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Briefs

Rallies in Springfield

Josh Campbell/THE STANDARD

Occupy Springfield members were kicked out of Rick Santorum’s rally on Saturday at Digital Monitoring Products.

Occupy Springfield and MSU students kicked out of rally

Members of the Occupy Springfield group and a few Missouri State University students were asked to leave Rick Santorum’s rally at Digital Monitoring Products on Saturday.

Police were asked by DMP management to remove members of the crowd from the private facility. Those that were asked to leave were not given an explanation as to why they had to leave.

To read a question and answer segment by managing editor Megan Gates with Andy McIntyre, Joe Emerson and Jess Wagner—students who were asked to leave the Rick Santorum rally on Saturday—visit The Standard’s website, www.the-standard.org.

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau now aiding students with loans problems

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been accepting complaints from borrowers having difficulties with their private student loans since March 5.

The CFPB will help all borrowers having problems repaying their private student loan or managing a loan that has gone into default and may have been referred to a debt collector.

To get help, call 1-855-4112372, visit online at http://www.consumerfinance.go v, or mail a letter to P.O. Box 4503, Iowa City, IA 52244.

Calendar March 13 to March 19

Tuesday

Mid-semester grades available online, all day Refund Deadline, full semester at 25 percent credit, all day Be the Change: Spring Break Service Week Registration, all day at http://www.apoonline.org/betamu Ceramics and Metals /Jewelry Exhibition, 1 to 5 p.m. at Student Exhibition Center Student Government Association meeting, 5:30 to 7 p.m. at PSU 313 Film Screening—Miss Representation, 7 to 9 p.m. at PSU Theater

Wednesday

Bullying Past High School— Who, What, and Why?, noon to 1 p.m. at PSU 313 Composition Festival, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Ellis Hall 217b

Thursday

Students for a Sustainable Future meeting, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Temple Hall 105 Navigating the American Psychological Association (APA) Citation, 6 to 6:50 p.m. at Meyer Library 101

Monday

Spring Break, No classes, all day

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Rick Santorum spoke at his rally at Digital Monitoring Products.

Ron Paul spoke at his rally in Springfield at Hillcrest High School.

Rick Santorum: ‘Go out and vote for your values’

Ron Paul: ‘We need to shrink the government’

By Megan Gates The Standard

By Jon Poorman The Standard

Former Sen. Rick Santorum urged Missouri voters to vote for their values at his first rally in the city of Springfield Saturday.

“Go out and vote for your values,” he said at the “Rally for Rick” held at Digital Monitoring Products where almost 900 people were in attendance.

“The values you believe in— that built the greatest country in the world—are the values that are in the hearts of most Americans,” he

said.

The rally was Santorum’s first in the southwest Missouri area and was in an effort to appeal to voters before the Missouri Caucus on March 17.

During his speech, Santorum attacked his fellow Republicans— Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney—and discussed the need to have a “clear contrast” in the nominees for president in November.

“This may be the most important election,” he said. “We need a See SANTORUM page 8

“Revolution is alive and well, and they will not stop us.” These are the words of presidential candidate Ron Paul, who visited Springfield Saturday night, holding a rally at Hillcrest High School on the north side of town that was attended by hundreds of his local supporters.

Paul talked for nearly an hour on stage as he addressed issues such as the government’s responsibility to uphold the Constitution,

U.S. involvement in foreign affairs and wars, shrinking the government, the Patriot Act, repealing the Federal Reserve and running a free and prosperous society.

The rally began long before Paul took the stage as the hundreds of people in attendance boasted signs promoting Paul and loudly chanted things such as “President Paul” and “End the Fed” while rigorously stomping on the bleachers of the gymnasium in anticipation of their candidate taking the stage.

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Dating violence goes unreported Youth for Ron Paul forms on campus

By Damien M. DiPlacido The Standard

In the world of criminal justice, domestic violence is known as the dark figure of crime for its propensity to go underreported, often looming unnoticed by society.

Paula Rector is a Missouri State criminology professor with an extensive background in dealing with cases of domestic violence. She teaches a crime, justice and gender class where one of the main focuses is domestic violence and its underlying issues.

“Domestic violence is so unreported and hidden from statistics,” Rector said. “It’s still viewed by many as a private matter.

That means it’s kept in the dark, kept secret and handled privately.”

Dating violence, a close relative and often times the predecessor to domestic violence, is a serious problem that can begin at the college and sometimes the high school level.

“There is a high rate of dating violence on college

By Dayle Duggins The Standard

Residential assistants will be informed of the warning and will then tell the residents.

Ashley Bishop, an RA in Freudenburger House, is trained in the procedures due to severe weather and knows where her assigned residents need to go. If students don’t know where to go in case of emergencies, evacuation cards are

“Why not vote for Ron Paul?” said Nick Brueggeman, president of Missouri State’s chapter of Youth for Ron Paul.

Brueggeman, a sophomore economics major, is the founder of the student organization that aims to spread awareness of Ron Paul and what he stands for to college students.

According to his official campaign website, Paul, a representative from Texas, supports limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets and a return to sound monetary policies. Paul is also a pro-life candidate, supports the idea of repealing the Affordable Care Act and wants to end the functioning of the Federal Reserve.

The Youth for Ron Paul at Missouri State is just one of over 100 nationallyrecognized chapters across the United States. After the Student Government Association approved their constitution in February, Bruegge- Brueggeman man said he and the other members decided they would have one goal: help Ron Paul win the Missouri caucuses on March 17. Brueggeman said the group plans on achieving this goal by raising awareness and gaining support in numbers.

“Everybody has gathered

See WEATHER page 8

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Photo Illustration by Evan Henningsen/THE STANDARD

Jealousy and verbal abuse can be warning signs for future domestic violence within a relationship. campuses,” Rector said.

“Research has shown that men and women of college age have different understandings of what relationships mean. That can make it hard to recognize some of the warning signs of dating violence.”

Several of the red flags that could be indicators of future relationship conflicts could be things like

jealousy, or someone looking through their partner’s phone messages and checking emails.

“Someone could say ‘Well, he just really likes me’ and ‘Oh, he’s looking at my text messages.

That’s because he doesn’t want somebody else to have me,’” Rector said.

“It’s oftentimes perceived as a good thing when it’s

really a serious red flag.”

Even if the relationship doesn’t turn violent, the previously mentioned warning signs are the markers of emotional control and isolation behaviors, Rector said. If men are displaying these kinds of behaviors, it’s essential that they recognize what See DATING page 2

MSU takes part in severe weather exercise

By Amy Fuemmeler The Standard Missouri State University will take part in the annual statewide severe weather exercise at approximately 1:30 p.m. today.

Director of Safety and Transportation Donald Clark said he believes performing the exercise is important so the university can plan and prepare for any type of emer-

gency.

“The best way to prepare for an event is to practice for it, the same way our football team practices and practices and practices to get ready for a game,” Clark said.

“We are in the business of saving lives, and everybody is well aware that severe weather costs lives. And the more we can plan and prepare and practice how we respond to those, the more lives

we can save.”

Clark said the past two years drills have been during spring break. Due to the breaks, students haven’t been able to participate in the drills and oftentimes do not know where to go in case of severe weather.

Sirens are located around the campus and serve as a backup siren system to the city. No alarms are in the residential halls or buildings.

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SGA proposes to increase hydration stations

By Brandon Corrigan The Standard

In an effort to make Missouri State a more environmentally-friendly university, the Student Government Association has submitted a proposal to significantly increase the number of hydration stations that are located in major academic and athletic buildings throughout campus.

In addition to the 14 already in place, the plan calls for 10 new filtered drinking fountains to be installed in the following locations: one in Art Annex, two in Siceluff Hall, two in Kemper Hall,

one in Meyer Library, two in Glass Hall and two in Plaster Student Union.

Kara Andres, SGA’s director of sustainability and president of Students for a Sustainable Future, said MSU students’ reactions to the first set of hydration stations have been overwhelmingly positive and helped influence the decision to add more.

“People are obsessed with them,” Andres said. “It’s just more efficient than standing at the water fountain and trying to fill up your water bottle. It comes out faster and it is cleaner.”

The hydration station proposal will be voted on Thurs-

day at the Sustainability Commission meeting and Andres believes that students will soon have more options to choose where to fill up their water containers.

“I’m confident they’ll pass it because right now we have 14, but they’re not in every building, and they’re not as spread out as we like,” Andres said.

Andres hopes that adding the hydration stations will motivate students to bring their own water bottles to campus and eventually steer Missouri State to ban the sale of plastic water bottles at the university.

“The water bottle removal

campaign is what we’re hoping to transition to after the addition of more hydration stations,” Andres said. “There currently isn’t a plan in the works, but we’re hoping it could be our next little project.”

