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Bears beat buzzer Jarred Dixon banks halfcourt shot to defeat Illinois State

With 7.8 seconds left, Illinois State leads by two.

Illinois State has the ball on the baseline.

Matt Chastain passes it in.

Keandre Cook tips the pass before Milik Yarbrough can touch it.

It’s a scramble. Six players — both Missouri State and Illinois State — dive for the bouncing ball.

It skips out to Jarred Dixon.

He launches it from the nose of the Bear at halfcourt.

Buzzer. Beater. Period.

JQH Arena’s season-record crowd of 6,507 erupts.

Bears win.

The 66-65 win was astonishing. The Bears are now tied for second in the MVC. See what’s next for the Bears on Page 6.

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The Bears, assistant coach Jase Herl, left, head coach Dana Ford, center, and fans celebrate the win.

House, Senate bills proposed to change Title IX

Three Greene County highways ranked in state’s most deadly list

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EMILY COLE News Editor @EMCole19

Both the Missouri Senate and House of Representatives are considering proposals to the current Title IX standards. These changes are not normal, as Title IX is usually maintained by the federal government, not the state. Both bills mostly cover the newly proposed ability of students to appeal Title IX cases to a party outside of the university they attend.

Sen. Gary Romine introduced and read Missouri Senate Bill No. 259 on Jan. 16. Rep. Dean Dohrman introduced Missouri House Bill No. 573 on Jan. 15, then read it the following day.

The bills will add new sections to Missouri’s Title IX, with both penalty provisions for parties and an emergency clause.

Both bills deal with extremely similar issues, starting with giving students the ability to appeal to a third party outside of their university for a trial — the State of Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission. This commission has been determined to be a “neutral and independent hearing officer for the state,” according to the State of Missouri’s judicial branch.

This third party will allow trials to be performed without bias. This might sound like an advantage, but it will force victims to publicly appear in Jefferson City for a trial.

The introduction of a third party also means the school will be required to pay for hearings for the student if they want investigation or trial sped up, both bills state. This could hurt

On Sept. 20, Wendt Law Firm published a study summarizing research from two years of crash data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System. With the results, they mapped out the deadliest segments of highway in Missouri and Kansas.

Three are located in Greene County: U.S. Highway 60, State Highway 13 and U.S. Highway 160.

During 2015 and 2016, U.S. Highway 60, also called James River Freeway, saw four

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fatal crashes in the 4.35-mile stretch between about South Farm Road 135 and South Fremont Avenue.

The 3.14-mile section of State Highway 13 between West Mt. Vernon Street and West Battlefield Road was the site of three fatalities during the two years.

Highway 160 saw three fatal crashes in the 2.85-mile stretch between West Chestnut Expressway and West Bennett Street.

The report ranks 40 sections of highway by crash rate — the rate of fatal crashes per mile. The three sections in Greene County rank 26th, 22nd and 20th, respectively.

In total, the study examined 40 segments of both state and federal highways in Kansas

and Missouri totaling 260 miles. There were 162 fatal crashes and 182 fatalities. Of the 40, 34 are in Missouri.

Nearby Taney County, home of the city of Branson, made the list at number five, for a 1.21-mile section of State Highway 265 near Table Rock Lake that was the site of three fatalities.

St. Louis County and St. Louis had the most crashes, at 46 fatalities in eight highway segments. Interstate 70 in St. Louis ranked number nine for nine fatalities within 2.1 miles.

The deadliest single area of highway was U.S. Highway 24 located in Independence, u See HIGHWAY, page 9

MSU’s ongoing efforts to be green KATHRYN DOLAN Staff Reporter @kathryndolan98 The public affairs theme last year was sustainability, and this year Missouri State continues to promote and implement sustainable practices in many different ways on campus.

Students and staff can play a big role in making MSU greener by getting involved in campus sustainability projects or by making small personal changes throughout their day.

Green Student Alliance, formerly known as Eco Reps, became a student organization recognized by the university in April 2018.

“We want to change habits here at Missouri State to be more sustainable.”

Megan Brannen, a graduate student studying plant science, is the president of GSA, and said the organization's primary goal is to encourage and educate students and staff about sustainability.

“We want to change habits here at Missouri State to be more sustainable; we’d like to see (Missouri State) be a more sustainable campus,” Brannen said.

Green Student Alliance proposes and initiates various on-campus projects dealing with sustainability. Last spring a project called Fill it Forward was approved and funded by the Student Government Association.

Fill it Forward is an app-based project that encourages people to use their reusable water bottles around campus.

Students receive a free QR code sticker that can be placed on their reusable water bottle and scanned through the app each time the bottle is filled to earn one point toward prizes.

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Opera students ‘rise to the occasion’ MSU Opera Theatre places in all divisions at national competition REESE RADMACHER Staff Reporter @Reese_Radmacher The National Opera Association held this year’s National Opera Scenes Competition from Jan. 2-5 in Salt Lake City, Utah, where the Missouri State Opera Theatre made its mark by being the only school in the nation to place in all three divisions.

Opera students Kayli Owen and Isaac Williams won first place in the Musical Theatre category for their “Simple Folks” duet from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Camelot.”

Undergraduate students Jake Luellen and Aiyana Williams received first place in the Opera I category for their duet from Benjamin Britten’s “The Turn of the Screw.”

Graduate students Tyler Hast, Carly Wingfield and Alana Yeomans took second place in the Opera II category for their trio from Christoph Gluck’s “Orfeo.”

Students had around three weeks to learn and memorize their scenes before staging rehearsals, which took place throughout finals week at MSU. Isaac Williams, a sophomore vocal music education major, only had a week and one rehearsal to learn the scene after his teacher asked him to fill in for senior Shayne Piles, who was

originally supposed to play the role before having to step down due to surgery.

Isaac Williams said initially he was nervous after receiving the phone call, but knew he would not have been asked to fill in if Ann Marie Daehn, director of opera and associate professor of voice, lacked faith in his ability.

“I did not give them easy things because I just had a hunch they would rise to the occasion,” Daehn said. “They’re all good students that have proven themselves in the past to be intelligent, willing and good-spirited.”

MSU joined the NOA in 2013 because Daehn wanted to give students the opportunity to perform in productions as opposed to just taking a class.

“To be able to think creatively, take a risk and work with others to come up with something beautiful and special — that will serve them for the rest of their lives,” Daehn said.

Daehn said the various tools NOA provides inspired her when deciding to join, such as sessions that cover topics like lighting, stage projections, new operas currently in the works and ways to help actors find themselves and get immersed in the profession.

Owen, senior vocal music education major, said her passion for opera and voice grows stronger every year through her schooling.

“Opera is one of the coolest art forms,”

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From left, Opera Theatre students Tyler Hast, Carly Wingfield and Alana Yeomans perform their trio from Christoph Gluck’s “Orfeo.”

Owen said. “It involves all of the art forms, whether that be voice, dancing, acting and even set design.”

For Luellen, a junior vocal performance major, opera serves to tell a story and communicate a message.

“It just so happens that the music and dramatism of opera speaks to me significantly,” Luellen said. “The grandeur and extreme expression that comes out of individuals’ raw

emotions is mesmerizing and invigorating at the same time.”

On April 12 and 14, MSU Opera Theatre will be performing two fully staged one-act performances, both in their original Italian language, on campus at Ellis Hall in the C. Minor Recital Hall.

The acts include “II Signor Bruschino”

by Gioachino Rossini and “Imeneo” by George Frideric.

MSU prepares to host regional dance conference KAYLA CURRY Staff Reporter @kaylalcurry Missouri State will host the annual American College Dance Association Central Region Conference from March 13 to March 16. The ACDA hosts the spring conference every year in one of the 13 regions within Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Florida, Louisiana and Indiana.

