and Dining Services, dining halls began composting at the beginning of Chartwells’ contract in May 2011.

There are two sides to composting in the dining centers: what happens in the front of the house dining area and what happens behind closed doors in the kitchen.

Nicole Young, a resident dining manager and chef, oversees the composting process in the kitchen. She said there are sometimes foods with inedible components when preparing meals. This waste is discarded as compostable material.

“If we get in a giant beef roast, we’re going to trim the fat,” Young said. “When we’re chopping up celery, there’s only so much that can be used until we reach the bottom of the bulb. All of that unusable production is measured and goes into buckets.”

All organic materials, meaning plant or animal products, can be composted.

Compostable material is then run through a program called “Waste-not” where kitchen production waste is measured and put into special composting trash cans lined with compostable trash bags made from corn.

That’s right — a plastic, completely-compostable trash bag made out of corn.

“They’re flimsy compared to regular trash bags; they’re also twice as expensive.” Young said, “But if you’re going to compost, you gotta compost the right way.”

In the front of the house dining area, compostable food waste is collected from used plates. In order for leftover food to get composted, guests need to leave leftovers on their plates as it goes down the conveyor belt.

Signage is posted near trash cans to alert guests of this process and to urge everyone to keep leftover food on their plate so as much waste can be composted as possible.

Food thrown into the trash cans next to the conveyor belt cannot be composted.

Meanwhile, in the back kitchen area, dishwashers pull plates with food remaining on them and scrape organic material into the designated compost cans.

In a survey of 100 students, only 35 knew

where the food waste left on the conveyor belt went; a majority of them said they thought food thrown in the trash cans would still be composted.

Before the dining hall started composting, a water trough and garbage disposal ran the entire time the dining hall was open.

“Close to the amount of water in an Olympic-size swimming pool is what went through the dining centers in a week,” Young said.

Now, the garbage disposal runs for about one minute every hour or so to clean out the water trough.

Composted material is gathered in trash bags then transported to large transportable bins that are picked up by the compost company, Post Disposal Services, three times per week.

In the past, composted soil created by Post Disposal Services has been bought back by the university to be used by the campus grounds crew.

The university tries to bring awareness of the composting process to students by setting up “waste display tables” once a semester by the dish return in Blair-Shannon and Garst dining halls.

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Greenwood to receive $6.4 million expansion SINJIN SANDERS Staff Reporter @SandersSinjin The Missouri State University Board of Governors has plans to approve a $6.4 million renovation and expansion to the Greenwood Laboratory School.

The existing building for Greenwood Laboratory School was built in 1966. According to the Board of Governors agen-

da, the school has had a 12 percent enrollment increase in the last 10 years. Additionally, Missouri State has added six middle school and high school classes to Greenwood Laboratory School.

MSU has raised $3.2 million, half the amount needed to remodel the building and create a 21,000 square foot addition.

Along with this, the renovation will include a new entrance and a multi-purpose center capable of seating 750 people with a performance stage, according to the agenda.

Jen Cox, the assistant to the vice president of Administrative

Services, said that the design process has been started and the designs won’t be complete until around the end of December.

The project is awaiting a 50/50 match from the state to fund the project. The project is also awaiting approval from the Board of Governors, Cox said.

“The project should start sometime this summer if all goes well,” Cox stated. There will be no estimate for how long the renovation and expansion will take until the final designs are completed.

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Thatcher Fitzgerald gives a presentation on the health issues facing transgender individuals during a Transgender Awareness Week event on Nov. 15.

Missouri State University plans to purchase Brick City for $17.7 million.

MSU Board of Governors approved the purchase in October, and the closing will be on Jan. 23, 2019.

The purchase includes buildings one, three, four and five. $350,000 was deducted from the original sale price as a penalty because the sellers, Brick City, LP and Brick City Two, LP, delayed closing.

The university’s bond payments will be lower

than what the university currently pays to utilize the Brick City buildings, according to an October real estate and sales agreement approved by the MSU Board of Governors.

The university’s past lease payments toward Brick City will be subtracted from the final cost.

The Missouri State Development Corporation will also be purchasing the parking lot for the Brick City redevelopment area. MSU will be working with them long-term to utilize the parking lot.

Hilltop Securities Inc. is MSU’s bond agent and has solicited bids from 19 banks so far.

Their most competitive bid came from Capital One, Chief Financial Officer Steve Foucart said.

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Shedding light on the transgender community SINJIN SANDERS Staff Reporter @SandersSinjin The issues facing transgender individuals are often not understood by those who aren’t directly affected by them.

Transgender Awareness Week seeks to bring these issues to the foreground of student's minds.

One event that is helping to promote awareness was held in the Multicultural Resource Annex of Freudenberger House on Nov. 15. The event was a “Lunch and Learn” that centered around a presentation

by Thatcher Fitzgerald, LGBTQ+ programming aide and MSU research assistant, that discussed the health and social issues facing transgender individuals.

Of the issues talked about in the presentation, Fitzgerald said he thinks the largest issue facing transgender individuals is the barriers to health care that trans individuals face.

Fitzgerald discussed the legal discrimination that happens in some communities due to the lack of civil rights protections.

Fitzgerald mentioned a “large hospital” in Springfield that was not good at dealing with the needs of trans individuals. Fitzgerald would not confirm which of the two major hospitals it was that he was referring to.

“I would recommend people go to Cox, but I would never say people should avoid care for any reason,” Fitzgerald said.