Sophomore interior design major Jessica Gant is an employee at Bear Necessities in the PSU. She said water bottles are a popular item at the convenience store and sell about as often as soda. She can frequently be found restocking the supply.

But Gant isn’t quite sure if the student body as a whole would support a ban on selling water bottles, she said.

“It’s a good idea and it has a lot of heart behind it, but it’s stepping on the toes of people and their convenience,” she said.

Campus water bottle bans have become an accelerating trend in the quest to “go green.”

According to a Bloomberg article, more than 90 universities have banned the sale or restricted the use of plastic water bottles, including Harvard University, Brown University and Washington University in St. Louis.

Students for a Sustainable Future will meet at 5:30 p.m.

Thursday in the Temple Hall 105.

Illustration by Nicole Thompson

SGA has proposed a total of 24 hydration stations.

Greek Jam unites sorority and fraternity supporters for finale

By Anna Thomas The Standard

The bleachers were filled in Hammons Student Center with family and friends of Fraternity and Sorority Life to watch sororities and fraternities compete with dance routines at this year’s Greek Jam on Sunday.

Ryan Garner, public relations co-chair for the Greek Week Committee, said the event is always a hit and he expected around 1,500 people to be in attendance.

The theme for Greek Jam was

Dating Continued from page 1 they’re doing and seek help immediately.

Other problems could include the objectification of women and men having gung ho attitudes when it comes to their goals for social outings.

“Be a man of character that doesn’t degrade women or encourage others to grope and catcall,” Rector said. “For a lot of men it will stop there, but which of these men will see it as a green light to say ‘On Friday night I’m having sex come hell or high water, and that’s my goal for the night.’ It’s not enough for men to say ‘If I’m not doing it, it’s not my problem.’”

Angela, who preferred The Stan-

“United Greeks of America,” and as the last event for Greek Week, it was alive with excitement. Many members of the crowd cheered and waved pom poms for all the dances—not just their team’s— because everyone has worked hard for the event, Garner said.

Members of the FSL community were split into seven groups, each putting in around 100 hours of work on choreographing and rehearsing their dances from the beginning of January until now.

According to freshman Shannon Lacker, a pre-nursing major and

Alpha Sigma Alpha member, it all paid off.

“I loved it and enjoyed it,” Lacker said. “I thought it was really fun because everyone was cheering for everyone, and you could really feel the sense of community.”

The competition was not the only thing being cheered on though. During an intermission, representatives from the Children’s Miracle Network were given a donation of $1,500 from the funds raised by Greek Week.

Children’s Miracle Network will

use 100 percent of that money to help children locally in 32 counties in the Ozarks.

“It was really great to see that our sorority and fraternity life help the community and people,” Lacker said. “It’s something we’re really proud of.”

The results of the competition were announced at the end of the night. In third place with their dance “Road Trip,” was Alpha Sigma Alpha, Fiji, Kappa Alpha Order and Kappa Alpha Psi. The dance “Greeks to the Streets” by Alpha Delta Pi, Sigma Phi

dard only use her first name because of safety issues, is a dating violence survivor who now works as a case manager at Harmony House, a domestic violence shelter that is located near campus at 519 E. Cherry St. When Angela was a student at Columbia College, she was involved with a highly-abusive man who consistently belittled her, cheated on her and even had a baby with another woman.

Angela says that many of the women who seek services from Harmony House were stuck in the rut of thinking they could change their abuser, and that becomes one of their biggest pitfalls.

“Most women are like ‘I can help him. I can make him be the perfect man,’” Angela said. “But you can’t do that. It’s just not possible. Women think that if they do this, this and this, he’ll change his ways, but it

doesn’t happen.”

Throughout the course of her abusive relationship, Angela was able to complete her bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and psychology and also earn her master’s in business and criminal justice. She wants others to know that through perseverance, some good can still be attained during bad situations.

“You don’t always have to have a man to be OK,” Angela said. “A lot of domestic violence cases stem from being codependent. They’ve always had someone. I didn’t know if I could be single, but I’m doing OK.” Angela says that if someone realizes they’re in an abusive relationship, they can’t be afraid to abandon the situation.

“A lot of people feel guilty when they leave, but they can’t put that guilt trip on themselves,” Angela

said. “I want people to know that there are people out there that have survived abusive relationships and lived a healthy life. You have to believe in yourself.”

Ciara Day, Harmony House’s outreach coordinator, often speaks at high schools about dating violence and works in conjunction with Sigma House and Carol Jones Recovery Center. Day not only works with women, but she also focuses on men who need help.

“Maybe they just haven’t heard that the way they’re acting is incorrect,” Day said. “Most abusers don’t recognize that what they do is wrong. It’s not that they’re bad people if they’re wanting to change. The first step is recognition.”

Anyone wanting information about Harmony House can visit their website at http://www.myharmonyhouse.org.

Epsilon, Alpha Gamma Sigma and Delta Sigma Theta came in second.

The dance “And the Rest is History,” by Sigma Kappa, Theta Chi and Alpha Phi Alpha took first place in Greek Jam. All of the dancers, family members and crowd walked out of the event with smiles on their faces.

Scott Berndt, a sophomore member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, was happy he was able to participate.

“It was a good ending to Greek Week and probably the highlight.”

Berndt said.

Warning signs of an abusive relationship Does the person...

• withhold approval or affection as punishment?

• continually criticize you, shout at you, humiliate you or call you names?

• become very jealous or harrass you about other people?

•insult or drive your family away?

• punch, slap, shove, bite, kick, strangle or hit you?

• force you to participate in sexual activity you do not find acceptable?

Information from http://www.myharmonyhouse.org

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March 13, 2012

MSU has responsibility to end domestic violence

President needs commitment, experience and personality

The Board of Governors recently announced it will soon begin looking for a permanent university president, who will take over duties no later than July 1, 2013.

The position, as many of you know, has been filled by Interim President Clif Smart since former President James Cofer relinquished his presidential status for a tenured faculty position after less than a year on the job.

Former President Michael Nietzel resigned before and during my undergraduate studies, and I leave for a year and a half and miss the reign of his successor. Crazy.

Unlike the search for Cofer, the board has decided to stick to only an in-house search committee rather than hiring an outside consulting firm. I guess the hefty price tag that R. William Funk and Associates charged to find Cofer—nearly $100,000 of the $175,000 presidential search committee budget—didn’t seem worth it this time around.

It probably wasn’t worth it the first time around either.

Though I’m sure this search committee’s budget will be dramatically smaller, the committee itself will be larger, compromising 20 members this go-round.

While the far-reaching ins and outs of the position are unbeknownst to me, there are three key qualities I’d like to see in the university’s new president: Job commitment – I can appreciate that Cofer wanted more time with students. But our budget isn’t as loose as

Kandice McKee Columnist Rush Limbaugh’s lips, and the university surely could have spent $100,000 in a much more productive manner than finding a less-than-one-year president. It would have been nice for the university to get more than a tenured faculty member out of a budgeted $175,000 search. Smart has been encouraged to apply and has said he will be a candidate for the position, according to a university news release.

If he still wants the job after being interim president for the last eight months (just a few months shy of Cofer’s MSU presidential experience), I think that speaks volumes to his commitment to the job and university.

Previous higher education experience – I don’t mean necessarily as a faculty member or some sort of academically-associated administrator.

While someone that has previous experience leading a large company or corporation may seem to have the leadership qualifications necessary for the position, I believe experience in higher education is crucial. Otherwise, our institution becomes strictly a place of business rather than a business, a community and a place of innovative excel-

Letter to the Editor SAC inviting Coulter attacks progressive campus perspectives

I am shocked that Missouri State University, specifically the Student Activities Council, would be so ignorant as to invite the notoriously bigoted Ann Coulter to speak on our campus.

I understand the need to see other perspectives and consider all opinions; however, Ms. Coulter is known for her radically conservative views, which support and encourage racism, sexism, homophobia and other generally oppressive prejudices.

As this lecture is paid in part by my personal activities fee, I feel I have the right and the duty to protest the invitation for Ms. Coulter to speak on MSU’s campus.

I feel it is a direct attack against the progressive perspectives of many individuals within the student body, as well as faculty and staff.

I simply cannot support the decision to bring Ann Coulter to our campus.

lence.

Personality – Hands down, Cofer’s bow tie was awesome. Missouri State needs someone that permeates approachability in his/her appearance and attitude. Nietzel did a lot for the university under his reign—some good, some bad, depending on your perspective. But the man wasn’t very approachable in appearance. The few times I spoke to him for The Standard, he was overwhelmingly intimidating.

That could have been just me being a frightened little sophomore/junior, but he wasn’t much of a conversationalist—small talk wasn’t his thing, strictly business.

