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Six rapes reported in two months HANNA SUMPTER | EMILY COLE Deputy News Editor | News Editor Since Sept. 19, six rapes have been reported on campus to Missouri State University Safety and Transportation, according to the daily crime log.

The first, reported on Sept. 19, allegedly took place on Sept. 9, around 1:30 a.m. in Sunvilla Tower.

According to documents from the Springfield Police Department, a female student told police that she had been with a male friend from high school the night before.

On Oct. 7, another on-campus rape was reported from early that morning in Hammons House.

Springfield Police documents stated Zachary Alperin, an MSU student, assaulted a fellow student in her dorm. He has been charged with rape and sodomy. In the day before the assault, the victim had attended the Me Too Springfield rally downtown, in support of sexual assault survivors.

Another assault was reported on Oct. 11, also in Hammons House.

One day later, another rape was reported in Freddy House. The report was made just eight minutes after the rape allegedly occurred at 11:30 p.m. according to the crime log.

On Oct. 18, a rape was reported that had allegedly taken place sometime between Oct. 1, 2017 and Oct. 31, 2017, in Blair-Shannon House. Four days later, on Oct. 22, another rape was reported in Hutchens House. This reported a rape that allegedly occurred sometime on Oct. 20, according to the crime log.

Out of the six rapes reported, three were filed with the Springfield Police Department.

Jill Patterson, MSU’s Title IX coordinator, offered a statement on behalf of the university.

“The Title IX Office at MSU experiences a steady influx of people who have had some experience with sexual assault and are seeking u See REPORT, page 10

Two vehicles reported stolen EMILY COLE News Editor @EMCole19

Two students reported vehicle thefts this week, according to Missouri State University Safety and Transportation.

According to a report, a student reported their vehicle stolen on Oct. 31. The student said they left the vehicle in Bear Park North with the doors locked sometime last week. When the student returned to the garage to get the vehicle, it was missing.

On Nov. 1, another student reported a stolen vehicle. The student said they parked their vehicle at the corner of John Q Hammons Parkway and Elm Street the night before. According to the report, the student returned to find the car the afternoon of Nov. 1 and reported it stolen.

The student said the car was locked, but there was a spare key inside at the time.

According to the report, the Springfield Police Department is investigating both incidents.

Safety and Transportation also gave these safety reminders: • Always lock your vehicle • Remove your keys and items of value from your vehicle • Report suspicious activity to Public Safety at 417-836-5509

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Members of several campus ministries, including Ekklesia and Hillel International, came together for prayer and memorial services last week in the Plaster Student Union. Candles were lit in memory of the 11 people who were killed in a mass shooting on Oct. 27.

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A prayer followed the reading of the names. The Mourner’s Kaddish, a traditional Jewish prayer, was read first in Aramaic and then People settled into their seats as the service started, and all the again in English: conversations among the small groups fell silent in the student union meeting room. A woman approached the wooden podium and next to her were the images of 11 people who died the week before and 11 “Yitgadal v’yitkadash “Exalted and hallowed be sh’mei raba. B’alma di v’ra God’s great name in the world tea light candles on a fold-out table. chirutei, v’yamlich malwhich God created, according A man tore away the lives of 11 people when he shot them after chutei, b’chayeichon uv’yoto plan. May God’s majesty be he entered the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, meichon uv’chayei d’chol revealed in the days of our lifeallegedly with one rifle and three handguns on Oct. 27. beit Yisrael, time and the life of all Israel This shooting may have torn at the spirit of the Jewish community, but in Springfield, people of all faiths gathered on Oct. 30 and “baagala uviz’man kariv.

— speedily, imminently, to refused to allow the alleged shooter, Robert Bower, to have the last V’im’ru: Amen. Y’hei sh’mei which we say: Amen. raba m’varach l’alam “Blessed be God’s great word. ul’almei almaya. name to all eternity.

Among those sitting in the rows of maroon chairs was one wom“Yitbarach v’yishtabach “Blessed, praised, honored, an, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. v’yitpaar v’yitwromam v’yitexalted, extolled, glorified, “Jews around the world, when something happens, it doesn’t just nasei, v’yit’hadar v’yitaleh adored and lauded be the name happen to us; it happens to all of us,” said Francie Wolff, a woman v’yit’halal sh’mei d’Kud’sha of the Holy Blessed One, beof Jewish faith and a daughter of a Holocaust survivor. “It happens B’rich Hu, l’eila min kol yond all earthly words and to all the people of our faith.”

The woman standing at the podium to welcome everyone was Rev. birchata v’shirata, tushb’chasongs of blessing, praise, and Michelle Scott-Huffman, the campus minister of Ekklesia. ta v’nechemata, daamiran comfort. To which we say: b’alma. V’imru: Amen.

Amen.

“If we had planned long and hard for this, we would be in a more “May there be abundant “Y’hei sh’lama raba min comfortable space and you would have had better access to parking sh’maya, v’chayim aleinu peace from heaven, and life, for and all of those great things,” Scott-Huffman said. “Unfortunately, us and all Israel. To which we v’al kol Yisrael. V’imru: the tragedies that have happened in our world don’t wait for us to be Amen. say: Amen. ready for them.”

“Oseh shalom bimromav, “May the One who creates Another woman approached the podium a few moments later.

Mara Cohen Ioannides, the advisor of the Hillel of Southwest Hu yaaseh shalom aleinu, harmony on high, bring peace Missouri student group, wore a kippah, a cloth cap that covers the us and to all Israel. To which v’al kol Yisrael. V’imru: Amen.” we say: Amen.” crown of the head, and smiled gently to those sitting before her. She called out the names of each victim. Meanwhile, Katherine Pollock, a student leader in Ekklesia, stood at a small table in front of the room and lit 11 tea light candles.

The Mourner’s Kaddish, shown above in transliteration from Ar“Joyce Fienberg,” Cohen Ioannides said. An audible click sound- amaic, is sometimes recited daily for up to 11 months after a death. ed through the silent room as Pollock lit a candle. “Richard Gottfried.”

Scott-Huffman followed the prayer by playing a song made by an Click. “Rose Mallinger.” Click. “Jerry Rabinowitz.” Click. “Cecil interfaith group following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Rosenthal.” Click. “David Rosenthal.” Click. “Bernice Simon.” Click.

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On-campus closet offers free clothes to students KATHRYN DOLAN Staff Reporter @Kathryndolan98 Let’s face it: clothing can get expensive, especially professional clothes which are often needed by college students.

Missouri State University’s Transition Closet started in 2015 as a place for gender transitioning and non-binary students to find dress clothes.

However, the closet is open to all students and helps those in need of clothing prepare for their professional career by supplying suit jackets, skirts and everything in between.

The Transition Closet is located in a back room of the Multicultural Resource Center Annex underneath Freudenberger House and offers a variety of clothes and shoes both casual and formal.

Used clothing is donated frequently to the closet by various charities such as Rare Breed, the Disabled American Veterans and Sammy’s Window.

Clothing is of no cost to students. Jon Moore, the director of Diversity and Inclusion, helps run the Transition Closet and keep track of the closet’s inventory.

“There’s a sign on the door—you don’t have to put your name; we just ask that you put a tally by the type of garment you take with

al racks of clothing, a shoe shelf and a changing area.

Moore says the Transition Closet is trying to improve to better help students’ wardrobe needs.

Recently, the closet was re-organized and sorted through to eliminate outdated clothing from the selection.

Moore is in the process of renovating the structure of the closet by adding an updated changing station and additional shelving.

Thatcher Fitzgerald, an LGBTQ+ programming aide, also helps run the Transition Closet and looks forward to future renovations.

“We want more than just a shower curtain,” Fitzgerald said, motioning to the current dressing area.

