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By Peyson Shields The Standard

Once a year, a Fairly Odd Parent with a bow and arrow flutters around aiming, shooting and making people fall in love.

The day that Cupid reigns is known as Valentine’s Day. Chocolates piled into a red, heart-shaped box and bouquets of flowers show love just for that one day. Feb. 14 is the most love-filled day of the year, and some people yearn for it while some just wish it didn’t happen at all.

See page 4 for more information about the psychology of Valentine’s Day.

Got Valentine’s Day on the brain?

Adobe Creative Suite fee increase brings with it a suite of problems Effect on students could be drastic

By Annie Gooch The Standard

Adobe has recently changed its product licensing to a continuous subscription for its software rather than paying a one-time fee.

The company, popular for Photoshop, Illustrator and other design programs, has shifted its licensing structure to the Creative Cloud, an online storage outlet.

Adobe’s Creative Cloud is a term-based plan that allows access to a single program or all programs from the previous Creative Suite (CS6).

Last year, CS6 was purchased for all computers on campus with hopes of being able to use it for a couple of years before having to upgrade, according to Mark Biggs, associate dean for the College of Arts and Letters.

Biggs has been heavily involved with Adobe’s change and what it means for MSU. He explains that buyers will no longer get a disc or key device to plug into their computers, because everything is now done on the Creative Cloud.

The university owns CS6 and will continue to have access to it until operating systems no longer support it.

Before the change, users paid for the software one time

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and were able to keep and use programs forever. Now, it is a subscription-based plan, and if payments stop, so does access to the product.

This has created concern between faculty and students since the costs are noticeably more expensive.

“The cost of licensing has doubled, and the cost for the products has gone up,” Biggs said. “We’re going to be providing less software in labs where it is not centrally used.”

Not all computers on campus will have the Creative Cloud. Only the advanced labs will upgrade.

“We did a pretty careful analysis of what software was being used in our labs,” Biggs said. “We’re not going to be universally putting the new Adobe software in all labs, because it didn’t appear that students took advantage of this in all labs.”

The College of Arts and Letters will request funding to put the new software into the Art and Design Department, the professional and technical writing lab and the new media lab.

However, funding has Angela Barker, an instructional technology support specialist for the College of Arts and Letters, worried.

“It’s potentially a hit on the Student Computer Usage Fee,” Barker said.

This fee is paid for by all enrolled students and is used to maintain student-related information technologies, according to its website. The SCUF budget is administered by the office of academic affairs, and money is disbursed based on submitted proposals.

“Each year the College of Arts and Letters asks SCUF

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for money for Adobe products in the computer labs,” Barker said. “It really affects funding, because when you stop paying for it, you essentially Screenshot/THE STANDARD lose everything.”

But Barker says they feel compelled to upgrade to give students what they need to be able to work on projects.

With the subscription plan and rising costs, though, this has some students worried that the university could pass costs along to them.

Colin Baker, a junior graphic design major, frequently uses the design standard suite, and any rise in fees has him concerned.

“Yeah, I’m kind of dreading it,” Baker said. “You know how expensive school already is. Any loan money I get goes to books, and it’ll just be another thing on top of that.”

His concerns stretch past just his time spent at MSU. “The problem is, once I’m out of school, freelance

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Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014

What’s cooler than being cool? Missouri’s winter this year is ice cold

By Sadie Welhoff The Standard

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MSU students walk to class in the cold and snow. This winter is particulary cold, but not record breaking.

Tuesday, Feb. 11

Calendar

Student Activities Council meeting, 4-5:15 p.m., Plaster Student Union 313

Peer Leader information session, 5-6 p.m., Plaster Student Union, Ballroom West

Friday, Feb. 14

Student Government Association meeting, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Plaster Student Union 313

Diplomas for fall 2013 graduates mailed beginning today

Peer Leader information session, 6 p.m.

Plaster Student Union 315 A and B

Ask The Experts open sessions,, 1-4 p.m., Cheek Hall 100

CNAS Spring Public Lecture Series “Mistaken Identity: Sikhs in America”, 7:30 p.m., Temple Hall 003

Ask The Experts Blackboard open sessions, 1:30-5 p.m., Meyer Library 205

Wednesday, Feb. 12

Understanding Financial Statements, 9 a.m.noon, Plaster Center 1000 Blackboard Learn 9.1: Designing Engaging Content, 10 a.m.-noon, Meyer Library 205

Thursday, Feb. 13

Faculty Senate meeting, 3:30–5 p.m., Plaster Student Union 313

Saturday, Feb. 15

PHR/SPHR exam review, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Plaster Center 1000

Sunday, Feb. 16

Tent Theatre 2014 Season auditions, all day, Craig Hall

Monday, Feb. 17

With snow on the ground and wind chill temperatures steadily falling, this is about the time of year Missouri State students wish they went to school in southern Florida.

Complaints can be heard around campus about having to wait for the Bear Line in the frigid temperatures and scraping ice off of cars, but is this winter really that bad compared to past winters?

The lowest temperature ever recorded in Missouri was negative 40 degrees in 1905, and, while we have not reached that low this winter, the January average is lower than normal.

According to the Missouri Climate Center, the preliminary temperature average was around 25 for this past January.

Twenty-five degrees is about 4.9 degrees below the long-term average temperature for January in Missouri. This similar temperature average was also the case for January of 2010.

Mario Daoust from the

Department of Geography, Geology and Planning at MSU said winter temperatures are assessed through December, January and February, so the winter season will not have official statistics until the end of February.

Daoust said while it is too early to make claims about the entire winter for this year, the combined temperature averages for December and January were the coldest since the winter from 2000 to 2001 and from 1983 to 1984.

“In other words, the combined temperature of December 2013 and January 2014 ranks as the third-coldest average in the last 30 years,” Daoust said.

Anthony Lupo, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Missouri, said 70 percent of winters in Missouri usually run around 3 degrees higher or lower than normal.

But looking at Missouri history, there have been plenty of winters with much colder temperature averages than this year.

January of 1979 recorded an average temperature of 16 degrees, nine degrees lower than this past January. In 1977

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work will be harder,” Baker said. “As opposed to just being able to buy it, I have to pay for it monthly.”

Students aren’t the only ones affected by this change, though.

Cameron Stacy is the laser engraver and design manager at Springfield Leather Company. He uses Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Bridge and After Effects to create design patterns to use on pieces of leather.

“My work has purchased almost every license from Adobe, and I have access to it all from work and home,” Stacy said. “If I had to pay for it myself, I would be out of luck.”

He says he is grateful that his employer

and 1978, average temperatures were also below 20 in January.

In January of 1940, the average temperature was slightly above 14, and the January of 1918 was similar at about 15 degrees.

Temperature is only part of the cold winter equation. Arctic cold fronts coming into Missouri have been creating wind chills from minus 10 to minus 30.

The danger of wind chill is how fast the human body can lose heat when it meets cold wind. It can take less time for frostbite to take exposed skin if the wind chill is lower.

With the risks of the cold, it can be hard to find anything positive about a cold winter, but Lupo said there could be some beneficial long-term effects.

