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Junior global studies major Emma Farley speaks out against a preacher’s speech on Thursday, March 17. Students and staff gathered to witness the conflict between the preacher and other students speaking out. In an email to The Standard, Farley says she felt the need to speak up because of the environment surrounding the presidential election. “I felt like speaking my mind to the preacher was somewhat of an outlet for the way that I feel about all of the hate, racism, bigotry that these kinds of people are promoting,” Farley says.

What is the Board of Governors planning? Local and national newspapers might be eliminated from MSU At a recent meeting, the Board of Governors talked about a variety of topics, including a tuition increase

By Danisha Hogue Staff Reporter @Danisha_Queen

Students will no longer have to worry about CSC 101

by the students during the fall 2015 semester by a vote, and it will be implemented beginning in fall 2017.

“Affordability is one of our main principles, and I think this fee resolution very much keeps us in line with continuing Missouri State University as a value option,” Smart said.

“We have been very careful not to add additional costs, and frankly, when you’re able to keep costs exactly in line with inflation for 85 percent of our students, that’s essentially a no increase.”

Matthew Morris, vice president for administrative services, brought forward a proposal regarding residence hall renovations. Morris asked for

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Students can expect to see a slight tuition increase and a new Mexican restaurant soon.

On Wednesday, March 16, the Board of Governors Executive Committee met via conference call to discuss these changes and improvements to Missouri State University’s Springfield and West Plains campuses.

The first item of business was passing a motion to approve the 2016-2017 fee schedule. The budget has moved from the Missouri House of Representatives to the Senate, which includes proposals of small tuition increases for both the Springfield and West Plains campus-

es. The Springfield campus can expect to see a 0.7 percent increase in tuition for undergraduate Missouri residents, which is represented by a one dollar increase per credit hour and an eight dollar per-student per-semester fee.

These will likely take place fall 2016.

“I guarantee you, no public university surrounding us in any state will have a smaller increase than that,” President Clif Smart said.

For West Plains students, tuition is expected to increase by 1.7-1.8 percent.

The second part of the fee resolution includes a studentapproved fee of $29 per semester for the renovation of Taylor Health and Wellness Center. This fee was approved

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By Emily Joshu Staff Reporter @EmilyJoshu

Missouri State students may no longer have access to local and national newspapers on-campus if funds for the USA Today Collegiate Readership Program are reallocated. Students will be able to vote on April 6.

The readership program provides Bailey Vassalli/THE STANDARD students with The cost of the USA Today Collegiate Readership Program is access to USA approximately $100,000, according to the Board of GoverToday, The New nors July 30, 2015 meeting agenda. The current contract York Times and term is from June 18, 2015 to July 31, 2016.

Springfield NewsLeader throughout campus. It also had downloaded The Buzz as of January allows students to download an app 2016. In order for the fee to be reallocated, titled Missouri State University The 1,101 votes from the student body are Buzz powered by USA Today. After the needed.

Getting rid of newspapers isn’t uncomdebate on March 1, SGA members voted to explore the possibility of reallocating mon on college campuses.

“So many people do online reading,” the fee.

According to SGA data, 256 students

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Students learn safety measures Meet Mohammed Jubary Two former police officers spoke at “Refuse to be a Victim” about daily safety tips students should use

By Emily Joshu Staff Reporter @EmilyJoshu

Safety is a primary concern on college campuses and the Springfield community, so retired law enforcement officers Mike Brooks and David Crews are seeking to educate the area about this concern.

Refuse to be a Victim is a nationwide crime prevention program sponsored by the National Rifle Association, and on Saturday, March 19, Crews and Brooks held the first seminar for Missouri State University.

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By Sarah Teague Staff Reporter @SarahTeague96

A fight for power is tearing apart Yemen and has caused a division in the government. The origins of violence go back centuries. Since the 1970s, this tension has built into the complete crisis present today.

Mohammed Jubary, sophomore mechanical engineering major at Missouri State University, was born in Sana’a, capital city of Yemen, and has witnessed this violence firsthand.

“The escalation started (in) 2011 with the revolution, Arab Spring,” Jubary said. “Everything was really crazy. There was a push towards it, and the opposing parties supplied money, supplied weapons and supplied everything for those revolutionists.” tribal confederations, each with its own fighters and defense forces, family lines and alliances. Jubary is Background Across the Arab world, near the involved in the Madhaj confederaend of 2010 before the Arab upris- tion and identifies with the Ans tribe. ings––commonly called the Arab This confederation is geographically Spring––the Yemeni people were dispersed, but focuses mainly in the pressured from not only different central part of the country.

“I come from a strong tribe, political loyalties, but also tribes.

Yemen is a nation dominated by which means there are a lot of men,

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a lot of fighters,” Jubary said. “There (are) 100,000 fighters in this tribe.

It’s not amazing, it’s messed up. It is (staggering) when you live in a (place) where the cops do nothing.

The justice system is so corrupted.

You have to have your own people.”

In the late 1980s, the south’s

Say bye-bye to CSC 101

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Retired law enforcement, Mike Brooks and David Crews told students to practice AIM (awareness, intuition and mindset) daily until it becomes second nature.

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Prevent domestic violence workshop

The Student Government Association will be holding an event on how to stop domestic and interpersonal violence. There will be a film, followed by a workshop. The first event will be held on March 30 at 7 p.m. in the PSU theater. The second showing will be on April 14 at 6 p.m. in the PSU ballroom. Students with questions can contact Zak Wilkerson, chief Title IX commissioner for SGA, at Wilkerson55@live.missouristate.edu.

The Computers for Learning 101 class will be eliminated

By Cortlynn Stark Staff Reporter @Cortlynn_Stark

Klayton Curran, a senior computer science major, was a little worried when he realized he did not have credit for the most basic computer science class: Computers for Learning 101. Fortunately for Curran, the class was dropped from the university.

The computer information systems version of this class was removed from the undergraduate catalog in April 2015 and the computer science version will be removed in April 2016. Neither class was taught at Missouri State University in the fall or spring of this year,

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which presented a huge problem for students who, at the time, were still required to take it.

“People could take the test though and if they didn’t pass the test, then they’d go to (Ozarks Technical Community College) and that wasn’t what we wanted,” said Josh Smith, Provost Fellow for General Education Transition and biomedical sciences professor.

According to Smith, the College Council passed the removal of CSC 101, and it is currently in the challenge period in Faculty Senate.

“So pretty much, as long as no one challenges it, it’s on its way out,” Smith said.

For many students, this a big help.

“I’m extremely grateful it was dropped,” Curran said.

“I have completed nearly all the upper level undergrad computer science courses and the idea of having to go back and take that was a little worrying and it was the very last thing incomplete on my degree audit.”

This change will impact about 400 students according to Smith and Testing Center Coordinator Sue McCrory. These students have not taken the class or the

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Tuesday, March 22, 2016 | the-standard.org REALITY CHECK

Spring Holiday falls on Easter each spring term

By Rhowen Cramer Staff Reporter @rhowencramer

As college students, we typically look forward all semester to the few breaks we get off from our classes.

Because it is a public school, Missouri State University is not supposed to be affiliated with any particular religion. However, that What s in a name? seems to be brought into that which we call aquestion with breaks such as the upcoming “Spring Holirose day.”

While the name suggests By any other name that it is an unaffiliated break would smell as sweet, not in connection to the celebration of a holiday, the break consistently falls right William Shakespearebefore Easter every year, Romeo and Juliet suggesting that maybe it’s not so “unaffiliated” after all.