Potential renovations would be funded by either Student Government Association’s Student Initiative Fund or the Wyrick Fund.

Students can donate clothing and accessories to the Transition Closet by visiting one of the two donation stations on campus, loKAITLYN STRATMAN/THE STANDARD cated in the MRC Annex or the MRC Office in Plaster Student Union.

The Transition Closet, located in the back of the Multicultural Resource Two additional donation stations will be Center Annex in Freudenberger House, offers free dress and casual clothes added in the near future to the PSU info desk for students, and accepts donations. and the Fraternity and Sorority Life office. you,” Moore said. “We don’t care if a student the transition or the need to be met.”

The Transition Closet is open to students re-does their whole wardrobe here. We just want The closet is currently made up of sever- Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

SGA brings on new director New partnership promotes aid for nontraditional students of health and wellness CONNOR WILSON Staff Reporter @Connor4Wilson A new Student Government Association director focused on mental health and the well-being of students at Missouri State has recently been elected.

Freshelle Asberry, a sophomore sociology and childhood and development major, said that with her new position as director of health and wellness, she wants to bring a focus on diversity and mental health.

“I met the chief of staff, and we were having a diversity talk after Trump’s visit to campus,” Asberry said. “The conversation at the end just started to shift towards a lack of diversity in certain areas, and I spoke up for mental health students and students with mental health struggles and counseling, stuff like that.

“After I spoke up for them, the chief of staff came up to me and told me I should apply (for an SGA position) if I have time.”

Asberry said she wants to help students transition from being teenagers to being adults.

“The big reason I wanted to be in this position is because I really wanted to create an environment on campus that catered to the struggles of emerging adulthood,” Asberry said.

Asberry said one project she wants to focus on for the coming semester is a health and wellness week. The week would have a different focus every day, such as one day being about expressing yourself creatively, one day about physical health, one day about mental health and so on.

Asberry said she also wants to work on hosting financial aid and financial literacy talks to help make students more aware of different scholarship opportunities for students who struggle financially and feel the stress that comes with that.

Along with her focus on mental health, Asberry said she also wants to work on diversity u See ASBERRY, page 11

TINSLEY MERRIMAN Staff Reporter @MerrimanTinsley

Missouri State University has recently partnered with the Association for Nontraditional Students in Higher Education in order to better serve nontraditional students, and they are holding Nontraditional Student Week this week, Nov. 5-9.

Throughout the week, the organization will be awarding certificates of appreciation to offices, staff and faculty members who have helped to welcome nontraditional students to MSU. These certificates will commemorate said individuals for making MSU a welcoming and open place to incoming nontraditional students.

ANTSHE is an organization dedicated to helping nontraditional students, such as

those who took a year off between high school and college, or older students. It provides scholarship opportunities, academic resources and motivational support for nontraditional students. The benefits can include financial resources and information on what would be the best major or minor for certain fields.

Three MSU students benefiting from the recent partnership are Patricia Hilton, Josh Rodriguez and Todd Hussong. Hilton, a senior design and illustration major, needed a double lung transplant, which rendered her unable to come straight from high school. She instead attended a community college to work and get her associate degree.

She managed to get a transplant in January 2017. That August, she was able to start

attending classes.

“It's been crazy going from a life of taking care of myself and laying in a hospital bed, to having a part-time job, starting school again and being able to be 'normal' for once,” Hilton said.

Rodriguez, a junior sociology major, grew up in a struggling home but managed to overcome his situation. Growing up in Virginia, Rodriguez admired his mother and her spirit. When Rodriguez moved from Virginia to Missouri, he knew he wanted to start attending MSU. He said that he was inspired by the 2015-2016 common reader, “The Other Wes Moore.” The biography is about the author, Wes Moore, and his interaction with another man also named Wes

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Daughters open up on new album JOEY MUELLER Reviewer

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Apple impresses with new iPad Pro old Apple Pencil cannot be charged off the new iPad Pro, so the Apple Pencil has been redesigned for this iPad. Gone are the days of charging the pencil Apple has concluded through the iPad’s charging “tech-tober” with a bang, releasport. Now, the pencil charges ing a new Mac Mini, a redewirelessly when it is magsigned MacBook Air and a new netically clipped to the side iPad Pro with USB Type-C. All of the iPad. This is a much of these devices look cool, but better strategy for charging the iPad Pro is what intrigues me and is what I hope Microsoft most. opts to do when and if it switches to a rechargeable This is the first iOS device to use Type-C instead of Lightning, battery in the Surface Pen. which is great because Type-C Apple also changed the looks to be the universal port new iPad Pro’s design outwe’ve been waiting for across side of adding Type-C. The devices and platforms, with most Jonathan Petesch iPad Pro now shares a simAndroid flagship phones having used ilar design to the iPhone X family of devicType-C for a few years now. es with a slimmed bezel and the removal of The odd thing here, though, is that Apple the home button and Touch ID in favor of just used Lightning again on this year’s iP- Face ID and gesture-based navigation.

In addition, the new iPad Pro is now only hones. It would make much more sense to keep everything running iOS consistently, 5.9 mm thick, meaning it is an extremely but it at least shows that we may get Type-C powerful yet extremely thin device. It is so on next year’s iPhones. This may also point thin that it is the first iPad to have a camera to a larger design update coming, however, bump on the back for the single 12-megapixwe’ve thought this before and it didn’t hap- el camera. pen, so we’ll just have to wait for next SepFor the first time in a while, Apple has tember to find out. made a device that I, a life-long Android With the elimination of Lightning, the and Windows user, would consider buying JONATHAN PETESCH Columnist @thepeach1999

if I didn’t already have a pro-level tablet. iOS is lacking in many features I get from a full operating system like Windows.

However, Apple has now confirmed Adobe Photoshop CC will be available for the iPad Pro. That’s the full Photoshop from desktop.

Apple is claiming the new iPad Pro is more powerful than 92 percent of portable PCs, which makes sense if it is able to run full Photoshop well.

I’ve got to give Apple credit for this.

From first impressions, it looks like the new iPad Pro will be a really great device for tablet users that want more out of their hardware or want an iOS device that can be used as a laptop on the go.

The price will be a barrier to some, much like this year’s iPhones, but it could be well worth it for some. Apple is offering an 11inch and 12.9-inch version of the new iPad Pro with storage options from 64GB all the way to 1TB. This also makes it the first mobile device outside of laptops to have more than 512GB of storage.

The 11-inch version starts at $799 with 64GB going all the way up to $1549 for the 1TB model. The 12.9-inch version starts $200 more with 64GB at $999 going up to $1749 for 1TB. Both sizes are also offered with LTE so you can have a data connection for your new iPad.

Although it once seemed improbable, Daughters have returned with their first new album in eight years, “You Won’t Get What You Want.” Ironically enough, it seems that many longtime fans of the band, as well as fans of industrial/noise rock in general, have gotten exactly what they want — an album that has built and improved upon the experimental sounds found on their 2010 release, “Daughters.” This new album is a tour de force of atmospheric noise rock, with many of the tracks coming across more like an artistic representation of a fever dream than ready-for-radio singles.

One of the great features on this album is singer Alexis Marshall’s wide-ranging vocals.

From the opening track, “City Song,” we hear Marshall decry, “The city is an empty glass, words do nothing, no one sleeps.” His vocal delivery here makes it difficult to interpret exactly what Marshall is feeling, which makes the song that much more terrifying.

We continue down this dark, haunting rabbit-hole that Daughters have created for us with, “Long Road, No Turns.” This is definitely one of the noisier tracks on this album, and the overbearing guitars let you know that right away. I liked how near the midpoint of this track, it stops for a minute before screeching forward, as if Daughters are adjusting the dial on the hellish radio they have created.