“Some positives would be fewer bugs this summer, and snow and ice is better for spring groundwater reserves,” Lupo said.

If students want to be envious of any winters of the past, they should look to January of 2006 and 1933 when the average temperatures were above 40 degrees.

supplies the programs, but if it were his money being put out there, he would have to find a different program to use.

However, with Adobe being the industry standard, looking for other options can be hard if they aren’t there.

This has left Biggs asking a lot of questions.

“My greatest fear is that, if everyone converts to this model, what will happen to the educational institutions?

“How can we meet the needs of students who rely on this software? How do we make it accessible for faculty and students,” Biggs asks. “What do we do for off-campus students?”

Biggs says he doesn’t know, but that they’re all scrambling to do this to the best of their ability.

“We’re looking at $80-$100,000 a year in Adobe’s licensing,” he said. “There’s not money to make that happen yet.”

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OUR VIEW

Good for Mizzou player Michael Sam

By Nicolette Martin, Editor-in-Chief

It must take a lot of guts to be the first likely active player to come out in a sport that, last year, once again saw the entirety of its player base without a gay man.

But, with former Mizzou AllAmerican defensive lineman Michael Sam’s announcement Sunday that he is gay, the NFL can finally add a little rainbow to its colors.

But how much courage must that take for Sam, not only in a society that is still slowly coming around to the idea of sexual equality, but in a sport that has “establish(ed) itself as the last bastion of purebred American masculinity,” as described in a Feb. 1 BuzzFeed article by Saeed Jones titled “Invisible Men: The Year an NFL Player Didn’t Come Out.” So why the stigma?

In Jones’ article, he notes five steps that prevent a gay NFL player from coming out.

First, “football establishes itself as the last bastion of purebred American masculinity,” as previously stated.

Second, the idea that (like once used in the military when Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was still enforced) having a gay player is distracting.

In fact, Chris Clemons, a defensive end for the Seattle Seahawks, said in a March 2013 tweet that he’s “not against anyone but I think it’s a selfish act. They just trying to make themselves bigger than the team.”

Third is the issue of money

due to sponsorship, fourth is the reaction of players and coaches to gay people and fifth is the result that NFL players just simply don’t come out.

Until now.

Until Michael Sam. While it’s 2014 and still crazy that we’re making a huge deal about the very first (almost) NFL player to come out, the fact is that it’s a huge story.

Should it be? No. But it is.

I hope that Michael Sam will help other players, both current and future, to be proud and comfortable to be who they are.

I hope that kids in Pop Warner football leagues will be able to look up to Sam, not only for being the SEC CoDefensive Player of the Year, for earning a spot on the first All-SEC team, for leading the SEC in quarterback sacks and tackles for losses or for ranking in the top-10 nationally in both categories.

I hope that kids and high school football players can look up to him for all of those things, but, more importantly, I hope they can look up to Sam for having the courage to break down barriers and not be afraid to simply be who he is.

Hopefully, with the barricade down, others will follow suit to make this a world, and the NFL a league, in which a day that someone comes out is just another day and no longer a front-page story.

Thanks for keeping us informed

By The Standard Editorial Board

On Tuesday, Feb. 4, the Missouri State community woke up to a safety alert from the Safety and Transportation Department alerting it to a “vague threat about a campus shooting,” after a post mentioning MSU was posted on Twitter.

After safety concerns last semester that left students, faculty and staff scrounging around for answers amidst misinformation, we are happy that Missouri State’s Safety and Transportation Department alerted us to a potential safety concern, even if they didn’t have all of the information yet.

Students were informed about the suggested threat and told that the emergency response system would be activated should credible information be received indicating it was a larger threat.

When The Standard contacted Director of Safety and Transportation Don Clark, he said that they believed the threat level to be “a pretty minor deal,” and that they simply wanted the campus community to be informed.

Although the threat turned out to be nothing, we are thankful that Missouri State gave us the information they had and made an official statement, so instead of walking around campus unaware that anything could be happening, students, faculty and staff were on alert for a potential emergency.

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By Rachel Brown

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Calendar Tuesday, Feb. 11

Made to Work, 8:30 a.m.-noon, 1301 N. Boonville Ave., free Brick City Gallery Exhibition: Partial to Home and Juke Joint-Photographs by Birney Imes, 11 a.m.6 p.m., Brick City 101/110, free

Love is in the air

Trombone recital presented by Justin Cook, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Ellis Recital Hall, free SAC Cultural Affairs presents: Step Afrika, 7-9 p.m., Plaster Student Union Theater, free Sid the Science Kid Live!, 7-9 p.m., Juanita K. Hammons Hall for Performing Arts, $17 SAC Presents: Girl Code vs. Guy Code, 9-11 p.m., Plaster Student Union Theater, free

Wednesday, Feb. 12

Brick City Gallery Exhibition: Partial to Home and Juke Joint-Photographs by Birney Imes, 11 a.m.6 p.m., Brick City 101/110, free I Heart SAC Week presents: Sabrine Jalees, 7-9 p.m., Plaster Student Union Theater, free SAC Films presents: “The Heat,” 9-11 p.m., Plaster Student Union Theater, free

Thursday, Feb. 13

Brick City Gallery Exhibition: Partial to Home and Juke Joint-Photographs by Birney Imes, 11 a.m.6 p.m., Brick City 101/110, free Scotty McCreery concert, 7-10 p.m., Gillioz Theatre, $35 “Proof” play, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Craig Hall Balcony Theatre, $14 adults; $12 students/seniors; $8 in advance Heavy Glow concert, 8 p.m.-2 a.m., 218 S. Campbell Ave., $5 SAC presents: Broken Hearts Club, 9-11:59 p.m., Plaster Student Union 313, free

Friday, Feb. 14

Brick City Gallery Exhibition: Partial to Home and Juke Joint-Photographs by Birney Imes, 11 a.m.6 p.m., Brick City 101/110, free SAC presents: Valentine’s Day giveaway, noon-3 p.m., Plaster Student Union north side tables, free “Firefly,” the Browncoat Experience, 7:30-9 p.m., 411 N. Sherman Parkway, $5 donation “Proof” play, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Craig Hall Balcony Theatre, $14 adults; $12 students/seniors; $8 in advance The Avett Brothers, 7:30-11 p.m., JQH Arena, $35-45 plus fees

Saturday, Feb. 15

Nirvana Day, all day, entire campus, free Brick City Gallery Exhibition: Partial to Home and Juke Joint-Photographs by Birney Imes, 11 a.m.6 p.m., Brick City 101/110, free Winter Ball 2014, 7-9 p.m., Plaster Student Union Ballroom, free

Sunday, Feb. 16

Brick City Gallery Exhibition: Partial to Home and Juke Joint-Photographs by Birney Imes, 2:304:30 p.m., Brick City 101/110, free

Monday, Feb. 17

Presidents Day: no classes, all day, entire campus, free

Briefs FRC reduced hours for holiday

While the campus of Missouri State University receives a day off to celebrate Presidents Day, the Foster Recreation Center will still be open.