So, while those who believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ get a free pass for a holiday, students of other religions must go through several steps in order to get approved time off for their spiritual leave.

According to Missouri State’s website, “Once a request is made, the University will explore reasonable accommodations to address

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the person’s religious belief or practice, unless, again, the request creates an undue hardship.

The person requesting the accommodation is obligated to cooperate with the University’s attempts to accommodate the request.”

“It may be necessary for the University to request the employee or student to provide documentation or other authority to support the need for an accommodation based on the employee’s or student’s religious practice or belief. Further, the University may need to discuss the nature of the religious belief(s), practice(s) and accommodation with the religion’s spiritual leader (if applicable) or religious scholars to address the request for a religious accommodation.”

Therefore, not only does the student have to take extra steps to request permission to observe their holiday, but they must also prove that they do, in fact, belong to that religion.

However, observers of Easter get a pre-approved break to spend as they please, without a fight.

In order to make things easier for the student submitting the request, the university’s policy on religion does include a link of common holidays.

According to the policy, “A list of religious observances and holidays of which the University is aware are posted at the website for the Office of Equity and Diversity, and any questions or suggestions regarding this policy should be directed to that office.”

Though this seems to be a fairly important issue to keep up-to-date, the Office of Equity and Diversity no longer even exists by that name. Instead, the Office of Institutional Equity and Observance is in charge of the policy.

Yet, the website only lists the holidays up to 2014, so even that resource is no longer available to students.

Spring Holiday consistently lines up with Easter, and the correlation is no mistake. As a public school, is this really fair or should the school make sure that the breaks are not affiliated with a certain system of beliefs?

A dangerous, necessary calling Hashtag game vs. real support

By Sarah Teague Staff Reporter @SarahTeague96

Telling people I come from a family involved in missions always gets different reactions. Sometimes people stare wide-eyed in awe. “Missionaries? Wow that must be crazy.” It’s not what movies and news reports make it out to be.

Others seem indifferent or disinterested. Why would you spend your life away from family in dangerous and strange places just to tell people about a book? Good question. Missionary work is about more than that, however. Not only is it about evangelism, but this work is full of compassion and sacrifice, helping those living in underdeveloped countries get what they need.

You’re skeptical and I get that. Some might ask questions like, “At the end of your life are you asking yourself if what you did as an individual really made a difference? Did all the traveling, sleepless nights and prayer chalk up to anything?”

Recently my father made a trip to Côte d’Ivoire with a team from a local church to meet his brother and sister-inlaw (who live in West Africa) and evangelize throughout the northern part of the country, near Burkina Faso. Côte d’Ivoire is the country my grandparents entered in the ‘70s as pioneer missionaries into an unexplored jungle, and this is where they raised their three sons.

On Jan. 15, 2016, gunmen entered the Cappuccino restaurant in the Splen-

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did Hotel in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, killing nearly 30 people and injuring more than 60 others. According to Faith Karimi of CNN, “An al Qaedalinked terrorist group claimed responsibility for the assault at Splendid Hotel, a popular meeting place for Western diplomats in the capital, Ouagadougou.”

Among the dead, a missionary died that day, Mike Riddering. According to a report by World Magazine, “Mike and Amy Riddering live and work in Yako, a town about 70 miles north of the capital city Ouagadougou. Mike Riddering was supposed to be meeting a pastor at Cappuccino, the restaurant in Ouagadougou where the attack began. Militants attacked the eatery and then went across the street to the Splendid Hotel, where they seized hostages.”

There’s no question that missionaries have one of the most dangerous jobs on the planet. They aren’t involved in logging or mining or bull riding, but rather, they deal with people’s hearts.

They travel to foreign places where so many have chosen not to go before.

Missionaries not only reach people’s hearts, but they build up others’ lives and help them in lasting ways. Sometimes this is not welcome and even if a portion of the population is glad the missionaries are there, others decide to take matters into their own hands. So many times we’ve seen journalists, missionaries and humanitarian workers overseas treated as targets, sometimes knowingly, and yet, they decide to brave this anyway to reach one village, or one

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family, or one person in crisis.

Last week, my father and a local team were helping to evangelize and build a tabernacle in Côte d’Ivoire, just eight weeks after this attack in Burkina Faso. However during their time in Côte d’Ivoire another attack happened in Grand Bassam, in the southern part of the country, on March 13, 2016, killing nearly 20 and injuring others. Although they were not near this attack, it was terrifying to know that it was happening less than eight hours away from where they were.

Although these horrid acts happen, and innocent people are killed, it’s people’s hearts that still matter. At the end of the day when the violence has erupted and the bloodshed ensued, you can count on missionaries to still be in the crossfire, ministering to the lives of those who feel helpless and afraid.

Although this is a dangerous call, it is a necessary one, as so many are suffering under harsh governments and living in horrible conditions. This is something very difficult to understand when living in such a privileged area, but within the time it took you to read this sentence, another child has died of hunger and poor sanitation, according to the BBC. Back to the question, “Is mission work worth it?” It’s really a question about being willing to go out of our comfort zones to help others. This service can be in any profession—it takes courage, sacrifice and cultural competence. After helping others and seeing the results of sacrifice and hard work, it is worth it.

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#PrayForSyria #Kony2012 I’m sure you can think of similar types of hashtags found on Twitter and Facebook. You may have even tweeted or posted something using a similar hashtag.

They tend to pop up every so often, usually whenever a national disaster, tragedy or asocial movement gains momentum. Tweets like these garner copious attention for about two weeks at most and then usually fade into the background of the social media aether.

But do these tweet additives really accomplish anything? In the grand scheme of things, I’d say it really depends on the type of movement. In the short term, however, I’d be willing to bet that there are more effective ways you could benefit a cause than from the comfort of your couch.

Take #PrayForSyria, for example.

It’s great to see all of the people that want to show their support for the Syrian people and the horrific things they’re having to experience on a daily basis, but is it really helping the people? Only kind of.

Sure, you could make the argument that all of the tweets are bringing attention to the cause and notoriety to the strife and oppression the Syrian people experience, but to me there are other ways you could help directly.

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Don’t get me wrong, it’s really a great thing to bring attention to things like the Paris bombing, ALS and the Ankara bombings, but tweeting your sorrow or solidarity won’t directly assist a cause.

It’s essentially the online equivalent of a pat on the back.

I know we don’t always have money, because college is expensive and adulting costs some serious dough, but a couple dollars can go a long way.

If you can sacrifice dining out one week, you could help buy food for someone in a developing country. Or get some bathing supplies for a person in need right here in the Ozarks.

Money isn’t everything, though. Without volunteers ready and willing to supply hands-on support, the monetary donations don’t really do a lot.

Volunteering your time can be just as helpful, if not more helpful than donating money.

Instead of just tweeting your support for natural disaster relief, go pack some sandbags, or help rebuild a house.

We have the power to effect incredible change in our respective local communities and in lands abroad, but it all starts with peeling ourselves off the figurative—and sometimes literal—couch.

The Twitterverse is a powerful tool and a great way to get a cause off the ground, but the most helpful aid comes from volunteering of money and time.

Make a difference with more than your thumbs.

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Band Director to retire after 31 years at MSU

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Jerry Hoover, director of bands at Missouri State, is also a member of the Missouri Music Educator’s “Hall of Fame” for his renowned work in music education.

