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‘March For Our Lives’ protest planned for Friday Walkout comes after national day of protests CORTLYNN STARK News Editor @Cortlynn_Stark Last week, thousands of students participated in a national “March For Our Lives” protest. A Springfield walkout is set for Friday.

Missouri State senior and director of Team Millennial Hannah Brashers said the group is calling for three pieces of gun reform.

“We want increased background checks, which we know 90 percent of Americans actually want,” Brashers, a music and English literature major, said. “We want decreased

access to to AR-15s which, actually, 50 percent of mass shooters in the past decade have used AR-15s and they’re just really really easy to get ahold of so we want decreased access to those. Then, we also want no guns on campus, high school campuses, college campuses, no guns in schools period.”

Students participating on Friday will walk out of classes at 10:30 a.m. and meet at the Strong Hall amphitheater. Brashers said students will speak and then she will lead the group on a route around campus, down Grand Street and back to the amphitheater. There will also be tables with education-

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al materials, voter registration forms and letters to legislators, she said.

“We want this to be a way for students who have not been involved in politics or activism, we want this to be a way for them to get involved and realize that their voices can be heard and realize that there’s a whole community for students in Springfield and the surrounding area who will stand with them and fight for the legislation that we know we need,” Brashers said.

Brashers is spearheading the movement at Missouri State but several other Springfield schools

Students and citizens of all ages gathered in Strong Hall to make signs for their walkout in protest of gun control, which will occur on March 23.

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How diverse While meth labs in Springfield drop, meth seizure rises is MSU? EMILY COLE Staff Reporter @EMCole19 Missouri State University is often marketed as a diverse school. On the school website, “Diversity” is listed on the “About MSU” tab, under “Public Affairs Mission.”

However, according to the MSU Diversity Report, 80 percent of the students enrolled in 2017 were white, with 5 percent nonresident alien, around 5 percent black and around 10 percent other races. According to the U.S. Census Bureau in 2016, 76.9 percent of the U.S. population is white.

One of the challenges facing MSU when it comes to becoming more diverse is its location.

This area of the country is predominately white.

Missouri’s population was 80 percent white, and Springfield was around 90 percent white, according to the 2010 US Census.

According to the 2017 Bear Stats released by the Office of Institutional Research at MSU, 84 percent of students were from Missouri, meaning a large majority of MSU’s students are likely to be white.

Mecca Walker, a graduate student studying business administration, came to MSU for graduate school after earning her undergraduate at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

UNLV was named one of the most ethnically diverse schools in the nation by U.S. News in 2018.

On a scale of 0.1 to 1.0, UNLV was given a 0.75.

The closer a school is to 1, the more diverse it is.

Walker said MSU may be less diverse, but she credits that to the area of the country it’s located in.

“The major difference I’ve seen from other predominantly white institutions and MSU is that MSU acknowledges its history as an all-white teacher’s school and is making a conscious effort to not only change their image in the eyes of minority students to an inclusive space that encourages intellectual empowerment, but also supports their cultural differences,” Walker said.

Part of that effort comes from the Division for Diversity and Inclusion.

In its 2016-2021 Long Range Plan, the university included a section dedicated to diversity and inclusion. The DDI uses this plan to outline its goals for diversity on campus.

One of these initiatives by the DDI is an annual Collaborative Diversity Conference, with a different theme each year.

This year’s conference is titled “Facing racism in 2018 and beyond: A changing dynamic” and takes place April 25-27.

Other initiatives include the Shattering the Silences series and the Facing Racism Institute.

HANNA FLANAGAN Senior Reporter @hanna_flanagan For over a decade, Missouri was widely considered the methamphetamine capital of the United States. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, Missouri had a total of 1,963 methamphetamine “lab incidents” (lab busts and related paraphernalia seizures) in 2012 — 248 more than any other state in the country.

Also, in that year, 96 meth labs were seized in Greene County alone, according to Missouri State Highway Patrol statistics.

But recently, that number has decreased significantly. Just two labs were seized by Springfield police during all of 2017. This data would suggest the concentration of meth in the area has also decreased, but, Lisa Cox, public affairs officer for the Springfield Police Department, said this is not the case.

“Labs have decreased dramatically over the years,” Cox said. “However, the seizure of meth has continued to climb.”

Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, the large quantity of meth in Springfield was directly linked to the large quantity of meth labs in the area. Now, police are seeing significantly less labs, yet drug activity it still rising.

The disconnect between these statistics is clear: production.

“People are no longer making meth locally,” Cox said. “It is coming over the Mexican border. It’s purer and it’s cheaper, so there is no need for them to take the risk of making it themselves.”

Until recently, most of the meth in this area was being produced, sold and used by locals. Lt. Eric Reece, who oversees the narcotic investigations unit, said it is not coming from household meth labs anymore. Instead, it is coming directly from Mexico.

About 20 years ago, when southwest Missouri saw a spike in meth lab activity, an investigation led the Drug Enforcement Agency and local police to Bob Paillet. Paillet is “the man who reinvented meth,” according to an in-depth feature published by the Springfield News-Leader last year.

Paillet, who lived in Springfield, is the man who police say invented the “Nazi Method” of meth production. Before this development, making the stimulating drug was a complicated process that required

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a chemistry background and legitimate lab equipment.

But by using the Nazi Method, which calls for basic household items like cold medicine, anyone could make the drug.

According to the News-Leader article, any-

one who could follow a simple cake box recipe could follow the Nazi Method.

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Parking garage update voted down in SGA CARISSA ALFORD Staff Reporter @carissabalford During the Student Government Association meeting on Feb. 27, senior Bradley Wyman, management and info technology major, proposed a plan for a Bear Park South Parking Garage counter upgrade that was voted down.

Wyman said he came up with this idea when he noticed Bear Park North had a counter and Bear Park South did not. The only problem was that Bear Park South has older systems currently unable to support online functionality like Bear Park North.

“I believed that upgrading the counter would be a great start to giving students a better way to park on campus by giving them access to real time data,” Wyman said.

Wyman said in his open forum

that he wanted to use the Student Initiative Fund to pay for the upgrade, but with senators and officials on the SGA board disagreed with that funding method.

“I don’t think that this addition is the most effective use of student funds,” senior Chief Wyrick Commissioner Drew Geer said. “I think $26,000 to put the number of spots on an app is a little expensive.”

While Geer thinks student parking is a big deal, he said he doesn’t believe students should be the only ones to pay for the upgrade. He said the university is aware of the parking issue, but when it comes to the parking projects he would love to see the university take on the problem.

“Students have put a lot of their own money into this, and I think it’s time for the university to start looking at how they can help this situation,” Geer said.

Wyman agrees mostly with the argument of utilizing the university to pay for this upgrade, instead of the students.

“I think the university should definitely have a part in paying for aspects of this project, but with budget cuts I don’t imagine this project being high on the university’s priority list,” Wyman said.

“I don’t dislike the idea in theory; I just think we would need more research and data to show student utilization,” Greer said.

“The Student Initiative Fund is only about two years old; this is the first year we are actually doing projects with it. I think what we do now sets a precedent, so if we say $26,000 is too expensive, it makes this SGA body think more critically about what they do in the future.”

Not only was money an issue for the SGA, but safety of students as well. Freshman Senator Luther Har-

ris discussed public safety concern of students on their phones while driving.

Harris said during the open forum, because the counter would be on an app on a phone, that would influence students to check their phones while driving around looking for a parking spot.

“I rather would have seen more public transportation initiatives, encouraging people to get out of their cars,” Harris said. “It is an environmental issue as well as a public safety issue.”

Harris said that it would be $26,000 for nothing, considering no one is using the app.

“If no one is using the app, it doesn’t make sense to update a system that no one is using, especially if the demand isn’t there,” Harris said.

Wyman said this project is not meant to encourage students to use

their mobile devices while driving.

“I trust that students will be smart and only use their device when it is safe,” Wyman said. “In addition, if a student is in a different lot, like Lot 22 or 18, I assume they would come to complete stop before checking the counter.”

Recognizing all the negatives of his proposal, Wyman said in his open forum that there will be many benefits for students, for example giving students real time data of the availability of parking spots. This would allow students to make more informed decisions on where to park. “(The upgrade) would help cut down on students driving to Bear Park South, just to discover there are no spots,” Wyman said. “The long range idea for this is to eventually get all the main commuter lots on the MSU website and application.”

The proposal was voted down at the March 6 SGA meeting.

New boutique coming to the PSU in May MEG ALEXANDER Staff Reporter In May, a new Missouri State boutique called Madison Avenue will move into the PSU. The boutique will be located in what is now 1905, a Missouri State logo wear store. 1905 will move into Paw Prints spot, which will merge with Maroon Nation.

Madison Avenue is named after the historical road that used to go directly in front of the PSU and Freudenberger House, which in the past decade has been turned into a Bearline route.

“We hope to bring in the products that you all (Missouri State students) are wearing and the fashion trends that are current, so that you guys are proud of and want to shop in Madison Avenue,” Jeff Grevillius, clothing and store goods manager at the bookstore and the man heading up this project, said.

Madison Avenue is focused on providing non-logo wear and fashionable apparel for students to wear.

Grevillius said he got the idea from a visit to the University of Missouri-Columbia where they have a similar section of non-logo wear apparel in their bookstore.

“We have reached out to a whole lot of other stores who have done this, and we are looking at the things that have made them successful,” Grevillius said.