As a member institution, Missouri State’s Theatre and Dance Department offered to host this year. Senior BFA dance major Nadia Stine will be attending the conference for her fourth year in a row, and she said she has dreamed of Missouri State getting to host since she was a freshman.

“Hosting ACDA means showing the region

what we offer as a school and community, so I am excited to serve and provide a hospitable and welcoming environment,” Stine said.

“I love Missouri State so much, it feels appropriate that I get to show my school off in my last semester here at MSU.” Dance program and conference coordinator Ruth Barnes said along with hosting and planning the conference, the Theater and Dance Department ensured Coger Theatre would have the equipment needed for the events taking place. Coger Theatre lacked flooring appropriate for dance, so it received a portable sprung floor manufactured by Harlequin Floors.

It is specially designed to absorb shock, making it softer and safer for dancers.

“We are thrilled that the portable sprung floor has arrived in time for the conference,”

Barnes said. “It will be used for other department productions in the future, if necessary.”

The conference is funded almost entirely by registration fees paid by participants, along with support from Dean of the College of Arts and Letters Shawn Wahl and Theatre and Dance Department Head Joe Price.

Barnes said that these funds will pay for adjudicators' and guest artists' fees, transportation, lodging and food costs, rental for additional studio spaces for classes as well as the PSU Theatre and Ballrooms, and more.

Any profit leftover will be kept in a department account to be used for bringing other short-term guests to campus.

Some conferences revolve around a theme.

Barnes and colleagues helping run the conference chose the theme for this year as “Looking Back, Moving Forward” to honor

the 100th anniversary of two dance luminaries born in 1919: Merce Cunningham and Pearl Primus.

Urban Bush Women, who made a work based on Primus' life called “Walking With Pearl,” will lead a workshop focused on Primus’ work. Cunningham Dance Company alum Paige Cunningham Caldarella will lead a workshop focused on Cunningham’s work.

“I taught at Merce Cunningham's studio in New York City for many years, and therefore have a close connection to him and his work,” Barnes said. “I contacted the Merce Cunningham Trust, who were in the process of organizing worldwide events.

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We have become desensitized to mass gun violence, and that is a problem JORDAN PHILLIPS Columnist @jrdnphillips On Jan. 29, I was fortunate enough to attend Missouri State University’s annual Tunnel event with a small group of people from my residence hall. The Tunnel has been around for nine years according to the event’s Facebook page, and the topics have varied from toxic friendships to gender to religion. With this year’s topics including ones about the opioid crisis and mass shootings, I prepared myself to be taken out of my comfort zone.

What I was not ready for was the sheer amount of anger and fear that would overwhelm me when our group was led to the presentation about mass shootings.

I was in tears by the end of it and a few people in my group were asking me if I was OK. Naturally, I told them that I was fine and I calmed down soon enough.

When I got home, I really got to thinking about why I was so affected.

No matter where you come from in the United States, gun violence affects us all, whether we like to think about it or not. According to a Washington Post

article updated on Jan. 24, the people killed in mass shootings from 1966 until the most recent mass shooting on Jan. 23 were from every background imaginable and varied by socioeconomic standing, religion, race and age. In the last few years alone, we have seen the worst mass shootings that have happened in U.S. history.

There was the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando in June 2016 where 49 people died. Then, there was the Las Vegas concert shooting that claimed the lives of 58 people. The one that stands out in most people’s recent memory is the Parkland, Florida high school shooting last February — Valentine’s Day will be the one-year anniversary.

On the day of the Thousand Oaks shooting in California last November, USA Today noted that it was “the 307th mass shooting…on the 311th day of the year.” According to that same Washington Post article mentioned earlier, a mass shooting is a shooting “in which four or more people were killed by a lone shooter.” That is about one mass shooting per day. However, when we see these on the news constantly, we do not think to count them. We think, “Oh,

just another day in America.”

The fact that we have become so desensitized to this kind of mass violence that has killed massive groups of people and traumatized so many others is alarming. It has become so common that we just accept it as a daily part of our lives.

But this is not normal in any way. We should not have to live our lives in fear of when the next mass shooting will happen. We should not have to be teaching children as young as five years old how to use their chairs as weapons and their books as shields.

I have a younger sister who is just about to graduate from high school. After I got back from the Tunnel event, I texted her to tell her that I loved her because seeing all of the news footage from those shootings that they played in that room made me think that something like that would happen to her.

I remember Parkland. I remember Columbine. I remember Sandy Hook.

Everybody should, and you should too. Outrage can be exhausting, but this is not something we should just accept as part of our daily lives.

Our lives are on the line. Being passive helps no one.

On a trip to Chicago this summer, my 14-year-old son asked me if he needed to go to college. In preparation for this trip, I was anticipating conversations about sports, music, the first time I had sex or if I had ever smoked pot.

All a parent wants for a child is happiness — a happiness that creates some sort of income for them to survive. Although staying in the basement of my house playing Fortnite would make my son happy, I would hope that’s not his goal. His question of whether people should go to college caught me off guard. I had never finished college as a young man, but I did attend a few classes. I dropped out to work in fashion retail, and I did quite well.

It was only recently that I returned to college to finish a bachelor’s degree. In the time I worked, I made nearly a six-figure income as a regional manager for companies like J.Crew and Banana Republic, all without a college degree. So, maybe I wasn’t a good person to ask about the value of a college education.

In a study by the Economic Policy Institute in 2015, college graduates earned on average of 56 percent more than high school graduates. Pretty clear evidence to pursue a college degree, right? Well, that depends. This is an average. There are exceptions to every rule. There are some high school grads that make more than people with college degrees. Does this answer the question of pursuing higher education? Hardly.

It comes down to what you want to do with your life.

What are you interested in and what’s your passion? Is it working on cars, writing books or being a veterinarian?

If you want to start a business, do you have to have a college degree? No. You simply fill out the necessary forms and open up shop. Would it help to know about marketing, HR, or economics? Probably. Can you get that information in college? Yes, but it isn’t the only place you can get the information. If you want to become a lawyer, do you need to go to college? Yes. If you want to be a rockstar, do you need a college degree? No. Although, Rivers Cuomo, of the band Weezer has a degree from Harvard.

Centuries ago in this country, there weren’t a lot of different jobs. There was the saloon owner, blacksmith, shopkeeper, sheriff, farmer, doctor, teacher, lawyer, brothel owner (maybe, the saloon owner wore different hats), dentist, undertaker, and probably a few others. Fast forward, and the division of labor in this country has multiplied exponentially. Now, we need people to read x-rays, work on a water softener, fix a plane, counsel the afflicted, spin records and do thousands of other jobs.

In 2014, The Georgetown Center on Jobs and the Workforce reported that nearly 65 percent of jobs through the year 2020 would require some type of education above the high school level. So, those of you who are wondering why you’re here in college, you can fill 35 percent of the jobs if you leave now. Congrats! Why waste your money, or your parents money, or your benevolent Aunt Phyllis’ money, or taxpayers money, or go into tens of thousands of dollars in debt if you don’t need a college degree to pursue your interests?

So, back to my son. I just want him to find something he loves to do, and see if there is a viable way to make a living doing it. If he needs higher education, then he should go to college. If not, then he shouldn’t. Is there a social aspect of college, and courses that can make him a more enlightened individual? I suppose, but he can also learn a lot about the world by simply being engaged.

This is how I wrapped up our conversation: “Cooper,” I said, “It all depends on what you want to do. If you want to be in sports medicine, then you need to go to college, but if you want to be behind the fried chicken counter at Casey’s at 10 p.m. on a Friday night when I walk in and ask me if I want wings or legs, then you probably don’t need to waste money on college.”