By Sydni Moore Staff Reporter @sydnimmoore

Jerry Hoover, Director of Bands at Missouri State University, began his life with music at the age of 12 with a metal clarinet.

“I think when you’re starting out in life, you don’t know where things are going to take you, but I’ve always felt like that metal clarinet took me around the world,” Hoover said.

Throughout his melodious career, Hoover has traveled to many countries.

“I’ve judged festivals in Rome and Italy,” Hoover said, “and have had bands perform in Spain and the Netherlands, England, Scotland and Paris.”

Hoover has even led his students to perform at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. The Pride Marching Band is the only American band to have performed there.

“Those kids got to play in an iconic setting of the world,” Hoover said.

Like many students in college, Hoover started out wary of what he wanted to do.

“I knew I loved music. That’s really all I knew,” Hoover said, “I don’t think I even knew what kind of degree I was getting when I was in college.”

Hoover graduated, however, and went on to teach at three different public schools in Missouri for 20 years: Cabool for three years, then Lebanon for eight and then Jefferson City for nine. While teaching, Hoover worked with and enjoyed a

variety of age groups, even elementary children, just beginning their schooling.

“I loved those kids,” Hoover said, “They’re precious.”

After those 20 years of public school, Hoover took a job at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. Living in Las Cruces meant living in a much different environment compared to living in Missouri cities. In Las Cruces, the nearest neighboring city at the time was about 40 miles away.

“Las Cruces is like a jewel at night,” Hoover said. “It just glows.

It’s beautiful.”

In 1983, however, the head of the Department of Music at MSU called to offer Hoover a job. He declined, but two years later the department head called again.

“They were intent on building a program here,” Hoover said.

Hoover came to Missouri State University in 1985. Along with him came 16 students of New Mexico State University. They wanted to continue their education with Mr. Hoover as their teacher.

A new school meant facing new challenges.

“When I came in for the interview here, they had an old house over on Grand Street,” Hoover said.

“That was the band house—an old wood framed house, and it was pretty depressing to look at.”

When Hoover took the job and arrived in August to begin his position, the house was gone. A parking lot had taken its place. There was no longer an assigned space for the band.

Without a traditional hall to practice in, things got a bit interest-

ing. Houses on campus were soon taken up for the band. Different rooms were assigned as studios for different instruments.

“We found some migrants that were sleeping on the third floor,” said Hoover, “And the basement— you didn’t go to the basement alone, or you might never come back.”

Hoover continued to teach on.

“We built the program sitting in those old houses,” Hoover said.

Today, Hoover sits comfortably in his office in the Wehr Band Hall.

It is decorated with trinkets, including tiny ceramic bears and rabbits playing their own music with tiny horns and drums. Awards hang on his walls. Frames sit on his desk.

In 1996, the Wehr Band Hall was built on campus with the funds of Bob Wehr, a businessman, and the rest of his family.

“They didn’t give the school the money. They built the building and gave the school the keys,” Hoover said. “We went from the wrong side of the tracks and very dire surroundings to a really nice setting.”

The Wehr Band Hall has helped Hoover to oversee 18 student bands.

According to Missouri State University’s website, “He personally directs the Jazz Band, Symphonic Band, Varsity Band, several entertainment ensembles, and the 320Pride Marching Band.

“Bands can adapt to any setting.

There’s not another ensemble in the world that can match a band for how they can adapt,” Hoover said, “Whether it’s a 100-yard stage at a football game in front of thousands of people or in a parade or on the concert stage or in a spiritual setting—a band adapts.”

Healthy Bear Bites added to campus

By Rhowen Cramer Staff Reporter @rhowencramer

Until the last Monday in April, students have the opportunity to receive a nutrition analysis from a dietetic intern on campus.

A dietetic intern is a graduate student who is aiming to receive a certificate and become qualified to take an exam to become a registered dietitian.

According to the website, the purpose of the program is “to prepare competent dietitians who are citizen scholars, with expertise in either public affairs or rural health, who will meet the need of dietetic practitioners across the nation.”

To achieve this, the program has three distinct goals: “The dietetic internship will prepare graduates to be competent for practice as entry-level registered dietitian nutritionists; the dietetic internship will prepare graduates with life-long learning skills who will enhance the dietetic profession and demonstrate leadership in the field of dietetics; and the dietetic internship will emphasize and model a commitment to community engagement and prepare graduates who are socially accountable.”

As a part of that program, Missouri State University Healthy Bear Bites was created.

According to Olivia Massa, a dietetic intern at MSU, “It was created last year by an intern as part of her final rotation.”

Massa further explained the program was a free nutrition education program.

“Students can fill out a two-day diet recall, which is just marking down their food that they ate, including how much of it, and when they turn it back in to us, we give them

back a nutrient analysis,” she said.

Students can even sign up to get personalized advice from the interns.

“If they want to go even further, after they get the nutrient analysis back, they can sign up to meet with us one on one and talk about making a few goals and just talk about their nutrient analysis,” Massa said.

A nutrient analysis can be beneficial in allowing students to see what exactly they are getting out of their food.

“In college, it’s hard with the dining halls because you have limited food options,” she said. “With writing it down on paper, you really realize what you’re actually eating and see if you’re getting enough of what you need throughout the day.”

According to the website, the interns are more than capable of taking on the challenge of creating the documents. It said this was the first year since 2012 that the first time pass rate was 100 percent for MSU Dietetic Internship on the Registration Examination for Dietitians graduates.

Any student interested in participating in Healthy Bear Bites only has to go to one of the dining centers on campus during their lunch time on a Monday and talk to the intern manning the table. The program rotates between the dining halls every week, so make sure to check which one the table will be at on each specific Monday.

The next event will be on Monday, March 28, in the Blair-Shannon dining center.

According to Massa, the benefits make the event a no-brainer.

“It’s free,” Massa said. “I know it sounds like it’s a lot, but a food recall is just writing down the food you eat throughout the day.

Therefore, it’s free and it’s easy, so why not?”

Hoover estimates that around 4000-5000 students have learned underneath him at Missouri State.

He claims to run into old students all the time.

“You run into them all the way back from when you started teaching,” Hoover said.

Once, Hoover was greeted by an old student at a football game.

However they were not an alumnus of MSU. “The band was roaring, I had 40 drummers in front of me, the team came on the field and this guy comes up and he says, ‘So Mr. Hoover, do you remember me?’”

The man had Hoover as a teacher in Cabool—for only one year.

“Right away, I knew we were talking 50 years ago,” Hoover said, “I teach a band administration class and I tell ‘em, ‘Your kids are going to remember you. You have no say over that.’”

Additionally, last May on Hoover’s birthday, he received five cards from Cabool. The man at the game wasn’t the only one who had remembered him.

Hoover describes running into students he impacted years ago as a “sobering experience.” He can’t be sure why they remember him so well.

“It scares the daylights out of you,” Hoover said with a chuckle.

Hoover has taught at Missouri State for 31 years. During his time here, he was inducted into the Missouri Music Educator’s “Hall of Fame,” for his renowned teachings in music education and in October 2005, MSU honored Hoover by declaring a “Jerry Hoover Day” in

recognition of his many awards, honors, and achievements.

Mr. Hoover will retire at the beginning of July.

“It’s not a good feeling. People are always coming up to me and saying, ‘Oh, you’re going to love retirement,’” Hoover said, “I don’t understand it. If everyday, you look forward to getting over here as soon as you can and you know that you’re going to have this interaction all day with the kids, why would you want to leave that? If you really like it, why would you want to leave it?”