He also attributed the tailgates to helping shape this idea where fashion and clothing are such a prominent factor.

Grevillius said the new boutique is planning on having a “soft-opening” May 1 while still working on store layout, but the store should be wrapped up and completed by June 1 which is just in time for families and new students arriving for SOAR. “I feel this will be used a lot in the PSU … when I went to Mizzou, a lot of my friends used the boutique there,” Brooke Spalding, a junior studying creative writing and a transfer from Mizzou, said.

Spalding also mentioned that stu-

fashion design or clubs on campus with a focus in clothing to create a store all students will want to shop in.

Before spring break, Grevillius got the approval for the new store from Ray Presnell, the director of the Missouri State bookstore, and Dee Siscoe, the vice president of Student Affairs, and plans to start making more detailed plans in the next few weeks.

Caitlin Schaefer, MSU’s student body vice president, said Presnell and Siscoe asked her to gather feedback from students to better understand students’ reaction to the potential new store.

“From the feedback I have gathered from students, many seem to think this is an interesting idea, and they seem curious to see how it will BRADLEY BALSTERS/THE STANDARD look when it is completed … there 1905, which sells discounted BearWear, will be replaced by is also an opportunity for some of Madison Avenue, a boutique selling non-logo apparel, which our fashion merchandising students to get involved in choosing the items, has a soft-opening set for May. so I think many students see this as dents will have more incentive to pay it off later. a great opportunity to utilize the shop there because they can charge Grevillius said he is interested in unique skills of our students,” Schaethe purchase to their Bearpass and working with students majoring in fer said.

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As journalists, we report truth ALEC McCHESNEY Editor in chief @Alec_McChesney I am a journalist.

I am the editor in chief of The Standard newspaper at Missouri State University. I will graduate in May of 2018 and move to Oklahoma to intern at the Tulsa World.

But, in the meantime, I am a journalist serving the Springfield and Missouri State University community.

When I took over as the editor in chief in January, I wrote a column for our “Spring Welcome” edition.

The column was about beating fake news together, holding each other accountable and bringing good, necessary journalism to Springfield.

Here’s a tidbit from that column: “I promise The Standard will do everything in its power to bring you the news that matters in the way you want it. … From crimes on campus, to the school budget, to construction on campus, to sports, we will become the trustworthy source you need us to be. I promise we will hold every individual and group on this campus equally accountable and to a higher

standard than ever before. And if we fail, I want you to hold us — me — accountable and to the same standard.”

And because of that very column, that very passage, we — I — published a story on March 9 about Richard Garcia, a school representative on the Student Government Association, a leader to Missouri State incoming freshman for SOAR and a presidential hopeful for the student body of 2018-19.

The story shed light on tweets from Richard’s high school days that used the N-word 232 times and other terms classified as hate speech more than 350 times. I reached out to Richard before we published the story to talk to him about his tweets and why it was important we bring them to light. He represents the university on the cabinet of the Student Government Association and is a public figure.

He understood.

He said he got it completely and that we, at The Standard, were just doing exactly what we should be doing as journalists and told me there were no hard feelings.

However, when we published the story, there was an immediate outroar on social media, bashing my decision to run with the article, saying that The Standard assassinated Richard’s

character and was running a smear campaign against him. We were accused of libel, slander and called pathetic over and over.

By definition, slander is making false or inaccurate statements about a person’s character. Nothing The Standard published was false or inaccurate. Richard admitted to it and took the opportunity we gave him to comment on the matter. Libel is publishing false statements that are damaging to a person’s reputation.

Again, nothing The Standard published was false. Richard admitted to it.

Worse, several said we wrote the story in order to further our journalism careers and force Richard to resign. For starters, journalists don’t write stories in order to better ourselves. We do it because that’s the job. If people love the story, great. If they hate it, great. That’s up for you to decide. Secondly, at no point during the story did I say Richard should resign, quit, be fired or transfer schools. I only wrote what needed to be in the story.

From that point, it’s up to you. You take the information from the story and make up your mind. If you deem what Richard said in high school to be no big deal and that he’s changed, good. If you take offense to the things he said and are glad you know the information, good.

Then, as I told you in my column to start the year, you held us accountable. You found tweets from two members of The Standard and posted them online. I looked into the tweets and found them myself after you pointed them out, and I thank you for doing so. I wasn’t kidding when I said we would hold everyone accountable, and that I wanted you to do the same.

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If you see something in The Standard you disagree with, you think is incorrect or you simply want to talk about, email me, call me or knock on my door and I will gladly talk with you. We will hold each other accountable, and in doing so, we will make good use of the freedom of press. Let’s make a difference in 2018 — together.

Looking down the barrel BEN VICKERS Columnist @benrvickers96 As shocking as it may sound, there may be a correlation between horrific mass shootings and the availability of firearms. Make no mistake, America loves its guns, no matter the human or monetary cost. During the Obama administration, efforts to curb the growing numbers of gun violence were often faced with boosted gun sales.

In 2016, NPR reported, “The number of guns manufactured in the U.S. has nearly doubled in just a few

short years, from nearly 5.5 million in 2010 to nearly 10.9 million in 2013. The overwhelming majority of those guns stay on U.S. soil; around 400,000 firearms were exported in 2013.” During this timeframe, one of the largest mass shootings in American history occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing 20 children and six adults.

While the number of gun deaths increases every year, so does the number of guns sold in the United States. On Black Friday alone in 2017, the FBI received 203,086 requests for background checks, up from 185,713 Black Friday requests

in 2016. This came only a couple weeks after the Sutherland Springs church shooting, which killed 25 people, and only a month after the Vegas shooting in which 58 people were shot and killed. After every mass shooting, I can remember having the audacity to think that things would change. For a long time I have hoped that Congress would make legitimate efforts to make it more difficult for criminals to buy guns, or bring forth legislation to protect me and my loved ones from being another headline tragedy. But Congress never fails to disappoint.

Outwardly, there seem to be two

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sides to this epidemic of violence in the United States. On the right, traditional conservatives cite the Second Amendment and their right to bear arms. This side typically believes that safety can come about by adding protections to public places, and that more guns will lead to this safety.

On the left, liberals say that there are not only too many guns, but that they are too easy to access. After the Parkland shooting, there have been efforts from both sides to address the common factor of mental health problems seen in the majority of shooters, yet mental health programs are being cut. In the past few years, the number of mass shootings has skyrocketed and any attempt at a congressional solution has yet to be found.

There is such a divide on this issue that there is seemingly no end to this torrent of violence.

I grew up in a small town in which almost every household kept at least one gun. My highly liberal family was no exception to this trend. I grew up learning to shoot with a pellet gun, eventually moving up to rifles and shotguns, even competing in 4-H shooting sports. I took safety classes, went hunting every year, and I thoroughly appreciate firearms and their history.

What I can say from this experience is the use of guns should be highly respected and should come only after extensive education of their functionality. Public access to semi-automatic weapons is a senseless and unwarranted concept.

If you are hunting, you do not need a weapon such as the AR-15 which, according to its owners manual, can shoot 45 rounds per minute, or around 400 rounds with a bump stock addition.

If you cannot kill a deer, a turkey or any game with one shot, you should under no circumstances be hunting in the first place. These weapons are ballistically made to destroy people, pumping out ammunition designed to maim and kill.

There is no place for weapons of war to be brandished by citizens in a civilized community.

I also stipulate that at the time the Second Amendment was drafted, it provided means for a militia, necessary to the security of a free state. In the context of the times, there were no police, not even street lamps to provide security for the people; a militia served all purposes of security from massacring Native Americans to hunting down escaped slaves.

The only firearms available were muskets capable of firing a whopping three rounds a minute from a skilled marksman, and duels were still legally upheld, not to mention the fact that during the first half of American history, guns not used for hunting were stored in armories. The entire context of the Second Amendment has been distorted by mass producers of weaponry.

Despite today’s upward trend of violence, the moment schools seemingly became a primary target, America began to awaken from its dogmatic innocence on the issue of gun violence.

Unfortunately, the awakening has been slow and only superficially effective. After the shooting at Columbine High School, Congress narrowly expanded background checks.

Again in 2007, after Virginia Tech, Congress again increased background checks, albeit begrudgingly.

But in 2012, after 20 school children were shot dead along with six adults, Congress neglected to act.

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Privacy becomes trade-off for new technology JONATHAN PETESCH Columnist @thepeach1999 Privacy has always been at the forefront of our concerns when it comes to daily life, especially when we see new technology become available. With tech infiltrating every part of our lives, is it still possible to have complete privacy from our digital devices?

Last year, Google included a feature it calls “Now Playing” in its Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL devices where, if the user enables this feature, the phone will listen at all times for music playing around it and then show what is playing on the lock screen if it can match the sound in Google Play Music’s vast library of songs and other audio.

So far, this feature has worked very well, at least for me with my Pixel 2 XL, and has eliminated the need for me to open up the Google Play Music app to do a song search if I want to know what is playing around me.

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This compromisation of privacy is not specifically explained when you turn these features on, so it is up to the user to research this before they turn on features like these if they truly want to know what they’re getting themselves into.

Google has never confirmed nor denied whether they collect any other user data via the device mics, though they do record any voice searches made by the user and make these recordings available to users in their account settings online. So, unless you want Google to store recordings of your voice, you should probably stray away from activativing features like voice search.

