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Arson reported at Missouri State property in Fair Grove CORTLYNN STARK News Editor @Cortlynn_Stark Arson was reported at Shealy Farm in Fair Grove, part of Missouri State’s property, according to Safety and Transportation’s Daily Crime Log. Associate Director of Safety and Transportation Andrew Englert said the arson reported on April 9 was minor and the burglary reported at the same time was also minor. Englert said this was an isolated incident and doesn’t believe there is a threat to the Springfield campus.

The incident occurred sometime between 2 p.m.-7 a.m. between April 8-9, according to the Daily Crime Log. According to a spokesperson for the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called out two days after the incident.

Dancers perform during Cancer survivor, future nurse, softball player Public Affairs Allie Alvstad changes career path after bout with cancer Conference MEGAN BURKE/THE STANDARD

The Missouri State women’s softball team wore orange jerseys in support of Acute Myeloid Leukemia on April 11 in their game against Oklahoma State. First baseman Alllie Alvstad was a survivor of the disease.

BRYCE DERRICKSON Sports Reporter @BruceyD17 During her freshman year of college, on Sept. 1, 2014, Missouri State senior Allie Alvstad was admitted to Baylor Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. Four days later, she learned she had acute myeloid leukemia. Four days after the diagnosis, she started chemotherapy treatment.

According to the American Cancer Society, AML is a kind of cancer that begins in the blood-forming cells of the bone marrow.

On Dec. 19, Allie received a successful bone marrow transplant.

“I’m a nurse, so I was there with her, caring for her, when she was at Baylor,” her mother, Kristin Bischoff, said. “So, I think right after the surgery, just very, very anxious because she had a very poor immune system

at that time after having the radiation and chemo. Her immune system was literally completely wiped out. So, the first 10-20 days were pretty rough just trying to see if her body was going to accept the stem cells or not.”

After the surgery, she fully recovered and resumed classes at Missouri State University during the summer of 2015.

Before she was diagnosed with AML, Allie played 29 games during the 2014 season. She was penciled in to start eight of those. After she was diagnosed, she missed the entire 2015 season and redshirted.

Allie started workouts in hopes of rejoining the softball team for the 2016 season.

“I’ve just been playing since I was 4 years old; I didn’t know anything different than that,” Allie said. “As soon as I got diagnosed, it was kind of like, ‘What do I

have to do to get back on the field? What’s next?’

“So, it was just finding a game plan, figuring out what I had to do and how to get through it then moving on to the next thing.”

Allie said it started out just working with her athletic trainer to get her functional movements back. Then, as her workouts started progressing, she started doing more softball-related training.

On April 11, 2015, at Killian Stadium when she was still recovering from her battle with AML, Allie was the recipient of the 2014-2015 Missouri Valley Conference Most Courageous Award. This award is given to a past or present student athlete, coach or university administrator who demonstrates unusual courage in the face of personal illness, u See ALLIE, page 6

Missouri State used to offer free newspapers.

Here’s where that money went.

EMILY COLE Staff Reporter @EMCole19

In the past, Missouri State students were able to pick up free copies of major newspapers such as The New York Times and USA Today, as well as the Springfield News-Leader.

These newspapers were provided through the USA Today Collegiate Readership Program,

which provides daily newspaper deliveries to universities across the nation.

In the fall of 2007, the Missouri State Student Government Association passed a resolution recommending that university administration increase the number of newspapers available on campus.

After approval of the readership program was given, a $3 student fee was created to pay the

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These newspaper racks sit almost empty in Strong Hall. $100,000 program cost — vided access to the newspapers. $85,000 for the newspapers and The student body voted in approv$15,00 for a mobile app called al of this increased fee in 2008.

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KAITLYN STRATMAN Associate Sports Editor @KaitlynStratman After 18 minutes and 36 seconds, three dancers stood with dark paint smeared over their bodies, trash stuck to their skin, catching their breath as a crowd of students clapped.

Pollution is a subject often discussed, but graduate dance major Emily Poorman, senior theatre and dance major Nadia Stine, senior professional writing major Katie Griffiths and junior dance major Kendra Key used dance as their platform to show the harm humans are causing the planet.

“This is a chance for us to look at pollution from the point of view of the planet rather than ours and our selfish desires,” Poorman said.

Directed and choreographed by Poorman, the dance transformed from a senior project to a presentation for the Missouri State Public Affairs Conference on April 12. Once she heard the theme would be sustainability, she asked to showcase her creation.

Poorman wanted to use paint in her performance, so once the topic of pollution sparked her interest, she brainstormed how she could use the paint to express her message.

After researching pollution over the summer, Poorman and her dancers “came up with these motifs, just a specific string of movements,” to represent land, water and air. Practiced and performed numerous times, the dance constantly changed while the dancers improved.

“Each time it gets crazier,” Poorman said.

Each dancer represented an element harmed by pollution: Stine portrayed air, Key, land and Griffiths, water. Extensive research over each element, followed by discussion over pollution’s effect on the planet, inspired the choreography.

“I think I just learned that you make a bigger impact on the world than you think,” Key said.

Due to a miscommunication involving the use of paint on the PSU Theatre stage, the event moved to a studio in McDonald Arena. Students crowded into the small room, some taking their

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Dr. Robert Ballard visits Missouri State University at the Juanita K. Hammons Hall For the Performing Arts on April 11 as part of the Public Affairs Conference.

He spoke about his discovery of the shipwrecked Titanic, ocean geography discoveries and the importance of global sustainability.

Public Affairs keynote discusses importance of the oceans Robert Ballard discovered the Titanic and had 16,000 letters waiting for him — he read each one BATOOL ALZUBI Staff Reporter @Albatoolz Oceans should be used as living spaces because the birth rate is increasing and the number of available land is decreasing, Robert Ballard said during his speech at the Public Affairs Conference at Missouri State University. Ballard is a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, known for his discovery of the Titanic.

“Ninety-five percent of the human race lives on less than 5 percent of the Earth’s surface,” Ballard said. “Yet 95 percent of the living space on Earth is in international waters and largely unexplored.”

Ballard said humans should look at the ocean as an option that will help us live longer on this earth, because the land cannot handle this amount of human consumption.

Ballard said Mars is not a solution; there is

no chance we can survive there. Instead we need to look at what we have on our planet, Ballard said.

“It is wrong to tell people you can mess up this world and there is an escape,” Ballard said.

One of the solutions to survive longer on Earth is to move away from hunter-gatherer society at sea, and like on land, become a farming and herding society, said Ballard.

Senior exercise and movement science major Theresa Strake said she came in to the talk thinking he was only going to talk about the Titanic, but she was surprised by the amount of information she got out of it.

“We always hear about all the damaging things we are doing,” Strake said, “but actually understanding what it means is really scary.”

Ballard’s passion for the ocean and journey of discovery started at a young age. When he was young, he wanted to be Captain Nemo and his parents never laughed at his goal and passion. They worked with him to achieve his goal.