One of the lead singles off of this album, “Satan in the Wait,” really caught me off guard. While it begins more or less like the previous track, a very sharp, melodic keyboard kicks in halfway through that manages to turn this track into something special. I think this is one of the better atmospheric tracks that I have heard since Slipknot’s “Iowa.”

If you are looking for a more traditional track, then “The Reason They Hate You” may be one of the few songs on this album that you can really appreciate. It’s an excellent blend of atmospheric noise and melody. While it is certainly a departure from the otherwise experimental approach on album, I think it is a rewarding break for listeners.

Daughters finish off the album with “Guest House” — a hectic track that seems to build and build in power, all while Marshall screams “Let me in!” in the background. All of that aforementioned building finally results in an emotional, cathartic ending that almost seems too pretty for this album.

While this album may be too a bit too experimental for casual listeners, Daughters have provided their most fascinating album yet. Despite being laced in every negative emotion you can imagine, I think “You Won’t Get What You Want” provides a fresh and rewarding experience for fans of the band or genre.

Rating: 7/10 Genre: Industrial Rock, Noise Rock, No Wave, Art Punk Album Length: 48:40 Best Tracks: “Long Road No Turns,” “Satan in the Wait,” “Less Sex,” “Daughter,” “The Reason They Hate Me,” “Guest House” Worst Track: “The Flammable Man”

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Minju Choi celebrates after recording the final take of her solo debut album, “Boundless,” in July 2016. Choi recorded her album on a Hamburg Steinway D.

Star-struck toddler to revered recitalist, recording artist Piano professor unites culture, composition through debut album ‘Boundless’ NOAH STANDISH Senior Reporter @NoahjStandish July 2016.

Five-hundred maroon, wooden chairs face a Steinway grand piano sitting at the center of an indoor elevated stage in Indiana.

Its exterior — a jet black maple wood — holds the vibration of its strings, echoing a passionate portrayal of emotion covering seven octaves and two decades.

Then, silence.

Pale, slender fingers flex above the piano’s keys. Quick, staccatoed breaths become audible. A soft F-minor arpeggio whispers to the vacant performing hall — a distant, solitary voice speaking to hundreds of empty chairs.

The next movement of the composition has begun.

But the first movement began decades earlier — 7,000 miles away in South Korea.

A 2-year-old Minju Choi sits on a carpet floor beside a black upright piano, shining from its polish. She’s wearing a floral white dress and listening to a masterful rendition of Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” on repeat.

The cassette tape has only one button: Play.

“I would just keep rewinding it and playing it again and again,” Choi said, sitting beside the lone window of her office on the third floor of Ellis Hall. “It just fascinated me that somebody could play that well.”

Her fingers rest on her knees over a red satin dress as the sun peers through the white window’s transparent curtain. She looks over to the two baby grand pianos filling the center of the room and smiles.

“I’ll just never forget that moment,” Choi said, recalling the childhood memory. “I remember thinking to myself, ‘What is this? How can you do that?’”

It was there that her love for classical music began: as a starstruck 2-year-old living in a house with seven pianos.

Choi’s mother, Jane, was teaching piano to upward of 100 students, and the perpetual sound of music ringing from the house’s walls had become commonplace.

For Choi, it would prove to be the catalyst for a lifelong passion — and one she would yearn to express however she could.

“My mom has this funny story that I would sit at the piano and pretend I was teaching, but I was really just imitating her,” Choi said. “I would write stick figures on the sheet music with my imaginary friends. Imagine hearing piano from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day.

“How could you not fall in love with that?”

And it wasn’t long before that inspiration turned to motivation for her own future.

After moving to the United States

when she was 10 years old, Choi went on to earn degrees in piano performance from The Juilliard School and Stony Brook University, studying in France and Germany for her studies along the way.

By 2012, she found herself back in her home state of Indiana, teaching piano students just like her mother had years before. But this time, it was at the University of Indianapolis as an associate adjunct professor of piano.

In 2017, she became an assistant professor of piano at Missouri State University, joining a round of then-ongoing renovations to Ellis Hall, home to the Department of Music.

The sound of piano students practicing on the opposite side of the wall prompts another smile from Choi. The melodies take her back to that childhood home with seven pianos inside.

“I wanted my first album to not only be beautiful music, but to also represent who I am. This is my story.”

She said it all feels connected now.

“When my mom couldn’t teach, she would tell me, ‘Here. Just teach this student,’” Choi said. “At the time, I underestimated that experience because it actually really inspired me when I realized I was able to do that.”

Choi said she always looked up to her mother as an educator, and while she was attending high school in Indianapolis, she started to teach students of her own.

Now, she’s teaching three classes to MSU’s music students while preparing to release her solo debut album, “Boundless,” through Navona Records on Nov. 9.

The album, composed entirely for a single piano, is comprised of works by living American composers with multicultural backgrounds.

Choi said the music represents her own identity and experiences as a Korean-American, and that the title, “Boundless,” reflects her living in multiple cultures every day.

“I wanted my first album to not only be beautiful music, but to also represent who I am,” Choi said. “This is my story.”

The album’s three compositions were recorded over a three-day span to an audience of 500 empty wooden chairs on the UIndy campus — her quick, staccatoed breaths drowned out by the palpable display of emotion.

Then, emotionally fatigued, she put it aside for two years, opting not to produce and release the album until this November.

“I was giving a part of myself, but I was too attached to (the music) to listen to it objectively,” Choi said.

For Amanda Krieg, a graduate student studying piano performance, that passion was highly contagious. As a student teacher in the music department, she’s worked alongside Choi in teaching introductory piano classes.

Krieg said she’s quick to offer praise to the well-traveled professor.

“The tone (Choi) produces is amazing,” Krieg said. “The tone she produces — and the sound — is so soft. The melodies just flow over each other.”

Krieg described Choi’s presence as a reflection of MSU’s mission to constantly improve. She also cited the recent renovations made to Ellis Hall.

“The fact that (Choi) is in this department means (MSU) was able to get an incredible, Julliard-trained talent,” Krieg said. “That’s really representative of the high standards the university is pushing for.”

After taking two piano pedagogy classes with Choi, Krieg called her a kind, experienced and encouraging mentor.

Krieg also said Choi’s personalized approach to teaching gradually influenced the way she approaches teaching her own students. “(Choi) has really affected a lot of ways I teach and interact with my students,” Krieg said. “She’s done a lot to help us prepare to teach, and she’s always available for her students. She’s just very relatable and soft-spoken.”

But while Choi may be soft-spoken in the classroom, sophomore music composition major Annaliese Schroeder said she’s the opposite while performing.

“It’s like a difference between people who know how to play an instrument and people who are gifted,” Schroeder said.

“You’re no longer in a recital hall — you’re inside that piece of music.”

Schroeder said Choi’s image as a performer is one of assertiveness and emotional vulnerability. After attending a recital in spring 2018 in which Choi performed, she was taken aback by her talent.

“I remember watching (Choi) play and just being blown away at how fluidly her hands moved,” Schroeder said. “You don’t think about how insane it is that somebody can play at that level until you see them do it live.”

Schroeder, who took Piano Class I with Amanda Krieg, called Choi’s stage presence inspirational and a reflection of her dedication.

“There’s something special about taking music deeper than what’s initially presented,” Schroeder said. “I think that’s part of what makes someone an exceptional artist — being able to heighten a piece’s meaning.”

Schroeder also said she’s looking forward to hearing Choi’s album, “Boundless,” and that she was impressed to learn of her three-day recording process in Indianapolis.

“I know recording can be less than fun because you have to do everything so perfectly,” Schroeder said. “Going through it in three days is amazing. It says a lot about her talent and dedication because, as a performer, I know that’s not easy.”