Amazon’s smart assistant has also been under fire lately for unexpectedly laughing at seemingly random times and refusing to execute tasks, instead laughing at users in a very creepy way.

Amazon has since stated the issue comes from Alexa misunderstanding some speech as “Alexa, laugh,” though some of these incidents

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Amazon has since said they have rectified the issue, so we will see if this fixes the problem, though it seems to be something deeper if it’s happening in complete silence.

This still raises the issue of privacy, though, as we must question how this is able to take place if the device is so finely tuned for only accepting specific phrases.

Users subject themselves to some level of monitoring by owning a smart speaker, but these should be intelligent enough to only respond if actually needed. I personally own a Google Home Mini and have never had a problem, though I still have to deal with Google storing recordings of my voice, so I guess it’s a trade-off you have to accept in order to get the technology you want.

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Implementing green habits for daily life through Cupanion program MADDIE KNAPP Staff Reporter @mapp_ Graphic by Honesty Gant for Multicultural Programs

Graphics by MADISYN OGLESBY Growing up outdoors and being raised “ecologically-minded,” Senior Eva Klein said she has always gravitated toward topics surrounding the environment and respecting the earth.

When she arrived at Missouri State, Klein knew sustainability would be a perfect minor to accompany her major in psychology. She began sitting in on sustainability sub-committees, became involved with Students for a Sustainable Future and attended the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education Conference.

“Sustainability is a lens to look at all aspects of our life through,” Klein said. “Seeing the efforts of other students and campuses, and new innovative techniques to addressing waste really ignited the spark.”

Combining her intrinsic interest and respect for the Earth, Klein wrote a proposal to bring Cupanion to campus.

Klein said Cupanion is a company that works with reusable bottles and mugs to promote waste reduction by utilizing an app accompanied with the program.

The proposal was approved and made possible by Missouri State’s Sustainability Fund, which also has provided campus with bike stations and water refill stations. Morgan Wetzel, chief sustainability commissioner, said the fund was created to help students make Missouri State a more sustainable campus. Student proposals are submitted to the commission and voted on by six officers to be approved.

“It is a really cool process to get students involved in,” Wetzel said.

Seeing a need for environmental awareness on campus, Klein took action.

“I realized that student engagement and awareness about sustainability on campus is low, but a lot of people are using reusable bottles,” Klein said. “Cupanion seemed like a logical way to engaged students who don’t use reusable (bottles) yet with incentive through great prizes and also allow students who are using

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Eva Klein, psychology major, wrote a proposal to bring Cupanion to campus, a program that encourages students to practice sustainable habits.

reusables to make a greater impact.”

Cupanion uses scannable barcodes to keep track of how many times a reusable bottle has been used. The Cupanion app tracks a user’s environmental impact and gives prizes when certain goals are met.

Cupanion also works in partnership with WaterAid, meaning for every scan, a cup of clean water goes to someone in need in 26 different countries. Missouri State students are able to pick an organization or community that would benefit from a clean water project with the help of Cupanion.

Klein said once a student has his or her scannable barcode for their reusable mug or bottle, it can be scanned at all PSU dining options.

Indigo Tran, junior environmental biology and evolution major, worked with Klein

“Sustainability is a lens to look at all aspects of our life through,” Klein said. “Seeing the efforts of other students and campuses, and new innovative techniques to addressing waste really (ignites) the spark.” - Eva Klein on the presentation of the Cupanion proposal to the Sustainability Committee. “(The) Cupanion app will open up the conversation about waste reduction on campus and involve a larger student body in the mindset of sustainability,” Tran said. “We hope that it will encourage the use of reusable water bottles, eliminate single-use items and in turn give back to the community through the form of charity.”

Klein said Cupanion will be launched and presented at the Sustainability Student Summit Mon., April 9 in PSU room 317. Klein said this is

tentative.

Tran and Klein offered other small actions that can be taken now to reduce the waste put into the world.

“Reduce and reuse before recycling,” Tran said.

Tran said easy things students can do are use reusable bags when shopping and reusable containers when eating out.

“Maybe the most important of all is to write proposals to the Sustainability Fund,” Klein said.

“Brainstorm ideas of something sustainable you think would better MSU, and then actually make it happen.”

What does it mean to be a woman?

“Resilient” — Madeline Strunk, sophomore social work major.

“Confident” — Kamryn Koetting, junior early childhood education major.

“Inspiring, liberating and glamourous” — Morgan Robb, senior management major.

“Radiant” — Katherine Cassimatis, junior social work major.

“Enduring and compassionate” — Morgan Belloir, senior economics major.

Traits like these are the reason women throughout history made so many incredible contributions to our nation — from the 11,000 female volunteers during the Vietnam War, Amelia Earhart being the first to circumnavigate the globe at its widest point or Joan Benoit winning the first women’s Olympic marathon in 1984.

For these contributions in history — and many more — March is “Women’s History Month.”

In 1981, Congress passed a legislation proclaiming the first "Women's History Week." In 1987, the National Women's History Project petitioned Congress to expand the celebration to the entire month of March. To this day, the National Women's History Month Resolution has been approved every year with bipartisan support in both the House and Senate.

“It is so empowering to think about all of the incredible things women have done for our country despite all of the challenges and adversity they had to overcome,” Em-

ily McMillin, sophomore nursing major, said. “I think that is why this month is so special. It reminds current generations of women that we are strong, driven, and intelligent. We are important.”

Missouri State is honoring this month in its own way.

“We celebrate the month as Women’s HERstory Month and do not celebrate it as Women’s History Month,” Yvania Garcia-Pusateri, executive director of Multicultural Programs and Student Diversity, said. “We do this to center our celebration and observation on women and feminine-identified people and their lived experiences, as well as their important contributions to society and to separate it from a patriarchal lens.

“As a Latina, my identity is not only always celebrated in the broader observation of the month nationally. Representation matters, and it’s because of this that our staff was very intentional in ensuring that this heritage month, like our others, included perspectives that demonstrated that.”

Garcia-Pusateri believes that even though it is 2018, women and feminine-identified people are still not part of our daily narrative, which is why Women’s HERstory Month is so important.

“Our contributions to history and society have been left untold or have been given a small platform that gets lost or co-opted,” Garcia-Pusateri said. “This month is also significant because of our focus on the importance of intersectionality and emphasis on the experience of all women, which goes beyond the traditional celebration of white, cisgender, women and firstwave feminism.” u See WOMEN, page 9

TRUMBLE: ‘Annihilation’ is all McChesney: ‘The Subtle Art of Not shimmer and no substance Giving a F***’ stands out COLE TRUMBLE Critic @Cole_Tr “Annihilation” is a movie with an amazing concept. The set decorating and cinematography were astounding. Visually, it was unbelievably impressive and interesting. The primary issue with this movie is while it has an astounding concept, it essentially lacks a theme. This film is boneless — and let me tell you why.

If you don’t know the premise of the movie, it is based on a series by Jeff VanderMeer. The story consists of biology professor Lena, played

by Natalie Portman, being taken to a military research base. She is tasked with investigating the mysterious entity known as “the shimmer.” Lena is added to a task force that enters the shimmer in order to collect data and try to reach the source of this energy.

The shimmer has an amazing effect on anything that it encounters. It causes plants to mutate at an incredible rate, erases memories, and leads to seemingly impossible variations in animals — and everything — within its boundaries.

This leads to incredible flowers, colorful fungal designs and frightfully complex fauna.

As the audience is taken on a journey through the shimmer with Lena and the rest of the team of researchers, we are

exposed to the beauties and horrors of its surreal environment.

With all these amazing sights and frights, “Annihilation” pitches itself as an intricate and thought-provoking film, like the movie “Arrival.”

While “Annihilation” certainly has a slew of complex concepts, there is one thing that stops it from being really great — it’s missing a point.

I know that many people would say that I didn’t get it, or that I didn’t think about it enough. Let me tell you, I did.

I’m not saying that I have a supernatural ability to immediately understand every movie made no matter how obscure, but I have spent hours thinking about this film trying to find the point, the theme or the message. There isn’t one.

The plot doesn’t totally lack substance. The other members of the research team are deep characters with great motivation.

Anya Thorensen, portrayed

by Gina Rodriguez, has a background in law enforcement and is the hot-headed decision-maker. Tessa Thompson’s character, Josie Radek, is a thoughtful tech whiz searching for a greater meaning. Cass Sheppard, played by Tuva Novotny, is a maternal guide for Lena as they venture further into the shimmer. Dr. Ventress, the leader of the

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Cole Trumble group played by Jennifer Jason Leigh, is an intriguing character but not all that engaging to watch. She hides her desires from the rest of the group and isn’t shy about it, but she does not have an emotive personality. Ventress and Lena both lack flavor; they don’t have that spark that makes people relate to their characters like one can relate to Radek or Thorensen.

These side characters in the movie are the only semblance of relatability in the film and are the most interesting people in the story, but, of course, since they are not the main focus, we don’t get to see that so much. What we, the audience, get to see, are a whole u See COLE, page 9

Last week, when at an airport in Orlando, Florida, I strolled through the bookstore, hoping to get my hands on The New York Times, or The Orlando Sentinel. To my displeasure, there weren’t any in yet.

Frustrating.

So, I perused the the rest of the shop looking for something to pass the time. Harry Potter books still flooded the shelves, which made me extremely happy. But, there was another book that caught my eye.

The cover read: “The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck.”

Interesting.

I picked it up and read the title of the first chapter, which was “Don’t try.”