Hoover doesn’t believe he’ll make many visits once he’s gone.

“I’ll try to stay out of the way once I leave,” he said. “You don’t want to get in the way of the person that’s trying to run it.”

Once Hoover retires, he plans to continue taking his wife, Betty, on many dates and hopes to travel with her as well. He also hopes to perhaps continue to contribute to the world of band by speaking at spring band banquets, expressing how students may carry on with band, or visiting clinics meant for band directors, so that he can teach them things like effective fundraising and getting the word out on their own bands.

“In the world of band, it’s very special,” Hoover said. “I tell the kids in the band here that I’m a great one for living every day like it’s your last, and any of them that’ve had a class with me will tell you, ‘The best day of your life, has to be right now.’ I’ve always taught that philosophy.”

‘10 Cloverfield Lane’: not a sequel but not a disappointment

By Nathan Momper Movie Reviewer @mompermagic

When I heard a “spiritual” sequel to the found-footage monster movie, “Cloverfield” had been filmed and completed in near complete secrecy (just like the original), I was so jazzed up. But sequel is a very strong word in this case. Don’t expect “10 Cloverfield Lane” to have much of anything to do with its namesake. This movie being deemed a sequel had less to do with a continuation of the original and more to do with J.J. Abrams’ superior marketing prowess. Tacking Cloverfield onto the title of this movie will sell a lot more tickets than a movie titled “Not your Grandpa’s Fallout Shelter” or “John Goodman’s Schizophrenic Variety Hour.”

The point is, this isn’t the “Cloverfield” sequel I’ve been wishing for since 2008, but “10 Cloverfield Lane” is still an expertly crafted thriller.

On a dark and lonely country road, Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is knocked unconscious in a vicious car accident. When Michelle comes to, she realizes that she is locked in an underground bomb shelter with two men. Howard (John Goodman), the owner of the shelter, tells Michelle he saved her life after the wreck and took her back to the shelter because their was an attack of apocalyptic proportions. The other man, Emmett (John Gallagher Jr.) concurs with Howard’s doomsday claim, saying he hardly made it to the shelter in time.

Like any suspenseful thriller worth the ticket price, almost nothing is as it seems as the story twists and turns further out of con-

trol with each progressive plot point. Taking place in a cramped, singular setting for the vast majority of the runtime, the cast of “10 Cloverfield Lane” carried the nerve-grating tension with each line. John Goodman is nothing short of amazing in his portrayal of an enigmatic and sinister doomsday prepper.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead turns in an excellent performance that should catapult her career to A-list stardom. Same goes for John Gallagher Jr. Tonally, it’s pretty far away from the shaky-cammed, break-neck speed of “Cloverfield.” I liked it more to an episode of the “Twilight Zone” meets George Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead.” A small group of people who are at complete odds have to deal with each other and the horrors that are knocking on their front door. It’s claustrophobic, it’s tense and it’s pretty spooky.

Absolutely no spoilers, but I must admit the last 10 minutes let me down quite a bit.

It’s the most divisive part of the movie so it definitely appeals to others, but I just thought it got a little too ludicrous compared to the anticipatory slow burn that was the rest of the film. Regardless, “10 Cloverfield Lane” is an intense and satisfying cinematic experience well worth the price of a ticket.

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The Hammons Field Home Run Club Riding an 8-game win streak, the Bears have two big-time batters helping them lead the country with 1.68 home runs per game

By Wyatt Wheeler Staff Reporter @realYitWheeler

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Sophomore infielder Jake Burger squares up for a hit against Iowa on March 20. He After two blowout wins against Western Illi- was named a Louisville Slugger National and Missouri Valley Player of the Week nois to begin a nine-game home stand, the No. 12 ranked baseball Bears clawed their way to competitive series for MSU in a rematch of last senior shortstop Nick Roscetti.

In the home half of the ninth, the Bears keep their eight-game win streak alive against year’s NCAA Division 1 Baseball Championship tournament. loaded the bases for senior catcher Matt Fultz Iowa.

The first game of the series featured junior who would watch ball four go by to give the Missouri State (17-2) began their week against the Leathernecks from Western Illinois. pitcher Jordan Knutson, who once again deliv- Bears their seventh-straight win.

It also gave Fultz his 10th career game-winThe Bears outscored the Leathernecks 28-7 in a ered for the Bears against the Hawkeyes by two-game series with a 13-4 win on Tuesday striking out six batters and allowing only one ning RBI. earned run.

The final game of the series was a thriller as and a 15-3 win on Wednesday.

Knutson was the winning pitcher against the Bears were able to come back to win after The Bears offense was led by sophomore third baseman Jake Burger who owned the Iowa in the deciding game of the 2015 NCAA being behind four runs going into the bottom of Springfield Regional. the seventh.

Leathernecks in the mid-week series.

The Bears offense struggled to get anything With the Bears trailing in the seventh inning Burger went 8-9 in the two-game series, with three home runs, five RBIs and a double on his going. MSU had a season-low six hits but was 6-2, junior outfielder Alex Jefferson, who went way to earning Louisville Slugger National still able to manufacture enough runs to win 4- 2-2 with an earlier home run, led off the inning Player of the Week and Missouri Valley Confer- 1. The Bears offense was led by Paulsen’s two- with a single to spark the MSU offense. out, two RBI double in the fifth to give the While pinch-hitting, freshman infielder Jorence Player of the Week. dan Hovey hit his first-career home run to drive Burger is tied for first in the country with 10 Bears the lead.

The second game of the series featured the in Jefferson. Burger would later hit an RBI sinhome runs, while teammate Spencer Johnson is tied for fifth in the country with eight. Both bat- Bears having to come back to win in walk-off gle to make it 6-5.

With the bases loaded in the ninth, a passed ters are a big reason why the Bears are the top fashion.

Iowa was able to tie the game at four in the ball scored Jefferson from third to tie the game. long-ball team in the country, averaging 1.68 ninth inning after Iowa senior centerfielder Joel Burger would then hit a sacrifice fly to right home runs a game.

The Bears began a three-game series with Booker reached base on an error. Booker field to score Hovey’s go-ahead run. The Bears the Iowa Hawkeyes, and it was a much more advanced to second and then was batted in by would then get an insurance run following

Lady Bears get beat on the boards The Texas A&M Aggies bounce the Bears in the first round of the women’s NCAA basketball tournament

By Eric Knifong Staff Reporter @e_knifong

The Missouri State Lady Bears’ season came to an end on Saturday after losing in the first round of the NCAA Tournament to Texas A&M, 74-65.

The Lady Bears were able to face the Aggies after defeating Northern Iowa in the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament, receiving an automatic bid to their 14th NCAA Tournament appearance.

The Lady Bears were named the No. 13 seed in the Dallas region and took on the No. 4 seeded Aggies in College Station, Texas.

The game started out well for the Lady Bears, who used their defense to keep the game close in the first half.

MSU forced 17 A&M turnovers in the first 20 minutes of the game to trail the Aggies by two points heading into the half.

The Lady Bears were unable to take much of an advantage of the turnovers

as they shot the ball at 25 percent in the first half.

MSU held the lead at 22-21 with under three minutes to play in the first half, but the Aggies scored with 23 seconds left to take the lead for the final time.

The second half was all A&M after they got rid of the turnover bug.