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The men and women behind computers and all things electrically engineered are rarely put in the spotlight. However, they are continuously advancing everyday technology.

Some of those budding minds are joint students from Missouri S&T in Rolla, enrolled in a senior design class held at the Plaster Center for Free Enterprise in downtown Springfield.

Seniors Michael Ridenhour and Jared Golden are joint students who are building a sorter that can filter through objects based on sizes and colors, according to Golden.

“We’ve been taking what we learned in our several program logic control classes and our knowledge that we gained from those and actually crash course, the two of us, handson by ourselves and build something,” Golden said.

The pair is specializing in factory automation, which is one of the reasons they decided to build a sorter for their class.

“One of the main tasks of factory automation is building stuff, and also, once you build it, you have to sort it,” Ridenhour said.

Golden and Ridenhour plan on using their acquired skills to work in the automation industry or possibly a consulting firm. They could even work in big name factories, like General Motors or Coca Cola.

“Most companies have to teach everyone on the job what a (programmable logic controller) is, how to code, language and how to do basic wiring,” Ridenhour said. “We have the basics of that, so we’re kind of already ahead of the curve.”

Next semester, they plan on having a physical working project.

Other groups in the class are working on different projects, such as a conveyor belt that senses what material an object is made out of to properly recycle it and an electrical instrument.

Another way electrical engineering students can enhance their skills is by joining the Embedded Systems Club.

Rohit Dua, S&T associate teaching professor, is based in a cooperative program at Missouri State. His main area of emphasis is computer engineering, electronics and signal processing, and he started the Embedded Systems Club last fall.

“One of the things that I found that was deficient in our classes was, because this is an electrical engineering program, we don’t have an emphasis area in the area of computer engineering,” Dua said. “Many students who are interested in the career path in the area of embedded systems, they have to go and learn a lot of electrical engineering concepts.”

Dua said he wants to get his students as prepared for the real world as they possibly can.

Ethan Hill, senior electrical engineering major and president of the club has been working on a microcontroller to communicate with a temperature sensor and display it.

Hill and a few of his club members are using a two-wire system, instead of the typical eight, in order to save companies money.

Hill described the Embedded Systems Club as a way to get more experience, even if it is a smaller program. “(The Embedded Systems Club is) a bunch of people who got together and have similar interests,” Hill said. “We’re actually kind of a satellite program from the Rolla university.”

The men and women in the club are S&T students, but most have some — if not all — classes in Springfield.

“There’s less funding than Rolla and not as many cool opportunities, so we thought, ‘Hey, let’s create an opportunity,’” Hill said.

The projects in the club vary. Another group is building a drone to possibly help an organization in Africa.

“I kind of let my students explore ideas on their own,” Dua said.

The goal is students will be able to go into a job interview and be able to accurately answer all of the questions given by an employer.

“The thing with the drone is, you can buy a drone in the market, but can you make one from scratch?” Dua said.

“Eventually they will maybe 3D print the parts and put them together.”

While the students love what they are doing, Hill admits that there is little free time.

“Engineering is a full-time study position,” Hill said.

“We pretty much eat, sleep and work on Dr. Dua’s projects.”

Dua understands how hard these students work, but he continues to push them in order to truly prepare them for real-world projects.

“I don’t want students to work on hobby-type projects,” Dua said. “I want them to understand and explore the hardships in designing embedded systems.”

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One tool (shown above) that students use in the early stages of their projects is an Altera FPGA — a field-programmable gate array — which is used for simulating hardware designs.

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27-YEAR FAMILY LEGACY Bambinos owners serve community, college campuses REESE RADMACHER Staff Reporter @Reese_Radmacher Tucked away in a neighborhood on the corner of East Delmar Street and South Florence Avenue lies a quaint and authentic slice of Italy known as Bambinos Cafe. While the restaurant is familiar to many, some may not know about the family that created Bambinos.

Mary Faucett and her family, including her sons Andy and Chuck Faucett, who are also co-owners of Bambinos, opened Main Cafe on Main Street just north of downtown Springfield in 1991.

It was here that the Faucett family gained invaluable experience in the business and drew the attention of those in the community.

“We had crepes, which was French,” Chuck said. “There was just things she always made at home that were really good like meatloaf and chicken crepes. As long as it was good, we put it on there.”

Following the success of Main Cafe, they opened Nonna’s Italian Cafe in 1994 in the heart of downtown Springfield, where they really branded themselves before selling it in 2006.

Andy Faucett was enrolled in the Entrepreneur Program at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas, at the time of Nonna’s opening.

Andy then moved to Columbia, Missouri, in 1994 to open the first Bambinos with his friend Brian Ash followed by another opening in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1996.

With two Bambinos in two prominent college towns, the owners of McSalty’s Pizza thought Andy might be interested in taking over their location. So in 2000, a third Bambinos was opened on East Delmar Street, just a five-minute walk from campus.

The Bambinos in Lawrence, Kansas, and Columbia, Missouri, have since closed.

“It’s really an ideal location because it’s in the student neighborhood,” Andy said. “We wanted to be the neighborhood restaurant for Missouri State, Phelps Grove neighborhood and Rountree neighborhood.”

MSU is a place where the Faucetts said they feel a real connection. Mary was an English professor at the university, and a few of her children attended as well.

Starting out, they hired kids that lived in the nearby neighborhoods. Some of their parents even worked with Mary at MSU. “It’s like having a small town just north of us,” Mary said.

It is also a hot spot after football games, especially homecoming. Mary said one of their busiest days of the year is MSU’s graduation.

Hannah Hickman, a recent graduate from MSU, has worked at the Bambinos on East Delmar Street for two years and considers it a community for her outside of school.

“There’s a couple that comes in every Monday night to play HQ (Trivia) at 8, and now I sit down and play with them every Monday,” Hick-

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Mary and her son Chuck Faucett, in front of their restaurant, Bambinos Cafe. Mary and her family, including her sons Chuck and Andy (not pictured), own the restaurant.

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Bambinos Cafe, owned by the Faucetts is located on East Delmar Street just a five-minute walk from campus. Bambinos serves homemade Italian classics — such as pasta, pizza and paninis — and specialty dishes.

man said. “They love German chocolate cake.”

Due to limited seating and parking, as well as physical limitations making it difficult to cater out of such a small space, the time came to expand.

The second Bambinos in Springfield opened in 2015 in the Half A Hill shopping center located near the Galloway Creek Greenway. Located right next door is B2 Cafe, a coffee shop also owned by the Faucetts.

The Faucetts also contribute a significant por-

tion of their time toward community outreach.

They host an annual meal in January for the Council of Churches, as well as participate in various fundraisers for Springfield Public Schools.

The first fundraiser hosted by the Faucetts took place at Sunshine Elementary School.

After putting on a spaghetti dinner at the school, they raised several thousand dollars to help fix the playground area which had become somewhat hazardous for kids.

“We’re real suckers for schools,” Andy said. ”We’ll help wherever we can, but there is a lot of community outreach that we have just accumulated over time.”

Andy recently canceled all traditional advertising after September to narrow their focus on sponsorships and fundraising.

The menu at Bambinos offers a variety of meals to choose from, but it can be difficult to select just one.

Mary and Chuck consider the top three most popular items on the menu to be The Ziti, The Greek and The Diana.

Andy, the primary creator of the Bambinos menu, considers his mother’s pasta still “one of the most satisfying things to eat.”

Mary was raised in a home that placed an emphasis on cooking, and her aunts taught her “what good food was supposed to taste like.” She passed this tradition on to her children, and now they do the same for their own.

Chuck’s personal favorite is The Greek which he eats nearly everyday.