By the way, I’ll take wings. Spicy!

Round two: Trump to meet Kim for second time NATHAN BUNCH Columnist @NathanrBunch As talk begins to swirl about the 2020 general elections, President Donald Trump has scheduled a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. This announcement came around the time that Trump gave his delayed State of the Union.

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Since the first summit, North Korea has suspended its tests of both nuclear devices and ICBMs, as a sort of olive branch to the United States to show that they are genuine in their efforts. Trump has been vocal about how this is a greater progression in his first two years than has happened in decades of policy before him, pointing out that no other American leader has ever met with the head of

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But critics have questioned the actual impact of these meetings, other than a good photo op. With reports from CNN, including satellite pictures of known development sites of weapons of mass destruction that are said to prove North Korea is continuing the production of nuclear weapons.

This shows the lack of transparency from both sides, it has been easy to see where doubts could take hold.

But members of both sides have assured that everything is being upheld in good faith, with this second meeting being a prime example of the strengthening relationship between the two nations.

The location of this second meet-

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The Vietnam conflict, which overshadowed the Korean conflict that happened a few years before, was one of the bloodiest and least productive wars in American history.

With the United States putting aside its past resentments to the communist government and repairing the relationship, it is showing that the U.S. is willing to do the same again for the North Korean communist government, and that with small amounts of capitalist influence — like has been seen in Vietnam with the communist government allowing global trade with capitalist allies — their economy can come out of an

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Stephanie Waddell balances her work life at Starbucks along with a full-time student workload and a family.

ZOE BROWN Staff Reporter @zoe_zoebrown

efore Stephanie Waddell even sits down at the high-top table, her smile widens as she delivers a heartfelt compliment. Many students that frequent the Plaster Student Union Starbucks may have had a similar experience.

For Waddell, making coffee at Starbucks is just a front for her true purpose in life.

“My job there is to bring love to people, to make them have a good day, and that kind of energy just bounces off,” she says, still in her Starbucks apron, nametag and all.

She says she loves to engage with students and faculty of MSU while providing them with one of the college necessities: coffee.

“You give it out, and it comes back,” Waddell says. “And it comes back a bunch, so it’s just part of what makes my day, forming these little connections with people and being happy to see them. And caffeine doesn’t hurt.”

Nikki Clark, a junior electronic arts major and Waddell’s fellow Starbucks coworker, regards Waddell as her second mom.

“I admire how much she’s able to care about complete strangers just in a small interaction,” Clark says. “She has no issue being kind to everyone despite all of the things she has going on. You can never tell when she’s having a bad day.”

Waddell’s positive energy translates across the counter to customers.

Natalee Pedroza is a sophomore anthro-

pology major and semi-frequent Starbucks customer. She knows Waddell simply because of her presence.

“You could just be having a really bad day, and you go and get your coffee, and she’s probably the nicest, sweetest person,” Pedroza says.

What most everyday customers don’t know is that Waddell is a single mom. She has four kids: Ruby, 11, Solomon, 20, Natalie, 24 and Scarlett, 26. She is also a full-time student and works 30 hours a week. She calls Missouri State University her home and has worked at Starbucks in the PSU for three years.

The first time Waddell went to college was in 1987 at MSU. She lived in Hammons House when they were still trying to finish painting the walls.

While she was in college, Waddell says “life happened.” She moved around. She had two children. She got divorced and later had two more children. The father of her first two children lived in Willard, Missouri, while she lived in Sedalia, Missouri, two hours away.

She decided she couldn’t take being away from her children, so she moved back to Springfield. On the first day she came and applied for her current job, she saw the Boomer statue outside of the PSU and decided she had to finish her bachelor’s degree.

“It’s where I started, and I wanted to finish,” Waddell says. She starts to fight back tears.

“You can’t ever give up — you’re never too old. If you want to change something about your life, you have to go out and try to do that.

We are in control of that, no matter what outside circumstances try to stop things.”

Waddell keeps a positive outlook on life but has had to overcome obstacles as a mother, student and worker.

Her third child, Solomon, was diagnosed with leukemia when he was 3 years old. He was on chemotherapy for five years. Today, he is cancer free, and he started college in the fall of 2018.

“I think that’s why I’m positive. I believe in miracles, and I believe good things can happen.”

“I think that’s why I’m positive,” Waddell says. “I believe in miracles, and I believe good things can happen. I think you just have to work hard for the things you want.”

Coming back to school, Waddell says she was nervous about being the oldest student in her classes and at her job.

“But it feels way better than I thought it would,” she says. “I was very scared. But I just went with it, and I’m just me, and it

turned out great.”

However, she says it is difficult to be a single mom in the workforce.

“When you’re a student, and especially a single mom with no support, they don’t want to promote you because my child takes first place,” she says. “(Being a) mother is number one.”

Despite her challenges, Waddell will graduate in May. She plans to start her master’s degree after completing her undergraduate degree in general studies.

Waddell intends to get her master’s in social work and work in the nonprofit sector, but her greatest passions are family and learning.

“I’d go to school forever if I wasn’t going to have mountains of debt,” she says. “Once you stop learning, you stop growing, and if you can’t grow or change, you become stagnant.”

Waddell says she tries to make MSU a better place every day by being inclusive and loving. She has a reputation for remembering names, orders and giving out compliments with no inhibitions.

“I try to pronounce the names of kids that are from out of the country,” she says. “I want to do it right. It’s just the little things, like remembering someone’s drink or their name or smiling or asking if they’re having a good day just making them feel special.”

Waddell says that if you think something kind about someone, you should tell them.

“I just find beauty in all kinds of things and mostly in people,” she says.

Waddell’s Starbucks recommendation?

“A three shot venti latte made with breve and five raw sugars.”

Get personal about your training Experts say new

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CONNOR WILSON Staff Reporter @Connor4Wilson Inside the Foster Recreation Center is the sounds of basketball; the thud of the ball and shifting feet reverberating through the floor. In one studio room several trainers are gathered using exercise balls as chairs.

The mood is light. Joe Arledge, a second-year graduate student and graduate assistant of fitness and wellness, has his hands crossed in his lap, leaning back slightly before talking about personal training.

“It’s all about progression,” Arledge said. “We really stress that everyone’s fitness journey is different and that half the battle is just coming in to the facility.”

Personal training is a paid program offered at rec center. It involves a number of sessions chosen by the client which aim to help with whatever the client needs, offering more personalized workouts oneon-one with a trainer.

Arledge said that the most important part of personal training is catering to the individual. Whether clients are aiming to lose weight or build muscle, the program — and the trainer — helps set goals anywhere from three months to a year in advance. While group fitness is another option offered, Arledge said that they aren’t as personalized.

“Our clients come in and they have certain needs they want to do,” Arledge said. “They want to lose weight or they want to build muscle, so we cater their sessions to what they want to do.”

Tyrus Ayers is a senior exercise and movement science major and has been a personal trainer at the rec center for about a year.

Ayers said he’s had clients ranging from older people trying to get back into fitness to young people who’ve never tried but are willing to.

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rently offers free fitness assessments, as well as equipment orientation. These practices introduce potential clients to what’s around the gym, along with providing information on where the client is starting from. Nielsen said it serves as a great way to get your foot in the door and bridges the gap between meeting the client before their first training.

“We kind of see where their current fitness level is and can check back based on what we feel comfortable with,” Nielsen said.

Nielsen said working with limitations from different clients works cohesively with his studies by knowing what exercises are right for each individual client.

“You learn the information in the classroom, and then you get to apply it here,” Nielsen said.

In November of 1978, over 900 members of The People’s Temple died after drinking cyanide-laced juice in an event that would shock the world. To this day, “The Jonestown Massacre” has gone down as one of the most infamous cult-related events in human history.