The Lady Bears were only able to force seven turnovers in the second half and could not keep the Aggies off of the boards.

The Aggies held the distinct advantage inside and they attacked that advantage immediately out of the break.

They kept attacking the Lady Bears defense in the low-post and corralled offensive rebounds to push their lead to ten in the first four-and-a-half minutes of the third quarter.

The Lady Bears battled until the final whistle blew and shot the ball at 59 percent in the fourth quarter.

A 3-pointer by junior guard Lexi Hughes in the closing moments of the game pushed the final margin to nine points for MSU. The Lady Bears were led by their three seniors on the day.

Forward Hillary Chvatal finished her career with eight points on 3-4 shooting.

Guard Kenzie Williams added 18 points and a team high eight rebounds and four steals, and guard Tyonna Snow led all Lady Bears with 22 points.

The three seniors had great careers at MSU and were able to accomplish what they wanted to this season.

They end their careers with an MVC Tournament ring and a trip to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2006.

“We want a ring from somewhere. It doesn’t really matter where it comes

from as long as it’s a ring,” Snow said before the conference tournament.

The three seniors left their imprint on the program and should leave with their heads held high.

Williams finishes her career seventh in school history with 1,645 points.

Snow broke the school's single-season steals record with 109, and the career record with 352.

Snow also finished ninth in school history with 1,611 points. Chvatal ends her career ranked 14th in rebounds with 629 and 12th in blocks with 59.

A&M won the rebounding battle by a large margin at 55-35 and freshman forward Anriel Howard broke a women’s NCAA Tournament singlegame record with 27 rebounds.

Aggies senior guard Courtney Walker led all scorers with 29.

The Lady Bears were able to force 24 turnovers while they turned it over only 12 times.

After starting the season 11-7 and 22 in MVC play, the Lady Bears would find their groove going 13-3 and 12-2 in conference play the rest of the way.

Head coach Kellie Harper has put this team back into the NCAA Tournament in just her third year.

The future's looking bright for the Lady Bears who will return nine players next season.

However, three of MSU’s top four scorers will be gone and they will have to find new options on offense going into next season.

The Lady Bears could have the pieces to fill those holes with Liza Fruendt, Lexi Hughes and Danielle Gitzen.

If these three are able to improve their offensive output, look for the Lady Bears to be in contention for another MVC championship.

Paulsen’s RBI double.

Redshirt junior closer Bryan Young was able to come in and seal the deal for the Bears to give them their eighth-straight victory.

In the three-game series, Iowa chose to take a more conservative approach to the red-hot bat of Burger’s.

The sophomore came into the final game of the series 0-5 with four walks, three of them being intentional.

Burger’s bat came to life again by going 2-4 with a home run and three RBIs, including the go-ahead score.

“It shows a sign of a good team when I’m not playing well and we get two wins the day before,” Burger said.

MSU’s never-say-die approach to the last two games of the week reminded head coach Keith Guttin of the 2015 Springfield Regional Champions.

“We have guys who really battle at the plate and I think our guys feel like they can come back and be competitive and score,” Guttin said.

“We did it last year, and it’s a lot of the same guys.”

Iowa proved to be a much tougher outing than Western Illinois as the Bears had to respond in all three games of the series.

The Bears were also used to winning by the long-ball, but had to find a different way to wind due to the weather conditions.

“We knew going in that Iowa was a good ball club,” Guttin said. “The conditions were different. It had mainly been hitter’s conditions throughout the season up into this weekend. It got cold, and the wind changed and you’re going to have to win with fundamental baseball.”

Jefferson proved to be a key-part of the Bears offense to give them their fourth series sweep of the season.

Jefferson acknowledges that a sweep over Iowa can help define MSU for the rest of the season.

“Every win matters, but this is the type of win that can help define a team and form an identity of a team that’s going to fight,” Jefferson said. “It’s definitely a good series to come out and sweep.”

The Bears continue their long-home stand with a Tuesday night game against Arkansas State and a weekend series against Minnesota.

Men’s golf finishes tenth at Bob Sitton Invitational

By Parker Padgett Staff Reporter @PadgettParker

The Missouri State men’s golf team finished 10th out of 17 teams at the Bob Sitton Invitational on March 17.

The team finished behind groups from Long Beach State, Stephen F. Austin, Central Arkansas and Wyoming.

The Bears shot 308 in the first round, 296 in the second and 294 in the third, good enough for a placement nine strokes ahead of 11th place finisher, Houston Baptist University.

The team finished 44 strokes over, which was just two strokes shy of ninth place.

Senior Joey Johnson finished tied with three other golfers for the 24th best individual performance, 74-75-74 for a total of 223.

Both freshman Adam Fisher, 78-75-72, and senior Mitch Mather, 80-73-72, tied for the thirty-third best performance throughout the invitational with totals of 225.

Sophomore John Fuchs, 76-80-76, total 232, tied for 59th and freshman Kory Franks finished tied for 63rd, finishing 80-73-80, with a total of 233.

This was the Bear’s eighth event of their season.

They previously finished sixth out of 17 at the Loyola Intercollegiate in Arizona, eighth out of 14 at the LMU Higgins Memorial Invitational in Nevada.

At the end of the APSU/F&M Bank Intercollegiate, the team placed fourth out of 11 groups.

The Bears finish their only home event of the season at the Twin Oaks Intercollegiate, pitting them against eight other teams.

The tournament takes place at Twin Oaks Country Club in Springfield, Missouri.

They wrap up regular season play at the Oral Roberts Shootout, in Tulsa, Oklahoma on April 11.

After that, they will compete at the Missouri Valley Conference Championship on April 26.

Tennis beats South Dakota State, extends winning streak to six

After slow start, tennis improves to 8-10 on the season by picking up win at Cooper Tennis Complex

By Brian Wright Staff Reporter

Missouri State Tennis extended its win streak to six last week after defeating Arkansas State and South Dakota State.

The Bears took down the Red Wolves in Jonesboro, Arkansas 5-2 on March 18 and on Sunday March 20,

earned a nail biting victory against the Jackrabbits.

The Bears now have a 8-10 record in 2016, in comparison the Bears had just six wins total as a program until March 4, since returning to MSU in 2014.

Against Arkansas State the Bears won the No. 2, 3, 5 and 6 matchups in singles competition.

In those features spots sophomore Anelisse Torrico who is now on a three match winning streak to this point, and the No. 3 Miranda Poile had a convincing 6-3, 6-2 victory in straight sets.

The Bears freshman Faty Khamissi and Phoebe Boeschen rallied from behind to take victories at the No. 5 and No. 6 positions.

The Dual clinching victory came in the doubles duel between seniors Ema Turudija and Poile won a doubles game 6-2 and the team of Boeschen and Torrico who won with a score of 7-6(7-2).

Last season the Red Wolves pummeled the Bears 6-1.

The Bears had to rally to defeat their Missouri Valley Conference foe, the Jackrabbits, 4-3.

Boeschen won her match in straight sets, something none of her teammates could duplicate.

Along with Boeschen, the Bears gained victory from, Poile, Khamissi, and Turudija.

Torrico singles match in streak came to an end with a loss in three sets to SDSU’s Ffion Davies.

Torrico did rebound along with Boeschen for MSU, the only doubles victory against SDSU. The Bears will get some time off before their next duel on April 9 against Drake University.

The games will be held in Springfield, Missouri at the Cooper Tennis Complex.