“It kind of relieves stress when everybody sits down and has a good meal,” Chuck said.

“If it’s a bad meal, it just increases stress.”

Bambinos provides authentic Italian food at an affordable price, with an Italianesque aura to match.

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JQH season ticket sales on the rise DEREK SHORE Staff Reporter @D_Shore23 A fresh face at the helm has helped renew interest among fans in the Missouri State men’s basketball program after years of declining attendance and season ticket sales numbers.

In fact, season ticket sales have jumped for Missouri State since the hiring of new head coach Dana Ford in March.

“Our fans have the easy part,” Ford said.

“All they have to do is buy tickets. Changing the culture and the energy around the program is a process, and it certainly begins with our students and then our fanbase buying in.”

While the exact number of season tickets sold isn’t public knowledge yet, MSU Athletic Director Kyle Moats confirmed the program has definitely seen an uptick in season ticket sales this year.

According to Missouri State Director of Athletics Communications Rick Kindhart, the program had over 500 season ticket inquiries.

“I certainly expected (more season ticket sales),” Moats said. “There is new energy.

(Ford) has got a big, powerful personality. I think our folks are such basketball fans. They are looking forward to change. They are certainly looking forward to Dana.”

Under former head coach Paul Lusk, season ticket sales fell in every season.

During the 2012-13 season, 2,985 season tickets were sold.

During his last season — the 2017-18 campaign — season ticket sales dropped to 2,076.

Not only that, the average home attendance went from 6,080 in 2012-13 down to 4,518 following the 2017-18 campaign.

Lusk was fired on March 3. Ford was hired 19 days later, just before season ticket promotions were announced on April 4.

Ford, in his first couple of months on the job, has spent the vast majority of his time in the community and around students to help

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Ticket sales have jumped since Dana Ford was named Missouri State’s head men’s basketball coach. generate fan support, Moats said.

“I think he has done everything you can possibly do to energize the fanbase,” Moats said. “He has been great with people. They really enjoy his personality. That could not be any better, in my opinion. He continues to keep working with the students, and he wants to interact with as many students that want to interact with him.

“He has preached to us students are first in everything we do. That is why he has probably increased attendance and why there is so much excitement.”

Moats said it is good to have a bump in season ticket sales, but he hopes to also have an increase in walk-up tickets as well as a higher student turnout this season at games.

The athletic director said he didn’t have a specific number of season ticket sales in mind when he first hired Ford, and he hasn’t noticed whether sales are coming from people who had previously dropped their season tickets.

In his former position at Tennessee State, Ford led the Tigers to a 5-26 record in his first season as head coach in 2014-15.

The attendance at those games averaged out at only 1,337.

After two straight winning seasons, the crowd almost doubled to an average of 2,627.

DWI attorney and Bears season ticket holder Larry Catt said Ford has “awakened a sleeping giant” with his enthusiasm and energy around the basketball program.

“There are many fans who had given up over the past few years,” Catt said. “Now, they’re excited for what seems to be a real possibility of the team making it into the NCAA tournament in the very near future.”

Another season ticket holder, Britton Jobe, said the combination of the coaching staff change and the specific hire of Ford has led to increased attention and renewed interest among fans.

Jobe was also quick to credit Ford for his immediate engagement with the student body and community.

“That has created a domino effect where the current season ticket holders got excited, renewed their tickets, talked to their friends and family, and that created excitement outside of the core fanbase,” Jobe said. “He has done what he has really needed to do to generate excitement on campus and off.”

One thing in particular Ford has brought that has been missing for many years is a level of optimism, according to Jobe.

“That is why you are seeing such a surge in interest,” he said. “He is really checking the right boxes for the fanbase. Coach Ford put it the right way himself when he said this fan base is starving for a championship-level team. And frankly, a championship-level attitude. We have been missing that the last couple of years.”

Moats said Ford’s philosophy and returning players, in addition to his first recruiting class, will translate to an improved product on the court.

“The final missing piece probably is, ‘How is our team going to do?’” Moats said. “I think you will see a different brand of basketball people will enjoy. They are going to play defense. They are going to have a lot of intensity and tremendous amount of hustle. All those things translate to our fans as positives. That is what they want to see.

“But more importantly, they want to see us win. We are about ready to get started, so the honeymoon part is over for all of us.”

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Ice Bears continue hot streak COLE SUTTON Sports Reporter @ColeSutton23 The Missouri State Ice Bears have seen a fair share of success this season, and they looked to continue their momentum into the bottom half of their schedule.

The Ice Bears are 13-2-1-1 on the season, meaning that they have 12 wins, two losses in regulation, one overtime loss and another loss via penalty shootout.

Missouri State recently went on the road to battle Oakland University and earned two victories.

The first game was won by a score of 5-2 with goals coming early and often with MSU netting two goals in the first period, including one on the power play by forward Jordan Bratton.

The power play wasn’t done yet, though, as defenseman Chris Brown scored what would be the Ice Bears’ third goal of the night with the man advantage in the second period.

Missouri State found the back of the net two more times in the final period as defenseman Brennan Anderson added another point on the board at the 11:50 mark.

The Ice Bears finally sealed the victory with an empty-netter by forward Nikita Salnikov, the team’s leader in goals and total points.

Head coach Jeremy Law has seen what Salnikov can do, and as only a freshman, Law is excited for the future.

“As a freshman he’s doing a fantastic job,” Law said. “He’s such an offensive threat; he’s fun to watch anytime he’s on the ice. His work ethic on the ice and off is top-notch, and I think he’s gonna be a huge addition on our team for the next four years.”

The Ice Bears had a tighter contest in the second matchup against Oakland, with the game tied 1-1 after two periods.

MSU’s first goal was scored in the second period by Anderson once again.

The Ice Bears found their rhythm in the third period, scoring three straight goals with two on the power play.

The first power play goal was scored by defenseman Brian Schumacher, just four minutes into the period. That was followed by forward Travis Barrett’s tally, which gave Missouri State a 3-1 lead before a Salnikov empty-netter.

MSU then traveled back home to Mediacom Ice Park to a tough three-game weekend.

The first game on the schedule was a matchup against No. 19 Colorado. Three games in a weekend created a tough task for the Ice Bars to stay healthy, Law said.

“By the third game, you’re just fortunate enough to not have a lot of injuries,” Law said. “We lost a couple, but that’s usually what happens in a three-game set. But we’re deep, and we have a lot of guys ready to fill in.”

The Ice Bears got on the board first when forward Andrew Kovacich scored on a rebounded shot.

The second of the night for Missouri State came in the second period as Brown knocked in a slap shot from the top of the faceoff circles giving the Ice Bears a 2-0 lead.

Colorado netted a goal with six minutes

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(Top) Forward Nikita Salnikov charges down the ice looking for a shot on goal against Colorado State.

(Bottom left) Forward Travis Barrett skates through a Colorado State defender.

(Bottom right) Goalie Brady Griffin steps on to the ice wearing a storm trooper mask for the Ice Bears’ Star Wars night.

The Missouri State Ice Bears wore special jerseys for their Star Wars night game. The Bears beat Colorado State 5-1.

For more photos from the Ice Bears’ home series, visit the-standard.org. left in the period to cut the lead to just one for MSU, but that didn’t last long.

Forward Hunter Cooley netted a pass across the crease from Salnikov just two minutes after the Colorado goal to make it 3-1.

The game stayed 3-1 into the third period until Kovacich found the back of the net for the second time of the night, giving the Ice Bears a three-goal lead.

Cooley also lit the lamp for the second time in the game, sealing the game at 5-1 for Missouri State.