Strong leadership and focus is key, but there’s also a need for personality, too. Like spaghetti—undercooked, and it’s too stiff and crunchy; overcooked and it’s just mushy. Al dente—a tender noodle—is just right. Did I really just compare leadership and personality to spaghetti? You bet. I’m starving.

In 2010, Brian Hammons, thenboard chairman, told the Springfield Business Journal, “It’s possible the candidate is within. But sometimes you don’t know that until you’ve looked at all the other options.”

That’s one reason the board chose to go with an outside firm—to get more applicants and options. Perhaps by them not using a search firm, they’re banking on an internal candidate (ahem, Clif Smart). But maybe not.

Only time will tell, but I sure do hope this search doesn’t have to be repeated again any time soon.

What qualities would you like to see in the new Missouri State president?

Elizabeth Verslues

Andy Begemann

Alyssa Ilgenfritz

Bin Xia

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Freshman Computer Animation

Freshman Graphic Design

Graduate Student Global Studies

Hardworking and willing to get stuff done.

Someone thatʼs willing to get things done and help students out as much as possible.

Just getting students involved and making sure studentsʼ voices are listened to.

I just want to make sure they are working for students and voice how studentsʼ education can be improved.

Tell us what you think.

H. Gloria Statwick Junior English-BSED major

The Standard

On the front page of today’s issue of The Standard we published the article “Dating violence goes unreported” using only the first name of a source.

As a policy, we normally refuse to publish stories that use anonymous sources. However, because of the nature of the article we decided as a staff to only use Angela’s first name.

Angela, a former Columbia College student, was referred to reporter Damien M. DiPlacido by the Harmony House and is a victim of domestic violence. To protect her identity, she asked to have only her first name published, and in support of women who have sought shelter from their abusers, we consented.

Domestic violence is not a new issue, but our understanding of how prevalent it is in society and the dangers victims face is.

According to the 2011 National Census of Domestic Violence Services, during one day - Sep. 15, 2011 - 67,399 people called domestic violence hotlines asking for help, with 2,012 of those calls coming from Missouri. Those are just the calls in one day.

Imagine what that number is for one year.

Under no circumstances is violence, intimidation or abuse acceptable in any relationship, and more than ever we need to take responsibility for stopping the cycle.

If you’re in a relationship, watch your significant other for signs that may lead to abuse - such as controlling behavior or extreme jealousy. If these behaviors are present, get out now. You owe it to yourself to be in a relationship that is healthy and without fear.

If you have questions about what to do or need help, call the Harmony House’s 24-hour assistance line at 417-864-7233.

If you’re not in a relationship, watch out for your friends and family. If they show signs of being in an abusive relationship, talk with them one-on-one about your concerns and let them know you’re there to help.

As a student body, it is our responsibility to stand up against domestic violence. Victims like Angela depend on us to help stop the cycle now more than ever.

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Tuesday

March 13, 2012

Calendar

Campers flock to Wakarusa Music Festival

March 13 to March 19

Tuesday

By Lauren Healey The Standard

Quantum Groove 9 p.m. at Lindberg’s, free Tuesday’s Stew 10 p.m. at the Outland Ballroom, free for ladies 18+ and gents 21+ Open Mic Night 9 p.m. at the Outland, free Let's #@%! 9 p.m. at Jekyll & Hyde’s, free for 21+ and $5 for 18+ (only 100 minors allowed at a time) Missouri Jazz Orchestra (MOJO) 8 to 10 p.m. at Marty’s Sports Bar, free

Wednesday

Kelly Clarkson 7:30 p.m. at The O’Reilly Family Event Center, $34-49 Dug & the SOULar Panels 7 to 10 p.m. at Patton Alley Pub, free The Detectives ‘50s & ‘60s Rock ‘n’ Soul 8 to 11 p.m. at Springfield Brewing Co., $3 Sugar Thumb 8 p.m. at the Outland, cover charge

Thursday

Think ‘n’ Trivia 7 p.m. at Patton Alley Pub, free Open Mic Night 7 p.m. at Nathan P. Murphy’s, $3 Loogey with Mask & Glove, J-None and Bento Box 9 p.m. at the Outland, cover charge

Friday

Jazz Trio 8 to 10 p.m. at the Outland, $3 The Gimps ‘50s & ‘60s Rock ‘n’ Soul 11 p.m. at Dean Z’s Club 57 in Branson, $5 Speakeasy with Lily Bee & The Johnson Three 9 p.m. at Patton Alley Pub, cover charge Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, The Endless Summer & SPiNRad 9 p.m. at the Outland Ballroom, $5 for 21+ $7 for 18+

Saturday

St. Patty’s Day Pub Crawl 9 p.m. at downtown venues, cover charge The Detectives ‘50s & ‘60s Rock ‘n’ Soul 10 p.m. at the Outland, cover charge Honkysuckle 9 p.m. at the Outland Ballroom, cover charge The Jah Roots Band 10 p.m. at the Highlife Martini Lounge, cover charge

Sunday

Members of Speakeasy 8 p.m. at Ebbets Field Downtown, free

Monday

Mascara Metal Monday 10 p.m. at the Outland, free

Briefs B.B. King to perform at The Gillioz Theatre

Blues legend B.B. King is performing at The Gillioz Theatre Tuesday, March 20 at 8 p.m.

Bringing his spectacularly well-known guitar, Lucille, King will perform his inspirational blues hits from the decades.

Tickets ranges from $49 to $177.50 and can be purchased by calling 417-863-9491 or visiting http://gillioz.org.

Primus to perform at The Gillioz Theatre

Prepare to groove to the psychedelic rock, funk and metal of Primus when they play at The Gillioz Theatre Friday, June 1 at 8 p.m. as they pass through Springfield on their way to the Wakarusa Music Festival.

If you’ve ever listened to Primus, you can recognize the eerily unique bass riffs and vocals of Les Claypool without having ever heard the song.

Tickets are $39.50 and can be purchased by calling 417-8639491 or visiting http://gillioz.org.

Kelly Clarkson to perform Wednesday at O’Reilly Center

American Idol’s first winner, Kelly Clarkson performs in Springfield at The O’Reilly Family Event Center Wednesday, March 14 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets range from $34 to $49 and can be purchased by calling 417-873-6389 or visiting http://drurytickets.com.

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Kim Lenz and the Jaguars got audiences grooving to their soulful combination of traditional rock ‘n’ roll with country western and rhythm and blues at Lindberg’s on Wednesday, March 7.

Raging rockabilly twang Kim Lenz and the Jaguars rock Commercial Street

By Kaycie Surrell The Standard Kim Lenz and the Jaguars rocked Lindberg’s bar last Wednesday night, blending old school rock ‘n’ roll with rockabilly twang. The band has been on tour promoting their latest album, “It’s All True!” along with some sneak previews of songs that will appear on their upcoming album.

The band hails from the West Coast, though the addition of a few new members from the Midwest made it the first time the new lineup had performed in Springfield. Lenz and her guitarist, Ramon Espinoza,

are both from Los Angeles, while both her upright bassist Jake Kemp and drummer Kevin O’Connor are from St. Louis.

Rockabilly music traditionally blends rock ‘n’ roll with country western. The genre also incorporates rhythm and blues and western swing. It is one of the earliest forms of rock ‘n’ roll, gaining popularity in the ‘50s thanks to artists like Wanda Jackson and Elvis Presley, but underwent a major revival in the ‘80s and ‘90s.

“I just happened to be hanging out in the rockabilly scene in LA in the ’90s with all these bands that

were starting the movement,” Lenz said. “I started hanging out and watching that stuff, and then I moved to Texas and started a band.”

For Lenz, the classic blend of honky-tonk and rock ‘n’ roll came naturally. Her first album was released in 1998 followed by “The One and Only,” “Up to My Old Tricks Again” and following a brief hiatus, her best yet, the scandalously named, “It’s All True!”

The album is full of the shimmy and shake associated with the rockabilly revival boasting catchy dance numbers like “Zombie for Your Love” as well as “Shined Up and Ready to Shout.” Sassy numbers like “I’ll Tell You When” and a couple covers, Carol Cummings’ song, “Burning Rubber” and Tommy See LENZ page 9

The country is full of major music festivals, but sometimes you must drive 10 or more hours to get to places like Bonnaroo or Electric Forest, which can tighten your wallet quite a bit with gas prices as high as they are.

If you’ve got festival fever but want to stay a little closer to Springfield, the Wakarusa Music Festival, held May 31-June 3, is the place for you with only about a three-hour drive from town.

Headlining the event are The Avett Brothers, Primus, Pretty Lights, Umphrey’s McGee, Slightly Stoopid, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Girl Talk, Matisyahu, Big Gigantic, Beats Antique and The Del McCoury Band.

Festival Director Brett Mosiman said Wakarusa is truly a labor of love for everyone involved.