The Bears have won their last three games at home, those three victories are also part of this winning streak.

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Softball splits series in weather-shortened week Bears drop one, win one against Redbirds to begin conference play

By Cortlynn Stark Staff Reporter @Cortlynn_Stark

A sixth inning home run by senior shortstop Erin Duewel propelled the Bears (11-14) to a late victory over Illinois State (9-18) on Saturday. Junior pitcher Erin Struemph added five strikeouts to keep the Redbirds at bay.

Neither team scored until the third inning with two quick runs by ISU to put the Bears down. MSU was quick to fight back the next inning, forcing out the first three ISU batters.

The Bears started their offensive rally in the fifth inning. ISU committed their first error of the day. Their shortstop missed a grounder hit by sophomore outfielder Hailee Vigneaux, putting her on base. Senior catcher Braxton Coil followed with a single to right field. Freshman catcher/first baseman Darian Frost pinch hit for freshman outfielder Hannah Heinrichs, earning her first hit and run batted in of the day, driving in Vigneaux for the Bears’ first run.

Sophomore pitcher Kaitlin Beason hit a single to center field in the sixth inning and junior first baseman Bethany Sullinger went in to run for her. Duewel brought in Sullinger with a two-run home run that just barely rolled over the top of the fence.

“That was pretty exciting, I haven’t been that excited in a long time,” Duewel said. “We needed something like that and I just put it on my shoulders and did it myself.”

The Bears capitalized on their aggressive offense with a similarly aggressive defense.

Struemph only allowed three hits and four walks. Struemph ended the game early with her final strike out of the day. She now has 75 total strikeouts, fifth in the Missouri Valley Conference. The Bears are second in MVC play in team fielding.

“You know our defense was perfect, all day long,” Head coach Holly Hesse said. “(Junior

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Junior pitcher Erin Struemph was All-MVC First Team in 2015 as the Bears ace.

third baseman Elena) Gambill played great at third base, made a lot of good plays for us.

(Erika Velasquez Zimmer’s) catch in the seventh was a huge catch. Defensively, we’ve been solid.”

ISU currently leads the MVC in team pitching and earned run average.

“It feels amazing (to win) because they’re a really good competitor in conference,” Struemph said. “And we knew this series was going to be tough, so it’s good to get a win on the first day and break it open.”

Shortly before the Bears beat ISU, they lost 8-0 to the Redbirds. In the first inning. ISU

scored a quick three runs, putting the Bears in an early hole they were unable to climb out of.

Duewel earned the first hit of the day with a single to left field. Gambill singled to right field, but neither player was able to score.

ISU followed with a three-run home run in the third inning, increasing their lead to 6-0.

They got a quick three outs to keep the Bears down.

In the fourth inning, MSU earned their first double play in MVC player to get batters out at first and third base. However, they couldn’t hold ISU down. The Redbirds hit their second home run of the day, bringing in two runs to make it 8-0.

In the fifth inning, the Bears picked up their defense to hold ISU to eight. Zimmer made a nice sliding catch to end the inning, holding ISU 8-0. The Bears earned two hits in the bottom of the fifth by Coil and Frost to keep hope alive, but their next batter struck out and the game ended after the fifth inning.

“It sucks coming out and losing like that,” Duewel said. “But it showed a lot of character that we came and bounced back and we rallied the troops. It’s just one game and we knew that we could come back the second game and get it done.”

Head coach Holly Hesse said pitching was the problem that game.

“We gave up too many hits. We gave up big hits. We gave up the long ball. We gave up too many walks,” Hesse said. “We just didn’t have it in the eight-foot circle.”

The final game of the series against ISU was cancelled due to cold weather.

The Bears lost 4-0 to Oklahoma State for the last game before MVC play began. Junior first baseman Mary Stephens and Vigneaux earned the only two hits of the game. This game marked 23 games in a row that the Bears were given a free base by a walk or hit by pitch.

OSU scored one run in the fourth inning and followed with three more runs in the fifth.

However, the Bears showed moments of strength defensively. Beason earned a career high five strikeouts, and Duewel ended the fifth inning with a double play to hold OSU down. They also did not commit any errors.

The Bears will take on Bradley (7-16), currently ranked fourth in the MVC, on March 25 in a three-game series at home.

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Dogs, cats and hamsters, oh my!

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Art history professor, Eric Pervukhin, welcomes pets into the classroom

By Rebecca Biundo Design Editor @rebeccabiundo

For 25 years, Eric Pervukhin has been teaching at Missouri State University. Pervukhin is known for his design and illustration classes,.On the door of his evening art history class, there is a sign that reads, “Please close the door behind you, cats inside.”

While Pervukhin was in school, he experienced what it was like to learn with animals.

“I came from a graduate school where animals were allowed and actually I realized that animals in the school environment are really beneficial,” Pervukhin said. “Out of everything I picked up from graduate school, I vividly remember cute dachshunds running around in class.”

The pet-friendly class got its start after a student asked Pervukhin if she could bring her cat to class since she did not have anyone at home to look after it.

“It started because of a sick cat. But then, I realized that when animals are in class it creates a very light, warm atmosphere,” Pervukhin said.

Pervukhin realized that pets could help with the amount of pressure that is placed on design and illustration majors.

“Students are stressed especially in our program, design. Technology is growing and we are asking a lot from our students. It’s a beautiful profession and a great future, but you must really work very hard,“ Pervukhin said.

Word traveled quickly and current students joked with Pervukhin asking if they could bring their pets to class. To their surprise, Pervukhin agreed.

Pervukhin makes sure before allowing animals that everyone in the class is comfortable with the idea, no one has allergies and that all animals are behaved and well-mannered.

“It’s crazy that animals behave. I have never ever had any kind of noise, chasing or barking or any incidents like that. Even when there is a cat and a dog in class, they amazingly just sit and listen.

The whole class just sits and listens.”

Pervukhin said that there are only one to two animals in class, sometimes three. Animals that have been in class include dogs cats and even an “A+ perfect hamster.”

Pervukhin has always been an animal

Eric Pervukhin uses pets in his art history class to alleviate stress among design and illustration students.

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“Even when there is a cat and a dog in class, they amazingly just sit and listen. The whole class just sits and listens.”

lover himself and has two dachshunds of his own and has brought them to his own classes in the past.

“I have brought them to drawing class and it’s so nice and (the dogs) are posing and students are sketching them,” Pervukhin said.

Pervukhin said that students enjoy when there are pets in class because it provides a calm environment to learn in.

“It’s pretty well known that having animals around is good for you,” Pervukhin said.

Pervukhin believes that there is a correlation of how well students do in his class and the amount of presence animals have in class.

“I teach this class during the evening. All of a sudden I realized, every time there is an animal in class there is a sense of relief and peace,” Pervukhin said. “When I give a quiz, scores are better when animals are in class When they are not in class, (scores) are okay, but you can tell a difference.”

As an art history class, Pervukhin said that the information taught is not always the easiest to learn and students do not always have a desire to come to class. However, mixing in Miranda Roller/THE STANDARD animals can change that, A sign warns students that there are animals, such as Pervukhin said. cats in the classroom.

“A Revolution of the Heart”

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Bonnie Sachatello-Sawyer spoke to MSU students about becoming leaders in today’s society as part of Women’s History Month

By Rhowen Cramer Staff Reporter @rhowencramer

As a part of Women’s History Month, one speaker aimed to inspire change with her presentation on the “Revolution of the Heart.”