Their holiday hours will be 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.

As usual, the FRC is free and open to all current students. If you have questions about fitness class schedules for the holiday, contact Michelle Essmyer at Essmyer318@MissouriState.edu or (417) 836 - 3720.

Correction from Feb. 4 issue

In last week’s issue, the article titled “Blast-from-the-past downtown bar mixes some arcade fun with adult drinks,” contained a few factual errors.

The establishment, although previously called Barkade, is currently called College Street Barkade, a change that occurred in January of this year.

Its hours of operation are Tuesday through Saturday, 7 p.m. to 1:30 a.m., and on Sunday from 7 p.m. to midnight.

Everywhere you look, you can find people in love, including some of the professors on campus

1986. (27 years) Q:How did you first meet?

A: We both taught Renaissance at different schools in Texas, and we belonged to similar organizations.

We came to Missouri because they hired us here at MSU together.

Q: What is it like working together?

A: We get to play with our students, because, we not only get to teach students what we think, but we get to tell the class what our spouse and colleague thinks too. I like to talk to her on speakerphone in class and ask her opinions on discussion topics. Although, one time I left her on speaker phone after I thought I had hung up, and she decided to comment on my lecture out of my back pocket. The students really got a kick out of that. We’ve both been here since 1989. I lost my hair while I’ve been here and hers went gray.

together?

A: We have both been at MSU for 25 years, much of the time in Craig Hall — Lynn in CommunicaQ: How long have you two been tions, me in MJF — so we see each married? other much more than most A: We have been married couples, and married 45 years. that’s great! Sometimes Q: How did you students sign up for first meet? my classes thinking A: We met the first Lynn is the teacher, and day of college our freshover the years we have man year (at Northern gotten to know a lot of the Iowa). We were in the same same students. Our marriage theater class together. I was is much closer because we do alone and Lynn asked if I would share so much together — collike to sit with her and two of her leagues, classes, campus activities friends. I did, and of course, could ... go Bears! not concentrate on anything the proJon and Kellie Harper fessor said that day because I was James and Tita Baumlin Q: How long have you two been Q: How long have you two been preoccupied thinking about the cute married? girl next to me. u See LOVE, page 5 A: We were married Nov. 29, Q: What is it like working

By Kelsey Berry The Standard Michael and Lynn Borich

A Valentine’s state of mind

SAC organizes event for the Broken Hearts Club

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Illustration by Nic Deckard

The Art of the Printed Book Through the Centuries, all day, First floor of Meyer LIbrary. free

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Love is in the air for Michael and Lynn Borich, faculty members at Missouri State University.

Peyson Shields Life Reporter

Besides the lovers and the haters, V-Day can dig deep to expose its true meaning: love.

Nonah Olesen, a first-year graduate student of experimental psychology, said that not having that special someone to celebrate V-Day with can make you feel left out and think, “What am I missing?”

The idea of not having someone to spend this one particular day with can be troubling to the heart, especially with media resistance.

“You see the jewelry ads and the flowers and chocolates and the feeling — the feeling of being loved — and you really want it, but all of the ads are telling you somebody should be buying that for you. Advertisements don’t make people feel good. If they did, then people wouldn’t buy things. And having all of these ads directed at one day of the year, one day that is so specifically for romance and love, can make anyone feel unloved, which is really depressing if you think about it,” Olesen said.

That feeling that Olesen is talking about, that feeling of love, is “incredibly powerful,” she said. We have all grown up and taken some sort of psychology

class, and the basis of everything — besides food and shelter — is love. The feeling of being accepted by that one person who gets you, and when one day pushes that concept into everyone’s mind, it’s tough to escape it.

Olesen describes the yearning and need for love as a way to survive. “Humans were not made to go out on our own.”

When there is so much pressure for love on one day, it can sometimes make people, especially women, feel bummed out, Olesen said.

“Not having a valentine means you probably aren’t going to be getting things, or going out or getting to feel special on this day that everyone else gets to feel special, which can make anyone

feel vulnerable and inadequate. It is the fear of missing out,” she said.

Personally, I’m not the biggest fan of Valentine’s Day. I feel like people should show their love 365 days of the year, rather than just one.

The fact that people feel inadequate for not being “loved” on one particular day just makes me sad.

The hippie inside me just wants love all the time, and chocolate all the time, too. But I am slowly warming up to it now that I am kind of a grown up and don’t depend on getting a halfwilted carnation handed to me at second lunch.

Olesen, however, is a fan of V-Day for the sake of spreading extra joy for one day.

“I think it is a fun holiday, a cute holiday, a good day to remind everyone in our lives that they are special to us and we are thankful for them.”

By Briana Simmons The Standard

Valentine’s Day will be here before you know it, but you have no plans and no date. Don’t spend this day sitting around wishing you had something to do.

The Student Activities Council is hosting The Broken Hearts Club on Feb. 13 from 9 p.m. until 11:59 p.m.

Rachael Boll, senior entertainment management major and After Hours chair of SAC, is hoping you’ll join them for the festivities they have planned for this day.

The night will begin with a “mocktail” hour in Plaster Student Union 314. Guests will be able to enjoy drinks while listening to music during this social hour.

Then the party will move to another room in the PSU where cake and ice cream with be served.

SAC has a variety of other activities going on that night, such as three piñatas and a large I Heart SAC giveaway.

Construction paper, markers and other supplies will be provided for attendees to make valentines cards for children as part of the Children’s Miracle Network.

Boll wants people to know that SAC plans fun activities for the student body and gives them the opportunity to impact the community.

“In SAC we plan events for entertainment, but we also plan a variety of culturally-competent and communityengagement-type events, which is part of the school’s mission and ours as well,” Boll said.

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stranger. Egos clash and bickering ensues, much to the enjoyment of their respective bandmates. Over the course of 24 hours, they begin to get along and realize their attractions to each other.

Pretty in Pink

If you love the brat pack that brought us “The Breakfast Club” and “Sixteen Candles”, if you love movies that scream the 80s and if you’re feeling a litIf you’re planning a date night for Friday, you can tle nostalgic, then this blast from the past starring never go wrong with dinner and a movie. Unfortunate- Molly Ringwald will not disappoint. ly, there aren’t many movies in theaters this season that make you feel all gooey and warm inside or that make The Artist you want to cuddle up next to your honey. I don’t know A young film actress follows her dreams and falls in about you, but after going out to a nice dinner, I some- love. The Oscars’ 2011 Film of the Year may have been times prefer to head back home, snuggle on the couch talked to death, but it certainly deserves the hype. If and see what Netflix has to offer. It saves a little money silent films aren’t your thing, you might want to pass, and can be a much more pleasant and intimate night to but this movie is the “Avatar” of Hollywood during the remember for you and your valentine. roaring twenties.

So if you’re interested in having a quiet night at home this Valentine’s Day, here’s a list of some of my Romantics Anonymous favorite romantic flicks — all available for instantThis off-beat, French-language, romantic comedy streaming on Netflix — that really set the mood! tells the story of young chocolatier Angélique and the chocolate factory owner, Jean-René. The two are seriTonight You’re Mine ous introverts, and their mutual struggle to overcome This indie film follows two rock stars at a music their timidness and pursue a romantic relationship festival in Scotland who get handcuffed together by a leads to a cute and quirky adventure.