Fitzgerald said the week provides a chance to bring awareness to these issues and that “trans individuals are here and they exist, and here on campus, and everyone who has walked here on this campus has probably spoken to, or passed or has seen a transgender individual.”

“For me, it means making sure that MSU is living up to being culturally competent,” Abbie Clark, a senior majoring in organizational communications who was at the last “Lunch and Learn,” said. “And I think that recognizing that these students are part of our population, and recognizing them is very important.”

Another major talking point in the presentation was what allies can do to help a person who is transgender, whether it is a friend or stranger. Fitzgerald said “unconditional acceptance, respecting their pronouns and using chosen names” are the most important things a person can do for someone who is transgender.

“I think (Transgender Awareness Week) is helping people in a positive way,” Clark said. “It is shedding light on things that are currently happening in our society.”

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waste and information regarding on-campus composting.

Composting has a huge list of benefits. Primarily, it prevents food scraps and other organic matter from ending up in the landfill where it would create large amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

Once the compost turns to soil, it improves the fertility of the ground, meaning that crop yields are increased without the need of chemical fertilizers.

According to the Institute for Local Self Reliance, composted soil can even filter out urban stormwater pollutants by 60-90 percent.

In addition to composting, MSU has made efforts to be more sustainable in several ways.

For example, all napkins used in the dining centers are made from 100 percent post-consumer re-

cycled materials.

Additionally, the dining hall has gone straw-less to cut back on plastic usage and has nearly eradicated styrofoam from campus.

The university pays to compost and does not make any money from this process. In October 2018, $250 was spent on composting in the Plaster Student Union.

The PSU is the least costly dining location due to the lack of guest participation in the composting process. All food waste comes from the kitchens.

“The dining halls go through about 20 times more compost than the PSU,” Young said. “It’s pretty costly to compost, but it’s the right thing to do.”

According to Young’s reports, composting expenses for the month of October at the university totaled $2,035.

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Mark Kozelek seems more interested in storytelling than songwriting in latest Sun Kil Moon project JOEY MUELLER Reviewer Mark Kozelek has added another album to his musical catalog with his latest Sun Kil Moon release, “This Is My Dinner.” Kozelek may be best known for his work with Red House Painters, who were instrumental in creating the slowcore genre in the ‘90s. After the breakup of Red House Painters, Kozelek decided to continue his musical career with the creation of Sun Kil Moon. The style of Sun Kil Moon’s music has proven to be so before but has become more unpredictable in recent years and especially on “This Is My Dinner.”

“This Is My Dinner” could be best described as a marathon of rants and reflections that are

often closer to being some abstract comedy-bit than a musical album. In fact, the music takes the back seat for the vast majority of this album, but do not expect to hear some grand tale from Kozelek. What you will find on this album are stories about his time in the Netherlands, memories of a sick girl’s demonic coughs, tributes to David Cassidy, and pretty much anything else that Kozelek happened to think about while recording—all set over the same slow, moody instrumentals. At its best, this album makes for some highly comical material that is sure to entice a laugh or two. At its worst, however, this album can be painfully uninteresting and all too easy to tune out.

“This Is My Dinner” certainly has its share of standout tracks. The opening track, “This

Is Not Possible,” is a long-winded tale in which Kozelek describes his experiences traveling through the Netherlands. While it is a bit slow-burning, I feel it really picks up near the end and makes for a mostly humorous listen.

Kozelek provides an impressive impression of the little girl from “The Exorcist” in “Linda Blair” that pretty much made the song.

Finally, I enjoyed the tracks “David Cassidy” and “Come on Get Happy.” In these tracks, Kozelek mourns the late actor David Cassidy and covers the theme song from the television show “The Partridge Family,” in which Cassidy stared.

This is easily the most difficult album I have had to review, simply because it seems to hover somewhere between a standup routine and

an actual album. Judging it as a standup routine, or just some piece of alternative entertainment, I think the album is fairly entertaining. Judging the album strictly as a piece of music, however, it is a flop. With that being said, I do believe this album is capable of providing more than a few laughs for the right person, even if it doesn’t leave you musically inspired.

Rating: 5/10 Genre: Experimental, Spoken Word Album Length: 1:30:15 Favorite Tracks: “This Is Not Possible,” “Linda Blair,” “David Cassidy,” “Come on Get Happy,” “Rock ‘n’ Roll Singer,” “Chapter 87 of He” Least Favorite Tracks: “This Is My Dinner,” “Copenhagen,” “Candles”

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NOAH STANDISH Senior Reporter @NoahjStandish It’s a quiet Tuesday afternoon in August 2017.

Casual conversations and infectious laughter ring against the brick walls of Park Central Square, as people meander on the square’s surrounding sidewalks, flags fluttering above them in the wind.

Two blocks away, Missouri State alumna Andrea Ehrhardt dips a brush into a small can of orange exterior paint before looking upward toward the sun and the birds watching her.

She shifts her weight on the black tarp at her feet and returns to the brick wall facing her expectantly. Ehrhardt is carefully filling in the interior of a pair of butterfly wings that stretch nearly 10 feet tall. Her only supplies: chalk, paint, varnish, a ladder and some patience.

It’s a spontaneous project on the exterior wall of 328 South Ave. that would impact hundreds of people living in the city.

With permission from the building’s owner, the painting would be finished by sundown.