“Wakarusa is our passion and mission,” he said. “We get to throw the coolest party at the greatest festival site with the best artists around.”

Set deep in the mountains of Arkansas, this festival boasts incredible views, particularly on the drive. The main festival grounds are in the middle of a field on Mulberry Mountain, so it’s going to be hot and there won’t be much shade around to protect you from the heat.

Luckily, there’s a beautiful river about three miles from the main venue at Riverside camping and there are free shuttles to take you there. Two years ago, people had to wait in line several hours to catch the shuttle, but last year the transportation system was greatly improved and most people had to wait no longer than 20 minutes or so. It seems likely the shuttles will be highly effective again this year.

Wakarusa does feature on-site camping, but you’ll need to purchase a camping pass for each carload of people attending the festival. There are several car camping options that range from $29 to $149. There are also RV camping passes available, but you’ll have to pay for the extra space. See the website for more details.

Full event tickets are currently $164 and the price is subject to change. Wakarusa also offers the Work Exchange Team and Street Team programs to help cover the cost of your ticket. Visit http://wakarusa.com for more information.

Luna Jamboree set to play at Miranda’s Band originated in Hammons House

By Kris Collins The Standard Since the debut of their first CD on Jan. 25, Luna Jamboree, a local emerging band, has been striving to revitalize the music scene in Springfield.

The band formed four years ago when John Krygiel, Bryan Copeland and Tyler Mathews discovered their mutual passion for music while living on the same floor in Hammons House.

“We don’t really care stylistically,” Copeland said. “Most bands have their own style, but we’ll play whatever. If we can sing it, we’ll play it.”

Since their dorm days, the band grew to five members with the addi-

tion of Kim Painter and her sister, Kate Painter.

Luna Jamboree has played several shows since they have been a fivepiece band, but they find the music scene in Springfield to be lacking.

“When they changed the law, the 18 and up law, it was a big thing for local music,” Mathews said. “It’s hard to get people under 21 to the shows unless you play at The (Outland) Ballroom or Remington’s.”

Luna Jamboree will be showcasing their rock, blues and hip-hop influences from noon to 1 p.m. on March 16 on KSMU, 91.1 FM. The following day, Luna Jamboree is playing a free St. Patrick’s Day show at Miranda’s Casual Food and Drink. The venue is at 1440 E. Republic Rd., the doors open at 8 p.m. and the show starts at 9 p.m.

The band hopes to book more

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Luna Jamboree, local rock, blues and hip-hop band, will play a free show Saturday at 9 p.m. at Miranda’s Casual Food and Drink. shows, expand their fan base and play a show on campus in the future.

“We might play Ecopalooza—it’s an environmental concert to raise awareness,” Krygiel said. “We played it last year.”

The band encourages everyone to

check out their album “What Moves You,” which is available on iTunes, or for free on YouTube.

“Being original is definitely a drive for me,” Krygiel said. “Basically, if it makes us happy, we play it.

That’s the underlying philosophy.”

‘Silent House’ remake sparks curiosity, surprise “Silent House” 1, me 0. This one definitely managed to get me wishing I could just close my eyes and make it go away. For the most part anyway.

Sarah (Elizabeth Olsen) and her father are fixing up the old family lakeside retreat to ready it for sale.

There’s no power, no phones and lots of creaky, creepy floors. All is going well until some sinister noises prove to be more than just squeaky floorboards. Now trapped inside, Sarah has to fight her way out to save both herself and her father.

The interesting thing about “Silent House” is that it was filmed in real time and in (supposedly) one continuous take. Whether that one take was manipulated here or there, I’ll leave it up to you to decide. All I know is it looked very convincing to me, which made it all the more suspenseful.

Shaky camera aside, the real time

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aspect did add in some suspense.

Mostly because the audience never knew any more than Sarah did. OK, so we probably started piecing things together a little quicker than she did, but I feel like being with her every step of the way helped me to feel her anxiety. **Spoiler Alert** If you don’t want to know what happens, stop reading now because I’m going to

give a few things away.

If you’re still reading, don’t get mad at me for spoiling it because I warned you. Ninety percent of the movie was absolutely terrifying for me. If one of your biggest fears is someone breaking into your house to mess with you, “Silent House” will scare you.

Now, that other 10 percent kind of lost the scary factor because you learn (spoiler) that she’s having a psychotic episode and imagining pretty much everything. It’s still very creepy, but I think it explains why this movie is at around 49 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

Don’t get me wrong, I liked it. I love scary movies and this one had me slouched in my seat, hiding in my hoodie, but when I found out that she was just crazy, all the tension just went out the window. I wasn’t afraid anymore. I was just curious as to

what she might do next.

Another thing to know about “Silent House” is that it is a remake.

Surprise, surprise. The original, “The Silent House,” is a 2010 film from Uruguay that claims to be based on a true story from the late ‘40s. Is the original better? Probably. They usually are.

All of that aside, I was pleasantly surprised with Elizabeth Olsen. Yes, she is the younger sister of MaryKate and Ashley. Let’s just say she was blessed with not falling into the child-star trap that her older sisters did, and it looks as if she might actually have an adult career ahead of her.

Overall, “Silent House” was a scary movie. Not everyone is going to like the style of it, but haters are gonna hate. If you like scary movies, and especially ones that are a little different, then “Silent House” is worth a watch.

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said. “I wanted to show my dad it’s not about money, it’s that moment when the kid gets it.”

Gruwell’s career at Woodrow We all have someone in our lives that opened up our world and Wilson began in 1994, and the comshowed us who we need to be as munity in which she taught was still people. For many, this is the role of feeling the aftershock of the horrors our parents, an older sibling or even of the Los Angeles Riots of 1992.

“It was like a war zone,” she a teacher. It’s hard knowing why, but just about everyone can think of said. “Our city was held hostage for someone that gave them a chance at days. In the city of Long Beach, where I taught, there were 126 murliving.

For the “Freedom Writers” of ders in this one community.”

Her idea of reaching out to stuWoodrow Wilson High School in Long Beach, Calif., that person is dents who didn’t have a chance in Erin Gruwell, a woman who the world didn’t immediately sit well with her changed the lives family, and she of 150 inner-city herself was youths forever.

It was like a war plagued with her Gruwell zone... Our city was own doubts. spoke to a pasheld hostage for “My father sionate crowd in days... There were called me in a the PSU Theater 126 murders in complete panic on Wednesday, this one and said, ‘Erin, March 7, and her community. no matter what presentation was you do, please followed by a -Erin Gruwell, don’t eat the screening of the inspirational speaker apples,’” she 2007 film based said. “Because on her inspirational story “Freedom Writers” star- my father had convinced himself ring Academy Award winner Hilary that they would be filled with razorblades.”

Swank as Gruwell.

Gruwell discovered that of the Gruwell said she originally wanted to be a lawyer, that she 97,000 students in their district, she wouldn’t settle without doing some had inherited the 150 lowest achievers, but this was not enough to deter good in the world.

“I always wanted to do some- her.

“As my students got off the bus, thing to make a difference,” she

most of these kids felt like they had a bull’s-eye on their chest, and by the time they were 14 years old, they’d been to funeral after funeral after funeral,” she said. “Most of these kids had buried friends, family members and members of the community.”

One of these students, and one who immediately caught Gruwell’s attention and sympathy, was Darius, an aspiring rap artist.

“His pants were well below his boxers, he wore this big blue jersey, the color of the Crips,” she said.

“And he took a seat in the back corner and made it very clear he’d never read a book from cover to cover and didn’t intend to.”

Darius’ father had died of AIDS when he was young, leaving him as the only man of his household. He had since been subjected to limitless scenes of violence, in and out of gangs, and at a young age watched his friend accidentally kill himself in a game of Russian roulette.

Another mind Gruwell was immediately drawn to was that of Maria Reyes, a girl whose father had spent nearly his whole life in prison. She had watched her cousin get gunned down at the bus stop on her first day of kindergarten and had spent time in East Lake Juvenile Hall. Maria came in the first day of class with a black eye.

“Maria walked into my classroom at the tender age of 14, not

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Erin Gruwell spoke inspirationally to a crowd at the PSU Theatre Wednesday, March 7. “Freedom Writers,” a 2007 film based on her inspirational story, was shown after the speech.

with that apple like my father had they’re doomed to repeat it.” predicted, but with an ankle bracelet While she was immediately met and a parole officer,” she said. “I with contempt from her students remember this little girl. I looked at almost to the point of hostility, she her and realized if we don’t sit kids down and teach them their history, See FREEDOM page 9

Implications of an early spring, how it impacts you

By Kelsey Berry The Standard

You’ve probably noticed the trees beginning to bloom all over campus, flowers popping up out of the ground and the appearance of more toes shyly peeking out of open-toed shoes. Spring seems to be here again and it is making its debut quite a bit early this year.