The Ice Bears then started their two-game series against Colorado State. There was a short delay to drop the puck due to broken glass during warmups. No goals were scored until three minutes into the second period when forward Alex Rubin scored.

Salnikov netted a one-time finish in the second as well, giving MSU the 2-0 advantage.

Salnikov’s night ended a little early when he was sent off the ice for a game misconduct penalty of head butting with under a minute left in the second period.

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End of football season leaves seniors feeling bittersweet CLAIRE NIEBRUGGE Sports Reporter @claireniebrugge As football season comes to an end, this year’s seniors are feeling a rollercoaster of emotions.

Some are sad that their football career is ending.

“I’m going to miss waking up, coming to (Forsythe Athletics Center) every day, seeing these guys bright and early for weights or going out to practice, putting pads on, talking in the locker room, just stupid stuff like that,” offensive lineman Aaron Clardy said.

Some are happy to know they are leaving a legacy.

“It’s cool to see the transition from when we started to where we are now,” cornerback Tre Betts said. “Coach Stec has been trying to change the program, change the culture, so senior-wise, it’s cool to see where we came from.”

Some are excited to see where Missouri State ends up this season.

“The work we’ve put in these last four years, we just want to see it pay off this year,” running back Jason Randall said.

Some are optimistic about the future of Missouri State football.

“It’s great to play as a senior, and it’s kind

of sad but it’s also great to know that when I leave this place, there will be good times with the next class,” offensive lineman Marquis Prophete said.

But all are heartbroken to leave their men behind.

“I’ll miss the camaraderie more than anything,” defensive end Skyler Hulse said. “Going to work with these guys every day, it’s going to be a shame to wake up one day and not be able to see these guys all the time.”

The friendships made among this year’s senior class are not going to be easily forgotten.

“It’s been five seasons now, and out of everybody we came in with, not everyone is still here. But the ones that are still here, it’s a testament to how hard we’ve worked,” running back Nick Masoner said. “The friends I’ve made here will be my friends forever.”

When the memories fade and games become indistinguishable, the people will be remembered forever.

“I’ll miss all the time we spend together, because when you spend countless hours together, you build a bond that’s not broken,” safety Jared Beshore said. “Not seeing those guys every day is going to be hard, but we’ll keep in touch. We’re still brothers.”

Kennedy Bright and Amanda Sullivan contributed interviews to this article.

Cole Christensen, a criminology major, earned MVFC Honor Roll and the MSU Athletic Director’s Honor Roll during the 2017 season.

Aaron Clardy, from Neosho, Missouri, earned three academic awards last season — MVFC Commissioner’s Academic Excellence Award, MVFC Honor Roll laurels and MSU Athletic Director’s Honor Roll.

Jared Beshore, native of Lamar, Missouri, has racked up a total of 189 tackles and five interceptions during his time as a Bear.

Tre Betts, a 5-year senior who redshirted his freshman year, created his own training business, Season 7 Training and Apparel.

Easton Flaugh, a mechanical engineering technology major, earned Missouri Valley Football Conference Honor Roll as well as MSU Athletic Director’s Honor Roll last season.

Skyler Hulse, a physical education major, ranks among the Missouri Valley Football Conference top 10 for sacks.

Nick Masoner, a graduate student at Missouri State, is positioned at running back but has 71 receiving yards this season.

JaMario McClendon, native to Cochran, Georgia, has ranked up a total of 15 solo tackles in his time at Missouri State.

Anthony Monken, a transfer from Fresno City College, is majoring in communication studies at Missouri State.

Marquis Prophete, the only true 4-year senior on the team, earned MVFC Offensive Lineman of the Week on Sept. 10.

Brad Pryor, a graduate from Missouri State with a degree in finance, has earned 42 tackles in his career as well as earning the MSU Athletic Director’s Honor Roll four years in a row.

Jason Randall, the Bears’ starting running back, had a career-high of 181 rushing yards in a single game against Northern Arizona on Sept. 15.

Matt Rush, a graduate student at Missouri State, accumulated a

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total of 23 solo tackles in the 2017 season.

(Above) JaMario McClendon celebrates a touchdown.

(Right) Jason Randall yells as he walks off the field.

Scotty Schaffner, a transfer from Iowa State, scooped up a crucial fumble recovery this season against Lincoln on Sept. 6.

E.J. Sutton, a transfer from Arkansas State, has earned 28 total tackles at Missouri State, seven solo.

The MSU Senior Day game is set for Nov. 10 against North Dakota State.

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Volleyball to close out regular season in Iowa BRYCE DERRICKSON Sports Reporter @BruceyD17 The Missouri State volleyball team’s regular season is coming to an end with only four conference games left against UNI, Drake, Valparaiso and Loyola.

Since their first game against UNI, the Bears have played four games on the road and two games at home. During the six game stretch, MSU went 4-2 moving them to fifth in the conference.

Their first of the six games was against Bradley on Oct. 19, where the team managed to take one set but fell in four. The Bears hit .229 compared to Bradley’s .253, though Missouri State had less errors at 19. In the game, freshman Amelia Flynn had 15 kills. Chloe Rear, also a freshman, had five kills, 44 assists, eight digs and four blocks.

Missouri State’s followed with another loss to Illinois State on Oct. 20, with the Redbirds sweeping the Bears. MSU was able to keep each set close, never losing more than four. The Bears only hit .168 while the Redbirds hit .213. Missouri State only had one player get double-digit kills, junior Aubrey Cheffey who had 12.

Bears had three players finish with double-digit kills: Flynn with 16, sophomore Laynie Dake with 14 and senior Ashley Ophoven with 13.

The Bears played their last road game out of the six at Valparaiso. MSU took the game in four sets. Missouri State’s defense went to work, holding Valparaiso to a .086 hitting percentage compared to Missouri State’s .247.

Senior Cambree Villarreal led the way with 12 kills and three blocks, and Flynn added 11 kills and three blocks of her own.

Missouri State came back home to play Evansville on Nov. 2 and swept the Aces. The Bears offense dominated, hitting .313 compared to the Aces’ .193. MSU also only had 11 errors compared to Evansville’s 20. Three players tied with eight kills: Cambree, Flynn and redshirt freshman Alyssa Doucette.

MSU ended their two game homestand on Nov. 3, beating Indiana State 3-1. Missouri State held Indiana State to 14 points twice — MEGAN BURKE/THE STANDARD the third and fourth set. The Bears also had a better hitting percentage hitting .254 compared Freshman Amelia Flynn squats to get the dig. Flynn leads the Missouri to the Sycamores’ .178.

State volleyball team in kills with 314.

With going 4-2 in Missouri Valley Conference On Oct. 27, Missouri State beat Southern gameplay this moves MSU to a 15-12 overall Even with back-to-back losses, MSU bounced back with four straight wins.

Illinois in four sets, recording 67 kills. The record and 8-6 conference record.

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Time for the postseason Men’s soccer finishes fourth in regular season play KYLE DERRINGER Sports Reporter @Kyle_Derringer The defining subjects of the 2018 regular season for the Missouri State men’s soccer team were defense and tenacity.

The Bears had the strongest defensive team in the Missouri Valley Conference this season, both statistically and based on the eye test.

During MVC play, the Bears averaged less than one goal allowed per game; their .5 goals per game average was tied with Loyola for best in the league.

The Bears’ main problem was putting their own shots in the net.

Sophomore forward Josh Dolling scored 9 goals this season, including a hat trick against Santa Clara in nonconference play.

But the rest of the team scored 10 goals combined all season.

Shot volume wasn’t the problem for the Bears, they outshot their opponents 183-120. The problem was putting them in the net.

Missouri State tied five games this season. Three of those were ties where both teams only scored one goal each. Two

of them were shutouts.