Ballard said he once wrote a letter about his passion, and what he should do in order to become an oceanographer.

“Normally those letters go the trash,” Ballard said. “I expected nothing to happen.”

Somehow, the letter reached a professor who responded, recommending to him a program that he should apply to.

“I filled out the form, and I got a scholarship in the summer of 1959 that changed my life,” Ballard said.

He is mostly known for his discovery of the Titanic. Ballard said when he found the Titanic, he was sent on a task to find two submarines: the U.S.S. Scorpion and Thresher.

The two submarines sunk during the Cold War, and he needed to find them before the Soviet Union got the weapons inside them.

During this mission, he found 90 percent of the Titanic.

Ballard said when he got home after finding the Titanic, he found 16,000 letters from dif-

ferent people with passion waiting for him.

“I read every one of them,” Ballard said.

“Letter after letter every day — it was how can I return the favor.”

Ballard said he dedicated a part of his life to always reach those young people in large numbers. He said this is why he created the Ocean Exploration Trust Foundation, and part of its mission is to reach the younger generation and motivate them to study harder to discover the real America.

“Fifty percent of America’s land is beneath the sea,” Ballard said. “America owns land under the sea more than any other nation on Earth.”

Ballard said his main message is to remind the younger generation to follow their passion, because it is the only thing that will get them through life.

“Do not think you can avoid failure,” Ballard said. “Failure is the greatest teacher you will ever meet.”

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Drone regulations make investments difficult JONATHAN PETESCH Columnist @thepeach1999 Over the past few years, drone technology has continued to advance, used by hobbyists and professionals alike.

Drones are now being used in everything from national surveillance to hobbyist film making.

A problem facing people who want to invest in the technology, however, is the regulations associated with actually flying your aircraft imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration and by other properties where pilots might intend to fly their drones.

The FAA imposes regulations on drone pilots where hobbyists must register themselves with the FAA every three years if they plan to operate an unmanned aircraft system between .55 and 55 pounds.

If a pilot wants to use their aircraft for any commercial purposes, such as the advancement of a business, they must pass an Airman’s Knowledge Unmanned Aircraft System Part 107 test in order to obtain a UAS pilot’s certificate.

When I previously owned a drone, I thought of plans where I could use my drone commercially, but with the price of the test being $150 per try, it became infeasible for me to obtain my UAS pilot’s certificate. I instead opted to just

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stick with my normal registration and use my drone for strictly recreational purposes, which still allowed me to do what I want to do personally.

I’ve recently been trying to get back into drone piloting but one thing has held me back: the fact that I can’t fly my drone anywhere near where I typically am.

Missouri State prohibits the use of UAS systems on campus without specific permission from the university.

This would not be a big deal, but the FAA also has a regulation in place where you must obtain permission from air traffic control if you are flying within five miles of any airport.

This rules out most of Springfield unless you want to contact air traffic control, which can be a hassle, especially if you’re unfamiliar with aviation terminology.

So is it worth it for someone to invest in this technology under these conditions? It simply depends

Log off, step back, listen up KAITLYN STRATMAN Associate Sports Editor @KaitlynStratman I remember sitting across from a family of four at Red Robin, two of which were kids younger than me. I was with my parents and two younger sisters.

Something seemed off about the family. It took a second, but I realized they weren’t talking.

All four heads were bent over small devices illuminating their faces in the dark restaurant.

While my family chatted for the rest of the night, phones tucked away in our pockets or purses, I didn’t hear a sound from the table next to us.

I also remember thinking, ‘That will never me. I will never ignore the people I am with to talk to those who I am not.’

But I was wrong.

I became the person who would spend 30 minutes editing a photo only to delete it after it didn’t receive enough likes.

I was the person who would ask my friend to repeat something because I was reading a tweet instead of paying attention.

I was the person who would check my phone every few minutes for no reason.

I would look at the Instagram Explore page for who knows how long, going through photos of other people posing in front of a wall with their friends.

I never had a big revelation or one moment where I realized how addicted I was to something that mattered so little. I just slowly started to see how much time I was spending on my phone and how little I was getting out of it.

Not only did the constant flow of photos and updates take away my time, but it hurt my confidence.

All I saw was girls who were prettier than me, had more friends than me or had more fun.

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show people that I was just as happy, just as pretty, had just as many friends and just as much fun.

But why should I care?

Although I am slowly learning to care less, I still feel jealousy creep into my brain when I browse the explore page, seeing how people I don’t even know portray their lives.

In an article from childmind.org discussing the effect of social media on teenagers, Rachel Ehmke addresses how it affects their confidence.

“When kids scroll through their feeds and see how great everyone seems, it only adds to the pressure,” Ehmke said.

“We’re used to worrying about the impractical ideals that photoshopped magazine models give to our kids, but what happens when the kid next door is photoshopped, too?

Even more confusing, what about when your own profile doesn’t really represent the person that you feel like you are on the inside?”

I’m not saying all social media is bad.

Social media is a great way to stay connected in your community and around the world.

It is a platform to stay informed and educated through news and information online.

It is a way to start conversations and movements for change.

I’m also not saying that I am perfect by any means, just that I am trying to slowly become less dependent on an object.

I still use Twitter to stay updated on news and sports. I will also check it for an occasional laugh or to see what my friends are thinking that day.

I ended my Snapchat streaks when I came to Missouri State in the fall of 2017. I didn’t realize how much time I wasted sending photos of my forehead or a wall to 20 people every day.

Still, I will tap through the stories when I have the time or send a snap to a group of friends once in awhile.

I deleted Instagram and will check it on my laptop once or

twice a day.

I sometimes cave and re-download the app, usually to post on my photography account, sometimes on my personal.

But at least every time I have a second of free time I don’t automatically pick up my phone to scroll through the same photos I had just seen 10 minutes ago.

Still, I need to be less reliant. Social media has become an addiction, and everyone feeds it.

In ideal world, social media would not exist.

No one would care what vacation you went on or where you went to eat. I understand that is impossible when the world revolves around staying connected online.

One way to step back is to simply delete the app. Even if it’s for a few days or even a couple of hours.

This will make it difficult to constantly open the app and will help students realize that they don’t need to.

Another way to distance oneself from social media is to completely delete the account.

This will get rid of all temptation to constantly check updates and posts.

Finally, end your Snapchat streaks.

Snapchat people when you want, if you want.

But don’t let a number with a little fire emoji force you to send the same picture to your 30 friends every day.

The pressure to keep up a streak and reply every time someone Snapchats you back will go away once the number does.

Moderation is key, and it wouldn’t hurt to take a step back.

Think about why you use social media and how it benefits yourself and others.

Think about why tapping like on a screen means more than a compliment face-to-face.

Think about why direct messaging someone has become a natural way to introduce oneself.

Think about why people are so reliant on digital reassurance.

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on whether or not you’re willing to put in the effort to contact the proper authorities or move far enough out of urban life to find a place where you can fly your aircraft without airport interference.