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A candlelit dinner. A bouquet of flowers. Slow dancing. The playlist for your romantic Valentine’s Day is here.

By Trevor Mitchell The Standard

“The Way You Look Tonight,” Frank Sinatra “Accidentally in Love,” Counting Crows “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” The Beatles “Teenage Dream,” Katy Perry “I’m Yours,” Jason Mraz “Fidelity,” Regina Spektor “That’s Amore,” Dean Martin “When I Go,” Slow Club “First Day of My Life,” Bright Eyes “Closer,” Tegan & Sara “Do You Remember,” Jack Johnson

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married?

A: It’ll be 15 years in May. Q: How did you first meet?

A: We met at basketball camp when I was a player at Tennessee. He went to Auburn, and he worked basketball camps.

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came from the 2010 movie “Valentine’s Day” with Jessica Biel, who throws an anti-Valentine’s Day party.

Biel plans her “I Hate Valentine’s Day” party after

Q: What is it like working together?

A: For us it works. He has the personality to make it work. This is our life, and we love what we do, and being able to do that together is a blessing. We love spending time together, but when we leave the office, if I want to go ride my horses and he wants to go play golf, we don’t feel guilty about not having seen each other all day. the pressures and expectations of Valentine’s Day become too much for the couples and singles to deal with.

The movie will be shown at the event.

Your heart doesn’t have to be broken to attend SAC’s party, and you don’t have to be dateless. SAC said the event is open to

Valentine’s playlists A Lean Cuisine. Wilting roses. Dancing by yourself.

The playlist for your Valentine’s Day if you just broke up with your boyfriend or girlfriend is here.

By Nicolette Martin The Standard

“Be Mine,” Robyn “Thinking of You,” Katy Perry “Last Kiss,” Taylor Swift “Call it Off,” Tegan & Sara “Pictures of You,” The Cure “If you Don’t, Don’t,” Jimmy Eat World “Indiana,” Jon McLaughlin “Picture,” Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow “Restless Dream,” Jack’s Mannequin “I Don’t Want to Cry,” Mariah Carey “Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me,” The Smiths

Jonathan and Diane Leamy

Q: How long have you two been married?

A: Twenty-three years.

Q: How did you first meet?

A: We met at a Special Olympics volunteer picnic.

Q: What is it like working together?

A: It’s awesome. Nothing better than being Bears in a college environment. everyone looking to have a good time.

“We wanted to have a party for people who didn’t have a valentine, but we wanted to be inclusive, so we are inviting everyone,” Boll said.

The After Hours committee plans an event every Thursday.

Illustration by Brent Rinehart

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stop twice and must hit five targets with five bullets each time.

For each target missed, athletes take a lap around the 150 m penalty loop. The top 60 finishers qualify for the pursuit.

Pursuit | Competitors start at intervals based on their finishing time in the sprint. Women race 10-kilometer and men race 12.5-kilometer. Competitors stop four times and must hit all five targets with five bullets. For each target missed, athletes take a lap around the 150-meter penalty loop.

Individual | Women race 15-kilometer and men race 20-kilometer. All competitors stop four times at the firing range and must hit all five targets with five bullets. For each target missed, one minute is added to their total time.

Relay | Four-person teams tackle four 7.5-kilometer legs for a total of 30-kilometer for men, and four 6-kilometer legs for a total of 24-kilometer for women.

Mass start | The most race-like event, with all 30 competitors starting at the same time. The starters are made up from all previous medal winners during the Olympic Games and the top athletes in the World Cup. Women race 12.5-kilometer and men race 15-kilometer.

Tobogganing Bobsleigh | Includes a brakeman and a pilot in the two-man event, while two crewmen/pushers are added for the four-man race. From a standing start, the crew pushes the sled in unison up to 50 meters.

Skeleton | Takes place on the same track, or “run,” as the bobsleigh. Skeleton starts with a running phase, after which the athlete dives onto the sled and descends the track. Athletes lie face down on their stomachs, facing downhill, with arms at their sides, steering the skeleton with movements of their body.

Luge | Men and women compete in singles and doubles events. Both singles competitions take two days with two runs staged on each day. The times are added up, and the fastest total time determines the winner. Double luge is a one-day competition in which pairs of athletes take two runs down a course.

Each run counts, and the fastest total time determines the winner.

Curling Current events | Men and women currently compete in 10team events. The sport is played on temperature-controlled sheets of ice, and the two teams take turns to deliver a 44pound stone toward a series of concentric circles. The object is to get the stone as close to the center of the circles as possible to score more points than the opponent, using sweeping instruments to affect both the accuracy and speed of each stone.

Ice skating Figure skating singles | Men and women compete in the singles, pairs and ice dance events. The singles event consists of two sections: the short program and free skating. The short program combines eight elements, such as jump combinations and spins performed to music of the skater’s choice.

Figure skating pairs and ice dance | The pairs event consists of a short program and free skating. The couple works as one unit, demonstrating overhead lifts, throw-jumps with the man launching his partner, and many other technical manoeuvres.

This contrasts with ice dance, which is composed of a compulsory dance, original dance and free dance.

Short track events | Men and women compete in 500-meter, 1,000-meter, and 1,500-meter. There is a 5,000-meter relay for men and a 3,000-meter relay for women.

Speed skating | Men and women compete in 500-meter, 1,000-meter and 5,000-meter and a team pursuit. There is also a 10,000-meter for men and a 5,000-meter for women.

Hockey Competition procedure | A regular game consists of three 20minute periods, with a 15-minute intermission after the first and second periods. If a tie occurs in a medal-round game, a fiveminute sudden-victory overtime is played. In the gold-medal game, a 20-minute sudden-victory period is played subsequent to another 15-minute intermission.

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Chasing the win Ice Bears earn three points in weekend series

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Junior defender Eric Aldag chases the puck in the Ice Bears’ game against Robert Morris University on Saturday, Feb. 8, at Mediacom Ice Park.

shot. The Ice Bears would pad the lead to 2-0 early in the second period following a goal from freshman forward Alex Nanna.

The Missouri State University Robert Morris would storm back Ice Bears concluded the 2013-2014 before the end of the second period, regular season this weekend by netting back-to-back goals to leave earning three points from the No. 7 the game tied at two after the first 40 ranked Robert Morris University- minutes, setting up for an intense Chicago Golden Eagles, a feat that third period. should more than likely earn the Ice The Ice Bears would send MediBears a guaranteed spot in the acom Ice Park into a frenzy after ACHA Central Regional Tourna- taking a 3-2 run six minutes into the ment. final period on a power-play goal The Ice from junior Bears started forward Jack the weekend We were looking to get Ryan. Less strong by than two the puck to Jack on earning a minutes after hard fought the power play ... On Jack Ryan’s 4-3 victory goal, Robert that last goal, I was over the Morris quietGolden ed the crowd able to do just that.