At times, the Bears were willing to keep the ball on their half of the pitch, and other times, the other team had good control on the Bears’ half of the field.

When the Bears tended to succeed, they were controlling the ball on the other team’s half and shooting a barrage of shots on goal.

Other times throughout the season, the Bears would win on one goal performances when they had good chances on breakaways. It was all based on the strengths of the team opposite of MSU that given game.

The stout defense, however, did keep the Bears undefeated for a chunk of the season and ultimately led to their strong performance during Missouri Valley Conference play.

Their nonconference play, however, was a different story.

During their nine non-conference games, the Bears went undefeated at 6-0-3.

They played three tenacious West Coast teams at home. They beat Santa Clara and Gonzaga and tied with California State-Fullerton. MSU will make corresponding road trips to these schools in future seasons.

Five of the other nonconference games were against regional programs. They beat UMKC twice and beat Omaha and Western Illinois. They tied Tulsa on the road.

The last nonconference matchup was against a tough Mercer team, and they tied 1-1.

MSU’s home record was spotless until the regular season finale against Central Arkansas, which incidentally determined the MVC regular season champion. The Bears lost the matchup, placing fourth in the MVC and 6-1-1 at home.

The 2018 regular season games weren’t a spectacle of offensive production to say the least. But the soccer Bears got the job done on defense all year, which allowed them to stay near the top of the MVC standings all season and put them in the top 25 at one point during the year.

The Bears will play Wednesday, Nov. 7, against Evansville in the first round of the MVC Championship in Evansville, Indiana.

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and appreciation for contemporary piano music. He’s currently taking applied piano instruction classes with Choi as part of his program. “(Choi) really combines professionalism and attentiveness to the spirit with which she approaches music in a way I admire,” McHaffie said. “She’s open to personally meaningful music experiences no matter where they’re coming from.”

When McHaffie heard about Choi taking two years away from her album before releasing it, he said it is representative of her emotional maturity and self-awareness as a musician.

“Performing, at times, is an intense experience that you need time to process,” McHaffie said. “It’s important to have that time to step away and be able to know the meaning of what you’ve done.”

McHaffie also said he views Choi’s album as a showcase of the value of contemporary music in comparison to more revered classical works.

Students in early piano courses, McHaffie said, are seldom encouraged to play the works of living composers in favor of classical figures;

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“Classical music done a certain way can be almost like a historical re-enactment,” McHaffie said. “I think her album is a confrontation of that, and I think it ties back to her sensitivity to the meaning of the music.

The present is sometimes a neglected area for that.”

Choi said that approach — and experiences with contemporary piano music — is what gives her such a powerful emotional connection to “Boundless.”

She lowers the transparent curtain of her office window closer to the floor, warding off the sun as it emerges from behind the clouds.

“I’m trying to break away from the elitism of the classical music world that people tend to have,” Choi said. “A lot of people, they think of classical music, and they think of music by dead composers that they either fall asleep to or study to.

“It’s a stigma I’m breaking.”

For Choi, “Boundless” represents not only her multicultural background, but also the backgrounds of the living American composers who wrote the music. They, too, have multiple cultural identities she empathizes with.

Choi said it was also important that the music was accessible and relatable to anyone,

regardless of a listener’s background.

“The music on the album is music that you can listen to and understand emotionally what is happening,” Choi said. “You don’t have to know anything about music history to be able to relate to it. It’s universal, powerful music that doesn’t need any preface.”

But that emotional connection also required that Choi be at peace with herself before being comfortable sharing it with the world. She called the tiring process of performing the three pieces over three days a vulnerable practice.

“I was giving a part of myself that people will either like or dislike,” Choi said. “To do that, you need to be able to say, ‘This is what I have, and this is what I want to share.’”

Despite the album’s imminent release, Choi said she’s already looking ahead to the future — and planning on recording her second album before the end of the year.

She has come a long way from that starstruck 2-year-old listening to Beethoven and drawing on sheet music.

Now, like she was toward her mother years ago, Choi is the figure being imitated by starstruck students.

But that’s not something she thinks about.

She’s too busy practicing.

“When I’m active and I’m practicing, I’m able to be a better teacher for my students,” Choi said. “It all goes together.”

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Defenseman Brian Schumacher battles for the puck against his Colorado State opponent. The Ice Bears defeated Colorado State 5-1 on Nov. 3.

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The game looked just about sealed as Missouri State entered the final period with a two-goal advantage, but Colorado State saved its best play for last. Colorado State netted one goal on the power play with 10:38 left to go in the period. This was the first of two straight goals to tie the game at 2-2.

The Ice Bears broke through with a Barrett go-ahead goal with 2:40 left in the game.

MSU held that lead until the 1:26 mark when Colorado State tied it at 3-3. Overtime couldn’t settle it for either side as the game headed to a shootout — only MSU’s second of the year.

The Ice Bears were shut down throughout the penalty shootout, getting stopped on all three attempts. Colorado State found the back of the net on their first attempt, which was all they needed to secure the victory.

Law discussed how difficult losing via shootouts can be.

“It’s really 50-50 when it comes to shootouts,” Law said. “I don’t feel like the

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help. We are pleased that people know that we are here and that we are a good resource to learn what options are available. We regularly explain and offer options including: filing a

best team always wins. At the time, I just picked the guys who I thought had the best chance of scoring.”

In the rematch the next day, the Ice Bears got on the board early in the first period by the stick of Salnikov just seven minutes into the game. Salnikov gave the Bears a 1-0 lead, and the score would stay the same through the end of the period.

Missouri State started the second period strong, moving their lead to 2-0 just minutes into the period with a goal in the crease from forward Zane O’Bryan.

The Ice Bears didn’t stop there, as Cooley also netted a goal giving MSU a 3-0 lead to end the second. The tallies from Cooley and O’Bryan gave the Ice Bears a convincing three-goal lead into the final frame.

The third period was more of the same for Missouri State, extending their lead to 4-0 off a goal from Cooley, his second of the night. Salnikov also tallied his second in the game before the final horn, sealing the 5-0 victory for the Ice Bears.

Missouri State’s next matchup will take place on Nov. 9 against William Morris University where Law and the Ice Bears hope to continue their winning ways. police report, seeking counseling, either on or off campus, filing for an order of protection through the court process and or a No Contact Directive issued by campus authorities. We offer the option of conducting a Title IX investigation and issuing Interim Measures to keep the parties separate from one another during the investigation. We also provide support to students whose cases are going through the court process.”

Some in the room nodded along with the music while others shared gentle smiles as tears were wiped away.

A few more people took their turns at the podium. They read religious verses and shared statements from various religious organizations condemning the attack.

However, when Scott-Huffman returned to the podium she urged a literal call to action.

She called upon everyone in the room to reflect on how they can turn their thoughts and prayers into presence and action to aid those around them.

She passed out brightly colored slips of paper and pens and markers as a soulful song played in the background. Almost everyone in the room took a slip of neon green, orange or pink paper and began scrawling down a plan of action.

The papers were placed upon the table, and a few people switched on battery-powered tea light candles. The candles were placed among the 11 already lit as more papers were placed on the table.

After another prayer, the service ended, though Scott Huffman invited everyone to stay as long as they wished.

Three women lingered at one side of the room discussing the service and the shooting.

“It just brings up all the fears that we have,” said Sue Conine, a woman of Jewish faith and friend of Wolff. “To see it happening in our own country — I’m glad my father wasn’t here to see this.”

Julie Schulze attended the entire service with her friends Conine and Wolff.

“I’m not really a member of the religious community here, but I want to support my friends and be present for the victims and their families,” Schulze said.

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Minju Choi plays a composition from her debut album, “Boundless,” on one of the two baby grand pianos in her office. Choi recorded her album back in July 2016 and then spent two years away from the album.