Even if you’re willing to put in the effort to obtain permission from air traffic control to fly within their airspace, many are unfamiliar with the terminology.

It takes many actual pilots many instruction hours in order to get the terminology down, so unless you

Quit using our money to kill people Vickers: Trump’s war in Syria is a distraction BEN VICKERS Columnist @benrvickers96 In the wide expanse of human history, there has never been a period of true peace. Though nations make treaties and promises to each other, there has never been a period of zero conflict in the world, and war appears to only be inevitable as time goes on. Then it is no wonder that when questions of defense are raised, states prepare for the worst, with the United States as no exception. With the highest defense budget in the world, the United States spends more on our military than China, Russia, Britain, France, Japan and Germany put together. Defense spending admittedly provides thousands of jobs, new technology and, of course, national security. This money can be better spent; there are more productive uses for each taxpayer dollar than defensive insurance. There comes a point where it is questionable how much spending we need to put toward defense and whether defense is the true purpose.

Sen. Bernie Sanders once wrote, “The cost of war is great, and it is far more than the hundreds of billions of dollars we spend on planes, tanks, missiles and guns.”

Economically, relatively massive defense spending will hurt the people of the United States. Funneling additional billions of dollars of federal funds into the military will leave us behind in education, infrastructure and health systems for years to come. Already, the greatest country in the world has fallen behind in these areas.

Now, more than ever, we

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come from a pilot background, you’ll have to put in even more effort before being able to fly in the area you want to.

For me, my experience with aviation terminology would eliminate the issue of contacting air traffic control, but other policies such as the no-fly zone for campus keep me from investing for the time being without taking cost into mind. I hope some of these regulations change in the future, though, as I’d really love to have a drone soon.

must make unprecedented progress if we hope to catch up. There is more to the security of a nation than the power of its army, and yet President Donald Trump has made efforts to increase our defense budget by tens of billions of dollars each year of his presidency.

I think it is more than a coincidence that the recent bombings in Syria come at a time when Trump himself is under investigation, not to mention several members of his staff, for corruption and bribery. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is an atrocious human being guilty of war crimes, and it is my opinion that Trump will use these actions to start a frivolous and costly war to distract from his own incompetence. Trump’s favorite sitcom “Fox & Friends” even mentioned that perhaps bombing Syria would take some focus off of the Stormy Daniels debacle; for once I agree with the nice people over at Fox News.

Simultaneously, John Boulton was recently appointed the Trump administration’s National Security Advisor. If you aren’t familiar with Boulton, his repertoire includes supporting the Vietnam War, architect of the war in Iraq, stating that withdrawing troops from the Middle East in 2011 was a bad idea, an advocate for first strike against North Korea, and has been involved with groups heavily promoting Islamophobia. Boulton is just another member of Trump’s team of like minded people.

We are already in a precarious spot as a country, where the next generation of doctors, scientists, engineers, teachers and farmers cannot afford to go to school. Having the power to wipe out mil-

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lions of people with a single bomb will never put food on the table for the two out of every five children in the Midwest who do not have a meal on a daily basis. With every conflict, there have been veterans who come home from war and now don’t have a job, whose families look a little differently at them, and who can’t even celebrate the Fourth of July without remembering the sounds of the bombs bursting in air that killed their friends.

What gives a draft dodger the right to perch the United States onto the brink of another war fueled by money, and place someone else’s children in the line of fire? I dare one of the lawmakers in Washington who supports increases to defense spending to publicly denounce these efforts that will hurt. I dare them to look out at the American people who they are supposed to protect and say, “Yes. We let your children starve so we can drink oil from the helmets of dead soldiers.” Always remember: there has never been a time of human peace.

For these reasons, I encourage you to condemn President Donald Trump and his warmongering. All the factors of his presidency are aligning so that the United States can go to war: Trump has dramatically increased defense spending, appointed men who consistently advocate for war and has full control over the greatest military in the world. Keep all of these things in mind as you go about your lives, and remember them when you vote this November. The only change we can hope to see for offsetting potential violence comes in the form of a ballot box.

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‘A Quiet Place’ above average in horror scene Genius use of sound by director Krasinski COLE TRUMBLE Critic @Cole_Tr My initial viewing of “A Quiet Place” was not the most serene of times. My friend had just gotten back from bootcamp and he was still mildly drunk from his welcome home party when he went to see it with me. In his self proclaimed “Goodfellas”/“Miami Vice” outfit he had selected for the day, we strolled into the local seedy movie theater and I got him to use his military discount for the first time.

We sat down next to a loud gaggle of youths, and there I was: 7:30 on a Saturday night, four hot dogs, two cannolis and a root beer in my stomach, elbowing my tipsy AND snoring marine friend awake as the movie began … Oh boy.

Despite my distractions, I managed to enjoy the movie — I had to keep enough focus to inform my friend of the better parts when he woke up. And it was impressive. “A Quiet Place” is a horror movie that’s most exceptional traits are that it has Jim (John Krasinski) from “The Office,” it uses noise itself as a tool to create suspense and they murder a u See HORROR, page 12

Graduate student showcased in Three Minute Thesis event HANNA FLANAGAN Senior Reporter @hanna_flanagan An annual competition, called Three Minute Thesis, requires graduate students from across the country to present their research to a panel of judges in just three minutes, using a single PowerPoint slide.

Mecca Walker, who is pursuing her master’s degree in business administration, recently became the first student ever to represent Missouri State at the regional 3MT competition.

The competition was held during the Midwest Association of Graduate Schools conference on April, 7 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

“Less than three minutes, a static slide, no animation, no props, no nothing,” Walker said, of the 3MT competition. “The idea is if you were in an elevator and had to talk to someone casually about your studies, would you be able to communicate it.”

To earn her spot in Grand Rapids — which is the highest level of 3MT — Walker competed in two schoolwide rounds of the competition: first against graduate students from the College of Business, and then u See THESIS, page 12

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Samson Latchison is at The Potter’s House every morning it’s open for business. Latchison has worked there for 18 years. “I can’t get (Samson) to take time off,” Steve Proffitt, owner, said with a laugh. “This is his family, and everybody that comes through that door is his child.”

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The Potter’s House coffee shop fostering fellowship NOAH STANDISH Senior Reporter @NoahjStandish “May all who enter as guests leave as friends.”

It’s written in blue and gold letters above a doorway hundreds of Missouri State students walk through each week: the entrance to The Potter’s House.

As a flag wrestles with the breeze on the outside porch, the laughter of Samson Latchison echoes over a small television playing “Jurassic Park” in the kitchen.

Skinny bottles of flavored syrup and wide mason jars filled with coffee beans rest on the shelves, while a pair of ceiling fans watch him offer another smile to a student clutching the strap of his backpack.

“Here you go, buddy,” he says, setting a frozen coffee drink onto the counter beside a napkin dispenser with brightly colored straws peeking out of its side. “Make yourself at home.”