But what are some of the effects of this early spring weather? For those of us

who reside in Springfield, Mo., it means more decisions pertaining to whether we should wear heavier or lighter clothing, turn on the heat or air conditioning in our cars or what outdoor activities we may or may not be able to plan for the weekend. On the other hand, the agriculture and pollination effects are a bit more severe.

The early blooming of trees on campus and around the city is accompanied by the concern for fruit-bearing

trees. According to “Growing Fruit for Home Use,” a publication written by John Avery, Patrick Byers, Martin Kaps, Laszlo Kovacs and Marilyn Odneal and published by Missouri State University-Mountain Grove, cold injury to plants can occur during spring frosts, reducing the fruit production or even killing the crop. Peaches and strawberries that are grown in southern Missouri can be easily damaged by extreme conditions such as freezing.

Instances like this occur when there is a good stretch of 60 to 70 degree weather followed by a week of 40 degree weather.

“I’ve seen it happen before, about six years ago,” assistant professor of biology Michelle Bowe said. “Basically, if a plant blossoms and then freezes, the fruit won’t form. The plant will be unable to produce any fruit. It happens pretty frequently if there is a late freeze or early bloom.”

Another significant effect that the early spring weather brings is bugs. With the emergence of flowers and plants come mosquitoes, flies and pollinators, and you may have seen a few flies buzzing around campus recently. A nuisance to us, these bugs are coming out to enjoy the warm weather just like we are.

Unfortunately, if the Ozarks gets another burst of cold weather and the flowers freeze, pollinators will be unable to do their job

spreading seeds to produce more flowers.

In addition to the agricultural effects, students with allergies may also be feeling the early spring weather in a different way.

The sniffles and watery eyes are just another sign that spring is here and spreading the pollen through the strong winds of the season.

Students may be caught off guard when symptoms start showing up because of airborne pollen that has been released a month early.

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Collegiate Consulting to handle Missouri State ticket affairs

By Tim Godfrey The Standard Missouri State University announced Feb. 22 that it signed a contract with Collegiate Consulting to handle ticket sales of Missouri State athletic events including men’s and women’s basketball and football. According to the press release, the Mis-

souri State employees.

Board of GovAccording to ernors Athletics approved the Director Kyle deal Feb. 17 Moats, the and it was employees “executed by were not only both parties.” responsible Before the for ticket sales Moats agreement, but also hanticket sales of men’s dling marketing, manand women’s basket- aging events and sevball and football were eral other tasks. handled internally by Moats said that is Missouri State why Missouri State is

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That might be hard to believe considering Weems’ career includes a Larry Bird MVC Player of the Year trophy, an MVC regular-season title and 1,868 points scored—good for second all-time at Missouri State.

“I think he’ll have his number retired,” MSU head coach Paul Lusk said.

But the thing that Weems desired the most—for both his team and the Missouri State community—was not to have his number retired. It was to make a trip to the Big Dance, the NCAA Tournament.

Although his dreams of playing in the tournament never came to fruition, he is still leaving quite a legacy at MSU, the place where he has developed as a basketball player and as a young man.

“I’ll be a part of Missouri State for the rest of my life because I really feel like that’s my second home and everybody there is my family,” Weems said after his team’s quarterfinal loss to Evansville. “I’ve been blessed with a great opportunity to spend five years of my life there.”

Baseball, 6:30 p.m. at home vs. Purdue

Men’s Golf, 8:30 a.m. away at La. Tech Classic Field Hockey, 4 p.m. at home vs. SLU

Wednesday Softball, 5 p.m. away at Central Arkansas

Thursday Baseball, 6:30 p.m. away at Oral Roberts

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Baseball, 3 p.m. away at Oral Roberts Softball, 5 p.m. at home vs. Illinois State

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Men’s Soccer, 6:30 p.m. away at Tulsa

Softball, 2 p.m. at home vs. Illinois State

Sunday

Baseball, 1 p.m. at home vs. Oral Roberts Women’s Golf, 8:30 a.m. away at Del Monte Invit.

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Briefs MSU’s Voit named to award watch List

Missouri State baseball junior catcher Luke Voit has been named to the list of 43 Division I catchers for the 2012 Johnny Bench Award watch list.

The award is presented by http://BaseballSavings.com and was announced a week ago by the Greater Wichita Area Sports Commission.

Voit has played in and started all 16 games for the Bears (12-4) this season and is tied for second on the team with 16 runs batted in, and totes a .239 batting average while leading the team with four stolen bases on four attempts.

Voit also leads the team in putouts with 134, and has caught five of nine stealing.

Copeland will not return next season

Missouri State men’s basketball sophomore guard Corey Copeland will not return to the men’s basketball team next season. Head coach Paul Lusk announced Monday evening that Copeland requested his release from the program after playing in 26 of the team’s games this season.

Copeland will complete this semester prior to transferring.

During his two-year career with the Bears, Copeland played in 51 games while starting only once and compiled 385 minutes for an average of 7.5 minutes a game.

Copeland scored a total of 71 points during his time at Missouri State, had 18 assists and 36 rebounds.

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hen Kyle Weems’ career finally came to an end at the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament in St. Louis on March 2, he felt as if he had “let Missouri State down and the city of Springfield down.”

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to any corporations or any people to our contests,” Moats said.

Collegiate Consulting is a solutionsbased consulting company that works exclusively in the collegiate marketplace. In addition to ticket sales, they specialize in a variety of revenuebuilding fields, such

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expects Collegiate Consulting to work with people in human relations for corporations or those in charge of making decisions to purchase tickets to Missouri State athletic events for those corporations—something Moats said was lacking in the past.

“We had nobody making outbound calls

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working with Collegiate Consulting—to make those calls and identify those people who want to buy tickets.

“What I hope Collegiate Consulting does is that they’re going to work by selling tickets to fans and the corporate community 24/7,” Moats said.

Moats said he

how he was brought up.

Weems was raised to play the game of basketball. His father, Kevin Weems, played for the Drury University basketball team from 1978 to 1980. His grandfather, Charles Weems, was a referee in the Ozarks area and officiated the last MSU game ever played in McDonald Arena in 1976. His uncle, Kris Weems, played for Stanford in the late ‘90s and went to the Final Four with the team in 1998.

Kevin taught his son the game of basketball from an early age and pushed Kyle to work hard, not only at basketball, but also in life.

“He was tough on me,” Weems said in an interview last year. “I can remember times, fifth or sixth grade, Saturday mornings—everybody else was asleep at six in the morning, but I’m up jumping rope, running sprints, ball handling, getting shots up.

I can remember running on a dirt road with cleats.

“At the time I might not have been very happy with him, but I knew in the long run things would work out. I’m just really blessed to have him on my side.”

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To understand Kyle Weems, you must first understand where he came from and

Lacrosse Bears drop game to in-state rival Missouri

By Ruben Carlos Alonzo For The Standard The offense for the Missouri State club lacrosse team went cold as the Bears lost to in-state rival Mizzou 13-2 at Cooper Sports Complex on Saturday.

Coming into the game, the Bears (4-2, 10) in Great Rivers Lacrosse Conference had averaged 14.2 goals per game in their previous five games, but could not get into an offensive rhythm against the Tigers.

“Mizzou is a very, very good defensive team—very good goalie in the net,” Bears head coach Pat Callaham said. “We had a hard time getting into a rhythm in the first half. We never really found our stride.”

Mizzou’s Matt Vollmer, who finished the game with five goals, scored the first goal of the game with 8:12 left in the first quarter. It appeared the Bears would only be down one entering the first break, but a turnover caused by a crease violation allowed Mizzou to go up 2-0 with 1:14 left in the quarter.

The Bears began the second quarter by pressing their offense, but couldn’t manage to score through the first five minutes. Missouri State then used a timeout to set up their offense, and the decision worked out as senior midfielder Lyle McCallum scored to cut the deficit in half with 9:32 left in the quarter.

“Whenever I scored, I felt we could get

right back into the game,” McCallum said.

In addition to McCallum’s goal, the Bears were being backed by the work of goalie Fred Neyhard, who made several saves throughout the first half.

“He had some real big saves that kept us in the game, especially early on,” Callaham said. “Unfortunately we couldn’t follow those up with clears and possessions to help him out. He definitely kept us in the game for the first half.”

Mizzou would add three more goals over the final 8:15 of the half, including two goals in eight seconds, to extend their lead to 5-1.

The Bears would capitalize on a Mizzou turnover when sophomore Chris Callaham, brother of head coach Pat Callaham, scored to bring the Bears within three.

Missouri State would not find the back of the net again while Mizzou would score eight unanswered goals over the final 25 minutes of the game.