Ekklesia partnered with the Missouri State chapter of Hillel International, an organization for Jewish campus ministries, to host the event.

Scott-Huffman, minister of Ekklesia, said her group decided to partner with Hillel to show interfaith support after the shooting.

“We kind of feel like, as a ministry, part of our ministry is responding to the pain that people are experiencing, for lots of different reasons,” Scott-Huffman said. “We know that there are Jewish students on campus, and other students who will also become fearful and concerned when things like that happen in such a sacred and vulnerable place.”

Students from multiple faiths attended, and speakers included Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Baha’i and non-religious identifying people.

“To me, I think that’s exactly what faith is about,” Scott-Huffman said. “I think faith is not about us being exclusive and closed in on ourselves, but to teach us how to love and be graceful and build community among us.

“To know that there are so many people locally and on campus who want to build that kind of community, it was just really special to see that.”

Scott-Huffman said it may be more important than ever for different faiths to come together and support each other, especially as society becomes divided based on religion.

“Because so many of our divisions have been around religion, I think that religion is necessary to heal those divisions as well,” Scott-Huffman said. “As religious leaders, I think the more that we can come together and cooperate with one another, and even pray with one another, it just heals some of those divisions in our society.

“I don’t think there’s any question that bad things are going to continue to happen, and that some people feel more empowered to commit hate crimes right now. But I think the answer to that is that we always know there will be a community of people that will come together and that will pray for healing, mourn those who are gone, and hope for the future.”

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Friends Susan Conine, Julie Schulze and Francie Wolff attended the event.

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College of Arts and Letters experimenting with proactive advising, improving retention SINJIN SANDERS Staff Reporter @SandersSinjin Advisors are a constant in a college student’s life. But for most college students, meeting with an advisor only happens a few times.

A new program called proactive advising is changing this for first generation students.

Mark Biggs, dean of the College of Arts and Letters, said proactive advising “sort of puts the onus of reaching out to students on the advisor instead of it being on the student.” This means that the advisor will be the first to reach out to the student instead of the other way around.

Biggs also said that the advisors are to be mentors to the students they are advising and “extension(s) of the classroom,” adding that advisors should anticipate what the advisee will need help with throughout their academic careers.

Being proactively advised means, Biggs said, that the student is going to be contacted by their advisor earlier in the year and might meet with their advisor three to four times a semester.

This is compared to regular advising where the student might only meet with their advisor one or two times a semester.

“The students who are being targeted for proactive advising initially in this college are first-generation students and students who are African American, Hispanic and are more than one race,” Biggs said.

According to an official MSU slide show,

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the demographics of first-generation students and students whose parents graduated college are similar with the exception of first-generation students having more students who are Pell eligible and belong to an underrepresented ethnicity.

He said this was because first-generation students, students of color and underrepresented groups tended to have a lower retention rate than students whose parents have graduated college.

“They are, in this college, at a 10-to-12 percent lower rate,” Biggs said.

According to an official MSU slideshow, retention rates of first-generation students are 72.16 percent while non-first-generation students are 82.77 percent.

Biggs said this program hopes to fix the student retention problem amongst first-generation students and make sure that students are graduating from university.

Biggs said this program is meant to help students become acclimated with life at university. Biggs also said that this was not the only initiative to help retention rates.

Among proactive advising, Biggs mentioned the GEP program. The GEP program has specific classes are are tailored for first-generation students and students in the same college.

This, Biggs said, allows students to be around others dealing with similar issues.

However, Biggs said that students may not know whether they are being proactively advised.

Biggs said this is only an experimental program to see if this will help with retention rates.

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Moore. The author benefits from his childhood home, pursuing education and even joining the military. But the other Moore’s upbringing leads him down a darker path. The story is about making something of oneself, no matter where they came from.

"It was after reading ‘The Other Wes Moore’ and hearing him speak on campus that the reality check that the other 'Josh Rodriguez' isn't living in this opportune space that I was given," Rodriguez said.

Hussong, started to attend college in the late 1980s but instead took off to work for an airline. Afterword, he became a technical writer. He said this was a strange spot, as he loved writing but wanted more options. To pursue his goal, he took all of his classes online.

"I eased back into college life by taking

only a few credit hours at first, getting used to the nontraditional way, then going full steam,” Hussong said.

Hussong plans on finishing college this way.

These three and many other nontraditional students have been helped out due to ANTSHE. Hilton and Rodriguez have been assisted with financial issues, while Hussong has been given more resources for his path.

There will be two tables set up at the Plaster Student Union on Thursday, Nov. 8, from 9-11 a.m. providing information on ANTSHE. To contact the association’s president for general questions, email president@antsheboardofdirectors.org or call (301) 991-2222. The club can also be found on Youtube, Facebook and Twitter @MYANTSHE.

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and inclusion on campus.

“A lot of black students feel like they weren’t a part of campus, so I really want to make it to where we’re all interacting with each other and it’s not like ‘us and them,’ and we coexist,” Asberry said.

“Since I’ve been here, my friend, her name is Jessica, we’re like from two different walks of life, but that is my homegirl for life now.

“I just think it’s super cool that we’re from two different areas, two different family backgrounds, two different races, and we’re so close. It

really makes me happy, and I want to keep that up.”

One event she’s planning is a scrimmage basketball game with black and white fraternities mixed together playing with and against each other to encourage inclusion and diversity, Asberry said.

Asberry said that, so far, her experience joining SGA has been a positive one, and that her fellow members have been helpful in getting her what she needs to put projects together.

“Everyone’s been really nice,” Asberry said. “I think what was nervous for me com-

ing in, is that I was the only black woman on the board, but they’ve done a really good job at including me, being friendly, helping me with my ideas, directing me to the right people.”

Asberry said that most of her plans are for the spring semester, as she was elected late into the year and hasn’t had the time to get everything going.

“I feel like everybody’s been really excited,” Asberry said. “I’ve got this; we’re going to get things done. I don’t fail. I might have to try again, rework some things, but Freshelle does not fail.”

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ACROSS 1 “Phooey!”

5 Snapshot, for short 8 Judi Dench, for one 12 Farm implement 13 George’s brother 14 1946 song, “-- in Calico” 15 Pastor 17 Yuletide beverages 18 Biden, Cheney, et al.

19 Pooch 21 Bewildered 24 Two-wheeler 25 Wail 26 Mosque towers 30 Historic time 31 Skewered Thai recipe 32 Whopper 33 Troubadour 35 Hay bundle 36 Stir-fry pans 37 Bivouac structures 38 Soldiers 41 Have bills 42 Vagrant 43 Labyrinth beast 48 On 49 Performance 50 Existence 51 Golf gadgets 52 Ultra modernist 53 Cupid’s alias DOWN 1 Spinning abbr.

2 Boxer Muhammad 3 Heavy weight 4 Turn on a pivot 5 Mining areas 6 Rage

7 Red bird 8 Peril 9 Eager 10 Creche trio 11 Differently 16 Hot tub 20 Fine 21 Throat clearer 22 Actress Spelling 23 Former ugly duckling 24 Chomps 26 Sharpshooter 27 Verve 28 Be at an angle 29 Witnesses 31 Halt 34 Descends like an eagle 35 Pvt. Bailey 37 Pair 38 Just one of those things?

39 Memorization method 40 Reed instrument 41 Aware of 44 Lemieux milieu

45 Melody 46 Venusian vessel?

47 In medias --

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A worker serves wings to festival attendees at Wingapalooza on Nov. 3.

Wingapalooza was held on Saturday, Nov. 3, at The Springfield Expo Center. The festival spans over 18 years and is dubbed “America’s original buffalo wing festival.”

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