Cult hysteria, and those who fear these groups, often label religious organizations that don’t fit any typical religious standpoints as a “cult.” However, the definition of a cult in pop culture has changed, according to some religious experts.

Dave Embree, a professor of religion at Missouri State University, is an expert on this topic. Embree teaches a class called “New Religious Movements,” which talks about many of the groups commonly labeled by the public as cults.

“The term ‘cult’ is interesting because it has become sort of a universally pejorative and negative term,” Embree said.

“I have people dropping into this office on a regular basis, and they’re saying things like, ‘I think this group is a cult.’

Generally, what this really means is ‘this is a group that I don’t trust and that’s up to something dangerous.’”

Embree says the fear of danger comes from the tragedies that many see in the news. Events like The Jonestown Massacre are still in the minds of those who fear these religious groups.

“Consequently, the term cult has been used to measure the danger of a particular group,” Embree said. “There are hundreds of books with the word cult in the title. If they’re written from a particular doctrinal perspective, then a cult is just ‘anything that doesn’t agree with me.’”

In the ‘80s, however, there was a strong anti-cult movement, which saw a cult as anything that robbed people of their choice or free will. During this time period, the word “brainwashing” was thrown around a lot.

Embree cautions skeptics to stay away from the word cult, opting to use “new religious movements” instead.

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Tyler Nielsen lifts weights as Tyrus Ayers spots him. The two are part of the personal training program at the rec center.

One client Ayers said he worked with said he only plays video games and that his only activity was badminton once every three weeks.

“At the beginning of working out, we had a challenge in that he’d only want to exercise when we were together, but now he comes and goes by himself,” Ayers said.

Ayers said confidence is important, and something great to see is clients who become comfortable with coming in and using the weight room and coming back more excited to continue their fitness journey.

Tyler Nielsen is a senior exercise and movement science major and personal trainer. Nielsen said the goal is that after they’re done working with the client, the client will feel comfortable with the equipment in the gym and have the confidence to keep coming in without the trainer.

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Dating culture, romance differs from years past The idea of Valentine’s Day probably puts pictures of flowers, chocolate, and happy couples dancing through your mind.

However, the reality is that Valentine’s Day isn’t always picture perfect.

The Standard surveyed 20 students through a Facebook, Instagram, and telephone poll.

Through these surveys, it became evident that there are mixed views — and emotions — on the holiday. Students got candid on dating culture in the 21st century and the relevance of the year’s biggest day of love.

The responses from students show that individual interpretation is the key to making this day special for so many.

Jill Jordan, a junior cell and molecular biology major, said she loves Valentine’s Day. “As a college student, you can’t always have date nights since we’re all busy, and you can’t always give gifts since we’re on a tight budget,” Jordan said “It is nice to have one day focused on spending time with someone and showing how much you love them.”

Jordan said she plans on spending the holiday with her boyfriend and her best friends.

“I believe that the dating culture has changed a lot even within the past ten years,” said Hannah Peak, a senior special education major. “Social media and the internet has made it easier to connect with other humans but has also altered the way we interact in person with other people.”

Social media has made it easier to find a significant other online, and has made our dating culture more casual.

When you take away the intimidation of face-to-face conversations — plus possible rejection — the opportunities are endless.

Peak said she believes that the older generation discredits apps like Tinder, Grindr

and Bumble, but they can be successful.

Tinder was created in 2012 and has become, “the hottest thing to happen to dating since the internet,” according Victoria Craw, a writer for news.com.

“Tinder was launched to address the social and physical barriers of forming new friendships and relationships,” according to Sean Rad, founder of Tinder.

Peak found her current boyfriend on Tinder and they have been together for one year and three months.

Over half of the students surveyed will not be celebrating Valentine’s Day with a significant other, that does not stop them from celebrating the holiday with those closest to them.

Katelyn Bebee, a senior wildlife biology major, said this is her first time celebrating Valentine’s Day single while being in college.

“I’m showing myself love by planning a weekend trip in Kansas City to visit some art museums,” Bebee said. “For me, being in a healthy and loving relationship with yourself is definitely something to celebrate.”

Based upon the survey students who are celebrating have opted for more laid-back plans such as movie nights, realizing that love doesn’t have to be displayed just between significant others, but between those who you care about most.

That idea has its own holiday as well.

Galentine’s Day, a non-official holiday celebrated on Feb. 13, has become increasingly popular in recent years and celebrates ladies being ladies.

Savannah Smerz, a senior history major, said she is single this year and plans to celebrate Galentine’s Day with a friend.

“We’re planning to trade cute little Valentines and get a Chick-fil-A box of food and watch rom-coms,” Smerz said.

For Valentine’s Day this year, students say the key theme is to enjoy the day with those who you care about most and embrace the opportunity to be creative in your methods of celebration.

with a trainer they’re assigned.

“There’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes that clients don’t see, (such as) how much time these guys put in to actually master their craft,” Arledge said.

Nielsen said being involved in the program has helped him better organize his life.

“It’s really helped me with time management and also putting clients before doing social events or hanging out with friends,” Nielsen said. “It’s been an awesome professional experience as well, growing and doing that.”

Personal training at the rec center is about

reaching your goals — whatever they may be, no matter your starting position. Nielsen said he enjoys being a personal trainer as it allows him to combine his love for lifting weights and helping others.

Nielsen said he tries to help anybody who comes in for training by providing plenty of support and building their confidence.

“I use a lot of positive reinforcement, so building the confidence of being OK with starting at a certain point and realizing that that’s not the end-all be-all — there’s nowhere to go except up,” Nielsen said.

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The event was put on by the Chinese Students and Scholars Association.

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Performers dress up to do a Chinese lion dance, which is a traditional form of dance in Chinese culture meant to bring good luck and fortune.

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All personal trainers are undergraduate students, typically within the exercise and movement science major, who have completed a nationally accredited certification. Completing a certification typically requires taking a paid exam either in-person or online, and maintaining certification requires continuing to earn continued education credits.

“This is what we sit in class for,” Ayers said.

All personal trainers in the rec center are paid. Currently, the rec center has 13 trainers — five female, eight male. Arledge said they started with four. While the program has existed for some time, in the past two years it has seen a 45 percent increase in sales and currently has around 45 active clients.

Arledge said the rec center’s amount and variety of trainers helps them in catering to anyone who comes in the door, whether they’ve had experience with the gym or not.

So far, he said nobody has refused to work

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AMANDA SULLIVAN Sports Editor @mandasullivan14 Jarred Dixon, a senior guard, launched a halfcourt shot with about a second left on the clock on Sunday.

He made it.

And the 6,500 fans in the arena — give or take the fans that left when Illinois State led by five with 1:45 left in the game — went absolutely wild.

The team dog-piled Dixon, head coach Dana Ford was full of emotion and freshman Szymon Wojcik even celebrated without walking on his foot that is still in a boot from his surgery around four weeks ago.

Dixon’s shot put the Bears on SportsCenter in the No. 1 spot for the Top 10 highlights. Twitter went crazy, accounts like Barstools Sports, Bleacher Report and Fox Sports tweeted the video. Millions of users saw the video.

MSU players like Ryan Kreklow, Keandre Cook, Tulio Da Silva and Kabir Mohammed posted and reposted videos to their Instagram stories.

The win sent everyone into a frenzy. Missouri State’s official Twitter account tweeted and retweeted video after video. Compilations of Dixon’s shot, Art Hain’s call and Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” spread across the internet.

It was Missouri State’s highlight moment of the season.

But that game ended at 5:04 p.m. on Sunday.

Ford’s rule is that you take 12 hours and move on to the next game.