I was hooked.

Other chapters included, “Happiness Is a Problem,” “You Are Not Special,” “You’re Wrong About Everything” and “... And Then You Die.” Needless to say, author Mark Manson knew how to draw his audience in. “The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck” is a New York Times Bestseller and has sold over $2 million copies.

So, what makes this book so special? Simply put: It’s the anti-self help book, written by someone who has been through the ringer, who has lived on his parents’ couch well in his late 20s and traveled the world. Oh, and Manson doesn’t hold anything back.

In his crude style, he explains the problem with humanity is that we are always trying to get rid of our problems. He says this is the opposite of what we should be doing. Instead, we need to be prioritizing our lives to the point where we are OK with the problems we have.

So, in 210 pages, Manson details how choosing values that actually matter to you can change your life. And instead of doing so in a

Alec McChesney

condescending and lecturing tone, he uses his hero, Disappointment Panda, to tell people the harsh truths about themselves that individuals need to hear but don’t want to accept.

It’s brilliant.

One subhead, “Happiness Comes from Solving Problems,” discusses how no matter what happens in life or where we end up, problems are always a constant.

“True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving.”

Manson goes into detail how if you are having problems that you don’t want — the job you feel stuck at, the relationship you’ve wanted to end or bad friends — you will constantly feel miserable.

However, if you’re having problems you do want — long-distance relationships with a soulmate, not making enough money at your dream job or working on hanging out with friends more — you will be happy trying to u See McCHESNEY, page 9

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Nathan Stigall’s history with reptiles started after he found out his brother was allergic to the family’s new hamster.

Stigall, a freshman wildlife biology major at Missouri State University, didn’t get discouraged. He took the hamster back, and instead, he started to research small animals he could keep as his own. It wasn’t long before he came across the reptile world of chameleons, bearded and komodo dragons.

Once he bought one, the empty space in his room got progressively smaller, forcing him to move cages into his living room.

“I kind of went buckwild and just bought everything I could, all kinds of animals,” Stigall said.

All of what he learned since buying his first reptile, Stigall said, was from trial and error, as resources to learn about the cold-blooded animals are scarce.

His roommate, who Stigall met just before starting as an employee at Petsway, also has a passion for reptiles.

(Above) Nathan Stigall holds Rocky, a Cuban rock iguana he got from a family that “definitely didn’t know what they were doing.” Since coming into Stigall’s care, Rocky has transferred from an enclosure that resembled a dog crate with minimal light exposure and a green herbivore diet to a spacious crate and his appropriate, omnivore diet.

NATHAN STIGALL, FUTURE WILDLIFE BIOLOGIST “I’ve made friends along the way that do the hobby and collected animals,” Stigall said.

The two have long since wanted to house all their animals in one facility.

Since purchasing larger reptiles such as lizards, Stigall and his roommate have started breeding mice, rats, roaches and mealworms for food.

Having such a large collection of

Stigall said many of the monitor lizards he has are “jerks when you first get them.” It took up to three or four months of 15 to 20 minutes a day for the lizards to get curious, approach his outstretched hand and become comfortable enough for Stigall to pick them up and show them off for the camera.

“It's really interesting how much goes into the care of animals,” Stigall said.

“A lot of people think, ‘Oh it's just a guinea pig or just a ferret,’ but there's a lot that goes into it, a lot that could happen.”

reptiles has also proved difficult at times.

After coming back from a vacation in Florida, Stigall stepped foot into a home infested by mites. The small blood-sucking arthropods carry and transmit diseases from one reptile to another but are non-harmful to humans.

“I had to quarantine every cage,” Stigall said. “But it's so much fun; it's so rewarding.”

“It's really interesting how much goes into the care of animals. A lot of people think, ‘Oh it's just a guinea pig or just a ferret,’ but there's a lot that goes into it, a lot that could happen.” - Nathan Stigall

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Cable and satellite television are becoming outdated as more people, especially young adults, turn to online streaming services like Netflix and Hulu.

According to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey, 61 percent of people ages 18 to 29 in the U.S. primarily use streaming services to watch TV. Overall, 59 percent of U.S. adults say cable is their primary source of TV. Assistant professor of Media, Journalism and Film Holly Holladay said being able to choose what you watch and when you watch it is the main reason young people are no longer buying cable television.

With the traditional cable model, you must be at home when a show airs, especially if you do not have a DVR. If you are not at home when a show airs, you either do not watch it or you catch up on the show using a streaming service.

“We have been raised in a technological environment that emphasizes choice,” Holladay said. “Because we are so conditioned to have that flexibility, there is really no point in having traditional cable packages anymore, because it doesn’t afford us the same flexibility as streaming services do.”

Holladay said cost is another reason young adults often do not have cable or satellite subscriptions, and most are not paying for their own streaming services.

“I am still on my parents’ HBO GO account, and I’m 33 years old,” Holladay said. “I’m sure there are some people who are paying for their own, but I think lots of people are using family accounts, or their friends are signed in to family accounts and they are using those.”

When looking to watch a movie, people often turn to Netflix. Sidney Thompson, junior computer information systems major, splits the cost of cable with her roommates. Her roommates watch shows on cable and Netflix, but Thompson does not use cable, even

though she pays for it.

“I don’t really like to watch TV, but when I do get in the mood to watch something, it’s usually a movie,” Thompson said. “I can’t really stick to a series, so Netflix is nice for movies. I use Amazon sometimes, too.”

Junior health studies major Myranda Phillips said she doesn’t use cable because it is expensive. She uses her parents’ Netflix and Hulu accounts, and she also uses websites like KissCartoon. She said she uses Hulu more than any other streaming service.

“It has a good selection of anime and cartoons, but I do watch Netflix for movies,” Phillips said.

Commercials are also a factor when it comes to choosing which services to use.

Junior professional writing major Alyssa Faith only uses Netflix, and she uses her boyfriend’s account. She said she doesn’t have cable because she does not like commercials.

“Hulu has commercials too, so I don’t even use Hulu,” Faith said.

Lily Young-Mills, senior cell and molecular biology major, said she would probably not pay for cable if it was not included with her rent, because she uses Netflix more often. She uses someone else’s Netflix, Hulu and HBO GO account.

“I use cable since I have it, but if I didn’t have it, I’d be ok,” Young-Mills said. “I use Netflix most often because I don’t like commercials and I can binge watch shows. Most of the shows I’ve been watching are on Netflix.”

Cable is no longer seen as a necessity. Holladay said she does not have cable anymore, because streaming services are cheaper and easier and allow much more control over what you watch.

“You can access anything online through legal or illegal means, so I just don’t think we view it as a necessity anymore,” Holladay said. “We used to turn on TV as part of a routine and it would just be background noise, but you can do the exact same thing with Netflix.”

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Bears go 5-3 over break SAM GRUS Sports Reporter @SCGRUS_6 The Missouri State baseball team had a solid 10-day span (March 7-17), going 5-3. Playing Oklahoma State twice, both at home and in Stillwater, Oklahoma, Arkansas State, Oral Roberts, Iowa and Seton Hall. The Bears dropped both games to Oklahoma State, took two of three from Arkansas State and beat Oral Roberts, Iowa and Seton Hall, respectively. Here is how the club fared in all aspects of the game during the span.

Offense: During the eight-game stretch, the Bears offense averaged a crazy seven runs per game. Led by junior shortstop Jeremy Eierman, who batted .437 during the eight-game stretch, with two home runs and driving in five. Head coach Keith Guttin moved Eierman up in the batting order to the No. 2 spot, getting him more at-bats, therefore, more pitches to see.

The move has paid off for the Bears, with sophomore catcher Drew Millas leading the team in average during the season with a .379 average and 11 RBIs. Overall, the Bears offense was really good, getting production from role players such as senior third baseman Matt Brown, who hit two home runs in the series opener against Arkansas State.

Grade: A Starting pitching: When talking

Wiley got off to a rough start, allowing two runs in the first inning but settled down and gave the Bears 5 2/3 innings of solid work.

Also, hard not to overlook the work of freshman Ty Buckner. In two starts, the freshman went 12 innings (combined), allowing four runs on 10 hits and striking out 10. The most impressive thing about Buckner is his ability to get ahead early in counts and not give up walks; in his two starts, he only walked four.

Starting pitching will carry the Bears deep into the season and a possible regional appearance.

Grade: B+ Relief pitching: Alright, this is

where things get interesting. The good news: Jake Fromson is back. The bad news: there is no clear cut closer until he his fully healthy enough to be the game ender.

There have been some good things to come out of the bullpen. Sophomore Nate Witherspoon has really stepped up and filled a bridge role to get to the ninth inning. But that really isn’t enough to make me feel good about this bullpen.

In the Bears’ home opener against Oklahoma State, Missouri State had a tworun lead going into the seventh inning.

The wheels came off, and the bullpen gave up five runs in the top of the seventh. In the game against Oral Roberts, carrying a one-run lead into the eighth, freshman Connor Sechler ended the inning and rebounded after getting the loss against Oklahoma State.

Fromson, on the other hand, is picking up right where he left off in 2017.

He’s only made three appearances but has looked solid in four innings of work.

He only has one strikeout, allowed one hit and hasn’t walked anybody.