“We really struggled to get possession of the ball after (our second goal), and we didn’t get a lot of quality looks at the net,” Chris Callaham said. “Hopefully we can build on it next weekend.”

According to McCallum, the lopsided result isn’t the standard between the two rivals.

“We usually play really good games with (Mizzou),” he said. “This one just got away from us.”

Heartbreak for Lady Bears Creighton ends tournament hopes for Missouri State

By Harrison Keegan The Standard There are some shots you just can’t defend such as when a shooter is so in rhythm that she sees right through a hand in her face and contact only helps her arch. Creighton sophomore Carli Tritz had one of those shots Saturday in the Bluejays’ 56-47 win over the Missouri State Lady Bears in the semifinals of the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament at The Family Arena in St. Charles, Mo. In a back-and-forth game that had seen the Lady Bears up by as many as 12 and down by as many as seven, the Bluejays were up three with the

shot clock winding down.

Tritz got the ball at the top of the key and drained a three while falling away and was fouled by Missouri State senior Jaleshia Roberson. She would make the free throw to put Creighton up seven and the game effectively out of reach with 1:47 on the clock.

“I looked up at the shot clock and I was like ‘Oh crap, there’s one second left, I better shoot it,’” Tritz said. “Then I got fouled, and that was probably the clinching shot of the game, I would say.”

The Lady Bears raced out to a 16-4 lead to start the game, but the Bluejays quickly answered with a 12-0 run to tie things up and the Lady Bears

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Baseball Bears take two of three amid hot start

By Benjamen Loewnau The Standard The start the Missouri State baseball team has experienced hasn’t gone unnoticed.

By taking two of three games from SIUEdwardsville over the weekend, the Bears got a chance to explain why they have received five votes in the most recent USA TODAY/ESPN Top 25 coaches’ poll.

Missouri State (124) took the first game 30 on Friday and then split Saturday’s doubleheader, dropping game one 3-1 and taking game two 10-7.

“Unbelievable, it’s so much fun to be a part of,” junior starter Pierce Johnson said of the start. “Coming out to the field just having a blast, just playing the game we love and everything’s coming together.”

Johnson’s 11 strikeouts in game one of the doubleheader were in vain as the Bears offense fell victim to the opposing end of a pitcher’s duel.

“Just one of those days, that’s just the game of baseball,” he said. “I thought our team did pretty well, we just couldn’t string any hits together.”

SIU-E starter Travis Felax matched Johnson’s efforts as he held Missouri State to three hits in seven and a third innings pitched.

After Felax was chased from the game, the SIU-E Cougars put in reliever Dustin Quattrocchi to close out the Bears, something he eventually would accomplish after a few speed bumps.

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Softball team splits a weekend set at Killian with Iowa State

By John Cook The Standard

The Missouri State softball Bears continued their hot start this past weekend with a twogame split against Iowa State. The Bears (9-5) haven’t played this well to start a season since 2008 when they started 8-2.

Senior Natalie Rose dominated the first game of the three-game series against the Cyclones (7-12) on Saturday with a complete game, four-hit shutout. The Bears ace also had 11 strikeouts, which ties her season high.

“Nat pretty much dominated on the mound with 11 strikeouts, and we played solid defense

behind her,” MSU coach Holly Hesse said. “Our hitting, I think, is really showing improvement.”

Rose (5-0) has been a force for the Bears, winning every game she has started this season. She also has two saves and an ERA of just 0.95.

Junior Stevie Pierce hit a solo home run in the bottom of the fourth inning, which was her first of the year and seventh of her career. In the sixth inning, junior Caitlin Chapin hit a lead-off double, and two batters later, sophomore Heather Duckworth drove in two runs to give the Bears a commanding 3-0 lead.

MSU added one more run on their way to a 4-0 victory.

“The first game was awesome,” Rose said. “Defense was really good and we came out and hit very well. My pitches were all working and my change-up was very effective. The second game I felt like they were much more aggressive.”

In the second game, Chapin gave the Bears an early lead with a three-run blast over the left field wall. But by the sixth inning, ISU had knocked freshman pitcher Chelsea Jones out of the game, as they took a commanding 6-3 lead.

The Bears showed signs of life in the bottom of the sixth with a line drive single by junior Kirstin Cutter. Pierce kept the momentum going with a double that plated

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their free throws, less than 30 percent of their field goals and went 0-for-14 from beyond the arc. Lady Bears head coach Nyla Milleson said her team needed to do a better job getting to the free throw line.

“We really struggled to get into a flow,” Milleson said.

“We average 25 free throws a game and we only had 12.”

For Creighton, it was all Tritz. The sophomore guard scored 27 of her career-high 29 points in the second half, outscoring the Lady Bears on her own after the break.

Missouri State senior Casey Garrison said that, at times, the Lady Bears lost track of Tritz off the ball.

“I think for the most part we did all right. There were a few times when she went around us and I think there were a few miscommunications,” Garrison said. “I think when she got the ball in her hands, I think for the most part, we defended her well. It was just away from the ball that we struggled.”

Garrison and sophomore guard Karly Buer led the Lady Bears with 18 and eight points, respectively, but they combined to shoot 12-of-38 from the field.

Buer said some of the offensive struggles might have been a result of Creighton center Sarah Nelson’s presence inside—she had six blocks.

The Lady Bears got to the semifinals after a hard-fought 58-54 win against Bradley on Friday.

With Saturday’s loss, the

the change and knocked in a run late in the ninth inning, but their efforts were nullified as Quattrocchi clinched the save.

“We lacked intensity all series and we showed up first game today (Saturday), and we were unable to get very many hits,” senior third baseman Brent

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Senior Lacey Boshe (top) and junior Christiana Shorter did their best to score against Creighton, but the Lady Bears ended up losing the game.

Lady Bears will fall short of their goal to make the NCAA Tournament and will, instead, make their third straight WNIT appearance.

Milleson said the team is disappointed, but they hope to be able to provide the large crowd that traveled to watch them in St. Charles with a few more home games.

as food and beverage concessions, merchandising, fundraising and development.

The length of the contract between Missouri State and Collegiate Consulting is three years.

Moats said three years was enough time to decipher if Collegiate Consulting is producing enough revenue for Missouri State. He also said the first two years are “going to be difficult” because Collegiate Consulting will be doing research, identifying contacts and trying to sell tickets to those contacts.

“By year three, we will have a pretty good idea if it’s working,” Moats said.

Russell Wright, managing director for Collegiate Consulting, has a game plan to make sure this partnership works. His first objective is to establish a “strong season ticket base.”

Cutter and put MSU down just two, but the Bears couldn’t bring in Pierce, and ISU took the second game, 6-4.

The rubber match scheduled for Sunday was canceled on account of rain.

“I think we did really well as a team,” Pierce said. “We had a little bit of a setback, but we battled back and played great.”

Jones (3-4) has shown glimpses of being a special player for the Bears in her first year. In a March 4 matchup against No. 13 Missouri, Jones gave up just three runs in a 3-1 MSU loss.

“Chelsea is a freshman, and freshmen have ups and downs during their freshman year while

Seifert said. “Lack of hitting, we just didn’t get any runs and they got stolen from us.”

Seifert and the Bears came back in the rubber game of the series as the offense exploded for 10 runs in the first two frames, more runs than both teams combined for in the first two games.

Small ball was the name of the game early on as a means of jump-starting an offense that had gone cold

they make that jump,” Hesse said.

“I’ve been very pleased with what Chelsea has done for us so far.”

The Bears could be called road warriors, starting the year off with three different tournaments away from home.

“We’ve been on the road, and we’ve done a lot with very few runs,” Hesse said. “So when we start scoring runs, it could be amazing.”

MSU will have a one-game road trip on Wednesday to Central Arkansas before returning home for the weekend to play a threegame series against Illinois State.

The first game of the series starts at 6 p.m. Friday at Killian Sports Complex.

in the previous two matchups.

Multiple singles, bunts and steals were what the Bears turned to early on as they put a gaudy eight runs on the board in the second inning.

“We don’t try and force things but if it’s there we take it,” head coach Keith Guttin said.

A good part of the offense in the latter part of the doubleheader came from Seifert, the reigning

Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Week.

Seifert went 3-for-5 on the day with three RBIs and two runs scored from the third spot in the lineup.

“He’s just so steady, he’s there all the time, he has good at bats,” Guttin said. “He’s got the maturity to throw away bad at-bats and come back and have good ones.”

The Bears will play next at 6:30 p.m. today against Purdue at Hammons Field.

“Regarding the big three (men’s and women’s basketball and football), our biggest objective is to exponentially increase that season ticket base,” Wright said.

Wright said that he plans on expanding group ticket sales, but also plans to transition the buyers of the group tickets — usually businesses and corporations — into buyers of season tickets.

“A big part of this is flatout phone work,” Wright said.