At first glance, The Potter’s House blends into the scenery of National Avenue on the outskirts of MSU’s campus. But inside, its lime green walls and blue railings is an intimate home filled with laughter, music and enough coffee to satisfy Springfield’s largest university.

It all started in 1999 with the support of a church and the dream of former police officer and minister, Steve Proffitt.

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The Potter’s House, located on National Avenue across the street from the Davis-Harrington Welcome Center, is a very popular place for MSU students to drink coffee and hang out.

“Potter’s House was designed as a faith-based campus ministry,” Proffitt said. “My thought in the beginning wasn’t to be a coffee house — I just used coffee as a tool.”

His ongoing experience as a relationship counselor established a philosophy of connecting people, while his time as a pastor is reflected in the shop’s title — a reference to a verse found in the Bible’s Old Testament.

“In the Book of Isaiah,

there’s a verse that refers to God as the potter and us as the clay,” Proffitt said. “I know that college is a time when you’re molding and shaping yourself and your perspectives, so that’s where (the name) ‘Potter’s House’ came from.”

When the One Life Church of the Nazarene purchased the house in 1999, Proffitt was named executive director of what would become a close community under the roof of

a former fraternity house.

It just happened to sell coffee.

“Samson started creating all these really good drinks, and it just kind of caught on,” Proffitt said.

The Potter’s House first opened its doors as a campus ministry in Nov. of 2000, just after the start of MSU’s fall semester. Today, the ministry doubles as a not-for-profit coffee shop open nearly 85 hours per week and supported by

local businesses, churches and personal donations.

Proffitt said the hundreds of MSU students who visit each week aren’t making purchases; they’re making donations that contribute directly to the shop’s upkeep.

“When we started, it was small enough where we knew everybody’s name,” Proffitt said. “Now, we see over 1,000 students a week, and about one fourth of the donation support we receive is from students.”

But for the hundreds of students who come in each day, only five staff members work behind the counter below those ceiling fans — and only one of them has been there from the beginning: Samson.

He first met Proffitt 29 years ago while singing at the One Life Church of the Nazarene, and twelve years later, they were reunited shortly after the opening of The Potter’s House in 2000.

Samson’s wide smile and welcoming demeanor has since become synonymous with the shop’s homely atmosphere.

“It’s been an incredible opportunity and a blessing,” Samson said. “I don’t know how many students’ lives I’ve been a part of in their college experience.”

He called the shop’s growth unbelievable, citing it as an opportunity to experience the lives of students vicariously.

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Coloring trend produces local adult coloring circle LAYNE STRACENER Staff Reporter @LayneStracener The adult coloring book craze from a few years ago has died down, but for some people, the passion is still alive.

Sitting around a table covered in various coloring utensils and pages of intricate designs, a group of adults colored in the black-and-white pages with bright pigments.

Every Wednesday, an adult coloring circle meets from 5-6:30 p.m. at Park Central Branch Library. The manager, Ingrid Bohnenkamp, said about 10 people come each week.

Bohnenkamp said the weekly coloring circle began three years ago.

“We started it when it was in the height of popularity,” Bohnenkamp said. “A few years ago, coloring books were all the rage, so we thought we’d tap into that, and it’s been

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Every Wednesday, about 10 adults color together to relax at the Park Central Branch Library. going consistently since then.”

Nielsen BookScan, a data provider for the book publishing industry, estimated that 12 million adult coloring books were sold in 2015, while only 1 million were sold the previous year.

Many adults enjoy coloring for its therapeutic benefits.

Adult coloring books are designed to relieve stress and anxiety.

Bohnenkamp said the coloring circle is a relaxing way to talk to others.

“It’s a low-stress way to interact with people, because you can be coloring while you chat,” Bohnenkamp said.

Recently, Springfield resident Sarah Jones went to the coloring circle for the first time.

“I’m looking for ways to integrate with the community and meet new people by doing something I love, which is coloring,” Jones said.

Jones has always enjoyed coloring but became more interested in it during the adult coloring book craze. Since then, she has collected about 200 coloring books, some completed and some in-progress, filled with elaborate designs colored in bright, colorful Sharpie ink.

“I love coloring,” Jones said. “It’s relaxing, and it’s fun to see a finished product.”

Springfield resident William Echols also went to the coloring circle for the first time, although he had colored at the library before when he saw coloring pages laid out from previous sessions.

“I’ve loved coloring ever

since I was a kid,” Echols said.

“It’s fun, and I love getting different colors and putting them together.”

While Echols used colored pencils to transform a blackand-white mandala into a bright, colorful work of art, he said he doesn’t think much about which colors he uses.

“The colors may not match, but they always stand out,” he said. “That’s what makes coloring the best.”

Echols said he thinks the adult coloring circle is a great way to relax and have fun.

“It’s fun, relaxing (and) entertaining, and we get to meet new people,” Echols said.

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HOW DID I GET HERE?

Soon-to-be-graduate reminisces on his move to the states

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EMILY COLE Staff Reporter @EMCole19

nyone walking through the lobby of Craig Hall may pass by the office of the College of Arts and Letters. Next to the door is a large window, and through that window, you can sometimes see Zhongsong Qiu sitting at his desk and hard at work.

Qiu, who goes by the English name Aaron, is an international graduate student from China studying technical writing. He works in the COAL office as a graduate assistant and intern for the dean.

He grew up in Dalian, China, a large coastal city about 500 miles from the capital city of Beijing. Dalian has a population of over 6 million people. If it was in the United States, it would be the second largest city in the country, behind New York City. In China, it doesn’t even make the top 10.

“It’s a pretty large city, and we have a lot of people there, just crowded on the street, every day,” Qiu said.

“Businesses are busy every day. Dalian is a pretty modern city — I think it’s more like Chicago.”

He enrolled in classes at the LNUMSU College of International Business in Dalian in 2011 to study business and marketing after many people recommended the school to him. His eventual goal was to transfer to the United States.

In 2013, Qiu made the almost 16 hour flight from China to the United States. It was the first time he’d ever left his home or his family.

“It’s an awful experience,” Qiu said. “You fall asleep on an airplane, and you wake up still with 10 hours left.”

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Zhongsong Qiu, international graduate student from Dalian, China, studying technical writing, said his transition into the states was difficult without his family. But now, he’s preparing to graduate in May. “I know he will be able to achieve anything he sets his mind to,” Leslie Seawright, assistant professor of technical and professional writing, said.

In spring 2014, he transferred to the Springfield campus as a business student. West Plains does not offer a marketing degree, which he was pursuing at the time.

But Qiu realized business wasn’t really what he wanted to do. He decided to go visit the English department, where he met the department head.

“The first time I went to the English department, I was looking for Dalian may be a city a translation major, but we don’t have it,” Qiu said. “Dr. Blackmon led me of six million, but it to (the technical writing program). doesn’t reach the top 10 He told me we have a technical writing program and a creative writing largest in Qiu’s home program. I think technical writing is more relevant to the translations procountry, China. gram because I can do bilingual.”