If the Bears hope to make a run at the Missouri Valley Conference title, and an appearance in a regional game, the bullpen must be nails.

about the starting pitching from the Bears, it’s hard not to mention their ace, junior Dylan Coleman. He made two starts, and in 13 2/3 innings, he allowed five runs on eight hits and struck out 11. The last game against Oklahoma State brought his season ERA up to 2.34, but his continued dominance in games is what has kept the Bears relevant in 2018.

The biggest surprise of the stretch was junior Logan Wiley. The righthander made his first career start for the Bears Grade: C Fielding/base running: For the against the Iowa Hawkeyes. Playing at the Kansas City Urban Youth Academy, most part, the Bears’ defense has been

solid for the 2018 campaign. No errors hurt the Bears during the eight-game stretch, and as a team, they are fielding a solid .975.

No mistakes on the base paths came out to haunt the Bears either, as they were aggressive in taking the extra base and did a good job picking when to try and steal a base. They will rely heavily on junior Hunter Steinmetz.

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Grade: B+ Overall: During the stretch, I felt

the Bears did not play their best baseball and left something to be desired. We saw some good things from players that we expect to see good things from, Eierman and Coleman. We also saw guys like Brown step up and take charge at third base. There have been some disappointments as well. Junior Brooks Zimmerman has not been the hitter that Guttin and the team wanted him to be, yet.

During the eight games, Zimmerman went two-for-nine with one RBI. Going into this year, I felt he could have been a solid hitter in the middle of the order for the Bears and supply some protection for Eierman. On the season, he is hitting .194 with two RBIs and one home run. Hopefully, he turns things around and can be the hitter that Guttin thinks he is.

Another bright spot was junior Logan Wiley’s spot start against the Hawkeyes. He proved that if the Bears need someone to make a start on a Wednesday afternoon, they may have found their guy. He will compete for that third starting spot in the rotation, with sophomore Tyler McAlister and senior Austin Knight.

This team is looking forward to conference play, where they can prey on a fairly weak Missouri Valley, besides Dallas Baptist. Building on a solid 5-3 stretch, the offense will need to continue to manufacture runs and look for dominate starting pitching. Hopefully the bullpen follows suit, with the return of Fromson.

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No. 30 ARKANSAS STATE

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MARCH 13 ORAL ROBERTS

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MARCH 14 IOWA

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MARCH 17 SETON HALL

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Overall Grade: B-

The guys in the booth

years. Hains has also ran a sports talk show since 1995 and is the game day host for the Kansas City Chiefs Radio Network.

“Baseball has always been my first love of sports, but I got into the profession more doing football and basketball,” Hains said. “Baseball hasn’t been as consistent until the last 25 years, but I’ve been doing the Bears football and basketball for 37 years. Back in the early days, we only did a few baseball games, but when we moved to the Missouri Valley Conference in 1991, I would say in 1993 we started doing most of the conference games. It’s only been about the last four years that we’ve done every baseball game on radio because in February we still got basketball going.”

Goss is the color analyst for the Missouri State baseball team, and while he does enjoy this, it’s not his main job.

BAILEY VASSALLI/THE STANDARD Goss is an assistant professor of entertainment management Art Hains and Benjamin Goss peer onto the field, in the Missouri State College of Business. Some of his main professional and research interests include sports studies, waiting to give their listeners the latest game empowerment of postmodern sports fandom and breakdown update.

BRYCE DERRICKSON of barriers between fans and sports. Goss also teaches classes such as Sponsorships in Entertainment and Sport and Sports Reporter Managing Events in Entertainment and Sport. @BruceyD17 Goss might be an assistant professor, but he's been broadMost fans sit in the stands, watch the game and cheer on casting games since he was a kid. their team. While that happens, Art Hains and Benjamin “As a child, I was raised in a home without a TV, so I Goss go up the elevator and into the sports booth where they listened to virtually everything that AM and FM radio carried get a bird’s eye view to broadcast the game. in the 1970s and 1980s,” Goss said. “That included every Hains first started broadcasting for Missouri State in 1977 college and pro team for every sport that could be heard. and has been broadcasting here since then for all but four Also, as an only child on a small isolated street, I had to use

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my imagination to keep myself entertained, so some of that would be recreating some of the games that I’d heard the night before in the back yard the next day. This included announcing them and altering the outcomes if I didn’t like what actually transpired the night before.”

Hains also grew up a big sports fan but said he wasn’t a “particularly efficient as an athlete,” so he started paying more attention to the broadcasters. Hains said he enjoys being at the games and having the challenge of describing them in real time and creating a picture for the listeners.

During a game day Goss and Hains go through a lot of preparation to broadcast the games.

“Well baseball is harder for me to prepare for than the other sports because of the uncertainty of the lineup,” Hains said. “Baseball is dependent on the batting order which is announced about 30 to 40 minutes before the game so you know you can do some preparation about the teams, their records, who’ve they played, their statistics and things like that. It’s a lot of last minute scrambling, but with your team it’s just the matter of updating the notes because you know a lot about them. It’s the other team that you have to learn about. I try to go over the game notes that the sports information offices put out of the schools and pull out relevant things that I think will be interesting.”

Goss said a lot of preparation comes prior to game day.

He says he listens to Hain’s Sports Talk radio show, follows every college baseball account and also watches games and other sport shows. Goss also said he gets to Hammons Field two hours before the game to set up his work area, get the u See BROADCAST, page 8

Lady Bears’ season ends in WNIT ALEC McCHESNEY Editor in chief @Aec_McChesney The Missouri State Lady Bears were selected to finish in second place in the Missouri Valley Conference back in October. Fast forward six months, and the Lady Bears’ season came to an end at the hands of Texas Christian University, 86-51, in the second round of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament.

How did they get there?

Well, it started with a ridiculously tough non-conference schedule. Ball State, Missouri, Baylor, Penn, Wichita State, Northwestern and Alabama made up one of the toughest schedules the Lady Bears built in years— Just the way head coach Kellie Harper drew it up. The ability to play freshman quality minutes against NCAA Tournament caliber teams and allow seniors Liza Fruendt, Aubrey Buckley, Audrey Holt and Lee Ann Polowy to ease into the new offense played a huge role in Missouri State’s success.

Though it didn’t happen at first.

Harper’s crew started the season 1-6, including losses to No. 8 Baylor and Penn in the Junkanoo Jam in the Bahamas. The Lady Bears finished the non-conference season 4-7 with victories over Northwestern, Oral Roberts, Wichita State and Central Missouri.

When MVC play started, the preseason prediction of the Lady Bears finishing in second looked grim. Just as Harper wanted it.

The tough competition at the beginning of the season paid dividends once 2018 came around, as the Lady Bears won seven of their first eight games in conference. The only loss

came to the Drake Bulldogs — the eventual champions of the league — at home, 80-68.

Fruendt led the way for the Lady Bears, averaging 15.3 points per game on the year, which was fourth best in the league.

The most surprising player on the roster was Alexa Willard. The sophomore made huge strides forward during the season and will likely be an all-first team candidate for the next two years.

Willard improved her points per game from eight to 10.8, raised her 3-point percentage from 29.2 to 38.6 and shot 48.1 percent from the field after shooting 41.9 as a freshman.

Additionally, the Lebanon native shot 89 percent from the free-throw line, going 40-for-45 on the season. Willard and Fruendt were joined

by Buckley, who poured in 10.4 points per game. She also corralled a team-high 6.2 rebounds per game, which was sixth best in the MVC. The production from Buckley and Fruendt will be greatly missed next season, but Willard, freshmen Emily Gartner, Elle Ruffridge, Brice Calip, Abby Hipp, sophomore Shameka Ealy and junior Danielle Gitzen will take over the scoring duties for Harper.

Unfortunately, between the fall and spring semesters, Holt was forced to hang up the shoes due to concussions. Prior to the decision, she was averaging 3.7 points per game. The senior scored 365 points in her career as a Lady Bear.

After losing its third MVC game of the season against Drake, Missouri State finished the regular season on a seven-game winning streak to finish the MVC slate 15-3. The 15 wins was the most the Lady Bears had won in conference in over a decade.

And just as predicted in the preseason, Missouri State placed second in the league.

The Lady Bears defeated Bradley in the quarterfinals of the MVC Tournament but fell to Northern Iowa in the semifinals, ending their hopes of making the NCAA Tournament.

Their impressive play and Drake making the NCAA Tournament led to Missouri State being invited to the WNIT. First up: Louisiana Tech, on the road. In all its years of having a program, LA Tech never lost a home playoff game, holding an unrealistic 40-0 record.

The odds were not in favor of the Lady Bears.

Those odds became even worse when Fruendt suffered an ankle injury five minutes into the first quarter. She was ruled out and did not play the remainder of the game.

It didn’t matter.

Calip scored 16 points, Gitzen added in 15 and Buckley pitched in 11 points and nine rebounds to lead the Lady Bears to an impressive 63-59 victory over the Lady Techsters, handing LA Tech its first ever home postseason loss.

Fruendt returned for the Lady Bears’ last game of the season, in the second round of the WNIT against TCU. She scored seven points in 16 minutes, but the Horned Frogs dominated Missouri State in every facet of the game.

After trailing 16-13 to start the second quarter, TCU outscored Missouri State 73-35 over the next three quarters to end Fruendt’s career and the Lady Bears’ season.

The future of the Lady Bears is in great hands, as Harper continued to show her excellence as a head coach, and the youth played a huge role in this year’s team. Missouri State

will return seven of its top nine scorers from the 2017-18 season and will rely heavily on sophomores and juniors next year.