“I think anybody who happened to be walking by that day stopped and asked what I was doing,” Ehrhardt said, sitting in a quiet corner of the Panera Bread on National Avenue. “We wanted people to be able to find it, and I think it definitely grew a lot faster than expected.”

It’s the first time that day she doesn’t have paint on her jeans or a brush in her hand.

“We almost put a quote above (the butterfly), but not doing that has allowed everyone else to fill in that blank for themselves,” Ehrhardt said.

Leaving it blank helped the butterfly wings prompt the creation of a larger trend: #417StreetArt. It’s a social media hashtag that has gradually connected her other works among the streets of Springfield.

Over time, the locale has become a recognizable photo destination for crowds of curious

14 students strolling along with their peers and family members.

Cue the Instagram posts.

Group shots, infectious smiles, freeze frame leaps and frivolous poses. The butterfly wings prompted a social media bandwagon that flew the wings to a status of fame approaching that of the Plaster Student Union bear statue on MSU’s campus.

But despite having branched out to many other types of art, Ehrhardt doesn’t mind being known as “the butterfly artist” among Springfield natives.

“There’s worse things to be known for,” Ehrhardt said with a laugh. “I’m always trying to outdo the butterfly.”

Below the wings are two phrases: a hashtag and Ehrhardt’s Instagram account.

Ehrhardt said the hashtag #417StreetArtwas her fiance Ryan Sanders’ idea. The goal was to connect other pieces of her work found all around Springfield.

But the glue holding it all together is Instagram — what Ehrhardt called one of the most important elements of her marketability as an artist.

In 2017, the hashtag #417StreetArt had only five posts of random pictures around Springfield.

Today, searching it on Instagram shows more than 1,000 posts of creative artwork and smiling faces all over the city.

“It’s so cool that there are people who want to pose in front of my art,” Ehrhardt said. “If it’s a nice weekend, we’ll see a lot of photos (on Instagram), and they get really creative. I always want to see what people are posting.”

Since the first set of wings downtown, Ehrhardt has painted several more across Springfield, including two for Dickerson Park Zoo and one comprised of hundreds of bubbles for Sno Bubble Tea, a bubble tea and coffee shop that recently opened in Battlefield Mall.

“Since I did the wings (downtown), people saw how effective it was, and now everybody

15 wants wings,” Ehrhardt said. “It’s just always a really good photo-op that everybody loves.”

For Ehrhardt, that sense of community is a culmination of months of freelancing company logos and commissioned works — from O’Reilly Auto Parts lettering to enticing black and white paintings of lions and zebras.

But even before being finished, her artwork always seems to attract crowds of curious onlookers.

“While I was painting the wings (downtown), there was this couple who had a loft above Civil Kitchen who saw me, and they asked me to paint some Banksy art in their loft,” Ehrhardt said.

Her first major opportunity came from Bass Pro Shops in 2013 in the form of painting logos for the company in cities across the United States and Canada.

Ehrhardt said her willingness to travel stood out compared to other artists who didn’t want to be away from family. Suddenly, the Springfield-native found herself working in locations across North America — from Vancouver and Calgary to Texas and Florida.

Ehrhardt often worked upward of 70 hours a week, but she never told Bass Pro no, which led to what she called one of the most important lessons of her career: always be flexible and positive. “(Bass Pro) had thought I was this big logo artist who was super experienced, and I didn’t correct them,” Ehrhardt said. “So, I watched a lot of YouTube videos at night and learned from others who were much more experienced than I was.”

The first year, she was home in Springfield for only two weeks.

The beginnings of Ehrhardt’s career also led to several international opportunities, including painting and teaching in Thailand, Ghana and New Zealand.

One of her favorite commissioned works was painting a sunset over a duck pond on the

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headquarters of Duck Dynasty in Louisiana.

“We had to do a lot of that one at like 2 a.m. because it was so hot that we couldn’t work during the day,” Ehrhardt said, laughing at the memory.

Her inspiration for painting started years ago at her grandmother’s side. She was also an artist.

After Ehrhardt discovered she could major in painting, Ehrhardt said she changed her major from business that day.

“MSU was a really good start for my career, but learning the business side of things will make or break any artist,” Ehrhardt said.

Sanders, Ehrhardt’s fiance, said her extensive practical experience is equally important to the classes at MSU in 2013. For Sanders, both her experience and classes contributed to her gradual climb toward success as an artist. “(Ehrhardt) had gone through all these painting classes, but then you actually get on the job site and they just say, ‘All right, here’s the wall.

Have fun,’” Sanders said.

Sanders said the idea to paint butterfly wings in downtown Springfield came from other artists’ interactive murals in Houston, Nashville and Los Angeles. The works of artists Kelsey Montague and Colette Miller became the primary inspiration for Ehrhardt’s own version.

“We were looking at (Montague and Miller’s) butterfly wings one day, just going back and forth,” Sanders said. “Eventually, we just said, ‘What if we break the wings apart?’”

Ehrhardt chimes in between bites of a sandwich.

“I mean, they both have their own style,” Ehrhardt said. “And obviously you can’t copy someone else’s idea, but you can make it your own.”

Sanders also said they found themselves drawn to street art that invited people passing by to stand beside it as an impromptu photo-op.

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REESE RADMACHER Staff Reporter @Reese_Radmacher Throughout the month of November, the office of Multicultural Programs at Missouri State hosted Native and Indigenous Heritage Month to not only celebrate the culture, but to educate and inform students, faculty and staff.