That means the Bears had to start focusing on their next game at 5:04 a.m. Monday morning.

What is next for the Bears?

The 4-8 Evansville Purple Aces.

Missouri State lost to Evansville earlier this season 70-64. Both teams were 2-2 in Missouri Valley Conference play going into that game. Evansville also defeated Loyola and Drake early on the season, but those games were at home. The Aces defeated Missouri State in JQH Arena for their only road win so far this season.

MSU is a very different team than it was on Jan. 16.

The Bears haven’t played in a game where either team scored 70 points since Jan. 23. They defeated Loyola 70-35 that evening.

Da Silva has been a key forward for the Bears since being released by the NCAA. He’s averaging 14.8 points and 7.0 rebounds. In the last four games, he has kept himself out of foul trouble — except for against Illinois State on Sunday, Feb. 9. He had four fouls, but never fouled out.

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(Top) Head coach Dana Ford celebrates Jarred Dixon’s halfcourt shot.

(Bottom) Keandre Cook, Kabir Mohammed and Darian Scott high-five fans.

Senior Jarred Dixon chucks up a halfcourt shot as time runs out at JQH Arena. The buzzer went off just before the ball slipped through the basket.

The Bears defeated the Illinois State Redbirds 66-65 off Dixon’s buzzer beater on Sunday, Feb. 9.

Da Silva has gotten better and more composed each time he steps on the court for the Bears.

Dixon, the hero of Sunday night’s game, has also been impressive for the Bears. Dixon is averaging 13.0 points through 25 games.

Ford has said in the past Dixon and Kreklow are incredibly hard workers. He said no one deserved a mo-

near perfect, but the Bears allowed the Aces to convert 12 of 28 3-point shots in January.

Since losing to Drake on Jan. 20, Missouri State hasn’t allowed more than 12 3-point attempts, and it’s showed. In those six games, the Bears went 5-1. They’re not perfect, but they are getting better.

Six games to Arch Madness.

ment like that halfcourt shot more than Dixon.

But, there are no guarantees the game on Wednesday will come down to a clutch halfcourt shot from a deserving senior. The Bears will have to play the way they’ve been playing these last few games — they need to keep the scoring low, maintain control of the game and stay composed.

Webster has been great at controlling the game and staying composed. The point guard has a high basketball IQ and that’s evident when he plays.

The biggest piece for the Bears is preventing any open 3-pointers by the Aces. The Bears are .401 in 3-point field goal percentage defense, but they have improved. It’s nowhere

Lady Bears lead the league Primed for another They have a target on their back with a 13-game win streak

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Missouri State’s women’s basketball team is sitting in first place in the Missouri Valley Conference thanks to a 13-game win streak, which could help keep them there the rest of the season.

Each game matters for the Lady Bears, as one loss could put them back in a tie with Drake for first place.

To hold on to first place Missouri State will have to avoid making little to no mistakes.

The team has avoided mistakes on this 13-game win streak, but head coach Kellie Harper said she doesn’t want her team to be complacent.

“When your team is winning, you always worry about a little complacency setting in so we’re trying to make sure that doesn’t happen,” Harper said. “ It’s really just a mindset and making sure our team has the right mindset every day.”

With being at the top, the Lady Bears are now going to each gym with a target on their backs and every team wants to take a shot.

“When you come to play, everybody wants to beat you now,” Harper said. “Everybody is looking at this game. They want to try and knock off Missouri State. So, it’s going to be important that we don’t take anybody lightly.”

One of the reasons the Lady Bears are on top is because of the effort from the underclassmen. The freshmen have combined to score 33 percent of Missouri State’s total points this season.

“They come in every day and make an impact,” junior Alexa Willard said. “We count on them. Without them, there’s some games we wouldn’t have won. We rely on them, and they bring everything we need to the court.”

Not only are the freshmen play-

With baseball season just nine days away, it’s time to look at the Bears’ 2019 season outlook. Coming off another Missouri Valley Conference regular-season championship and tournament championship, the Bears are looking to defend their titles. The National Collegiate Athletic Association has them as the No. 36 team in the nation in the preseason rankings.

Although, as of Feb. 6, the season is not off to the hottest start. The team announced that sophomore pitcher Ty Buckner will miss the entire season after tearing his Achilles tendon.

Buckner was slotted by many to be at the front of the Bears’ rotation after coming off an exceptional freshman campaign.

In 2018, Buckner went 7-4 over 16 appearances, with an earned run average of 4.81. He held opposing hitters to a .220 batting average, all while striking out 60 batters in 76 and two-thirds innings.

Also missing the entire season is junior pitcher Tyler McAlister with a torn labrum. McAlister was likely going to compete for a middle-ofthe-week starting spot. Losing both pitchers is a huge loss for the Bears.

Looking forward, the Bears will probably have junior Logan Wiley slide into the number one spot in the rotation. The Bears will look to highly-touted freshmen Peyton Carson, Nick Schmidt, Javier Ramos, Ben Cruikshank and Hayden Juenger to all compete for the final two weekend spots in the rotation. The four freshmen are regarded as head coach Keith Guttin and pitching coach Paul Evan’s best pitching class.

The Bears will need to have a solid bullpen again if they have hopes of making a deep playoff run in 2019.

Look for guys like junior Nate Witherspoon, senior Jake Lochner and sophomore Connor Sechler to carry

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Junior Alexa Willard keeps posssession of the ball in the paint against Loyola. The Lady Bears won 84-49 over the Ramblers. ing well, but so is the rest of the team.

On the stat sheets, the Lady Bears look almost perfect. Missouri State leads their opponents in points, rebounds, 3-point field-goal percentage, field-goal percentage, blocks, steals and more.

The only statistic where they’re doing worse is free-throw percentage where opponents are shooting .688 compared to the Lady Bears’ .670.

In the conference, Missouri State ranks ninth out of 10 teams in freethrow percentage, which could be a problem during clutch situations.

The Lady Bears have only had two games against conference opponents who lost by under 10 points, Drake and UNI.

In the game against Drake, Missouri State won 85-79. The Lady Bears shot 66.7 percent from the free throw line. Luckily, the Bulldogs shot 57.7 percent at the line, but if they were to shoot their usual 73.2 percent, the score would’ve been 85-83.

The UNI game also ended with a win, 63-58. Missouri State shot 79.3 percent from the line and held UNI to just one free throw. If the Lady Bears shot their average percentage the final score would’ve been 59-58.

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most of the load during the season.

The offense in 2019 is going to have to pick up where it left off in 2018. Returning sluggers like juniors Drew Millas, Ben Whetstone and John Privitera will lead the charge in 2019.

Last season, Millas led the Bears in RBIs with 61 and slugged seven home runs, all while hitting .321.

Named by D1Baseball.com as the preseason MVC player of the year, Millas is going to have to build on his breakout sophomore season.

Whetstone is also going to have to build on his 2018 season. Last year, the first baseman hit .278 with nine home runs and 39 RBIs. The junior had an on-base percentage of .378 and a slugging percentage of .453, coming together for an on-base-plus-slugging percentage of .831. Whetstone is no slouch on defense either, with only having made four errors in 72 games played at MSU. Look for freshman infielder Mason Hull to help out on offense during the season. Hull, during his senior year at Effingham High School, hit .571 with seven home runs and drove in 37. The freshman has the unfortunate task of following former shortstop Jeremy Eierman, who was drafted by the Oakland A’s in the second round of the 2018 MLB Draft.

While the Bears are going to miss Eierman’s consistent bat in the middle of the order, the offense seems primed for another good season.

Even with a rotation that is missing two key components, the pitching staff should be strong enough to help carry the Bears.