Eagles in by evening what may the game have been back up 3-3.

Eric Aldag The game the game of the year on Junior defender would remain Friday night. deadlocked Missouri for another State got on the board first follow- three minutes until junior defender ing a power play goal from junior Eric Aldag would set up Jack Ryan forward Matt Townsend, who stuck perfectly on another Missouri State the puck in the net following junior power play to give Missouri State a defender Nick Sadorf’s deflected 4-3 lead.

By Chase Probert The Standard @Chase_A_Probert

“

“We were looking to get the puck to Jack on the power play and creating some room for him,” Aldag said following the game. “On that last goal, I was able to do just that.”

“Aldag held it at the point and drew the defenders to him and it set me,” Jack Ryan said on the goahead goal. “We worked well on the power play with Blake (Ryan) and (Ryan) Hogland in that final period.”

Robert Morris would pull their goalie with two minutes left in attempt to put more pressure on the Ice Bears and sophomore goalie Justin Davis, but Missouri State would stand tall and hold on for the 4-3 victory.

“They put 60 minutes together,” assistant coach Ryan Armstrong said in a post-game interview. “PJ Adams threw his body around to stop a lot of shots in those final minutes, and Davis was on fire in front of the net. We had everybody chipping in tonight.”

Saturday’s game would not only serve as the final game of the regular season, but the final home game for Missouri State seniors Derek Bartsch, Miguel Franco, Jake Guthrie, Doran Jaenke, Justin Kim,

Lady Bears’ leading scorer tears her ACL

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Redshirt sophomore guard Kenzie Williams will be out for the season

By John Robinson The Standard @SaxmanJohn

The Lady Bears (12-10, 7-4MVC) accomplished what they set out to do: winning all four of their last four home games. Unfortunately, they lost redshirt sophomore guard Kenzie Williams to a season-ending ACL tear.

“It’ll take some getting used to, not having Kenzie on the floor. She did a lot of positive things for us. As a team, we’ll have to do a little bit better in every category to pick up the slack,” said head coach Kellie Harper.

Williams was the Lady Bears’ leading scorer at 14.8 points per game and had a team-high total of 48 assists.

“We have to play for (Williams), because she would do anything to be out there with us,” said fellow sophomore guard Tyonna Snow.

The Lady Bears have now lost two veteran guards in Williams and senior Karly Buer, who went down with an ACL tear earlier in the year.

“Karly and Kenzie sitting on the bench, that’s a lot of experience I’d like to be able to dress out, but that’s just part of the game. Fortunately, we’ve had plenty of opportunity for girls to get minutes,” said Harper That experience showed in what ended up being the

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Men’s basketball (16-8, 6-6 MVC) Wednesday, Feb. 5 Missouri State 31 35 — 66 Evansville 27 27 — 54 Saturday, Feb. 8 Missouri State 27 27 — 54 Southern Illinois 29 43 — 72 Women’s basketball (12-10, 7-4 MVC) Friday, Feb. 7 Loyola 16 25 — 41 Missouri State 36 30 — 66 Sunday, Feb. 9 Bradley 33 39 — 72 Missouri State 34 44 — 78 Women’s track Friday, Feb. 7 Missouri Invitational, no team scoring Ice Bears (18-7-1, 7-4 MACHA) Friday, Feb. 7 Missouri State 1 1 2 — 4 Robert Morris 0 2 1 — 3 Saturday, Feb. 8 (OT) Missouri State 3 1 0 0 — 4 Robert Morris 0 2 2 0 — 4 Softball (1-2, 0-0 MVC) Saturday, Feb. 8 Missouri State 0 0 0 0 0 0 0—0 Georgia Tech 0 0 0 0 0 3 X—3 Saturday, Feb. 8 Missouri State 0 0 4 0 1 1 0—6 Georgia Tech 0 0 3 0 0 0 0—3 Sunday, Feb. 9 Missouri State 1 0 0 0 0 0 0—1 Georgia Tech 0 0 0 6 1 0 X—7

Winter Olympic events 101 Compiled by Nicolette Martin

Skiing

pete in the sprint, team sprint, 10-kilometer individual start, 15-kilometer pursuit, 30-kilometer mass start and the 4x5-kilometer relay. Men compete in the sprint, team sprint, 15-kilometer individual start, 30-kilometer pursuit, 50-kilometer mass start and the 4x10-kilometer relay.

Alpine — downhill and super-G | Features the longest course and the highest speeds in alpine skiing. Super-G stands for super giant slalom, an event that combines the speed of downhill with the more Ski jumping | Currently completed by precise turns of giant slalom. men and includes three events: the indiAlpine — slaloms/super combined | vidual normal hill, the individual large hill The alpine event with the shortest course and the team event on the large hill. In the and the quickest turns. The giant slalom individual events, each athlete gets two has fewer turns and wider, smoother jumps, and the athlete with the highest turns. In both events, each skier makes combined score is the winner. In the team two runs down two different courses on event, each jump has four members, and the same slope. The times are added and the field is reduced to the eight best the fastest total time determines the win- teams after the first jump. ner.

Nordic combined | Includes three events, Cross country | Consists of 12 different each consisting of a ski jumping competicross country skiing events. Women com- tion and a cross-country skiing race. For

the normal hill Gundersen event, ski jumping takes place on the normal hill. For the team and the large hill Gundersen events, ski jumping takes place on the large hill.

The cross country portion of the Gundersen events has a 10-kilometer race and the team event has a 4x5-kilometer relay.

Snowboarding | Includes six events: men’s and women’s halfpipe, men’s and women’s parallel giant slalom, and men’s and women’s snowboard cross.

Freestyle skiing | Includes three events: aerial, moguls and ski cross.

Biathlon Sprint | Women race 7.5-kilometer and men race 10-kilommeter. Competitors u See EVENTS, page 7

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Wednesday, Feb. 12 Men’s basketball, 7 p.m., vs.

Drake at home

Thursday, Feb. 13

Swimming & diving, MVC Championships in Carbondale, Ill.

Friday, Feb. 14

Women’s track, 11 a.m., Iowa State Classic in Ames, Iowa Softball, 3 p.m., vs. UT-Arlington in Arlington, Texas Baseball, 3 p.m., vs. UCA in Conway, Ark. Women’s basketball, 7 p.m., vs.

Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa Softball, 7 p.m., vs. Central Michigan in Arlington, Texas Swimming & diving, MVC Championships in Carbondale, Ill.

Saturday, Feb. 15

Women’s track, 10 a.m., Iowa State Classic in Ames, Iowa Softball, 11 a.m., vs. South Dakota State in Arlington, Texas

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Baseball, 2 p.m., vs. UCA in Conway, Ark. Men’s basketball, 8 p.m., vs.

Northern Iowa at home Softball, TBA, vs. TBA in Arlington, Texas Swimming & diving, MVC Championships in Carbondale, Ill.