Yvania Garcia-Pusateri, executive director of Multicultural Programs, said she thinks it is important for students to gain a better understanding of native and indigenous culture.

“Students come – they want to learn,” Garcia-Pusateri said. “Hopefully, as they’re leaving the event, they are thinking about what they just learned and taking it back to help with their own growth and development.”

Along with dialogue-oriented programs, a banquet took place for the first time, which included food samplings and dances specific to Native American culture.

Documents and artifacts show that Springfield, Missouri, has its own history of Native American culture.

William Meadows, a sociology and anthropology professor at Missouri State, said a Kickapoo reservation, though no longer in existence, was located on the southeast part of town along with a reservation on the southwest side referred to as Delaware Town, which extended along the James River.

There is also the Southwest Missouri Indian Center located on South Scenic Avenue.

The largest and perhaps most commonly known tribe from Missouri is the Osage Nation.

Esther Clote, a sophomore math major who is part Osage Indian, considers Native Americans to be a somewhat forgotten minority.

“We do have family reunions where we remember our culture and those who came before us who were full-blood Indian,” Clote said. “The culture wasn’t passed down passionately, which is kind of sad, but it wasn’t.”

However, this is not the case for all natives. For Allison Slowtalker, a junior animal science major, carrying out the bloodline is essential.

Slowtalker is a descendant of the Navajo tribe which spreads across the states

plants, religion and spirituality.

Using plants as a food source, as well as for medicinal and religious purposes, is common among native cultures. However, the type of plant sources available to tribes varies based on their geographical location.

Slowtalker’s grandmother was a traditional herbalist.

“If you had the flu, she had a concoction of herbs she would put together that worked faster than any flu medication I’ve ever used in my life,” Slowtalker said.

In an effort to save their language, the Navajo recently paired up with Duolingo, a free language-learning service app.

“In a lot of groups, very few people are native speakers anymore,” Meadows said. “Groups are trying very hard to shore up that loss. … For anybody, language is a big chunk of your culture regardless of who you are.”

Even though spoken language varies

OK boys and girls, freaks and geeks, let’s get weird. Today, we are looking at an older film because I am too gosh darn poor to see all of the films that are coming out.

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It’s fine, I get it. I knew you wouldn’t understand.

But as long as you’re still reading, I swear this is a movie that is sure to impress your friends at dinner conversation, or more likely it will make them think you’re a movie snob with a stick up your rear. Whatever, we don’t need them. We have “Trainspotting,” directed by Danny Boyle.

Now, what the hell is this movie?

“Trainspotting” is a book written by Scottish author Irvine Welsh that gained critical acclaim at the time of its publication and is recognized as one of the key pieces of Scottish literature – probably. I don’t keep up that much with Scottish current events.

After this book spread farther than syphilis in 1490s America, a small-ish film company approached John Hodge with a proposition to take Welsh’s conglomerate of intertangling and unwinding stories and turn it into the screenplay for a film.

He said no. But then he re-read the book, and it stuck in the part of his brain that causes you to yell at people who can’t drive and also to frantically write screenplays. So he turned in his draft to the company which assigned Boyle to direct the picture, and, badda-bing-badda-boom, that’s showbiz, baby.

So why was this movie a defining moment in the careers of those who worked on it? We can give most of that credit to Hodge and Boyle.

What Hodge did with Welsh’s novel is, in itself, a work of art. Hodge focused a surplus of characters into a single storyline and narrative. This story speaks about addiction from a perspective few people acknowledge. Addiction does not exist only as a disease and an ailment. People use addictive substances for a reason. That reason? It feels really good – incredibly good.

That is the note the movie begins with as it combines

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Dancers celebrate at the 8th Annual Native American Heritage Month powwow in 2012. Due to funding cuts, the last powwow at MSU was in 2013. of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.

During the summer, Slowtalker visits her father who lives on what was the first section of the Navajo reservation in Leupp, Arizona.

The Navajo Nation is federally recognized.

“The Navajo Nation — we have our own flag; we are our own sovereign nation,” Slowtalker said. “We stand apart from America.”

According to Meadows, being federally recognized means “you have some kind of treaty or agreement with the U.S. government which provides a whole number of agreements that is different from group to group.”

As of now, there are no federally recognized tribes in Missouri.

Certain stereotypes associated with Native American cultures have been ingrained throughout society over time. Although common themes among tribes exist, the vast majority of tribes differ in the way they use and apply language,

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Missouri State hosts volleyball postseason tournament Northern Iowa, Illinois State earn spots in NCAA tournament bracket BRYCE DERRICKSON Sports Reporter @BruceyD17 Missouri State’s volleyball team hosted the Missouri Valley Conference Championship for the first time since 2015. In the tournament was No. 1 UNI, No. 2 Illinois State, No 3.

Bradley, No. 4 Valparaiso, No. 5 Missouri State and No. 6 Drake.

Teams started play on Thanksgiving Day with No. 3 Bradley facing No. 6 Drake followed by No. 4 Valparaiso and No. 5 Missouri State. Both Northern Iowa and Illinois State received a bye due to being the first and second seed, respectively.

Game 1

The tournament began with arguably the most entertaining game of the tournament between Drake and Bradley. Before these two teams played in the tournament, they won one game apiece in the regular season.