Gitzen is the only senior-to-be on the roster, with two juniors and six sophomores joining the ranks. If the Lady Bears play another tough non-conference schedule, the record won’t be pretty. But, come MVC time, Harper will have that bunch ready for immense success once again.

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Freshman guard Elle Ruffrdige drives to the basket for a layup.

The Lady Bears defeated Southern Illinois University by a score of 79-61.

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University of Tulsa, March 13

After bringing their record to 12-10 in Wichita, the Bears headed to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to play their first non-tournament, regular season game.

Tulsa was on fire as soon as they reached the field, with freshman pitcher Samantha Pochop striking out Zimmer and Vigneaux and Frost flying out, leaving two on base.

Tulsa’s fire carried over from the field to the plate. Senior pitcher Kaitlin Beason was rattled early, allowing three runs after facing only four batters.

Kelley stepped in and also

First Home Series, March 16-17

Three days later, the gates at Killian Stadium opened to welcome fans to the first home series against Illinois State, the MVC preseason favorite.

Game 1 started with a three up, three down inning for the Bears’ defense. For offense, the bats were on. All four of Missouri State’s runs were scored in the first inning.

The Bears were forced to focus on defense for the rest of the game.

Kelley started on the

mound, throwing 63 pitches in 4.1 innings. Kelley’s performance was not her usual high-strikeout, low-walk self, as she had zero strikeouts and two walks. This was only the third game where her number of walks exceeded her number of strikeouts. The other two came against Omaha, in February, and Tulsa, just three days prior.

Kelley allowed two runs before Griesbauer stepped in and earned her first save of the season.

Both teams had opportunities to score again throughout the game, combining for a total of 13 runners left on base, but neither team did.

The Bears won the first game 4-2 and Game 2 of the series started shortly after.

Neither team could get through more than four batters at a time, leaving the score at zero for the first two innings.

Illinois State scored two on Dickerson in 4.1 innings, so Griesbauer took over for the second time that day in the fifth inning.

The Redbirds pushed their lead to 3-0 before the Bears scored four on a two-out rally in the bottom of the sixth.

Frost picked up her first RBI of the evening, and freshman Madison Hunsaker hit a threerun homerun, her first of the season.

Illinois State took back the lead after scoring two on a Missouri State error. Hunsaker then took over in the circle, allowing only one more run from the Redbirds.

The final three runs were scored by the Bears in the bottom of the seventh, as they worked their way around the bases to tie the score at six.

Frost stepped up to the plate and hit a triple to push the Bears to a 7-6 win.

Game 3 came on day two.

Missouri State already won the series but looked to get a sweep against their first conference opponent.

And so they did.

Frost hit her third home run of the season in the bottom of the ninth inning, putting the Bears up over the Redbirds 8-7.

Illinois State scored one in the first and three in the top of the third against Beason, forcing head coach Holly Hesse to replace her with Kelley.

Kelley seemed to be her old self, pitching 1.2 innings and striking out three batters.

The Bears got the ball into play throughout the first three innings but didn’t score until sophomore Darby Joerling hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the fourth. Zimmer also managed a RBI single to put the score at 4-3 at the end of the fourth inning.

Griesbauer stepped in again for Kelley but allowed two runs, pushing Illinois State’s lead to 6-3.

After another runner for Illinois State ended up in scoring position, Dickerson took over the circle for the remaining 3.2 innings. She ended the game with seven strikeouts, keeping the Redbirds at seven runs for the rest of the game.

Missouri State scored two on a one-out triple from senior Madison Jones and a third came after Zimmer hit a single to left field.

With the Bears down by one in the bottom of the seventh and Frost on first from a walk, Hesse put Metter in to pinch hit. Metter successfully doubled, bringing in Frost to tie the score 7-7 and forcing the game into extra innings.

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The Bears started a gamefilled spring break at Wichita State. They went 2-2 over the weekend, winning both games against Western Illinois and losing both to Wichita State.

In the first game against Western Illinois, senior pitcher Holly Kelley showed out in the circle, recording 10 strikeouts and only two walks through seven innings.

The Bears, however, didn’t rely solely on Kelley to win the game.

Missouri State made contact consistently but primarily hit grounders to the infield.

The Bears finally got on the board in the fourth inning after redshirt sophomore Hannah Heinrichs put two runners in scoring position on a sacrifice bunt and junior Morgan Greenlee scored them both on a single to center field.

Heinrichs stepped up to the plate again in the sixth inning and smashed a homerun, scoring another two runs to make the score 4-0.

The final run came in the seventh from senior Hailee Vigneaux’s RBI single, so-

struggled against Tulsa. She allowed two hits, hit one batter and walked three in her 1.2 innings pitched.

Kelley’s most noticeable statistic, however, was the zero in the strikeout box. In her 12 appearances so far this season, she has at least one strikeout. In her 1.1 innings against UMass Lowell in February, she had three strikeouts.

In the top of the second, the Bears started to work the bats, getting four hits and scoring two runs, putting the score at 4-2.

Sophomore pitcher Erin Griesbauer stepped in after Tulsa scored two more runs on Kelley in the second.

Griesbauer remained in the circle for the rest of the game, allowing three hits but no runs in five innings.

The Bears’ offense came alive in the top of the fifth, earning three hits and four runs, two resulting from Golden Hurricane errors, to tie the game 6-6.

Missouri State scored the game-winning run in the sixth.

Both teams made contact throughout the seventh, but neither got on the board.

The Bears won 7-6 with Griesbauer earning the win.

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After Plummer’s RBI, Missouri State got runners on base but couldn’t capitalize until senior Erika Velasquez Zimmer earned her only RBI of the game.

Yet again, Wichita State stepped up in the second game and shut down the Bears’ potential rally.

The beginning of the game looked promising, with the Bears scoring in the first inning off a wild pitch, but they waited until freshman Kelly Metter hit her first homerun of the season in the top of the fifth to add on another run.

The Bears scored another two runs in the fifth inning on two errors by the Shockers, putting them in the lead 4-2.

Wichita State came right back with a five-run rally, boosting them over the Bears at 7-4.

The Bears scored one more in each of the last two innings but lost 7-6 after Lange stepped into the circle and struck out four batters in 1.2 innings.

Splitting the weekend seemed to motivate the Bears as they traveled for their fifth game in just four days.

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In a span of seven days, the Missouri State softball team played eight games against four opponents. The Bears only lost two of those, improving to 16-10. With the final regular-season tournament and the beginning of Missouri Valley Conference play, the team found themselves coming into the swing of things, solidifying roles and going on a four- game win streak as the season hits its halfway mark.

lidifying a 5-0 win.

Western Illinois only recorded one hit on the afternoon, which came in the seventh, and the Bulldogs were shut down quickly on a final fly out.

Game 2 against Wichita State followed immediately after and showed another side of Missouri State’s offense.

After scoring five against Western Illinois, the Bears were shut down by junior pitcher Bailey Lange of Wichita State, who didn’t allow a hit through the first four innings, going 1-2-3 every time.

Even in the fifth and sixth innings, Lange only faced four batters each time, recording six of her nine strikeouts.

Going into the top of the seventh, the Shockers led 3-0, but the inning looked promising when Missouri State loaded the bases off an error. Junior Darian Frost knocked a single to left field, getting the team on the board.

Lange, in turn, struck out the next three in the lineup to end the game at 3-1.

Day two gave Missouri State a chance at another double header against Western Illinois and Wichita State.

Kelley returned to the mound after resting against the Shockers the day before.

While she pitched the first seven innings, the 2-1 win was awarded to freshman Steffany Dickerson who held Western Illinois to one run.

The Bears scored to win the game in the bottom of the tenth inning.

Both teams struggled to get a rally going throughout the game. The Bulldogs scored off an RBI single in the top of the third while the Bears waited until the bottom of the sixth for their own RBI single from freshman Daphne Plummer.

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updated game notes, write the introduction segment, and copy the lineup into the scorebook.

Though sports broadcasters are known for their time on air, Goss said that the time on air is just a small part of the job.

“Well, getting to the game and staying on the air are the two main things,” Hains said. “Up until the last two years, we normally used regular land phone lines, but now the technology has gotten to the point that almost everywhere we go that we broadcast using the internet. Every place you go on the road the physical setup may be very different most places have a press box, booth, but not all. St. Louis University, for example, puts a table and a chair for me in

front of the stairs and I’m outside.”

Broadcasting all these games are allowing Goss and Hains to broadcast many memorable moments. Their favorite moment was during last year’s season when shortstop Jeremy Eierman hit a walk-off home run against Oklahoma State during Game 1 of the Fayetteville regionals.

“What looked like a lazy, game-ending popfly just kept drifting, and it landed in the Oklahoma State bullpen to give the Bears the win,” Goss said. “That’s probably the most famous home run in Bears baseball history and one of the greatest athletic moments in school history.

Art and I were so surprised when and after it happened, until we were still scratching our heads

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Continued from page 6 about it the next day, but we were plenty thrilled to have called it.”

Hains said that the homerun reminded him of Matt Cepicky in 1999 in the regional.

“We were playing Arkansas, but we were the home team,” Hains said. “It was the bottom of the ninth- Cepicky hit a homerun to dead center to tie the game, and then we went on to win in extra innings. I thought of that immediately as Eierman circled the bases and I said, ‘Somewhere Cepicky is smiling,’ because that had previously been the most famous homerun in school history.”