“There is so much we need to do now, and all of you are in a position to be influential and changemakers and we need you,” Bonnie Sachatello-Sawyer said during her March 15 presentation. “We need you now more than ever.”

Sachatello-Sawyer is the founder of Hopa Mountain, a non-profit organization that aims to improve the education, environment and economy of tribal and rural communities in the Northern Rocky Mountains and Great Plains.

However, the organization does this without putting themselves first. Instead, they empower the leaders in the communities to enact the change on their own, with resources provided by Hopa Mountain.

“We work quietly and we work intentionally,” she said. “You won’t come to our state and see a big poster that says, ‘Hopa Mountain did this’ and there’s a reason for that and it has a lot to do with power. We don’t want to take away from the work of people in their own communities.”

“People want resources, but something we’ve done in historically marginalized communities is that we’ve taken from them. We are still taking from them. To change that we have to change how we work and it requires thinking about being allies, being support to causes and not running the causes. It is a different way of working, and all of our initiatives are designed around that model.”

According to Hopa Mountain’s website, the most important part of the process is hope.

“Hope is the fundamental prerequisite for positive change,” it said. “Working together, we can create a mountain of hope for the future of rural and tribal communities. The

possibilities for sustained improvements in economic, environmental and social health lie in the strength, innate wisdom and creativity of local people––in their relationships with each other and the land. They know their community “needs and has good ideas for strength –– based solutions.”

While Hopa Mountain and most of the work it does is in and around Montana, according to Sachatello-Sawyer, college students have the power to improve the lives around them.

“There’s so much you can start to do and prepare to do as college students, and I want to encourage you to embrace everything you’re thinking about, everything you’re dreaming about for your life and the changes you do want to see,” she said.

According to Sachatello-Sawyer, the only thing you have to be to enact change is a citizen leader, which is a person who is willing to take the leap into improving their community.

In Montana, Hopa Mountain provides driven community leaders with both the training and the resources they need to help their communities grow.

However, that does not mean that we do not have resources in our area. When a student asked Sachatello-Sawyer how they could change the lives of people in the Springfield community or on campus without those resources, she encouraged them to seek help from the Student Government Association for campus change and to apply for research grants for larger projects.

All you have to do to be a part of a movement is care. After all, according to Sachatello-Sawyer, “It’s the heart work now that’s going to get us moving and thinking in new directions.”

Students interested in learning more about Hopa Mountain can visit: http://www.hopamountain.org/

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As part of her lecture, Sachatello-Sawyer talked about the homeless population in Missouri and brought up this graphic. In Greene County, the poverty rate is 20.6 percent.

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Angela Dense, executive assistant at Evangel University, said.

It’s been over a year since the same program was cut at Evangel and University of MissouriColumbia.

“What we found was students weren’t using the service, so we cut it,” Sheri Phillips, vice president for student development at Evangel, said.

“I personally like to have a paper in my hand, but they didn’t ask me,” Dense said.

Some MSU students may be unaware of the mobile app and commented on social media about being uninformed.

“I didn’t know about the app,” Bradyn Peterson, a senior communication sciences and disorders major said.

The program provides daily print papers to 400 colleges and universities. The program has been at Missouri State since 2008, according to Student Government Association record. The mobile app was added in September.

“A lot of students don’t even know we have papers,” said Ashley Crisafulli, senior political

science major.

“Personally, I don’t read (newspapers) unless there’s a specific article that someone has referenced that I want to read, but most of the time I don’t ever pick one up,” said Peterson.

The Standard wouldn’t be affected by the change.

Instead of eliminating the program, students and faculty have other suggestions.

“If there’s a big waste, maybe cut down the amount. I don’t think they should be gotten rid of all together,” Dacee Kentner, a senior interior design major said.

Kentner also suggested highlighting the app that’s available.

“To me it needs to be a reallocation to something that is similar,” Dale Moore, an adjunct media, journalism and film professor said.

At its March 15 meeting, SGA said they are continuing research on the usage of the program and its success.

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A student reads a recent copy of USA Today Weekend. The News-Leader and the New York Times are also part of the USA Today Collegiate Readership Program.

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waiver test to get out of the class and many of them are graduating this semester.

The class primarily offered basic computer skills on things like Microsoft Word and Microsoft The general education system at MSU changed after the spring of 2014 to create the different Excel. Even though some students thought the class was easy, others still see its benefits. branches of general education requirements: Foundations and Breadth of Knowledge. Now, the only “I think it was an important class; it was a useful class for so many students,” McCrory said. “But CIS or CSC classes offered for general education are Critical and Creative Thinking Using Infor- we can only have so many classes. I feel like we still have a population of students that will be well mation Technology and Public Affairs in Computing. served by this class.”

Some students, like senior Alex Roettger, took the class or a waiver test before the changes.

“It was honestly no implication to me,” Roettger, a nursing major and Spanish minor, said. “I took the exam my freshman year. I didn’t study much for it at all, but I had to take the exam because there was zero time to take it in my schedule. I wish it would have been removed as a requirement before now.”

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President, Ali Nasser Muhammad, fled due to political rivalries and was later sentenced to death for treason. After this, the north and south united, with Ali Abdallah Saleh as its leader.

Saleh had already been influential in the northern part of the country since 1978, and his rule outlasted many from that time until November 2011, when power was handed to Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, the current president.

Although the country was united as a republic, former states still fought for power.

Fighting endured between the north and south, resulting in the civil war of 1994 and causing Vice President Ali Salim al-Baid to withdraw to Aden in protest. He was dismissed by Saleh the following year when the fighting escalated.

Al-Qaeda attacks at the start of the 21st century began to tear apart the fabric of society. By 2004, Hussein Al-Houthi, the founder of the Houthi group, caused a war between the Believing Youth Organization, or Shebab Al-Mo’men, and the Yemeni government. However, the origin and history of the Houthi movement goes further back than this. The Zaidi movement’s leader, Al-Houthi, was involved with the government throughout the early 1990s, but by 1997 he wanted to spread his ideologies outside of political party barriers.

According to reporter Ali Abulohoom of The Yemen Times, “This was the real beginning of the Houthis’ activities, which involved holding public sermons in Sa’ada, distributing literature, (and) opening educational centers.

Over the course of the next seven years, tensions between the Shebab Al-Mo’men and the government mounted. Officials in the capital of Sana’a, however, saw their growing influence as a threat to their power in the northern reaches of the state.”

Al-Houthi was murdered, leaving his follow-

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ers, who viewed him as a martyr, to eventually align with the uprisings in 2011.

An uprising

After 2004, violence in Yemen was growing day by day. After the death of Hussein AlHouthi, his followers continuously clashed with government forces, killing Yemeni citizens in the crossfire.

By January 2011, Saleh was being pressured to step down and end his 33-year rule. Saleh promised to not run for re-election, yet demonstrations and protests still spread.

“It wasn’t as bad as in Syria or Egypt where you can really disappear, but they will always know about you and they will try to show you, ‘we know,’” Jubary said when describing those who attended protests and were being watched by the government. “We had an informant in my neighborhood and we didn’t know––he was my uncle’s friend. When we went to the protest area, my dad, my uncle and I, he came to us and said, ‘we have pictures of you, do not go there.’”

In September of 2011, Saleh signed an agreement allowing Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi to assume power. “(Saleh) was in power for 32 years and when he left he didn’t leave completely,” Jubary said.