Both teams traded off sets throughout the game with Drake taking the first and third while Bradley took the second and fourth sets. The fifth set also saw both teams fight to continue their postseason run.

The set went into extra points, but the Drake Bulldogs prevailed, winning 17-15.

Bradley ended its season 23-8 overall and 13-5 in conference play.

This was the first win in the MVC tournament for Drake since 1998. This was also the first time in MVC volleyball history a No. 6 seed has won a game. The Bulldogs were set to play No. 2 Illinois State on Nov. 23 in the semifinals.

Game 2

Missouri State and Valparaiso also played an amazing game following Drake’s win.

They played five sets as well.

In the regular season, MSU and Valparaiso went 1-1 in the regular season. The Crusaders won the second match in five sets.

The Bears and Crusaders swapped sets throughout the

postseason game with Valparaiso taking the first set and Missouri State taking the next. In the fifth set, MSU attacked early and took a 4-1 lead.

Valparaiso countered and went on a 9-1 run, giving them a 10-5 lead. The Bears fought back, going on another 4-1 run to bring the score to 11-9. Valparaiso scored four consecutive points and won the final matchup of the season.

With the win, the Crusaders moved on to play No. 1 UNI on Nov. 23.

Since the Bears lost, they finished with 17-15 overall and 10-8 in conference play. For the 20th consecutive season, Missouri State finished with a winning record in both the conference and their overall record.

Senior Emily Butters and freshmen Amelia Flynn and Chloe Rear contributed to the Bears’ winning season. Butters finished her collegiate volleyball career seventh in NCAA history for consecutive sets played — with 513 — third in career digs in the MVC and 16th overall in the NCAA with 2,483 digs.

Flynn’s 380 kills in a season have her sitting second in Missouri State history behind Lily Johnson. Rear also finished the season with 1,166 assists. Rear is the third freshman volleyball player at Missouri State to have 1,000 or more assists.

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(Above) The bracket for the Missouri Valley Conference Championship.

(Right) Sophomore Laynie Dake goes for the kill against Valparaiso.

Game 3 (Far right) Junior AuIllinois State and Drake faced off for the first semifinal brey Cheffey hits the ball over the net. on Nov. 23.

During the regular season, Illinois State was 2-0 against Drake, only losing one set to the Bulldogs.

In the match, Drake’s Cinderella run came to an end as Illinois State swept the Bulldogs. Illinois State advanced to play the championship on Nov. 24.

Drake ended its season 2114 overall and 8-10 in the MVC. Illinois State then waited for the winner between UNI and Valparaiso on Nov. 25. In the regular season, UNI was 2-0 against Valparaiso.

Game 4 Before the game, UNI had never lost a match to Valparaiso. In the regular season, UNI beat Valparaiso both times though the last matchup took five sets to secure the victory.

Unlike Illinois State, who just needed three sets to beat Drake, UNI needed four to defeat Valparaiso.

UNI managed to hold Valparaiso to an .163 hitting percentage and have three players with double-digit kills.

Valparaiso ended its season

Bears go 0-3 after KC tournament, away game AMANDA SULLIVAN Sports Editor @mandasullivan14 After three games at home and three games at other locations, the Missouri State men’s basketball team is 3-3.

The Bears defeated Oral Roberts, Robert Morris and Stetson at home, winning every game by at least 13.

Eight days after the Stetson game, the Bears traveled to Kansas City, Missouri, to play No. 24 Nebraska and Southern California. The Nebraska game was the first of the Hall of Fame Classic held in Kansas City. The Bears battled, but the Huskers were too much as they went on to win 85-62.

Back-to-back days of basketball wore on the Bears, as USC defeated MSU 99-80 on Day 2 of the tournament. But Missouri State wasn’t tired,

according to head coach Dana Ford. In his opinion, the Bears lacked “juice.”

Junior guard Keandre Cook showed out for Missouri State in both games, getting his third and fourth 20-point game in a row. Cook’s performance was missing in MSU’s game against Murray State on Nov. 24. He had a season-low five points, going 0-for-3 from the 3-point line.

The Bears lost 77-66 against a team Ford said could be one of the more Valley-type teams in their nonconference schedule.

Senior Ryan Kreklow had an incredible performance against Southern California, playing 30 minutes and scoring 23 points for the Bears. But in the game against Murray State, Kreklow only managed to snag two rebounds in 16 minutes.

The Bears also had a chance to see junior transfer Tulio Da

Silva in action. On Nov. 21, Missouri State was notified that Da Silva would be the only eligible transfer for this semester. In his inaugural 30 minutes for the Bears, he scored seven points and had 11 rebounds.

Freshman forward Szymon Wojcik had a season-low seven minutes in the game against Murray State. A consistent shooter for the Bears early, Wojcik only managed to get two shots off. The Bears lacked Division I experience, with five of the 10 eligible players having played at least one D-I season. With the addition of Da Silva — and two games against major D-I basketball schools — the Bears had a chance to see how they would do.

There are still seven games until Missouri Valley Conference play starts. We’ll see how they continue to improve this season.

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Guard Keandre Cook pushes his way through the Nebraska defense at the Hall of Fame Classic in Kansas City.

25-10 overall and 11-7 in con- MVC Tournament title with ference.

UNI leading the series 4-3. The Panthers were looking to capGame 5 ture their 17th tournament title On Nov. 24, Northern Iowa in 24 finals appearances. and Illinois State played each The first two sets went to other for the MVC Champion- UNI, and Illinois State avoided ship and for the automatic bid the sweep by taking the third set 28-26. The Panthers didn’t into the NCAA tournament.