You can listen to Hains and Goss on KBFL 1060 AM, 96.9 FM, KBFLAM.com and Radio Springfield app.

the inning on a force out.

The Bears went down 1-2-3 in the bottom of the eighth, and Dickerson came up big in the top of the ninth with two strikeouts, giving the Bears another chance at the plate.

Beason grounded out, and Frost stepped up to the plate.

On the first pitch, she swung.

And smashed it.

Frost hit a walkoff homerun, winning the game 8-7 and giving the Bears the sweep of Illinois State.

What’s Next?

The Bears went 6-2 in seven days.

Both losses came against Wichita State who they have struggled with in the past, going 9-14 since 2011.

Three of the wins came in the sweep of Illinois State, the projected No. 1 team in Missouri Valley Conference.

After Missouri State was picked to come in fifth in the conference, this seemed like it should

be an interesting series to start MVC play for the Bears.

Missouri State came into the three-game series with a 13-10 record, while Illinois State entered with a 9-20 record. If numbers speak for themselves, the sweep shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.

The key comes in the details.

Illinois State played nine nationally ranked teams. Missouri State only played one. Both teams played No. 5 Oklahoma twice, Illinois State losing 9-0 and 8-0, Missouri State losing 6-0 and 9-0.

Now, in theory, Illinois State and Missouri State are fairly close in performance level. Different records but similar scores against a ranked team.

What’s interesting, though, is that not only have they both played Oklahoma, but they have also both played Tulsa.

Missouri State beat Tulsa 7-6 on March 13, and then Tulsa beat Illinois State 6-1 on March 14.

So, what does all this mean?

The Bears are almost halfway through their season. They’re

learning what works well.

Hesse tried several lineups and found one that works.

Zimmer’s a strong leadoff hitter to get the wheels turning, Vigneaux can get on base and push Zimmer into scoring position, and Plummer can get the runners home.

The lineup isn’t special; each person is in each role because they are doing exactly what is traditionally expected. And it’s working.

The pitching staff is starting to fall into their roles. Kelley is the perfect starter with the ability to throw multiple innings and still keep her pitch count low.

Griesbauer is Hesse’s best reliever. She can clean up an inning and focus on the rest of the game.

Dickerson and Hunsaker are young but are learning to find a place to thrive.

Missouri State plays University of Missouri-Kansas City on March 20 at 5 p.m. at Killian Stadium to bring them exactly halfway through their regular season.

RECAP March 10-17 BEACH VOLLEYBALL

WOMEN’S TENNIS

March 12 | No. 8 Long Beach St., Colorado Mesa | L 5-0, W 4-1

March 10 | UMKC | L 4-3

March 13 | Cal State Los Angeles, Vanguard | W 4-1, W 3-2

March 12 | South Dakota St. | W 6-1

March 14 | Colorado Mesa, Cal State Northridge | W 4-1, L 3-2

March 18 | K-State | L 7-0

March 16 | Cal State Bakersfield, Irvine Valley College | L 3-2, W 4-1 March 17 | No. 2 UCLA, No. 16 Loyola Marymount,

Colorado Mesa | L 5-0, L 5-0, W 4-1

WOMEN’S GOLF March 12-13 | Bradley Spring Break

Invitational | 8 / 16

UP NEXT SOFTBALL March 20 | 5 p.m. | UMKC March 24 | 12 p.m. & 2 p.m. | Valparaiso

MEN’S GOLF March 26-27 | Golden Nugget Invitational

March 25 | 11 a.m. | Valparaiso

WOMEN’S GOLF March 23- 25 | Mountain View Collegiate

BASEBALL

SWIMMING & DIVING March 22-24 | Men’s NCAA Championships

March 20 | 3 p.m. | Southeast Missouri State March 21 | 3 p.m. | Murray State March 23 | 3 p.m. | Cal State Northridge March 24 | 2 p.m. | Cal State Northridge March 25 | 12 p.m. | Cal State Northridge

WOMEN’S TENNIS March 30 | McNeese State TRACK & FIELD March 23-24 | Bulldog Relays BEACH VOLLEYBALL March 22 | 3 p.m. | Ottawa

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Letters to the Editor ‘Instead of publishing news about things people did back in high school, focus on the issues at hand.’

Alison Gray I just want to start off by saying I have always been in huge favor of The Standard writing and producing content to keep students informed and keeping public figures honest.

With that being said, what was published today about Richard Garcia, in my opinion, seems unnecessary.

I was introduced to Richard back in 2016 as a friend of a friend and have followed his journey and accomplishments at Missouri State since then. I have always felt strongly about who we elected into our Student Government Association since becoming a student back in 2013, but Richard was never a concern.

He is one of the most thoughtful and kind individuals I met at my time at Missouri State, and it breaks my heart that something he worked hard through out his college career to have the opportunity at, has been swept out from under him just because of someone digging up dirt on him to help their candidate win an election.

I know far too well about how the Student Government Association chooses its elected officials. Team members running campaigns are tasked with looking up dirt on the other potential candidates in hope to eliminate them from the running. I saw this again back in 2015. This may be how politics are handled in our

country, but I had a higher expectation for our university.

Instead of publishing news about things people did back in high school, focus on the issues at hand. It is unfair to look at someone’s actions as black and white. And because you chose to do that here, Richard now doesn't have the opportunity to continue to serve our school. Think about how it would make you feel if someone said you could no longer be published because of something you did or said 4 years ago.

You have the opportunity to be a positive light in the media space, but instead, you chose to publish negative content that harmed an individual.

‘We need more people of color in Student Government ... What you do online will stay with you forever ...

Keep an open mind.’

Luther Harris, freshman civil engineering major I spent a few days thinking about this. But if you have been reading recent news. I understand that the Chief Information Officer for the Student Government Association has stepped down from the student body president race.

Now, as a person of color myself and a senator on SGA, I need to add my take to this matter.

There are a couple things we can learn here from this.

1. We need more people of color in Student Government.

Right now, our university is 20 percent minority, which is better than Rolla. But people of color bring in new perspectives into many minds and into many jobs. This incident will not shine any light on student government itself because people of color want to feel safe in the places they say.

This is why many of these people go to HBCUs where there are similar people like them that think about the same and there is no risk to be discriminated against. When I came to Missouri State, that was one of the things my par-

ents where looking at, diversity. The university is not really doing enough for many minority like me to attend the school. So if we had a bigger voice in student government, we can make changes to our university to make it more inviting for many other minority.

2. What you do online will stay with you forever. If you are in middle school or high school, take note, what you do online will effect your job applications, your colleges, everything. So be careful what you say. Remember the people who protested against the taking down of the Robert E. Lee Statue, well there is a Twitter account called "That's Racist" that looks at the people shown in photographs and identifies them. As a result, as soon as they are exposed, they are fired from their job. Once it’s online, you can not take it off.

The officer should have been taking action before running for president. Now that the article is here to stay on The Standards's page, it will forever haunt him for the rest of his life because a simple Google search can ruin him from getting a job.

3. Keep an open mind and talk to people. This is for the many of you that are not in the minority. I encourage you to come to the Multicultural Center or the office of Diversity and Inclusion and simply learn about the backgrounds of many people or talk about politics. Try not to fight with these people. Just understand there thoughts on current events. Then compare these thoughts to your own. You don't have to listen to everything they say. The purpose of this is to practice critical thinking and open mindedness. The officer back in 2015 probably didn't understand what the N-word meant back during that time and used it.

If you don't understand what a word means, take the time to learn it or don't use it at all.

It doesn't matter if it’s in a rap song or not, take some time to analyze what you consume as music and learn about it.

Just because artists use it in their music doesn't mean that you can do that too.

These are just some of the things that we can to learn from this, and I hope we take this into consideration.

-Senator Harris

‘...When I see Richard (Garcia), I see someone who has ... strength and has formed himself into an admirable example of personal development.’

Eric McCullough, senior computer science major To Whom It May Concern, I'm writing to you in regards to the recent article published concerning my friend, Richard Garcia. I'd like to start out by saying that I think the tweets in question were objectionable; however, I think your article came from a place of malice and a misplaced desire for personal gain.

I don't believe many people can change. It takes a significant amount of strength to change oneself for the better, but when I see Richard, I see someone who has that strength and has formed himself into an admirable example of personal development. I've known Richard since the fall of 2015 when he had just arrived on campus as a fresh-

man, and I have witnessed his journey as a first generation college student and American citizen trying to set aside the ideals passed to him by the environment he grew up in and define his own path and character.

The ability to set aside a toxic worldview and adopt an attitude of acceptance and celebration of diversity is feat of exceptional willpower that should be celebrated, not rewarded with public defamation and humiliation. The stance your article took is damaging to the march of social progress, as it ostracizes those who might reevaluate and reform their opinions by telling them that they will forever be hated and punished for past opinions (opinions, mind you, that were held by a child in this case).

Furthermore, The Standard

has exhibited an almost self satirizing level of hypocrisy in publishing such a scathing article on this topic, when a fellow student found tweets containing the same derogatory language on the accounts of active reporters working for the newspaper.

While I suspect that this email will be brushed off and laughed at by the staff of your newspaper, I'm still going to voice my opinion and lay out the decisions before the leadership of The Standard here: Maintain your credibility and stand by your assertion that such language is unacceptable in an institution of higher learning by removing Brenner Moore from the staff of The Standard.

Maintain your credibility and remove the article about Richard Garcia from circula-

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‘...Apologize.’