MSU is primed for another run at the MVC title and a third-straight Regional appearance. The Missouri Valley will most likely produce two teams that advance to the Regionals, Missouri State and Dallas Baptist University. Another deep run seems to be in the cards for the Bears. Staying healthy and consistent will be the big keys to the 2019 season.

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The Missouri State women’s tennis team entered uncharted territory on Friday.

To open up their home spring schedule, the Bears shut out Western Illinois in a 4-0 win and claimed a 4-3 victory against Creighton to improve to 3-0 — their best record to start a season since returning as a sport in 2014.

“This tested us with our endurance, and we succeeded really well with that,” head coach Mallory Weber said. “I think we spent a lot of time these last couple of weeks getting our doubles right. That showed tonight.

“I was really happy to get that momentum with the doubles point in both matches and to carry that into singles.”

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Western Illinois The Bears started off the day by earning their first point from the doubles match.

Missouri State also dominated in singles with wins in the No. 1, No. 6 and No. 3 matches.

Juniors Alye Darter and Alexia Meyer each tallied up a point with the final point coming from senior Phoebe Boeschen in a two-set match.

“We came out really strong against Western,” Weber said. “I think it was really good for us to get momentum early in the day. We took care of business which was nice to see.

“To get the doubles points and clinch that match was a really nice start to our day.”

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appeal working in their favor, so they wanted to make sure Tulio would be ready to go.

Tulio said it was hard to stay motivated to practice, knowing he might not get the chance to play.

But he said he knew he had to continue to put the work in.

“I’m a work guy,” Tulio said. “I like to be in the gym all the time.”

Like the first match of the day, the Bears got off to a hot start by sweeping the doubles competition to gain the quick 1-0 lead.

Freshman Mara Presot and Darter were first on the board with a 6-2 edge while sophomore Ellie Burger and freshman Anna Alons followed with a 6-2 score to give Missouri State the doubles point.

The singles matches were a seesaw affair between the two teams.

Creighton was first on the board with a win in the fourth flight, but Burger knotted up the score with a 6-3, 6-0 decision.

Senior Fati Khamissi handed the Bears a 3-1 lead with her 7-6, 6-3 victory, but the Blue Jays battled back to tie it at 3-3 after winning the first and second flights.

But freshman Clara Gandara Gonzalez clinched the win for the Bears in a three-set match.

“She is a really good player,” volunteer assistant coach Annelisse Torrico Moreno said. “She plays very well under pressure.

It is not the first time (she clinched). She is really tough mentally.”

After falling behind 6-3 in the first, Gandara Gonzalez came back with back-to-back set wins to finish 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 to help Missouri State defeat Creighton 4-3.

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In June 2018, Tulio joined the Missouri State men’s basketball roster.

At first, Tulio was told he would have to sit out for the first season due to NCAA transfer eligibility rules.

Tulio, along with the athletic department’s administrators, appealed the decision.

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As a kid born in Brazil — and the son of a former professional soccer player — junior forward Tulio Da Silva grew up playing soccer, not basketball.

At the age of 13, he hung up his cleats and picked up a basketball for good. Tulio said the footwork and quick pace of soccer really helped him develop his basketball game as he became an explosive player.

Two years later, he was asked to play for the U15 Brazilian national team. He continued his youth career with the U17 and U18 Brazilian national teams.

Tulio reflected on his first time in the United States. The U17 Brazilian team traveled to Chicago to play in a global basketball tournament.

“It was an amazing experience to get to play with different players around the world,” Tulio said.

Since he was a member of the national team, Tulio was soon offered the opportunity to move to Jacksonville, Florida, to attend Arlington Country Day High School.

In 2014, he moved to Jacksonville, leaving his family behind.

Though it was hard, Tulio and his family knew he had to jump at the opportunity for better education and better basketball.

“I just started dreaming bigger, imagining going to college,” Tulio said.

After high school, Tulio committed to the University of South Florida where he redshirted his first year.

While in Florida, he met Matthew Shapiro and his family, who soon became a second family to Tulio.

Shapiro said when a mutual coach introduced the two, Tulio could barely speak English.

“I’m just super proud of him for taking on a new role,” Shapiro said. “For him to transition from Portuguese to English, dialect and semantics, must have been so hard but he did it so well.”

When Tulio first met Shapiro’s mom, he walked into the kitchen and said, “Hi mom.

What can I do to help?”

“He didn’t even know my mom,” Shapiro said. “And yet he was willing to help cook or take out the trash or help with the dog.”

Shapiro and Tulio instantly clicked and became family to each other. They text, call and/or Facetime every day. They have been able to stay close even without seeing each other for nearly two years.

They talk after every practice and after every game.

Shapiro said Tulio is the most energetic, positive and outgoing person he knows.

“He has such a great perception on life,” Shapiro said. “He is always optimistic and never asks, ‘why me.’ He even maintained such a positive outlook through some bad times at USF.” After playing two seasons at USF, Tulio

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but now they have bounced back to a 5-5 record.

Missouri State has four games left on the road this season against Valparaiso, Loyola, Evansville and Indiana State.

“I think we played those really tough games in the beginning. It’s not — I don’t want to say easier — but we’re prepared for it,” Willard said.

“We don’t want to lose anymore (road games), so we just want to continue to get better.”

At home, the Lady Bears will face of against Drake, UNI, Bradley, and Illinois State. These teams rank 2-5 consecutively in the conference standings. Being at home can be an advantage but every team they will play at home, except Illinois State, has an away record above .500.

Missouri State is returning home after a three-game road trip to play against Illinois State. They will go against each other on Feb. 15 at 7 p.m.

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“This match against Creighton was a really good match,” Weber said. “It is good to play these matches early in the year.

This is something we are definitely going to see in the conference. It is very comparable.

To come out here and get this win is exactly what we wanted to do.”

This victory comes after the Bears lost to the Blue Jays 7-0 last year.

Torrico Moreno, who was a senior on Missouri State’s team last year that faced Creighton, said it came down to starting strong in doubles this year.

And Gondara Gonzalez sees the Bears as a formidable team.

“People now know that we can beat people,” Gondara Gonzalez said.

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Phoebe Boeschen returns the ball.

day, Missouri State will face Southeast Missouri State and Omaha next weekend.

“That is two good teams coming in here,” Weber said.

“It is also two that are going to help prepare us for the conference. It is something similar to what we are going to see. Definitely a challengThe upcoming ing weekend, but matches weekend like this should give us some After defeating Western confidence. We are looking Illinois and Creighton on Fri- forward to it.”

On Nov. 21, Tulio and head coach Dana Ford received word that Tulio would be cleared to play for the remainder of the 2018-19 season. Tulio’s work paid off. His first start with the Bears was on Nov. 28. He dropped 22 points.

Tulio said it was a relief to find out he could play.

“I would call him every hour of every day asking if he had heard back,” Shapiro said.

Ford was happy to add a guy like Tulio and his unique abilities to the court.

“I don’t know where we’d be without him,” Ford said. “He was definitely an added bonus.”

Tulio said he is appreciative to have this opportunity.

“Getting to play with these guys who all love the game, I’m grateful,” Tulio said.

Tulio and his teammates are together all the time, on and off the court. He also said his teammates would describe him as a fun person.

“I’m a funny person,” Tulio said. “I like to talk a lot. Especially in the locker room, I like to get hype.”

Ford attested to that.

“From everything I know, he’s a great teammate,” Ford said. “And him being talkative is another sign of that.”

Ford said even though it’s been an up-and-down year, this group of guys has stuck together. Even when there were opportunities to fall apart, they never did.

In his free time, Tulio said he and his teammates like to go out to eat, go to the mall and just hang out together.

Specifically, Tulio said he really loves Gailey’s Breakfast Cafe in downtown Springfield.