In the fall of 2014, Qiu transferred to the technical writing program and He started classes at the MSU in 2016, started working towards a West Plains campus that fall. He spent master’s degree. one semester in West Plains finishing Leslie Seawright, assistant prohis general education requirements. fessor of technical and professional

writing, taught Qiu after he switched programs, in a course called Intercultural Technical Writing. Seaw-

Zhongsong Qiu, or Aaron, is ‘inquisitive, kind and humble,’ says faculty and colleagues. right said the other students in her class really appreciated having an international perspective from Qiu. Seawright spent time teaching at the Texas A&M University branch in Qatar before coming to MSU. “When I moved to Springfield two years ago, I found I often had more in common with international students, and people, than many others at the university,” Seawright said.

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from other cultures is one of the priorities in my life. I find international students to be like-minded and open to new experiences and adventures.”

Seawright found those qualities in Qiu when they met shortly after she came to MSU. “Aaron is a great student because he works hard, but, more importantly, he is teachable,” Seawright said.

“He doesn't want to just complete assignments and turn in papers, he wants to learn the concepts and the context for each writing situation he encounters. He is inquisitive, kind and humble, which, in my opinion, are the key qualities of a successful student — international or otherwise.”

Qiu is positive that transferring programs was the best thing he could have done for himself.

“After I transfered to the English department, I feel like I realized what kind of person I am, and what I’m going to do and kind of just know myself,” Qiu said.

The hardest part of moving halfway around the world hasn’t been learning a new language or being away from home, Qiu said. The culture differences have been difficult.

“Sometimes we just don’t get the point,” Qiu said. “People are talking about something, a joke or some humor, and we just cannot get it.”

Although Qiu was able to learn English easily, there were still some issues in translation at the beginning.

“When I first came here, we went to McDonald’s, and we didn’t know how to say ketchup at the time, so we asked the server there for ‘potato sauce,’” Qiu said. “We didn’t know how to say straw, so we asked for a ‘tube.’”

As a graduate assistant in the COAL office, Qiu has been working as a research intern and special projects assistant for Shawn Wahl, the interim COAL dean. He works on choosing photographs for the book, and communication research.

“I invited Aaron to work with me as a research intern because he has a passion for photography and has excellent editing and research skills,” Wahl said.

Qiu has also provided assistance on other projects in the COAL office.

“We are committed to recruiting more international students, and Aaron has been especially helpful with several partnerships we are exploring

in China,” Wahl said. “In addition, he supports our visibility goals by capturing photos of student and faculty activities across the college.”

During his undergraduate years, Qiu completed an internship in the MSU Web and New Media Department. As a graduate student, he also worked at the Creamery Arts Center in Springfield.

Qiu has worked as a graduate assistant in the College of Arts and Letters’ office. After graduation, Qiu hasn’t decided if he will stay in America, or return to Dalian.

Qiu will graduate from MSU this May. He hasn’t decided if he will return to China or stay in the United States. There is an optional practical training program international students can apply for that allows them to stay in the U.S. for a year to work after graduation. Qiu has applied but doesn’t know yet whether he will be accepted.

No matter if he stays in the U.S. or moves back to China, Wahl said he believes Qiu will have a bright future as a writer.

“I think he has great potential to work in a variety of industries with his training in professional writing,” Wahl said. “He is also very kind and treats all people who visit the college office with dignity and respect.

Aaron loves Missouri State University, and we are lucky to have him as a member of our campus community.”

Seawright agrees that Qiu will be successful in the future.

“I know he will be able to achieve anything he sets his mind to,” Seawright said. “He has the skills now to be a success at whatever he chooses to do.

“I hope Aaron always looks back fondly on his time in the United States, and I hope that we all had a part in shaping him into the person that he wants to be.”

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Career Change: Jounralist to offensive coordinator At this point, you have to be thinking, “Has Alec really lost his mind? What in the heck is he writing about? Is there a point to all of this? No seriously, Alec, have you lost your mind.”

Well, I’ll start by saying that when Wyatt Wheeler of In 2006, EA Sports took a chance on a new video game the Springfield News-Leader asked Missouri State Bears called “NFL Head Coach.” The cover featured Bill Cowher, head football coach Dave Steckel if he had lost his mind, the longtime head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, and was Steckel smiled and said maybe. supposed to serve as an alternative to the typical football video game.

Rather than playing and throwing touchdowns, the sole focus of the game was on the aspect of coaching. It was about leading a team to the Vince Lombardi Trophy and becoming the greatest coaching in the history of the sport.

The career was expected to last from 2006 to 2036, with the user controlling all aspects of the football team the individual chose.

The game came out in June.

By July, I had played the game for close to 300 hours. It was all I wanted to do: become the next great head coach in the world of football.

See, at a young age, I pleaded and begged my parents to let me play football. I already played baseball, soccer and basketball, but there was something inside of me that made me want to become a wide receiver for the St. Louis Rams and get revenge on the Patriots for Super Bowl XXXVI. But, Brian and Robin (my parents) knew all along what I would find out in time. I was soft. If I had played football at a young age, I would have been broken. After all, even without playing football, I’ve had several surgeries and injuries stemming from futbol.

So, I listened to my parents, because I had no other choice, and tried to learn everything I could about the game. That way, when it was time to become a high school or college coach, I would be prepared.

At the same time, my best friend Ryan Lile was in the same boat. Except his parents actually let him play football. He broke his arm on the first day of practice in sixth grade.

(I am just kidding. It was more like the fourth week of the season. But, I always tell the story that way, because it’s more fun.)

Anyway. Ryan knew everything about schemes, defensives, cover two, blitzes, routes, special teams, everything. So, I picked his brain. He taught me everything I needed to know.

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Wyatt asked the question because for some reason, Steckel is having Wyatt, Dan Lucy, Chad Plein and myself coach the 2018 Spring Maroon and White football game.

Lucy and I will coach the offensive side of the ball for the whole second half, while Chad and Wyatt are in charge of the defensive unit.

Seriously.

I am giddy.

In part because, for the first time in my tenure at The Standard, Steckel is giving reporters unprecedented access to the team. With a headset on, I’ll be calling plays for Peyton Huslig to run. Later this week, before the game, I’ll sit in with the offensive coaches to gameplan and see all that goes into the world of preparing for a game. Seriously. That’s never happened here at Missouri State.

And it’s brilliant on the part of Steckel and athletic communications. We will be able to give you so much more information and coverage than ever before on this football game.

More so, we can find out if the reporters have what it takes to make it on the sidelines. Lucy and I will have 40 seconds on the play clock in order to call the next play and get it off in time.

I, for one, was extremely harsh on the play calling for the Bears this season.

This gives me a chance to put my money where my mouth is. And I intend to.

Also, I hope this means that you’ll attend this event on Thursday night at 7 p.m. For starters, I hope you attend for the players and coaches. They have worked their tails off all offseason. There needs to be some sort of energy created by the Missouri State community around this football team.