In the regular season, the let the Redbirds have too much Panthers and Redbirds split hope, though, as UNI won the matches and were also the fourth set, making them MVC MVC co-champions of the champions. UNI won its 17th regular season with 16-2 re- MVC title, giving them the cords in conference play. most titles in the MVC. This is the eighth time these The Panthers will now play teams have competed for an in the NCAA tournament

joined by the Redbirds who were selected into the tournament.

After the MVC tournament, sophomore Laynie Dake was the only Missouri State player was named on the all-tournament team. Dake, in the game against Valparaiso, had a career-high 19 kills while hitting .368. She also tallied five blocks during the game.

The first-round matches of the NCAA tournament will begin on Nov. 29. Illinois State will face Cincinnati, and UNI will face Pepperdine.

Rollercoaster football season ends with fifth-straight loss AMANDA SULLIVAN Sports Editor @mandasullivan14 A rollercoaster season for the football Bears ended with their first shutout since Sept.

9, 2017. As the term “rollercoaster” implies, the whole season wasn’t bad.

The Bears had a promising look to the season at the beginning, starting the season 3-1.

They defeated two ranked opponents. Missouri State defeated No. 20 Northern Arizona­­ 40-8 in Week 3 and then No. 9 Illinois State 24-21 in Week 5.

Northern Arizona ended the season 4-6, and head coach Jerome Souers stepped down at the end of the season. Souers was fired after the 2017 season but brought back for the 2018 season.

The Lumberjacks’ season ended differently than what many expected, but that wasn’t the case for Illinois State. The Redbirds finished the season 6-5 overall, only losing in conference play.

The Bears not only defeated two strong teams, but they also lost a tough game at South Dakota 35-28. The Bears had a chance all the way until the last play.

However, after starting the season 4-2, Missouri State went on to lose five straight games and end the season with a losing record for the fourth year in a row under head coach Dave Steckel. Three of the last five opponents went on to play in the Football Championship.

But, it’s still been a growing season for the Bears. Winning games and looking good doing it has been difficult for Missouri State in the past, but the team did it this year.

In the win against Illinois State quarterback Peyton Huslig had his second highest passing percentage of the season at 68.8

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Running back Jeremiah Wilson sprints down the sidelines trying to evade the University of Northern Iowa defenders. percent. His only more successful game was against Lincoln University, which the Bears won 52-24, and Huslig threw 12-for14 on the day.

The defense struggled in the last three games, allowing 144 points. Against South Dakota State, North Dakota State and Northern Iowa, the Bears only managed to score 14 points.

Senior Jared Beshore led the Bears’ secondary, though, with two interceptions against SDSU and a season-high 11 tackles against UNI. Beshore has also been the one preaching the growth of the program along with Steckel.

Beshore repeatedly said toward the end of the season

he has seen the growth. The growth has happened, it just needs to be applied on the field.

Steckel said that, too. He said he’s seen the guys work hard and get better.

Extra film sessions, better work ethics in the weight room and better performances at practices haven’t translated onto the field for the Bears.

So, what do they do now?

Steckel said it’s time to regroup, take a few weeks off and then head into winter workouts with the same mindset they’ve had all season.

We won’t see much until the Spring Game in April, but it will be interesting to see the if the Bears’ growth continues and the scoreboard will show it.

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Running over Missouri State’s records Grace Breiten is breaking cross-country records at MSU and she’s still learning the sport

single day with a can-do attitude while still laughing and having fun.

“Grace and I will be teammates for four years, but I know we will always be great friends,” Wollmering said. “Her heart shows in everything she does, and I’m grateful that we are in each other’s lives.”

Lindsey Biesemeyer, a redshirt sophomore, said Grace’s presence affects the whole team with her bubbly, energetic and fun personality.

Biesemeyer remembers a time when Grace sacrificed her own workout to encourage Lindsey. The team was going through a hard workout, and Biesemeyer was struggling and feeling discouraged. Grace passed Biesemeyer and said, “Come on Lindsey, you’re tough. You can do it — just run with me. Let’s go. You got it!”

Biesemeyer said she’s thankful for a teammate and a friend who would put herself in pain by talking while running to encourage her and cheer her on.

“She inspires a lot of us to work harder and push ourselves to a limit we didn’t think we could because Grace does that every single day,” Biesemeyer said. “I don’t think any of us could ask for a better teammate.”

CLAIRE NIEBRUGGE Sports Reporter @claireniebrugge A redshirt sophomore is running all over the Missouri State record books in just her fourth season of cross-country – ever.

Running didn’t always come first.

Despite running her way to the top of the Missouri Valley Conference this past fall, cross-country Bear Grace Breiten hasn’t always had a passion for running.

Grace grew up playing soccer, not giving running a second thought. In high school, she ran cross-country her sophomore year but quit to play soccer for her junior season. For her senior year season, she decided to give cross-country another try.

“I was always super big into soccer and wanted to play in college, but my senior year I got burnt out from doing it,” Grace said.

It wasn’t until her senior season that she took running seriously. Grace said she has fallen in love with the sport since then.

Although Grace’s high school coaches were supportive of her in whichever sport she was playing, none of them loved that she was a dual-sport athlete. They told her if she wanted to excel in athletics, then she needed to choose one sport.