According to Wright, Collegiate Consulting will have four employees working on the phone campaign to sell tickets to potential buyers: a general manager, an assistant general manager and two other employees.

On the court and on the field, members of the Missouri State athletic teams do their best to improve their performance to produce wins. Moats and Wright want to do their best to improve ticket sales and revenue.

“We have to do better than what we’ve been doing,” Moats said.

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When he finally emerged, Paul began his speech by saying “In the last 30 or 40 years, the Constitution has been ignored.” He also said “The government shouldn’t be allowed to do anything you (the American people) are not allowed to do,” and that there needs to be change in Washington in order to uphold the values of the Constitution.

He went on to say that the U.S. needs to stop getting involved in wars that they have no part being involved with, referring to the wars in the Middle East, and that by getting involved in these wars, the country is spending money and increasing the national debt at an unacceptable rate.

He later addressed the fact that he thinks “The larger the government is, the less liberty

Youth Continued from page 1 information,” Brueggeman said. “We’ve gone over some mock caucus stuff and we’re just trying to get everyone prepared to know what to do at the caucus and obviously grab as many people as they can who support Ron Paul.”

More than anything, Brueggeman said he thinks if more people just knew about Paul’s message there would be much more support.

“We have people from all walks of life,” Brueggeman

there is” and that “We need to shrink the government.” He finished his speech by addressing his thoughts on repealing the Federal Reserve and the Patriot Act and running a free society claiming that “The more free the society is, the more prosperous the society is.”

Of the hundreds of people in attendance, about 10 members of Missouri State’s chapter of Youth for Ron Paul were there to show their support.

“It means everything (for him to be here),” said Nick Brueggeman, president of the organization. “This is what we’ve been working for on campus with the Youth organization. It’s just great to get Ron Paul here and spread the message and see all these people here to hear Ron Paul’s message of liberty.”

Brueggeman said there is one big issue college students in particular need to be concerned with in this year’s election.

“Unemployment rate,” he said. “A lot of people are graduating college, and what’s going to happen?

They’re going to go out and they can’t even find a job.

They’re going to have to be working these minimumwage jobs, living with their parents and struggling because of the financial problems we are in as a country.

Ron Paul will change that.”

Brueggeman said the support of college students is very important to Ron Paul’s campaign and in the fight to get him elected as the next president.

“It’s really essential because a lot of these college students can still be molded,” he said. “They’re not 30, 40 years into their ways. They’re more open-minded. And when they hear Ron Paul’s message of liberty, they understand a little bit more.

They understand that it’s important to live by the Constitution and live by the law of the land.”

said. “We have students that aren’t even American citizens that are in our group.

They obviously can’t vote, but they love Ron Paul’s message. We have people in all sorts of majors, all demographics. Freedom is a powerful message — it affects everybody.”

Paul’s stance on major political issues is laid out for the public on his 2012 campaign website, http://ronpaul2012.com. Included in his focus are issues such as abortion, health care, the economy, national defense, the Federal Reserve, taxation, the Second Amendment, workers’ rights, home-

schooling, immigration and energy independence.

“He’s never voted for a tax increase,” Brueggeman said. “He returns a portion of his salary every year to the treasury. He doesn’t participate in the pension program that all congressmen get, he is the candidate that the American people want and that they need.”

To become a member of MSU’s chapter of Youth for Ron Paul and support his 2012 campaign to become the next president of the United States, send an email to Brueggeman at Brueggeman316@live.missouristate.edu.

Santorum Continued from page 1 nominee who can draw a clear contrast with the president.”

Santorum cited Romney’s health care reforms in Massachusetts as making him too like President Obama and his Affordable Care Act and Gingrich’s appearances with Rep. Nancy Pelosi as issues that too closely aligned them with the president, leaving himself as the only Republican candidate capable of taking on the president in November.

Santorum’s statements were met with large cheers from the crowd and the occasional “Hallelujah!”

However, the rally was not without incident.

Missouri State students Jess Wagner, senior music

Weather Continued from page 1 located on the dormitory doors.

“As an RA, they tell us what we need to do to get you guys to the right place of the building and they are also on the back of our doors,” Bishop said.

Building coordinators and staff will inform students and teachers in the classrooms.

Kathryn Shade, a chemistry lab professor, had to rearrange her lesson plan due to the weather exer-

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 education majors Jessica Wagner, Andrew McIntyre and Jeo Emerson attended the beginning of the “Rally for Rick” before being asked to leave along with members of Occupy Springfield and several other people in the crowd.

Sgt. Chad Eutsler of the Springfield Police Department – who were in charge of security for the rally – said complaints from DMP management were the reason members of the crowd were asked to leave before Santorum took the stage.

“We had a complaint from management who asked us to have them leave,” he said. “Since this is a private facility, we had to ask them to leave.”

Midge Potts, a member of Occupy Springfield who was forced to leave the rally, said no one in the group had been acting out of line at the rally.

“About a dozen of us

came here to basically just listen to the program and to see what Rick Santorum had to say,” Potts said. “We hadn’t done anything. We were just standing there listening like everyone else and a couple police officers said, ‘You have to leave.’”

Those forced to leave the rally were not offered any explanation for why they were asked to leave from the police, Potts said.

“They kept pushing us out and we were trying to talk to them at the door about why we weren’t allowed to listen to a presidential candidate because we wanted to be involved in these politics and listen,” Potts said. “And they said, ‘Well, it’s a private company’ and even though it was advertised as being public, they could ask us to leave at any time.”

DMP did not return messages for comment before The Standard’s press time.

cise.

“Since we have to leave our classroom and go to the safe area in the building, we have to leave whatever we’re doing,” Shade said. “With lab, especially the one I rescheduled, we are going to have stuff on hot plates and it’s going to be burning and you can’t just pick that up and go.”

Students can stay informed by subscribing to Missouri State Alert, a mass text system that informs individuals about severe weather and other emergencies. Individuals can sign up for the system on the Missouri State web-

site and through his or her MyMissouriState account.

The system will send out text messages for school closings, severe weather conditions and other emergencies the students need to be informed about.

A survey will be sent out to department heads and building coordinators to help refine the procedures to make the process smoother in the event of actual severe weather.

More information about severe weather responses on campus can be found on the Department of Safety and Transportation’s website at http://www.missouristate.edu/safetran.

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Lenz Continued from page 4 Lam’s “Speed Limit,” pay homage to the artists that paved the way for the genre.

“For me, songwriting is amazing, and there’s so many bands out there I like to pay homage to,” Lenz said. “But if you’re not writing new songs, you’re not really making music. Each one of us has the ability to look inside of ourselves and, if a song is put together right, you can touch people.”

For Lenz, that means imagining the way each musician will sound when the song is put together correctly.

“It sounds kind of weird but when I can finally get the guys to play it the way that I hear it, it’s like putting together a puzzle,” Lenz said. “I know it kind of already exists, and I’m just putting different pieces together. When it’s right, I’m like ‘Oh, there it is!’”

Wednesday night’s show started with local band’s Big Damn Heroes and St. Dallas & The Sinners. Lenz took the stage, introducing her new bandmates and

Freedom Continued from page 5 saw in them a life they weren’t leading, people hidden behind the hardened souls who had seen so much pain and violence.

She recalled the day she introduced the class syllabus.

“Darius took one look at, folded it into a perfect airplane, stood up and threw it right back at me, and said, ‘Why do we have to read books written by dead white guys in tights?’” she said.

“Which was a very profound question, because in Darius’ mind, Shakespeare wasn’t going to jump out of the page and have Darius’ back. And Homer wasn’t going to put food on the table for that hardworking single mom.”

Gruwell admitted that after the first day a part of her wanted to flee, to submit to a life and livelihood much more comfortable, but something held her fast.

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calling out to an old friend, lead singer of the Sinners, Dallas Self, before starting in with numbers off the album, “It’s All True!” As a special treat, she played “Number One Reason,” a new song off her upcoming album.

“This last year was a really emotional year for me, so I don’t really know what’s going to happen on this record,” Lenz said.

Inspiration comes in many forms, and being the lead singer of a rockabilly band when the genre is traditionally male-dominated can be a big challenge, but it’s one that Lenz meets head on. She’s a natural when it comes to the lifestyle and once on stage seems completely at ease.

“Maybe because I’m a woman I have a different perspective— there is definitely an empowerment thing,” Lenz said. “I think I have the right amount of anger, and what the hell, I’m strong, kind of like ‘F—- you, I can do whatever I want to do.’”

The band’s vintage sound and high-energy performances make this rockabilly band one to watch.

Their tour is taking them all the Josh Campbell/THE STANDARD way back to California but keep an eye out for their upcoming album, Kim Lenz and the Jaguars played rockabilly to an excited audience Wednesday, March 7 at Lindberg’s located at 318 W. Commercial St. The band is heading to California on the next leg of its tour. which is sure to pack a punch.