I can’t promise you they will win. I can’t promise you anything. But, as I leave Missouri State and likely never return (sorry), I think it would be good for the football stadium to have a lot of people inside on Saturday afternoons.

It can start this Thursday.

If for no other reason, come to watch me. I am going to yell. I am going to stomp around the sidelines, barking commands and having a damn good time.

I want you to do the same. I’ll see you on Thursday.

Coach Mac.

Allen breaks school record; Breiten wins steeplechase AMANDA SULLIVAN Sports Editor @mandasullivan14 The Missouri State track team competed at the John McDonnell Invitational in Fayetteville, Arkansas over the weekend where senior Jessica Allen beat the school record in the 3,000-meter run.

Allen ran a personal best with a time of 9:41.32. The previous school record was set in 2011 and Allen beat it by 6.02 seconds. She beat her own previous best from February by 8.58 seconds.

Allen’s personal best in 2017 was in the top five in school history at 9:58.20.

While team scores were not kept, the Bears did earn one event title.

Sophomore Grace Breiten placed first in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 10:55.74.

Brieten’s personal best of 2017 in the steeplechase was at the John Jacobs Invitational in April. She ran an 11:03.22.

The Bears continue the outdoor season in Columbia, Missouri for the Tom Botts Invitational on April 20-21.

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Senior Jessica Allen set a personal best and broke the school record in the 3,000-meter run on April 14 at the John McDonnell Invitational.

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was videos made and songs written and people ALLIE: ‘there jumping out of planes with signs cheering her on’ Continued from page 1

adversity or tragedy and whose behavior reflects honor on the institution or the Conference, according to Missouri State’s website.

Eventually, though, Allie made it back to the diamond and got some playing time during the 2016 season.

During that time, she made 14 pinch-hit appearances and went 1-10 with three walks and one RBI. “It took her a year to heal and a year to get her skills back and I think at the end of last year she was really frustrated,” head coach Holly Hesse said. “So, we said, ‘Allie you got one more year one more chance stay with it and let’s see what happens,’ and I’m glad she did.”

Not only has Allie received support from her family and head coach, but she has also received support from her teammates.

Such as last Wednesday, when the softball team played against Oklahoma State, they were wearing orange uniforms — the leukemia awareness color.

“They’ve been doing it since the year I got diagnosed, so we’ve been doing it for three years,” Allie said. “It’s honestly just heartwarming, and then I just have it in my mind everything they did for me when I was actually battling.

MEGAN BURKE/THE STANDARD “It’s just a reminder of all the other people that are Senior Allie Alvstad has played softball every year she’s still fighting.”

Not only has the softball team supported her through been at Missouri State. During the fall of her freshman her struggle, but so did other teams and people on camyear, she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. pus.

To show support, people would tweet the hashtag After going through treatment, she returned to Missou- #AllieStrong and would also wear orange clothing.

“It’s been since the day she was diagnosed, I mean ri State to continue playing softball and begin pursuing all of the different things that Missouri State just did a degree in nursing. to show their support from the bone marrow drive to

orange out days,” Kristin said. “I mean there was lots of different athletic clubs. The hockey team got orange jerseys, the big bear on campus even had an orange jersey and had an orange out day while she was there.

I mean, there was videos made and songs written and people jumping out of planes with signs cheering her on.

“I would just say overall the support that Missouri State showed to her was extremely overwhelming.”

With her experiences, Allie decided that she wanted to give back and wanted to be like those who helped her during her therapy.

She has now decided to go to Belmont University to acquire a nursing degree.

“I originally came in as an exercise movement science major and I wanted to do physical training,” Allie said. “After being diagnosed, I came straight back and knew my desires had changed. I wanted to do what others had done for me throughout my treatment.

“Got up with my advisor and all that, so I’m actually finishing my degree in exercise movement, but then I’m going on to accelerated nursing program in the fall.”

Now Allie is playing in her final season on the softball team.

During this time, she has played in 27 games, two away from her most games played in a single season.

With 13 regular season games left, she has a good chance to have a career high of games played.

“Allie is just a miracle —every day — and I just want to see her out here living life and enjoying life and being grateful for life and we’re grateful for her,” Hesse said. “Anytime she is on the field, I’m just happy. I want her to succeed and play big and she does; she’s just a special one.”

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Stop questioning. This conference is for real.

BLAINE WHEELER Senior Anchor @blainewheeler21 Now that we have had time to reflect on the 2017-18 college basketball season, I wanted to start by looking at the Missouri Valley Conference.

You can point to Sister Jean, Porter Moser, the Kansas City ‘brothers’ (Ben Richardson and Clayton Custer) or the lack of a top team, but Loyola-Chicago and the MVC took the world by storm during March Madness.

A question surrounded the conference the entire 2017-18 season — especially early on. After the departure of Wichita State last season, one question remained: Could the Valley still keep its reputation as one of the best mid-major conferences in the country?

In the Valley’s preseason rankings, Missouri State was the favorite to fill the void in the NCAA tournament with senior star Alize Johnson and four returning starters. However,

when the Bears tanked mid-season, the conference, which was already up for grabs, was confidently snagged

by Loyola-Chicago.

Though, this wasn’t the Creighton or Wichita State teams of the past.

There was still so much uncertainty in terms of how good the Ramblers truly were. In fact, if Loyola fell in Arch Madness, they likely wouldn’t have even made the NCAA Tournament.

The conference ended the year as one of three with all of its teams ranked above 185 in RPI, along with the Big 12 and SEC. Every Monday during the college basketball season, the MVC held a conference call with each head coach in the conference, and the amount of times the coaches said “no game in the Missouri Valley Conference is easy,” was uncountable.

So tough, that Loyola-Chicago was still questioned in the middle of January.

Why? The Custer and Richardson-less Ramblers, through five days at the

start of the Missouri Valley season, started with two losses in their first three conference games.

Fast forward a couple more weeks when the two starting guards returned from injury and the Ramblers were beginning to turn the heads of many in the conference.

But were they legit?

They proved to be; but there was really no way to tell until Jan. 13 through Jan. 28, when the Ramblers won five straight games by a combined 102 points.

After a 23-point beat down of Northern Iowa, the Ramblers laid an egg at Bradley and lost.

The conference’s best team wasn’t in the AP Top 25 for the first time in recent memory. So the clouding question about the MVC’s reputation from the beginning of the season was legit.

After the loss, the Ramblers were the first conference leader to not be in the Top 25 since Missouri State led the conference in the 2011-12 season when the Valley received one bid. In 2012 the Bears finished the season as the highest RPI ranking that

didn’t make the NCAA tournament since the ranking was established.

Loyola wouldn’t lose another game until its season ending loss to Michigan in the Final Four on March 31. The week before the season’s end was the first time the Ramblers were ranked in the Top 25.

The Missouri Valley had to prove itself to the nation. It took a run to the Final Four to reassure everyone the Valley once again — this time more telling — is for real.

Conference RPI rankings showed the Valley as one of the eight best conferences in the nation the entire 2018 season.