Sunday, Feb. 16

Baseball, 1 p.m., vs. UCA in Conway, Ark. Women’s basketball, 2:05 p.m., vs. Drake in Des Moines, Iowa Softball, TBA, vs. TBA in Arlington, Texas

Monday, Feb. 17

Women’s golf, TBA, Jim West Challenge in San Antonio, Texas

Briefs

Men’s swimming Bears nationally ranked

The Missouri State men’s swimming Bears as of Feb. 5, are ranked No. 24 in CollegeSwimming.com’s Top 25 rankings.

The rankings are based on a point system including NCAA time standards, predicted qualifying times and percentile rankings from the past four seasons, according to a university news release.

The Bears return to the pool March 6-8 for the MAC Championships in Buffalo, N.Y.

Athletes to wAtch GeT To knoW SoChI

By Mike Ursery The Standard @MikeUrsery

The 2014 Winter Olympics are in full swing, but not all of the attention has been focused on the athletes or the games early on.

A whirlwind of issues has centered around Sochi prior to the Opening Ceremonies, ranging from threats of terrorism all the way to the less-than-satisfactory living conditions endured by both guests and athletes.

Getting caught up in all of the media hubbub not related to the actual games has a tendency to make it difficult to keep up with the athletes representing the United States and which events they are competing in.

The Standard brings to you a guide, a Team USA who’s who, if you will, of which athletes to look for and which events you can find them in.

Shaun White The hair may be gone, but the excitement that White brings to the Winter Games is as big as ever. After winning gold medals in the last two Winter Olympics, he has become a prominent figure in pop culture while also bringing more attention to extreme sports such as snowboarding. White is searching for a third consecutive gold medal in the half-pipe this year.

Jamie Anderson Headlining the U.S. women’s snowboarding team is Anderson, a new face in the Olympics who has enjoyed success in the Winter X Games. Anderson has a unique pre-game ritual — hugging a tree. You may have seen this “tree hugger” take the u See ATHLETES, page 8

• Sochi (pronounced So-chi) is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia and is located along the Black Sea coast for 90 miles.

• Sochi was established in 1896 and began developing as a resort area in 1902. Its mineral springs, attractive coastal and mountain scenery, long beaches and warm climate have made Sochi a popular resort for Russians.

• Population: 411,000 • The basis of Sochi’s economy is service leisure, including numerous hotels, motels, spas and other tourist attractions.

• Sochi is the first city with a subtropical climate to host the Winter Olympic Games.

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stop twice and must hit five targets with five bullets each time.

For each target missed, athletes take a lap around the 150 m penalty loop. The top 60 finishers qualify for the pursuit.

Pursuit | Competitors start at intervals based on their finishing time in the sprint. Women race 10-kilometer and men race 12.5-kilometer. Competitors stop four times and must hit all five targets with five bullets. For each target missed, athletes take a lap around the 150-meter penalty loop.

Individual | Women race 15-kilometer and men race 20-kilometer. All competitors stop four times at the firing range and must hit all five targets with five bullets. For each target missed, one minute is added to their total time.

Relay | Four-person teams tackle four 7.5-kilometer legs for a total of 30-kilometer for men, and four 6-kilometer legs for a total of 24-kilometer for women.

Mass start | The most race-like event, with all 30 competitors starting at the same time. The starters are made up from all previous medal winners during the Olympic Games and the top athletes in the World Cup. Women race 12.5-kilometer and men race 15-kilometer.

Tobogganing Bobsleigh | Includes a brakeman and a pilot in the two-man event, while two crewmen/pushers are added for the four-man race. From a standing start, the crew pushes the sled in unison up to 50 meters.

Skeleton | Takes place on the same track, or “run,” as the bobsleigh. Skeleton starts with a running phase, after which the athlete dives onto the sled and descends the track. Athletes lie face down on their stomachs, facing downhill, with arms at their sides, steering the skeleton with movements of their body.

Luge | Men and women compete in singles and doubles events. Both singles competitions take two days with two runs staged on each day. The times are added up, and the fastest total time determines the winner. Double luge is a one-day competition in which pairs of athletes take two runs down a course.

Each run counts, and the fastest total time determines the winner.

Curling Current events | Men and women currently compete in 10team events. The sport is played on temperature-controlled sheets of ice, and the two teams take turns to deliver a 44pound stone toward a series of concentric circles. The object is to get the stone as close to the center of the circles as possible to score more points than the opponent, using sweeping instruments to affect both the accuracy and speed of each stone.

Ice skating Figure skating singles | Men and women compete in the singles, pairs and ice dance events. The singles event consists of two sections: the short program and free skating. The short program combines eight elements, such as jump combinations and spins performed to music of the skater’s choice.

Figure skating pairs and ice dance | The pairs event consists of a short program and free skating. The couple works as one unit, demonstrating overhead lifts, throw-jumps with the man launching his partner, and many other technical manoeuvres.

This contrasts with ice dance, which is composed of a compulsory dance, original dance and free dance.

Short track events | Men and women compete in 500-meter, 1,000-meter, and 1,500-meter. There is a 5,000-meter relay for men and a 3,000-meter relay for women.

Speed skating | Men and women compete in 500-meter, 1,000-meter and 5,000-meter and a team pursuit. There is also a 10,000-meter for men and a 5,000-meter for women.

Hockey Competition procedure | A regular game consists of three 20minute periods, with a 15-minute intermission after the first and second periods. If a tie occurs in a medal-round game, a fiveminute sudden-victory overtime is played. In the gold-medal game, a 20-minute sudden-victory period is played subsequent to another 15-minute intermission.

All sports information was found at www.olympic.org.

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Chasing the win Ice Bears earn three points in weekend series

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Junior defender Eric Aldag chases the puck in the Ice Bears’ game against Robert Morris University on Saturday, Feb. 8, at Mediacom Ice Park.

shot. The Ice Bears would pad the lead to 2-0 early in the second period following a goal from freshman forward Alex Nanna.

The Missouri State University Robert Morris would storm back Ice Bears concluded the 2013-2014 before the end of the second period, regular season this weekend by netting back-to-back goals to leave earning three points from the No. 7 the game tied at two after the first 40 ranked Robert Morris University- minutes, setting up for an intense Chicago Golden Eagles, a feat that third period. should more than likely earn the Ice The Ice Bears would send MediBears a guaranteed spot in the acom Ice Park into a frenzy after ACHA Central Regional Tourna- taking a 3-2 run six minutes into the ment. final period on a power-play goal The Ice from junior Bears started forward Jack the weekend We were looking to get Ryan. Less strong by than two the puck to Jack on earning a minutes after hard fought the power play ... On Jack Ryan’s 4-3 victory goal, Robert that last goal, I was over the Morris quietGolden ed the crowd able to do just that.

Eagles in by evening what may the game have been back up 3-3.

Eric Aldag The game the game of the year on Junior defender would remain Friday night. deadlocked Missouri for another State got on the board first follow- three minutes until junior defender ing a power play goal from junior Eric Aldag would set up Jack Ryan forward Matt Townsend, who stuck perfectly on another Missouri State the puck in the net following junior power play to give Missouri State a defender Nick Sadorf’s deflected 4-3 lead.