While there is a long, ongoing debate about whether or not athletes should play multiple sports in high school, a 2017 NCAA survey of college athletes reported by USA Today said that 87 percent of Division I female runners were multi-sport high school athletes.

“Looking back, I don’t have regrets of not running more in high school,” Grace said. “Obviously I love it now, but I think it’s really important to play multiple sports and find what you’re passionate about.”

Grace is leaving her mark at MSU.

She had big shoes to fill.

After Jessica Allen, Missouri State’s star cross-country and track runner, graduated May 2018, Grace had to step up in big ways as both an athlete and a leader.

“In terms of how we score our team, she pretty much exactly took the spot of Jessie, which is something we needed her to do,” Fife said. “She comes in every day and gives us everything she’s got, and the rest of the team respects her for that.”

Her teammates said Grace is an inspiring and hard-working leader. Junior Erica Wollmering said Grace comes into practice every

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Grace had never run on an indoor track before. She said she didn’t have very high standards for herself. And although she didn’t run the times she wanted to, Fife said he saw great potential in her.

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The biggest obstacle Grace had to overcome was learning how to run properly, especially when it came to pace timing.

“I would have no idea what was going on, and I would be way too fast or way too slow,” Grace said.

She just lacked the experience most of her competitors had. Most athletes at her level had run throughout high school — some even in middle school.

Fife and her other coaches decided she wasn’t where she needed to be quite yet. Grace and her coaches decided it would be best to redshirt Grace’s first cross-country season.

“Now that I have gained the experience and knowledge of the sport, I am really glad that I redshirted,” Grace said.

On top of learning the sport of running, Grace was still overcoming an illness she was diagnosed with her senior year of high school – anemia. Her iron levels were low, so redshirting was the best option for both her career and her life. Grace declined to comment further on the illness. As the second semester of her freshman year approached, so did track season.

“It was definitely a learning experience,” Grace said with a laugh. “That was my first full

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Grace Breiten runs cross-country and track for Missouri State. She just finished her fourth season of cross-country ever and ran track for the first time in the spring of 2017. She redshirted her true freshman year due to an illness she battled.

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When Grace was applying to colleges, she didn’t initially want to go to school in Missouri. She grew up in Chesterfield, Missouri, and wanted to get away for college.

She applied to Missouri State as a failsafe because of their education program. As a special education major, academics have always come first to Grace.

“After talking to Coach (Jordan) Fife on my visit here, I fell in love with it and knew this is where I was meant to be,” Grace said.

Grace said Fife loved that she was a dual-sport athlete and didn’t mind that she didn’t have many cross-country times under her belt.

“The fact that he was even willing to give me a chance was awesome,” Grace said.

Fife wasn’t sure what kind of runner Grace was when he was recruiting her. She had two non-consecutive seasons of cross-country on her resume and zero track and field experience.

But that didn’t matter.

“I saw enough in one cross-country state meet performance to say ‘I want to take a chance on this person,’” Fife said. “The sky is the limit for her.”

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Missouri State was not her first choice.

In 2017, as a redshirt freshman, Grace placed 13th overall at the Missouri Valley Conference Championships with a 5-kilometer run time of 17:58.33, just a few seconds behind her personal best of 17:41.0.

Later that season at the NCAA Midwest Regional, she placed 63rd in the 6-kilometer run with a new personal record time of 21:21.5.

This past fall, in just her fourth season ever of running cross-country, Grace placed fifth at the MVC Championships with a new personal record 5K time of 17:21.67.

In two seasons at Missouri State, Grace’s time put her sixth-fastest in the 5K in program history.

Earlier this month at the NCAA Midwest Regional, Grace ranked 46th out of 232 athletes, running a 6K time of 21:32.4. This time puts her at 10th fastest in Bear program history for the 6K. Grace has broken into the top 10 of both the 5K and the 6K in her time at Missouri State. Her coach doesn’t think she will stop there.

“I am sure she will be near the very top of her list by the time she is done here,” Fife said.

“We’re really excited to see what she can do with the remaining eligibility she has. She is somebody who doesn’t shy away from setting really high goals. Her desire to beat people and win is her biggest strength.”

Grace credits her success to her team, coach and the community around Missouri State running.

“You can’t, in any sport, get anywhere without a solid team or a coach,” Grace said. “If you have a program that you love and a coach that you love and respect, you’ll just naturally want to do well for them.”

Grace said she’s proud of the reputation she and her teammates have built up for Missouri State running. Last year, they placed 20th in the region, whereas the year before, they placed in the 30s.

Grace said it’s a step-by-step process that cannot be accomplished in one season. She said with teammates who have become sisters, it’s easy to be proud of all everyone has achieved.

“One day, we won’t be athletes here anymore, so it’s important to leave our mark and build this program up the best we can,” Grace said.

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That, combined with the inspiration of Montague and Miller’s pieces of enticing artwork, is what led to those recognizable wings in downtown Springfield.

“We found that the street art we liked the most were the ones that were more interactive,” Sanders said, recalling a visit to Austin, Texas. “So, when we came back to Springfield, we knew we wanted to do something like that here.”

In addition to creating various forms of street art in Springfield, Ehrhardt has also gone on to create her own company: Paint it Red. “We kind of joke around about that name because (Ehrhardt and I) are both redheads,” painter and MSU alumna Emily Million said.

“People constantly mistake her and I for each other. Plus, we always call her ‘Red’ on job sites.”