Zoe Claycomb, sophomore nursing major Hi, I am a Missouri State student, and after your most recent post, I am humiliated to say my kind and all-inclusive university who believes in ethical leadership, integrity and cultural competence would ALLOW you to sit behind a computer and publicly slander a student for things he said in high school?

Sure, they were not okay, but I’m almost 100 percent sure every member on your staff said things in high school that you likely don’t want aired to the public either. I do not even know that student, but I am asking that you remove the slanderous article and if you have a conscious at all, apologize. Ruining a students life over the amount of views on an article is not okay and not worth it. You and your organization should be ashamed of yourselves.

‘I am disappointed.’

Noah Hendel, senior marketing major Standard staff, I’m emailing in regard to your recently published article entitled “N-word used 232 times by MSU Student Government Association chief information officer.” I am disappointed in the libelous and unethical nature of the article.

I’ve worked with Richard Garcia in a professional capacity and have seen first hand how Missouri State has developed him into a strong leader. Our public affairs mission develops students to be culturally competent, ethical leaders, and engaged in the community. Richard does exactly that. There is no justifying the language used in his tweets, however, they are dated before he even attended the university. Since attending Missouri State, he has demonstrated his cultural competence in countless ways—all of which were not included in the article.

I do not think the article appropriately approaches the issue at hand. I am especially concerned after members of The Standard were found using the same language on Twitter. I would like to know what actions are being taken to address this matter.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Respectfully, Noah Hendel tion and issue an apology to him realizing that an individual's past words and actions do not necessarily reflect on their current character.

Do neither and lose all credibility and thereby admit to the world that The Standard is nothing more than a tabloid newspaper run for personal gain by shameful opportunists and cowards with no consistent ethical practices.

I hope that your decision will reflect well on the university we both share.

Continued from page 4 Women’s HERstory Month keynote performance, “One Drop of Love,” will take place on March 20, 7-8:30 p.m..

“One Drop of Love” is a play that was written, produced and performed by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni. She uses her platform to demonstrate iden-

COLE Continued from page 4 lot of cool visual effects and some plot progression for the sake of plot progression.

“Annihilation” is a fireworks show. It’s a stunning visual display with no growth or drive or direction. This is a movie that would have made a fantastic video game, with people that mutate into fungal explosions, or a half-decomposed monster that has a human voice and the body of a bear.

I am impressed at the great use of suspense and that the film can be scary and is not afraid to show you its ugly parts, but it lacks a theme.

Again, I’m sure people will tell me that I’m missing it, or that I didn’t get the ending.

That’s true, because there was nothing to “get.”

Movies like this are frustrating to me because they trick people into thinking that the movies are intellectual. They have the suspenseful music,

tity as intersectional lived experiences rather than singular.

“One Drop of Love” explores history, family, race, class, justice and love of past and present times from all around the world, bringing them together as one.

“Given the current political dialogue around womanhood and the experience of women, it is my hope this production will create important dialogue on our campus,” Garcia-Pusateri said.

the meaningful weird camera angles — all to make the audience think that there’s something more. There almost always is something more, but this movie presents no reason for things to happen; they just happen.

And if anyone wants to tell me that that is itself the point, I would invite them to watch the homage to no reason, “Rubber,” to see why it shouldn’t be taken seriously as a main message for a movie.

In short, while “Annihilation” has a wildly impressive array of visual effects that contribute to one of the most complete concepts I’ve seen in a film as bizarre as this, it appears that the writer, Alex Garland, was overexcited in his adaptation and forgot to adapt the theme of the novel.

Credit where credit is due, the animating team and the scenic artist Russell Oxley, scenic painter Mary Pat Sheahan, and all the set decorators and concept artists were astounding. Boneless wings are chicken nuggets, and a more colorful boneless “Arrival” is “Annihilation.”

McCHESNEY Continued from page 4 solve them.

Seems backwards, right?

But it makes sense. Other selfhelp books will tell you to be positive all the time, to avoid problems and just be happy.

Manson wants us to embrace the negative in life, because that will make us evolve as individuals.

I read this book in two days.

I laughed. I cried. I felt uncomfortable because Manson looks directly at you and asks you some poignant questions that will make you reflect on your friendships, relationships and values.

One of the best parts of Manson’s book is when he explains that you are not special.

He says that everyone thinks they deserve greatness. This flawed thinking, Manson says, is extremely dangerous to our mental health.

He break down how the rare individuals who do become truly exceptional do so not because they believe they deserve greatness. Rather, they reach the top because they’re obsessed with improvement, and that obsession stems from the belief that they are not great in the first place.

Manson’s book might not be for everyone, because he is blunt, he sugarcoats nothing and he will make you uncomfortable. But, this book is an absolute must read for anyone who feels they could be achieving more than they are right now. More in your career, more in your hobby, more in your relationship.

Just, more.

Manson uses stories of Buddhism, his own struggles, the struggles of rockstars and many others to get his point across. At the end of the day, in my opinion, his biggest point he wants to get across is to question yourself.

Question your decisions, your values and your goals. In doing so, you will ask yourself the tough questions, the ones that must be asked to make an improvement in your life.

Lastly, I will leave you with my favorite part of the book. It comes from the subhead: “The ‘Do Something’ Principle.”

Manson explains that when you are facing a problem, a goal or a task, instead of thinking about it, do something.

“Don’t just sit there. Do something. The answers will follow.”

“Action isn’t just the effect of motivation; it’s also the cause of it.”

See, as Manson explains, so many of us believe that action comes from some divine inspiration or inherent motivation. That’s not correct. Instead, the action acts as the leader, and in turn, it’s a never-ending cycle.

“Your actions create further emotional reactions and inspirations and move on to motivation your future actions.

“Action — Inspiration — Motivation.”

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Continued from page 1 Reece said the Nazi Method is largely to blame for Springfield’s long-term battle with methamphetamine.

When Reece started with the Springfield Police Department, methamphetamine investigations involved tracking down local labs and their cooks. But he said the focus has shifted dramatically over the course of his 18 year career.

“We went 180 degrees from what we were at, to where we’re at now, as far as methamphetamine labs,” Reece said. “When I started, it was all labs. Everyone cooked their own meth out in rural areas or even really sometimes right in the middle of Springfield…labs were in houses.”

Reece said labs faded out almost entirely in 2004 after the Federal Drug Administration passed more restrictive ephedrine laws. He said this prevents people from buying cold medicine — an ingredient used in making meth — from over-the-counter.

Because ephedrine is now only available in small quantities, the rare cases of meth production activity in Springfield are “one-pot labs.”

“They make just enough for one use per person, and they throw the trash on the side of the road,” Reece said. “(It’s) what we call lab trash.

We just clean that up and dispose of it properly.”

Today, cooking in a meth lab is more complicated due to stricter ephedrine laws,

and an unnecessary risk.

“You can still go out and buy one box of cold medicine at a time if you wanted to and cook in your own lab,” Reece said. “But there’s no need to now because, for less money, you can buy more weight and it’s a better product from Mexico that’s coming up from the southern borders. ... It’s better and its cheaper than you could do yourself.”

Because of this change in distribution, Reece and his team must widen their scope to keep up with the meth problem. He said they often collaborate with outside police forces and investigative units to determine where, and who, the meth in Springfield is coming from.

Reece said officers in the narcotics unit spends about 50 percent of their time and resources dealing with meth and related crimes. The other 50 percent is spent tackling the heroin problem. While heroin is becoming increasingly more common, Reece said meth is an entirely separate issue that requires just as much attention.

“I don’t think the heroin growth has slowed down our methamphetamine use,” Reece said. “They’re almost two separate issues for us … you might have a dealer that sells both, but you don’t usually have someone that abuses both.”

Although heroin is a rising concern, and meth labs have decreased significantly, Reece said meth is still just as much of a problem as it has been for many years in the Springfield area.

“The reality is we have more meth than we ever have before,” Reece said.

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“It’s not a gun ban. It’s gun reform. And this isn’t a political issue, it’s a safety issue.”

-Halle Robbins, organizer

WALKOUT Continued from page 1 are participating. Korinna Hylen is organizing the walkout at Greenwood. They are planning on joining MSU’s walkout.

She said she expects about 10-20 Greenwood students to participate in the walk to Strong Hall amphitheater.

“I think it’s time that more people get really angry about this because there’s children being shot just for trying to get education, so it’s an issue that impacts all of us, especially in high school,” Hylen said. “All

of us have gone through that experience of being in lockdown and having that threat of a shooter coming in and killing all of us, so I think it’s time that more people get angry and that this actually ends because it’s an issue that affects all of us.”

Kickapoo High School walkout organizer Grace Laflen said she’s expecting about 100-130 Kickapoo students to walk out. Laflen said Central High School is expecting around 200. Students at Drury are also participating.

“It’s not really a right or left issue,” Hylen said. “There’s definitely people on all sides of the political spectrum that this affects. No matter how you think gun reform should be solved, whether

it’s putting more guns in schools and giving them to teachers or like getting rid of guns altogether, anywhere in between, something needs to be done, and you have the right to have your voice heard, no matter what you think should be right.”

The march comes just over a month after 17 people were killed during a school shooting in Florida.

“I want all students to be able to understand if they stand up for what they believe in, they can accomplish a lot more,” Halle Robbins, Glendale High School walkout organizer, said. “It’s not a gun ban. It’s gun reform. And this isn’t a political issue, it’s a safety issue.”