“I kept thinking, ‘Do I call my dad who’s just going to tell me, “I told you so?” or do I try to make some kind of connection with these kids?’” she said.

“Do I try to find out where do they come from, what do they know and why are they so miserable?

“Every single one of my kids has some kind of Odyssey, some kind of journey. So maybe what I was going to do was find out where does that journey start, but more importantly, where was it headed?”

And so she sat her students down with pen and pad and had them share their stories, hoping that they would find some catharsis in pouring out their demons. She first picked up Maria’s.

“What I read in that first journal entry was, ‘I hate Erin Gruwell. I hate Erin Gruwell, and if I wasn’t on probation I’d probably shank her,’” she said.

But she said those first entries were a huge eye opener for her.

“Darius had said, ‘You know, Miss G, I feel like I come from an undeclared war zone,’” Gruwell said.

“Even though there are no tanks going down our streets like you’d seen in Afghanistan or Iraq, by the time Darius was 14 years old, he’d already buried two dozen friends.”

One student had already been to 44 foster homes, split apart from his seven brothers and sisters. One student was homeless, taking a can to the streets with her every day with hopes to raise money for dinner for her family—only to see it squandered away on booze by her father every night.

She said she wanted to share with her students the diaries of real kids facing real horrors, who had the courage to share those stories with the world.

She purchased hundreds of copies of these books from her own pocket to give her class this gift.

“These other kids who reached for a pen and actually told their story,” she

said. “Little girls like Anne Frank hiding in a tiny little attic, who’d look out her window and watch her friends being led off like sheep to slaughter. Or Zlata Filipovi from Sarajevo who watched her friends every day being picked off by snipers.”

One day she took time decorating the room and filled 150 plastic champagne glasses with apple cider, and led her students in a toast for change, a chance for them to shed light on what is haunting them and what they can do to better their lives. She was met with more honesty and emotion than she could have hoped for.

“There was a part of me that panicked,” she said. “I said, ‘I’m not a counselor, I’m not a therapist. I don’t even know how to use the copy machine yet. How am I supposed to help these students change?’”

But change did come, and Gruwell’s methods of bringing life to lifeless were tireless. She organized a

class field trip to see “Schindler’s List,” she took them to the Holocaust Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles and took serious time to make sure her students were devout in their writings.

Eventually she compiled their writings and entitled the book “The Freedom Writer’s Diary,” in homage to the 1961 civil rights activists, The Freedom Riders.

What was originally a class project served to be much more important when it was eventually published by the same publishers that saw a chance in “The Diary of a Young Girl.”

“We thought we’d take these stories and go to Kinkos, make 150 copies and call it a day,” she said.

“And to be really honest, we sent out maybe 20 copies and every single one got rejected, except the same company that published a book by a little girl in a tiny attic.”

Gruwell said the proceeds from the book went

directly to her students’ college funds and many are now pursuing higher education degrees and are the first in their families to know success.

“My students are able to travel the country,” she said. “And speak to kids, to colleges, to teachers, about something they wrote in their darkest, deepest hours, hoping that they can change, knowing that if they did then maybe things can be different.

“They still call me Miss G. They still make fun of me,” she said. “They still think I butcher every slang word in every song. They keep me in check. But every single one of those kids has become these incredible adults who are willing and ready to make change.”

Gruwell currently works with teachers around the country helping them make a difference, and organizes a scholarship program that helps give struggling, dedicated students the chance they deserve.

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through two coaching changes,” Lusk said. “Then I come in here during his last year, and he’s the only returning starter. He kept a very good attitude, and it was a tough year from the standpoint for him. He was a joy to coach, and I want to do everything in my power to help him in the future.”

Continued from page 6 That dirt road is located in Topeka, Kan., where Weems grew up, a fourhour drive from Springfield. It was there that he attended Highland Park High School, an inner-city school of about 700 students.

“People can’t understand it unless they know where we’re from,” Weems’ high school coach Ken Darting said. “We’re an inner-city school.

We see a lot of teenagers die in the streets and see a lot of struggling families and struggling individuals.”

Darting said Weems has blazed a trail for all of the kids that walk through the halls of Highland Park on a daily basis and see the trophy case designated specifically for him.

“It’s great when you get somebody like Kyle, who not only makes it and succeeds, but is also such a great ambassador of Highland Park, a great ambassador of the Highland Park community and a guy that all our kids just watch with interest and dream of someday being Kyle,” Darting said.

“Kyle gives them something to follow.”

Darting said he knew when Weems was a sophomore, he had a chance to play at the Division I level and saw a significant growth in Weems’ game from that point on.

“Through his freshman and sophomore year, it was kind of a developmental time,” Darting said. “Especially his sophomore year, I pushed him really hard. By the end of his sophomore year, I knew he had a chance to play Division I. He was showing signs of being a Division I player.”

Weems finished off his high school career by leading Highland Park to a Kansas 5A state title with a perfect 25-0 record. He earned allstate honors that year, averaging 15.2 points, eight rebounds and three blocks per game.

When it came time to make a decision about where he would continue his education and basketball career, Weems chose MSU over Indiana State, Illinois State and UC Santa Clara.

“The people (at MSU) are definitely basketball people,” Weems said.

“It’s just a rich-tradition basketball town and Missouri State had great tradition. Coach (Steve) Woodberry coached me in AAU and coach (Barry) Hinson and his staff were just great. That’s why I decided to come here.”

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Former Bears basketball player Kyle Weems fights for a rebound against Oklahoma State earlier this season in a game at JQH Arena. Weems averaged 15.6 points and 7.2 rebounds per game.

2007 and was redshirted in his first season under coach Barry Hinson.

Hinson first got a glimpse of Weems while he was playing for now-MSU assistant coach Steve Woodberry’s AAU team, Pump ‘n’ Run, and knew immediately Weems was a player he was interested in bringing to Springfield.

“When you’re with Kyle Weems, I think the thing that catches your eye is how he portrays himself,” Hinson said. “There may be only one more jovial character in the world than Kyle Weems, and that’s Santa Claus. He is Becoming a Bear probably the most personable kid I’ve Weems came to Missouri State in ever recruited.”

When Hinson was fired from his coaching position at MSU in 2008, Weems underwent the first of two coaching changes he would experience in his five-year career. Out went Hinson, and in came Purdue assistant coach Cuonzo Martin.

Weems emerged into stardom in Martin’s third season at the helm, averaging 16 points and 6.8 rebounds per game, leading the Bears to a 26-9 record and the school’s first ever regular-season MVC title while claiming MVC Player of the Year honors.

“I was glad for him last year when he won the MVP of the league,” Woodberry said. “I thought that was

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something he put a lot of effort into and we had a really good team, so we did something special together and he was a big part of that.”

The success of the team led to Martin’s departure as he took the coaching vacancy at Tennessee, and Weems was facing yet another coaching change going into his final season.

He could have gone somewhere else to finish up his college career—bigger schools such as Kansas, Kansas State and Oregon had interest in him—but instead he decided to stay at MSU and play for new coach Paul Lusk.

“Couldn’t ask for anything more when you talk about a kid who’s gone

When a player’s career comes to a close, one thing that people tend to think about is how that player will be remembered. There is little doubt that Weems’ No. 34 jersey will some day hang from the rafters of JQH Arena.

But that honor will come from what he accomplished on the basketball court. What might be more important to those who know him, is the way that he conducted himself off the court.

“You always want to pass something down, and I think the thing that he’ll pass down is that you go about your business the right way,” Lusk said. “You can still be very successful, have a lot of awards, get your degree and act the right way. He was never in trouble. He was a professional with the way he approached his business.”

Over the past five years, there have been several people at MSU that have pushed Weems to become the player that he is. But the people who have inspired him the most are very much close to home.

“I think it’s a mixture of my dad and my uncle Kris,” Weems said. “My dad, because he unfortunately didn’t finish college, and he always drove and instilled in me that I need that piece of paper to open up more doors for me in the future. And also my uncle Kris because he’s been there and he’s done that. And I grew up watching him win state tournaments and I got to watch him play in the Final Four. And just seeing him do it means anyone can do it.”

As Weems leaves Missouri State, he remembers all of the teammates, coaches, fans and community members that he will leave behind as he pursues a professional basketball career either in the NBA or overseas.

“It’s been awesome,” Weems said.

“It’s opened up so many doors for me, so many opportunities, and I just want to thank Missouri State because they’ve really welcomed me with open arms and helped me out a lot. I got a great degree from here, and I’ve had the best five years of my life getting to play basketball.

“Not a whole lot of people have had the opportunity to do this, some of the stuff that I’ve done and accomplish some of the stuff that I’ve accomplished, and none of it would be possible without Missouri State.”