Million, who is also a Springfield-native, graduated from MSU in 2009 with a BFA in painting. A few years later, she met Ehrhardt while working for Bass Pro, and they’ve traveled across North America together for more than three years.

Now, they regularly work on projects together as part of Paint it Red — from painting pyramids in Memphis, Tennessee, to crafting cowboys and aliens amidst an indoor mini-golf course in Branson.

“It started as a working relationship just talking a lot and bonding over our experiences in MSU’s painting program,” Million said. “(Ehrhardt) is always so upbeat and fun to be around. She always has great attitude that makes the work day go along a lot faster.”

For Million, the butterfly wings in downtown Springfield are just a small embodiment of Ehrhardt’s versatility and experience as an

THE STANDARD artist. But it also represents a niche that hadn’t been directly addressed before.

“For whatever reason, Springfield hasn’t had a lot of interactive art, and I hadn’t really thought about that,” Million said. “The butterfly kind of highlights the fact that there’s been a bit of a void there for a while that (Ehrhardt) started to fill.”

Million also praised Ehrhardt’s drive and work ethic, saying that her talent as an artist goes much further than replicating different types of wings.

“She’s so much more than that,” Million said. “She’s always eager to go to different places to learn and gain experiences on different projects. For a lot of people, the idea of being on the road constantly is exhausting, but she’s never afraid to take on a challenge.”

But after traveling thousands of miles across the world to share her art with others, Ehrhardt said she wants her future to be in Springfield — replicating prints and focusing on commissioned works.

She said her goal is for online sales of her artwork to become a reliable source of income by the end of 2019.

“I’m ready to stay home and dabble in the process of selling my prints online,” Ehrhardt said. “I did the travel on the road thing for a few years, and now I’m ready to stay home.

“Things are finally at the point where people are calling me instead.”

For Ehrhardt, those butterfly wings on 328 South Ave. represent where she came from and

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“Things are finally at the point where people are calling me instead.”

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Ehrhardt’s art can be found around Springfield. This “hole in the wall” art is located near Systematic Savings Bank in downtown Springfield, Missouri, on South Avenue. how far she’s come. It’s a pursuit for perfection she said will never be complete — but she can always move closer to it.

Her only regret is that the wings are too tall.

“It actually bugs me a bit,” Ehrhardt said.

“The wings are fitted for someone who’s taller.

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among tribes, sign language is commonly used.

Meadows said that one popular game among native tribes is called hand game — you don’t speak to play. All communication is done through sign language that is easily understood among members of all tribes.

MSU will host the 15th Annual Plains Indians Hand Game on Nov. 28 in the lower level of the Plaster Student Union.

In past years, MSU hosted a Native American ceremony referred to as a powwow every November. Meadows described the ceremony as “one of the biggest cultural events on campus every year.”

Due to funding cuts, the last powwow at MSU was in 2013.

Garcia-Pusateri and others are currently looking to apply for a grant in hopes of bringing it back.

“We were actually on the national circuit for powwows,” Garcia-Pusateri said. “People from all over not only the state, but neighboring areas, came for this.”

Slowtalker said she believes that bringing it back “would be monumental,” adding that it would bring in more education about Native American people, and serve as an entertaining event as well.

For information on Native American culture and how it is celebrated nationally throughout the month of November, visit www. nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov.

ecstasy-filled highs with cold, rocky lows. The story shows desperation. How far can a person be pushed and still be redeemable? That open-ended question drives the plot.

Once the story was complete on paper, it was up to Boyle to breathe life into it. Boyle is, and has been, one artsy motherlover. “Trainspotting” is filled to the brim of never-before-seen cinematic choices. This might deter some viewers who are more interested in straightforward films.

Translation: If weird stuff is a turn-off, see yourself out.

But through all of the sparkle and artistry Boyle was intent on adding to the film, the story never leaves the spotlight. How far can you go? How far can a person be pushed, and how bizarre does life seem at the fringes of your humanity? That’s what Boyle shows the audience.

It’s a trip, bro.

The performances in “Trainspotting” are incredibly engaging. The main bunch is made up of four characters that all have precisely explored wants and needs. All of them live with different addictions in unique and

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the little ones can get in on the fun.”

Her advice for young artists studying in Brick City? Just keep practicing.

“Painting every day really is the most important thing artists can do,” Ehrhardt said. “It’s supposed to take 10,000 hours to master something.

“I’m nowhere near that yet.”

interesting ways.

One warning about this film: It is grotesque at times.

Anytime someone explores an extreme in human psychology, there will be imagery that some may find disturbing.

The film will be doubly disturbing if you hate Scottish accents or if you can’t understand them, though, for me, this was a plus.

I know I have praised this film a lot. It is one of my favorites, but it isn’t perfect. I would love to say that every problem in this movie was due to a lack of funds.

It certainly would have been better with more money because the budget was pretty slim compared to most mainstream movies.

The truth is there are low points as well. There are spots where the message goes out of focus and the reason we are watching these people do and experience horrible things gets blurry.

Though these moments are sparse, they still exist.

However, I still encourage you to watch “Trainspotting” if you are looking for an expertly-made dark comedy that tackles a difficult philosophical question.

Plus, if you watch this and like it, the sequel, “T2: Trainspotting” is a 10/10. Thank your grandma for all the work she put into this Thanksgiving, and thanks for reading. 8/10