“The army was loyal to him, and that was the biggest mistake. People…used to tell us that soldiers from his army would go and cut the cables for electricity from the capital city. When I was there, the capital city would go off for two days, with no electricity, because they sent people to cut the cables. They wanted the public to have the idea, ‘oh, we are better off with the former president. Look what happened after the revolution.’”

Houthi overthrow

Today, Yemen’s security forces have split loyalties, with some backing President Hadi, and others still supporting Saleh and the Shialed northern Houthi forces.

According to BBC News, “Yemen has descended into conflicts between several different groups, pushing the country to the edge

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It is (staggering) when you live in a (place) where the cops do nothing.

The justice system is so corrupted.

You have to have your own people.”

Mohammed Jubary of civil war.”

Houthis took control of the capital city of Sana’a in January 2015, causing Hadi to flee the capital to Aden the following month. They appointed their own governing council to replace Hadi. This takeover led to attacks by the Islamic State. The first of the attacks were in March of 2015, which were suicide bombings that killed 137 people, according to BBC. “My mom and my siblings are now in Saudi Arabia,” Jubary said. “My grandmother is in Saudi Arabia and three of my aunts, too.

They fled. They have been there for eight months, and they don’t know (how long they will stay.) They have issues with visas right now, and they want to renew their visas, and they are considered refugees.”

Jubary was accepted as a student to the United States in September 2014.

While living in Yemen, he remembers the hardships. Things as simple as buying gas were a struggle.

“I used to have to stand through seven days to fill my car with gas,” he said. “You have to bring your gun in order to do this, otherwise somebody else who is stronger than you and has more guns and more people (will overtake you.) It happened to me when I was in line one time and two cars, filled with people and AK47s, wanted to put their car in front of mine.”

“I’ve been under fire twice,” he continued, “One time I was in the gas station and someone started shooting with an AK-47.

Everyone was running. Two people were killed next to me. It was all over gas.”

Jubary shared that walking in town was dangerous, as robberies were rampant.

“I was chased by a gang,” he said. “In the capital city, there was this gang that started chasing people and they were basically military people. (They drove) military cars. They would take off the plates, but you can see the camouflage. It was a hard time and everyone was really scared.”

“If you had a property, you had to have a gun to save yourself,” he continued. “You had to walk with somebody to not be shot or robbed. In our culture, you know how to defend and shoot from when you are really young. I think that’s based on tribal community.”

Hoping for peace

When asked if he will return, Jubary is hopeful the situation will improve.

“It’s hard to stay away from family, especially when you know they are living in those situations,” he said. “I used to call my mom before she (fled) to Saudi Arabia and I could hear the drones.”

Jubary hopes someday he will return and live a more peaceful life in his homeland. For now, the Yemen government is still working through conflicts originating from the Arab Spring uprising. Meanwhile, many Yemeni people have left for Dijbouti, Somalia and Saudi Arabia in an attempt to flee the violence.

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automobile security to virtual protection.

For college students, physical safety when traveling on and off campus is one of the most basic and vital concerns.

The seminar emphasizes the idea of AIM and boundaries; AIM stands for awareness, intuition and mindset. This stresses awareness of surroundings at all times. Crews challenged the students for one week to stop and think before taking action, even for simple trips such as grocery shopping.

“Let it become second nature,” Crews said.

Crews also presented the idea of strength in numbers and traveling in groups rather than alone. Refrain from using your cellphone while walking to avoid distraction and carry only necessary items when shopping or going out.

“If I was sending a child to school away from home for a period of time to get their education, I would be concerned about the safety for my child. And I would look for ways to give that child any Miranda Roller/THE STANDARD advantage that I possibly could to help Prime Guard is a wireless anti-loss alarm that has a transmitter and keep them safe while they are away from receiver. If the transmitter goes out of range, the receiver will start to home,” Brooks said.

One strategy to stay safe in a college beep and vibrate. The transmitter has a zero to 80 feet distance control. environment is to create layers of safety to slow criminals down. If someone is home when a crim- the university and Springfield communities.

“We have seen people who just didn’t have the informainal enters, there is a one in three chance of a violent crime occurring. There are steps to prevent this. According to tion they needed to avoid being victims of crime,” Crews Brooks, students who are renting a house or apartment said.

For Crews and Brooks, becoming instructors and edushould have doors rekeyed to protect against former tenants who still have keys. It is also wise to not put your cating the community is their main priority.

“We want people to be safe. We want people to not fall name on keys in case they are stolen.

“This class is designed to help you think differently victim to these predators, and that’s really why we do what we do,” Brooks said. about your personal protection and safety,” Brooks said.

Most students are attached to their phones and social media accounts. Students tend to use social media to broadcast plans, such as spring break trips, study abroad semesters and family vacations. Brooks advises against broadcasting plans over social media because it can make students targets for home invasion. Brooks also advises not to befriend unknown people on social media. “(College students) are probably one of the most targeted groups in the country, especially when it comes to harassment,” Crews said.

In terms of automobile safety, Crews said that it is the easiest category for implementing solutions, but is the most neglected category. Tips for automobile safety include being alert of surroundings, parking in well-lit areas, keeping one hand free when approaching the vehicle, having at least half of your gas tank full and locking doors with the keys rather than the automatic button. However, Crews’ biggest tip for automobile safety is locking doors as soon as you get in the vehicle.

“I can’t emphasize that enough,” Crews said.

This was the first “Refuse to be a Victim” seminar at Missouri State University, and Crews and Brooks are in the process of planning a second seminar. It will likely take place in June, however the exact date has not been determined. The seminar costs $25 per person.

Crews believes that this type of seminar is essential for

the budget approval to renovate bathrooms in Blair Tower of Blair-Shannon House. The work is estimated to take place during the summer of 2016 and includes renovations on 72 student suite bathrooms, 14 tub rooms and two standalone roll-in showers. These were originally constructed in 1966. Renovations will also include new lighting outlets, ventilation, plumbing fixtures and finishes to the walls, ceilings and floors; the motion carried.

Morris also brought forward another proposal with multiple requests, one of which being renewing temporary housing leases for visiting and international faculty at Deep Elm Apartments. Estimated cost for both complexes is $10,826.

Additionally, it was requested to amend contract with Chartwells to replace Red Mango with Burrito Bowl, a Mexican restaurant, in the Plaster Student Union. On-campus sampling from 33 students and faculty members was successful with 98 percent satisfaction.The estimated cost for the new venue is $200,000, which will be funded by Chartwells’ 2017 investment dollars that provide for new renovations and concepts.

“I know besides parking, food is one of the biggest touchstones for a lot of students,” Dr. Peter Hofherr, chair of the board, said.

The PSU routinely surveys the university community to gauge food preferences.

“Consistently, Mexican is the top-rated food cuisine that’s desired by students, so Burrito Bowl will not only meet the Mexican needs, but also offer different varieties of food cuisines that we don’t currently have at Missouri State,” Donald Weber, director of the PSU, said.

The last part of the proposal focused on the implementation of the Professional Learning Management System, which will be used to train, hire and retain campus employees. The current system will no longer provide service to the university as of July 1, 2016, and PLMS is expected to be compatible with Banner, a business administrative software currently in use by the university.

The motion for this multi-faceted proposal passed. The next Executive Committee meeting will be held April 20, 2016.

“We want people to be safe. We want people to not fall victim to these predators, and that’s really why we do what we do.”

Mike Brooks