The toughest part about judging a mid-major’s legitimacy is not truly knowing how good teams are.

The setup of college basketball only allows small mid-majors to play Power Five conference teams at the beginning of the year. And, when a team is being judged on legitimacy, the first question you ask is, “Who have they beat?”

Loyola beat No. 5 Florida earlier in the season on Dec. 5, so there is

that, the Ramblers already proved themselves.

But again, that added to the answer that the Valley’s best are good enough to compete at the highest level.

The Valley’s best have consistently proven themselves in postseason play as well.

No Valley team has lost a firstround game in the NCAA Tournament since 2012, with the league going a whopping 9-0 through the stretch.

Since 2011, the Valley has the best record of any conference in the NCAA, NIT, CIT and CBI tournaments combined.

Since 1979, the Valley has had 46 teams seeded lower than ninth, including Loyola’s 11 seed this season.

Those teams have combined for seven Sweet 16 and two Final Four appearances.

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Softball celebrates 50 year anniversary BRYCE DERRICKSON Sports Reporter @BruceyD17

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Missouri State’s softball program celebrated their 50 year anniversary with events and a series against Bradley. The Bears won Game 1 and Game 2 while Game 3 was cancelled due to inclement weather. weekend. Near the end of the reception on Friday, both associate head coaches, Sue Frederick and Beth Perine, played a video that honored the 50 years of the program and the 30 years and counting of coaching Hesse has dedicated to the program.

In the video, softball alumni who were coached by Hesse talked about her and thanked her for what she is doing for the program.

Not only was Hesse honored at the reception Friday but she received a golden bat from Missouri State Athletic Director Kyle Moats. She u See SOFTBALL, page 10

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Missouri State to be able to do that, I’m really appreciative they started it when they did because it gave me a job, and that’s what I wanted to do was coach. So, in 1969, here I came.”

Throughout the events, Hesse made sure to talk to the other alumni and other players who she personally coached.

“It was just an awesome weekend to have so many alums back,” Hesse said. “It was just a great weekend. I hope the alums enjoyed it just as much as we did.”

While the softball alumni were the main focus of legacy weekend, Hesse was also honored during the

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header against Bradley, alumni were honored at Killian Stadium. They took a picture on the field and were thanked for what they did for the program.

One of the alums present was Reba Sims, the first softball head coach in 1969 for SMS. During her time as coach, her team placed second and third in the College World Series in 1970 and 1971, respectively. In 1970, she was also named Coach of the Year.

“When you think about it, how many universities in the United States have celebrated 50 years of women’s softball?” Sims said. “For

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cool because these are people I never met before, but we share this common passion and this common pride for Missouri State. So, it was fun to get to visit with them.”

Then on Saturday morning Hesse had “Coffee with the Coaches” at Classic Rock Cafe.

“I go to Classic Rock every game day to get my protein shake there, and I just thought why not invite people to come there in the morning,” Hesse said. “That will just be, again, an opportunity to get together and talk about the old times.”

Later that day, after the softball team’s first game during the double-

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In 1969, softball was added to Southwest Missouri State. In 2005, SMS changed its name to Missorui State. Over the weekend, the softball program celebrated its 50-year history through legacy weekend.

“This program has such a legacy, and our coaches do such a great job of reminding us that we aren’t here today without the people who started it from the beginning,” senior outfielder Sara Jones said. “Definitely just not even a Missouri State program but women’s sports in general. We’re not here playing the game we love as women without strong women before us. So, it’s awesome.

It’s great to see them and constantly be grateful. Just remembering it all started way before we stepped foot as little girls on the T-ball field.”

On April 13 and 14, Missouri State softball honored its alumni.

They started with a reception on Friday at the Kenneth E. Meyer Alumni Center.

During the event on Friday, head coach Holly Hesse announced different time periods from the very beginning of the program to the present. When she said these certain time periods, the alumni who played or coached during that time would stand and introduce themselves with their name, what years they played and position.

“I really enjoyed the banquet,” Jones said. “Just getting to have raw conversation with people who have played on this field, have played for these coaches and to just hear the stories and laugh with them. It’s just

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A few questions surrounded the Missouri State Bears at the beginning of the 201718 season.

Could the young pitching staff keep up?

Is the lineup going to be filled with production?

Returning All-Conference players juniors Hunter Steinmetz, Dylan Coleman, Jeremy Eierman and senior Jake Fromson headlined the papers.

The Bears were younger, and new guys had to fill big holes. It was known even at the beginning of the season.

“I mean, we have a lot of young pitchers that came in, a lot of really good arms,” Steinmetz said at the beginning of the season.

“They definitely showed that they have the ability to pitch at this level, so we are going to be looking for a lot of them to step up this spring.”

Well into the halfway point of the season, there is only a slight ability to feel out how this ball club has answered those questions.

And ... the Bears have answered most in satisfactory action.

It has started on the mound.

Missouri State leads the MVC in: earned run average (3.24), opponent batting average (.224), batters struck out looking (84), runs allowed (120), earned runs allowed (97), doubles allowed (45, low) and triples allowed (2, low).

A majority of those numbers come from Bears senior right-handed pitcher Dylan Coleman, who is proving to be one of the best pitchers in the conference, leading it in strikeouts and wins.

Coleman, hasn’t been the only producer,

though.

Freshmen Ty Buckner and Connor Sechler have been the largest young producers for the Bears. Buckner, before the Bears slate vs. Oregon State, led the team in earned run average (2.28 ERA), and Sechler has appeared in 14 games this season — the most of any Bear pitcher — boasting an impressive 2.88 ERA and 4-1 record through the appearances.

The impacts of Sechler and even freshman Matt Russell, who leads the Bears in saves with three through 16 innings of work, have been an absolute necessity because of the lack of appearance from Fromson earlier in the season.

If you’re reading this column, you most likely know who Jake Fromson is and what he can do. Last season, Fromson threw a whopping 76 innings and took the summer off because of it.

Fromson’s volume is growing. He has been consistently throwing for more than one inning since middle-March, which will aid the Bears staff down the stretch.

The Bears, who lead the Missouri Valley Conference in multiple pitching categories, are near the bottom in offensive categories.

“I think your goals are always the same but in the case of this team youre looking to see how the new guys blend in,” said Bears head coach Keith Guttin. “We have a number of new guys that are going to take on important roles, whether that be position players or pitchers, and just waiting to see how they do when it really counts.”

Losing Jake Burger, Justin Paulsen and more doesn’t help that case, but, like the rotation, many new faces who struggled a season ago had to step in and produce.

Starting second baseman John Privitera started 24 games last season, batting a .235.

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Starting left fielder senior Landan Ruff, who has battled for a starting spot with freshman Sam Faith and junior Brooks Zimmerman, started 12 games last season, batting a better .280 and starting first baseman Ben Whetstone only started two games last season.

Returning sophomores Drew Millas and Jack Duffy both started more than 40 games last season but struggled, batting a combined average of .223.