But he also said besides his family and friends, that is the one thing he misses most about Brazil: the food.

“I miss my mama’s home cooking, a lot,” Tulio said. “Mama’s food wins every time.”

Tulio and his family are very close-knit. He said they talk every single weekend.

With his school and their work during the week, weekends work best for them.

While some teammates’ families get to come to every

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(Above) Tulio Da Silva and head coach Dana Ford chat while an opponent shoots free throws.

(Left) Da Silva smiles before shooting a free throw.

He struggled with free throws early in the season, but he has improved as the season has gone on. single home game, Tulio’s family has to stream his games online or look up the box score and highlights later on.

“They support me so much,” Tulio said. “They just support me long distance.”

Tulio said while there aren’t any plans in the works yet, he is really looking forward to getting them to Springfield to see a game sometime before he graduates.

When asked what his plans are after graduation, after basketball is over, Tulio smiled and said he hopes it won’t be the end of basketball for him.

“I want to be able to play at the next level,” Tulio said. “If not the NBA, then overseas.”

Tulio said he really looks up to his dad in that aspect. He said he just wants to do what his dad was able to do — play at the next level.

And, of course, Tulio said he admires professional players like LeBron James and Kevin Durant.

“They’re always grinding and working hard,” Tulio said.

Ford said Tulio has that work-hard attitude as well.

“He’s been good for us,” Ford said. “When you start looking at the future of the program, it’s great to have a guy like that.”

Shapiro said he thinks Tulio is a vital player.

“His mechanics of his free-

throw routine suck,” Shapiro said with a laugh. “But he limits other team’s second-chance opportunities, and he is a key guy to have out there.”

Shapiro had nothing but glorifying things to say on behalf of Tulio’s character.

“He’s selfless, humble and witty,” Shapiro said. “He’s the type of guy that will split his last dollar with you.”

Aside from the fact that his family is in Brazil and his best friend lives in Miami, Tulio said he loves being in Springfield and to have the opportunity for better education and better basketball.

“It’s a blast to be here at Missouri State,” Tulio said.

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on-campus dining centers and at certain food locations in the PSU, people can receive five points for scanning them when buying a drink using their water bottle.

Students can pick up QR code stickers from Carrington room 104.

“We’re trying to modify behaviors so students recognize the importance of reusing water bottles so there’s less garbage going into landfills,” Brannen said.

According to a statistic found by GSA, if every student at MSU were to use one plastic water bottle each day, it would fill 17 football fields.

For every scan, 2 cents will be donated to a charity. GSA is meeting in April to choose a charity to determine where to donate the money.

Brannen said while MSU has been taking many steps toward sustainability, there is still room for improvement.

“I don’t see enough students recycling,” Brannen said. “That's one of our biggest issues we face as an organization is trying to figure out how we can get more students to recycle.”

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“We put out so many recycle bins at the parties and everyone was still throwing away their cans into the garbage,” Brannen said.

She said her team went into garbage cans and separated out the recyclables during a party at the start of the season.

“I had people looking at me like I was nuts, but the next game more people were recycling and I think it’s because (students) saw us out there,” Brannen said. “By the end of the season, there was a noticeable improvement.”

According to Brannen, home games generated over four tons of recyclable material this year.

Jeff Brown, the MSU recycling coordinator, said he’s noticed when students do recycle, sometimes they’re not recycling the right way.

Brown encourages students to clean off containers before recycling them so there is no food residue on them.

Brown says MSU participates in many sustainable practices that students don’t know about.

“Facilities on campus have done a lot to cut down on energy use when it comes to heating and cooling. We’ve also been switching out fluorescent light bulbs to LEDs,” Brown said.

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Missouri. The 0.16-mile stretch of highway was the site of just three fatal crashes, but the small area they took place in caused the segment to rank number one on the list for crash rate.

Sam Wendt, the founder of Wendt Law Firm, said the firm works primarily on personal injury lawsuits, including a lot of car accidents, and they decided to conduct the study because they noticed a pattern in their cases.

“We just happened to notice that a number of those cases and situations that we handle occured at pretty close proximity to one another on a fairly regular basis, which we just thought was interesting,” Wendt said.

Wendt said the study focused on 2015 and 2016 because they had the most complete set

ing halls for selling plastic water bottles.

“We are working so close with dining services to promote reusable water bottles through Fill it Forward, so it doesn’t make sense to me that they are selling plastic water bottles,” Brennan said Brennan said she plans to follow up on this and hopes encouragement of purchasing non-reusable bottles can be stopped.

Sai Moon, a senior communications major, said he thinks the dining halls are doing a great job when it comes to sustainability.

“I feel like it’s going to take a while for people to stop buying plastic water bottles but I think the fact that (dining centers) offer metal straws is a step forward in the right direction,” Brennan said.

Metal reusable straws can be purchased at any dining center and in the Plaster Student Union for $1.

Brennan said if anyone has any ideas or changes they want to see in regards to sustainability on campus, students can write a project proposal and work with SGA to get it funded.

“A lot of students don’t know this, but $2 out of everyone’s tuition is put into a sustainability fund and every year the university matches up to $75,000,” Brennan said.

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everyone all that is going on with sustainability because not everyone wants to know about things like light bulbs.”

Brown said it’s students’ personal choices that make the biggest difference on campus.

“Turning off lights and computer screens when (students) are not using them, utilizing university transportation instead of driving around trying to find a parking spot,” Brown said. “Small concerted efforts will add up.”

Lanita Petzold, supervisor of Garst Dining Center, said Missouri State dining halls have made many efforts in regards to sustainability.

“We compost over 250,000 pounds per year, our napkins are biodegradable, we went trayless so kids would take less food, we try to buy local produce and grow as much food as we can in-house instead of ordering it out.” Petzold said.

Petzold said styrofoam and plastic is handed out in very limited amounts.

“We do offer (styrofoam) in our sack lunches but for the most part we try to stay away from it,” Petzold said.

Although the dining centers are taking huge strides to be more sustainable, plastic water bottles are currently still available for sale to students.

Brennan said she is disappointed in the din-

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of data from the NHTSA for those years.

“Then we did an analysis to identify areas where these fatal collisions occurred in close proximity,” Wendt said. “We included any stretch from three or more fatal collisions, and also put a two-and-a-half mile buffer around each crash, and looked where those buffers overlapped one another.”

To narrow the data down, Wendt said they focused on highways and interstates. Once they had the data, they worked with 1point21 Interactive to create the interactive and visual elements of the study to post on their website.

1point21 Interactive is a California-based company that creates content for brands.

Wendt said the study was done as a public service.

“We’re looking to do it as a public service, and highlight safety issues since we just handle personal injury litigation — that’s important for us,” Wendt said. “We did it to benefit folks in the community who may become aware of the study.”

Missouri State University because its state funding has been fluctuating, reported Ryan DeBoef, the assistant to the president for government relations.

Senate bill No. 259 gives those accused the full identity of the one accusing them.

Both bills force both parties to appear in court, giving the accused the ability to cross-examine their previously anonymous accuser.

Under the proposed House bill, any denial of the previous statements can lead to serious repercussions for the university. House bill No. 573 reports that not giving the right amount of information to the accused or not paying for a student’s legal consultant could wind up costing the institution up to a $250,000 fine.

House bill No. 573 also reports that if one

is accused falsely, they are able to seek damages from their accuser. Both actual and punitive damages can be filed if the accuser is found to be false in their accusation. Actual damages consist of financial repayment for expenses paid by the accused, while punitive damages consist of legal punishment for the accuser.

This leads to complicated proceedings, as students considered juveniles have limited legal punishments.