By Chase Probert The Standard @Chase_A_Probert

“

“We were looking to get the puck to Jack on the power play and creating some room for him,” Aldag said following the game. “On that last goal, I was able to do just that.”

“Aldag held it at the point and drew the defenders to him and it set me,” Jack Ryan said on the goahead goal. “We worked well on the power play with Blake (Ryan) and (Ryan) Hogland in that final period.”

Robert Morris would pull their goalie with two minutes left in attempt to put more pressure on the Ice Bears and sophomore goalie Justin Davis, but Missouri State would stand tall and hold on for the 4-3 victory.

“They put 60 minutes together,” assistant coach Ryan Armstrong said in a post-game interview. “PJ Adams threw his body around to stop a lot of shots in those final minutes, and Davis was on fire in front of the net. We had everybody chipping in tonight.”

Saturday’s game would not only serve as the final game of the regular season, but the final home game for Missouri State seniors Derek Bartsch, Miguel Franco, Jake Guthrie, Doran Jaenke, Justin Kim,

Lady Bears’ leading scorer tears her ACL

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Redshirt sophomore guard Kenzie Williams will be out for the season

By John Robinson The Standard @SaxmanJohn

The Lady Bears (12-10, 7-4MVC) accomplished what they set out to do: winning all four of their last four home games. Unfortunately, they lost redshirt sophomore guard Kenzie Williams to a season-ending ACL tear.

“It’ll take some getting used to, not having Kenzie on the floor. She did a lot of positive things for us. As a team, we’ll have to do a little bit better in every category to pick up the slack,” said head coach Kellie Harper.

Williams was the Lady Bears’ leading scorer at 14.8 points per game and had a team-high total of 48 assists.

“We have to play for (Williams), because she would do anything to be out there with us,” said fellow sophomore guard Tyonna Snow.

The Lady Bears have now lost two veteran guards in Williams and senior Karly Buer, who went down with an ACL tear earlier in the year.

“Karly and Kenzie sitting on the bench, that’s a lot of experience I’d like to be able to dress out, but that’s just part of the game. Fortunately, we’ve had plenty of opportunity for girls to get minutes,” said Harper That experience showed in what ended up being the

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Redshirt sophomore guard Kenzie Williams plays in Missouri State’s game against Drake University on Jan. 18.

closest game of the home stretch, as the Lady Bears got a close 78-72 win over the Bradley Braves (5-17, 2-9 MVC) Sophomore guard Mikala McGhee had a solid game, with nine points, six rebounds and two assists. She knew she would have a much larger role after Williams went down.

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The Missouri State softball team prepares for one of its series against Evansville in the 2013 season. The Bears opened their 2014 season with a series loss to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.

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ing. Obviously we wish Kenzie was still out here with us, but I’ll just continue to have to bring the energy and help my team get wins,” Said McGhee.

Senior guard Hannah Wilkerson had a season-high seven assists to go along with eight points and five rebounds. The assists were a point of emphasis for Wilkerson, especially after Williams went down. “(Wilkerson) has been talking about trying to get her assists up going into this game,” said Harper. “And

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After finishing last season on the wrong end of a majority of its games, the softball team would have liked to get off to a better start than they did this weekend.

Over the weekend, the softball Bears traveled to Atlanta to take on the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. The teams played a doubleheader on Saturday and one more on Sunday afternoon.

when the person leading the team in assists goes down, it’s important to have someone step up.”

Most of those assists went to the red hot shooting of senior forward Bry Snow, who had a career-record 29 total points of offense on the day, with four blocked shots and a team-high eight rebounds on the day. Tyonna Snow also had fantastic offensive numbers, putting up 17 points of her own. Together, the Snow sisters set a new “sister single-game scoring record” for the Lady Bears, with 46 points, surpassing the old record of 41 set by Melody and Julie Howard in 1994.

“I just came in looking to get a win,” said Bry Snow.

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“Shots were just falling, and hey, we’ll take it.”

The game plan from here is still a bit uncertain, as the Lady Bears now have a twogame road stretch in front of them, but Harper is confident in her team’s abilities. “We’re gonna have to be creative offensively and defensively, there’s gonna be some things we can do,” Harper said.

With the win on Sunday, the Lady Bears climb into a tie for third place in the conference, and they will look to continue their five-game winning streak as they take on the Univeristy of Northern Iowa (11-11, 7-4MVC) on Friday at 7 p.m., where a win will give the Lady Bears possession of third place.

Neither team got the jump on the other in Game 1. The slow start was ended when Missouri State loaded the bases in the top of the sixth inning.

Yet they couldn’t bring anyone home.

With the Bears’ morale lowered, the Yellow Jackets took advantage and brought their big bats to knock across three runs, taking the lead and eventual win, 3-0.

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gold in the women’s slopestyle in Sochi on Sunday.

Gracie Gold The U.S. women’s figure skating team failed to bring home a medal at Vancouver in 2010, but Gold, who lived part of her life in Springfield, might change that this time around. The reigning national champion finished sixth at the World Championships in 2013, proving she can not only compete with, but place ahead of the world’s best.

Gold skated a solid routine in Sochi to earn the U.S. a spot

and Blake Ryan. All of the seniors were honored in a pre-game ceremony in front of the sold-out crowd at Mediacom Ice Park.

The Ice Bears rode the wave of momentum from Friday’s victory by running out to an early 3-0 lead in the first period.

Townsend got the Ice Bears on the board once again, this time with the assist coming from freshman forward Ryan Hogland, to get Missouri State a 1-0 lead. Jack Ryan would go back to work to score back-to-back goals (one on a power play, the other short-handed) to give the Ice Bears the 3-0 after the first 20 minutes.

The Ice Bears would add to their lead early in the second as senior forward Blake Ryan was able to find the back of the net in his final game to put the Ice Bears up 4-0. Following the Blake Ryan goal, however, the momentum would slowly turn in Robert Morris’s favor as the Ice Bears began to rack up penalties.

The Golden Eagles would get power-play goals from Kevin Piskie and Geno Melone before the end of the second to make it a 4-2 game going

into the final period.

Another Robert Morris power-play goal would cut the Missouri State lead to 4-3 with 13 minutes left in the final period. The Golden Eagles would complete the comeback by netting a goal with less than four minutes to go in regulation to tie the game 4-4.

A scoreless overtime would cause the game to end in a 4-4 tie, with the Ice Bears taking three out of four points on the weekend, something the Missouri State coaching staff was happy with.

“Going into the weekend, I think a split would have been okay. But we needed more than a split, and we got it. This should secure a spot for us,” head coach Bob Bucher said after Saturday’s game.

“Who we face from here on out is not important to us. We know we can skate with the best of them.”

Armstrong agreed.

“Our case is very strong for regionals.

We’re a little bit more at ease about where we are,” he said.