Jill Patterson, Missouri State University’s Title IX coordinator said the Title IX office is watching the bills carefully.

“We are aware of the bills,” Patterson said.

“They would have an impact on our operations, so we are following them closely, and collaborating with legislators.”

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Company alumna to come to the conference and lead a repertory workshop.”

These workshops give students and faculty a chance to learn choreography through the focus artists’ techniques. According to the website, some of the core principles the ACDA conference hopes to foster include diversity, inclusivity, education and the art form of dance through workshops and other classes.

Over the span of four days, students and

faculty will get their work critiqued by renowned dance professionals from around the country, learn about the legacies and dance research of the focus artists, along with creating their own dance short films.

“One of the most enjoyable parts of the conference is the nightly performances of student, faculty, and guest artist works,” Stine said. “It is so amazing to watch new choreography. I always leave the conference with so many ideas.”

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“New religious movements is a safer term because there are a lot of different views out there, many of which have originated since 1800,” Embree said. “However, they don’t all fit the same structure. Many of those cult books talk about specific requirements, like a charismatic leader who controls people’s lives or who asks for a lot of money. Well, that’s sort of like a lot of the health clubs around. That’s a lot like the Army. That’s a lot like multi-level sales organizations that are out there.”

To Embree, there is a distinction between structure and belief system.

“When you meet a group, it’s important to ask what they believe,” Embree said. “You have to think about whether or not what they believe will put you dangerously out of sync with what you already believe.”

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You have to think about whether or not what they believe will put you dangerously out of sync with what you already believe.

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It’s also important to consider if there are real emotional, physical and financial dangers when getting involved with these groups.

A new religious movement is a religious organization that began after the year 1800. Groups that fit the category of a new religious movement would include, but are not limited to, Jehovah’s Witnesses, The Satanic Temple — which doesn’t actually believe in Satan — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the traditional medical storefronts seen around town.

Locally, several new religious movements are present. The Satanic Temple, LDS Church, Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, and many “new eastern medicine” storefronts that serve as ways of “modern healing” have locations in Springfield, to name a few.

“These groups all say, ‘We want to give you a new way of looking at reality and a new way of coping with the world in which you live,’” Embree said. “Probably none of these groups that I just named are particularly physically threatening, nor all that financially threatening.”

There are other groups, like white supremacist groups, that advocate violence against others who aren’t white. Such groups argue that those of white skin with “white brains” are superior, according to Embree.

“Flip that around, and you’ll see groups

like Nation of Islam, which on the surface talks about how they believe Allah is black and how white people are blue-eyed devils with genetic mutations created by mad scientists,” Embree said. “Throughout the last 30 or 40 years, however, they have not been pursuing violent repercussions. However, in prisons, where some recruitment takes place with both white and black supremacy groups, there is a propensity for violence, assuring mutual protection if you get involved in one of these groups.”

Rob Rook, a member of the Temple of Set, said that groups often get labeled as cults because people don’t bother to understand their ideologies.

Rook also said that groups that use coercion and push people away from others who aren’t in the group would meet the cult criteria.

“When I first came to Missouri State University, there was a church that I became involved with called the International Church of Christ, which is not longer around,” Rook said.

“Pretty much every other church in town considered them a cult. I think that they pretty much epitomize what people expect of a cult.”

Rook said the church was like any other church at first.

“They become a part of your life like any church,” Rook said. “Things start to get strange as you get more involved. The pastor, for instance, took all of the single guys and told us that we could serve God better by asking a new girl out every week, so that by Sunday, we could ask her to church. He wanted more young women to join the church.”

Rook says that he got kicked out of the church at one point because a pastor ordered him not to go home to his mother for Christmas because she believed that International Church of Christ was a cult. He said he was then marked, which meant he was a tool of the devil.

“Nobody in the church was allowed to talk to me after that,” Rook said. “It’s coercion like that that makes people think different groups are cults.”

Ted Vaggalis, a professor of philosophy at Drury University, also weighed in on what he believes the term cult really means.

“Cult comes from the Latin term ‘cultus,’ and it refers to groups of believers who have a ‘kite religious connection together,’” Vaggalis said. “Any sect of Christianity that fits the idea of a cult relates to culture.”

Vaggalis said the term became associated with Walter Martin and his book “Kingdom of the Cults” that wanted to paint a sinister portrayal of religious groups, such as Mormons, Seventh-day Adventists and others.

Vaggalis said people who believe the books labelling different groups as cults are not the typical paranoid people that you would expect.

“They’re usually bright people, who, not knowing whether or not the authors are competent in the subject, accept the books for what they are,” Vaggalis said. “It’s not a matter of education, but rather, a lot of people don’t have time to pay attention to anything besides this one book, because it has a lot of information.

“What they don’t account for is the motive. Faiths are a refuge from the world, and when things are called into question, they are frightened.”

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Nik Dodani in the 2019 film, “Escape Room.”

‘Escape Room’ film thrills viewers with exhausted plot HANNAH HAWORTH Reviewer @HannahNicole089 “You have to see ‘Escape Room.’ Trust me, it is an amazing movie. It is ‘Saw’ for millenials!”

I have heard this iteration of praise for “Escape Room” since it was released on Jan. 4, and although it was entertaining and thrilling, I was not totally impressed with the overall film.

“Escape Room” follows six strangers united in their survival of freak events as they tackle a real-life escape room set with puzzles and life-threatening danger.

The film was a massive success at the box office despite being released in January, a “dump month,” as referred to in the film world. A dump month is the time of year when there are lowered critical expectations for films being released.

While critics were harsh on the overall premise of “Escape Room,” the box office shows otherwise; the film has grossed about $52 million in the U.S. as of Feb. 4, according to IMDB. While I thoroughly enjoyed the film as I was watching it, looking back, I have been questioning the overall merit of the movie.

Most of the characters are complex and diverse with interesting storylines to follow, and the viewer is able to root for the characters as they solve the puzzles, but I believe the characters and their backstories were the only driving force of the plot.

The only exception to the dynamic characters was the escape room expert Danny Khan, played

by Nik Dodani. His character did nothing to progress the plot in any way besides having knowledge of escape rooms to solve the first puzzle. After that, he plays a minor role until the third puzzle.

The escape rooms themselves were a toss-up for being an actually intellectual puzzle to solve.

Some rooms were way too easy and were only a way to move the film along while showing some of the character’s background. For example, the puzzles in the cabin, winter mountain scene and psychedelic showdown were all a copout to focus more attention on the bigger puzzles.

They seemed like cheap ways to either show backstory or move the plot, and no puzzle showed this better than the winter puzzle.

The winter puzzle is seemingly a large part of the first half of the movie. It leads to the first death that bonds the strangers; however, the puzzle seemed way too easy and unable to translate to a real-life scenario. Even the death of a character seemed like a forced plot line since the ice hole was never explained, or a part of the puzzle, as the other deaths were.

Another problem I have with “Escape Room” is the beginning scene, which was a great way to start the movie and get the audience on the edge of its seat, but it leads to a misuse of dramatic irony later. One of the most built-up scenes is the psychedelic showdown between the last two players, but due to the opening scene, the viewer already knows who will win. It’s a missed opportunity to make an impactful and intense event for the viewers. Instead, it’s left as a transitional scene for the climax.

While this movie was incredibly entertaining in the moment, I was left yearning for more when I left the theater. The film ends with a preview of a sequel, which seems like an interesting plot to pursue, so I am hopeful for a better plotline.

The movie isn’t bad in any way, but overall, it did not stand out from other psychological movies that have been coming out in recent years.

I am in no way trashing the overall film, because I honestly believe people should go see “Escape Room.” The plot may be overused, and the film could be improved, but the movie was fun to watch. 3/5