The Ice Bears finish the regular season with a record of 18-7-1-4. The Ice Bears will be in Webster Groves this upcoming weekend for the MACHA Championship Tournament, where they will first take on the St. Louis Billikens Friday, Feb. 14 at 5 p.m.

on the podium with a bronze NBA compete for gold in basmedal. ketball at the Summer Olympics, the best of the NHL Emily Scott are featured in the Winter One of Springfield’s own Games. However, a gold will compete in Sochi for the medal for Team USA will be women’s short track relay no easy task, as several counteam. The five-time inline tries competing in Sochi will skating world champion made have NHL stars on their the switch to ice skating in teams.

2008 and finished second at Team USA general manthe 2012 Short Track Speed ager David Polle has assemSkating World Cup. Scott will bled an exciting team that is be the sole American going on built to compete with the to the women’s short track star-loaded rosters of teams 500-meter quaterfinals on such as Team Canada and Thursday. She looks to bring Team Sweden. David Backhome the gold in Sochi, as es, Ryan Suter, Zach Parise long as she puts her left skate and the like will attempt to on first (it’s her superstition). bring the United States its first hockey gold medal Men’s hockey since the 1980 Miracle on Just like the best of the Ice.

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Springfield’s opinion of marijuana: not so high?

By Rose Marthis The Standard

The drive to legalize marijuana in Missouri is stronger than ever with recent pushes by lawmakers and activist groups to get a law in place, but history shows the city of Springfield might be more hesitant to show support.

In the fall of 2012, city council adopted an ordinance decriminalizing marijuana after push from citizens creating a petition for it. Councilwoman Cindy Rushefsky said the adoption was to avoid putting it to a public vote, and it was quickly repealed a week later.

“The bill that they would have passed would have required police to ignore state law, and most of us on council didn’t like that at all,” Rushefsky said recently, remembering the past feelings of citizens regarding the topic.

Decriminalizing marijuana means lowering the penalties to a civil law level, making possession a civil offense (like a parking ticket) instead of a misdemeanor, while legalizing it means possession of small amount is not punishable.

Greene County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Patterson shared Rushefsky’s views in 2012 and wrote a letter to city council members urging the repeal of the ordinance and sharing information he found that supported keeping marijuana illegal and criminalized.

In his letter, dated Sept. 14, 2012, he presents counter-arguments to the statements commonly used in support of legalizing marijuana, such as it can be used for

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and Missouri State was finally able to drive across some runs—and then some. The third inning began a scoring party for the Bears; not only were the bats coming around, but Georgia Tech got some of the credit as they

medicinal purposes, and it is not any more harmful to society than tobacco or alcohol.

An excerpt from the letter reads as follows: “According to the National Institute of Health, studies show that someone who smokes five joints per week may be taking in as many cancer-causing chemicals as someone who smokes a full pack of cigarettes every day … Short-term effects of smoking marijuana include: memory loss, distorted perception, trouble with thinking and problem solving, loss of motor skills, decrease in muscle strength, increased heart rate and anxiety. Smoking marijuana impairs the judgment of the smoker and increases the risk of accidents. Drivers using marijuana caused as many car accidents as were caused by drivers using alcohol.”

Mo. Rep. Chris Kelly said he has heard similar arguments from people in the drug and alcohol rehab industry, and that they are concerned that legalizing marijuana would mean more use and more people would hurt themselves, similar to tobacco and alcohol.

Kelly proposed a new house bill last week that would make it legal for individuals 21 and older to possess and transport up to a pound of usable marijuana and eight plants, as well as regulate the selling of it with licenses and put a 25 percent tax on it.

Kelly said that there are a lot of uses of marijuana for medical use and there is no evidence that it’s any more harmful than other substances that are legal today. The convictions for marijuana possession have ruined thousands of people’s lives by caus-

added two errors in the inning.

The Bears were up 4-0, but the Yellow Jackets followed with some impressive offense to come within one by the bottom of the third inning, 4-3.

In the fifth inning, Missouri State added another run — leaving three on base — but the top of the sixth was when the Bears put the final nail in the coffin.

ing some to lose loans for school and making it difficult to get a job, he said.

“We waste a lot of government money on what we call the ‘war on drugs’ that hasn’t stopped anybody,” he said. “When those things are true, the possibility is that there is too much government.

“It’s important for society to distinguish between behavior we don’t like and one that should be illegal,” Kelly said. “Lots of things are impolite, but not illegal.”

Kelly said the tax revenue would go towards the general public fund, supporting areas such as education, mental health care,and public universities like Missouri State.

The bill is in the early stages of the reviewing process that will go throughout the entire session, Kelly said, and purposely includes broad language so there is room to change a lot of details with input from the public. He said he would be surprised if it was finalized in less than a year.

If the bill were to become a state law, Springfield city government would still have opportunities to implement its own laws dealing with the legalization of marijuana. Kelly said that some people advocate for the right for municipalities to enact stricter or less strict ordinances, and that wouldn’t be prevented in the bill.

“I’m a big believer in local law, and I would be inclined to let local people do what they want [with the bill],” he said.

According to Rushefsky, stricter policies within the city is a likely possibility, because Springfield is a “very conservative town, and the permanent population here is not supportive of [legalizing marijuana].”

Redshirted sophomore shortstop Erin Duewel stepped up to the plate with one out against the team and blasted a solo home run — the first of her career. The lead was pushed to 63 and ended up being the final for Game 2.

The next day, Missouri State came at Georgia Tech right away, scoring one run in the first, but that would be it for the rest of the day. The

Some students on campus are supportive of the legalization of marijuana in Missouri but are aware that the conservative landscape of Springfield and the state might delay the passing of the bill for quite some time.

Students for a Sensible Drug Policy is a newly formed organization on campus that Zach Altland, a junior psychology major started. SSDP is an international organization with local chapters all over.

Michael Datema is a junior finance and general business major who supports SSDP. He became supportive of legalizing cannabis after researching the effects for himself and discovering the contradictions to what he was told growing up. He also looks at it from an economic standpoint.

“I’ve seen projected tax revenue figures for Colorado ranging from $70 to $100 million for the 2014 fiscal year. Putting aside the effects of cannabis use, one can’t deny the economic advantages that legalization and taxation of cannabis would have on the state of Missouri,” he said.

“I think that an extra $70+ million in tax revenue is something that everybody in the state would and should be in favor of.”

From a societal view, Datema said the biggest concern he has heard from individuals against marijuana legalization is that it would make the drug more easily available to minors.

“Just like alcohol, it will be impossible to keep cannabis out of the hands of minors who diligently seek it out,” he said. “However, I honestly believe that legalization would in no way make it easier for minors to acquire cannabis or cannabis products.”

Bears held that lead as long as they could, but the Yellow Jackets began connecting on their swings in the fourth and finished strong, scoring seven runs while holding the Bears to their one.

Senior second baseman Ashley Brentz led the way for the Bears this weekend at the plate, especially in Game 3, going 2-4.

Next for Missouri State is another

road trip that will extend for the next month. The Bears don’t play at home until March 12. Until then, they travel to Arlington, Texas for the UTArlington Maverick Invitational, to Memphis, Tenn. for the Blues City Classic, to Cape Girardeau, Mo. for the Missouri Coaches vs. Cancer Tournament, and finally to Stillwater, Okla. for the Oklahoma State Mizuno Classic.