So far this season, the stars are consistent starters.

Eierman and Steinmetz, another pair of consistent starters, are both batting around .300.

Others have evolved in differing ways.

Millas has exceeded expectations, leading the team in hits, batting a mere .325 and receiving two MVC Player of the Week awards.

Whetstone, alongside Eierman, leads the team in home runs, and, before Saturday's 10-2 loss against Oregon State, Whetstone reached base in his 30 games this season.

Privitera, at the bottom of the order, is getting on base enough to score, scoring the third most runs this season.

However, highlighting production, the Bears are still struggling at the plate.

Talking with Guttin after multiple games this season, his response in what the Bears must do better has been simple: hit.

The Bears have a team batting average of .256, ranking them 206 of 297 NCAA D-1 teams this year.

The bottom half of the order is draining the team’s average.

However, it hasn’t held them back from beating and competing with good teams.

On March 3, Missouri State knocked of No. 24 East Carolina thanks to a 13-hit performance and a strong seven innings from

Coleman.

On March 8-10, Missouri State won two of three over No. 30 Arkansas State thanks to yet another Coleman masterpiece, in which Fromson picked up his first save of the season.

And really, when all big name teams have lined it up against the Bears, they’ve shown positives.

The Bears beat the Big 10’s Iowa Hawkeyes and the Big 12’s Kansas Jayhawks.

In the game of baseball, weird things can happen. One rally late in a game can spoil what could be a ‘good win.’ One bad performance from a starting pitcher can sink a ship before it sets sail. That is why they play upwards of 50 games.

This weekend, Missouri State was beat worse than they have been all season long, showing a dent in the pitching staff’s performance against Oregon State.

The Beavers outscored the Bears 17-6 and 10-2. Game 2 was resumed on Day 2, where they had a better outing, holding the Beavers to no runs through seven innings.

However, the Bears still lost.

Nothing has come close to the drummings all season, even for the Beavers, as they hit their most home runs and score it’s most runs in a single game this season.

To me, it’s still unclear if the Bears have enough power to win against the nation’s elite, but they have shown they can compete.

They’ve shown the ability to be one of the best 30 teams in the nation but can they be on of the best eight and put together another run like last season?

More is to be told when the Bears travel to No. 4 Arkansas on Tuesday and these back-to-back games against top 10 teams will tell.

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Lacrosse heads to semifinal in playoffs after Washington University forfeits

Tennis beats Valparaiso in first home MVC match AMANDA SULLIVAN Sports Editor @mandasullivan14 The Missouri State tennis team beat Valparaiso 5-2 in their first home Missouri Valley Conference match of the season.

The Bears lost their doubles point after dropping two of three games.

However, the team came back in singles to win the match.

Sophomore Alye Darter tied the team score at 1-1 after beating Valparaiso’s Claire Czerwonka 6-2, 6-1.

The No. 3 game ended next with junior Fati Khamissi winning back-to-back sets 6-0, 6-5.

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Boeschen also recorded wins, boosting the Bears to a 4-1 lead, securing their win over the Crusaders.

Senior Anelisse Torrico Moreno lost the No. 2 match in three sets, winning the second 6-4 but dropping the first 6-2 and the third 10-6.

The Bears’ final win came from senior Abbey Belote in the No. 6 game to secure Missouri State’s second MVC win of the season.

Missouri State has three matches left in the season, all at home, and will look to win their last two MVC matches before the MVC Championships on April 27-29 in Springfield.

The Bears host Northern Iowa April 21 and Drake April 22. They will also play a non-conference match against William Woods on April 22.

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Missouri State beat Valparaiso 5-2 on April 14 in their first home conference match.

KAITLYN STRATMAN Associate Sports Editor @KaitlynStratman After a last-minute forfeit from Washington University, the Missouri State lacrosse team advanced to the semifinal round of the Lone Star Alliance playoffs. They will play Baylor (10-2) at 10 a.m. April 21, in Austin, Texas.

The Bears carried out a strong season, undefeated 6-0 in their division and 9-2 overall.

“I think one of the biggest strengths that we have is that we play as a team,” head coach Dustin Rich said. “And that I think both from a mental standpoint and an X’s and O’s standpoint, we’ve been pretty cohesive.”

While crediting the team’s unity, Rich recognized external factors playing into their success.

“Some of our conference is just not as strong,” Rich said. “And so where maybe we haven’t felt the most challenged, is where we haven’t got to play as tough of a schedule.”

Missouri State will face challenging competition beginning with its match-up against Baylor, who is sitting at the top of the LSA-II South Conference. Missouri State mirrors their success in the North Conference.

“Our big focus again, and it sounds cliche, but it’s executing as a team, because if you can do that, you can kind of minimize what the individuals on the other side can do,” Rich said.

Minnesota-Duluth broke up the run, but the Bears came back and won four straight.

Even with the team’s consistency on the scoreboard, Rich said there is more to it than just the wins and losses.

“I’m not sure if I feel an enormous amount of momentum,” Rich said. “We played a game on Saturday, we played well; we won 19-3. I felt like our passion and energy was really low. And we talked about that and Sunday we came out and we executed really well, and we played with passion and we played with energy. So that I think is much more what I’m keyed in on as a coach, is, ‘Can we keep that level of energy going into the playoffs?’”

Looking at their wins from previous games, the Bears don’t allow close games.

As the season advanced, Missouri State gradually increased its leads. Their first win was by three points. By the end of the season, the Bears held Kansas State to zero goals while scoring 21 of their own.

“A lot of it is just being able to keep the ball,” senior Cooper Kelley said. “Our possession has been upwards of 80 percent these past four games, so as long as we can keep the ball, I have confidence in our offense being able to put good shots on goal.”

Beach volleyball ends inaugural season at South Carolina AMANDA SULLIVAN Sports Editor @mandasullivan14 The Missouri State beach volleyball team ended its first ever season with four losses at the Palmetto Invitational in Columbia, South Carolina.

On Friday, the Bears lost 3-2 to Coastal Carolina and 4-1 to No. 20 College of Charleston.

The Bears lost the No. 4 and No. 2 matches against Coastal Carolina first.

The Bears tied the score at 2-2 with wins from senior Lynsey Wright and graduate student Ivy Reynolds in the No. 5 match and sophomores Julia Hanson and Kelsey Larsen in the No. 3 match.

Looking forward

While the Bears did not play their first playoff game, Baylor, Louisiana and UT-Dallas all played in the quarterfinals.

The Bears will be facing more challenging teams the farther they move in the bracket.

“Especially in playoffs, we’re not going to beat teams by 20 goals,” Rich said. “It’s going to be a lot closer, so what we’re foLooking back cused on is, can we execute, can we play Missouri State took a five-game win good defense, but are we passionate and streak early after losing the first game of energetic?” the season 10-8 to Arkansas. A 15-3 loss to u See LACROSSE, page 10

The Bears dropped their final match in two sets, losing 21-15 and 21-17.

In their second game of the day, the College of Charleston capitalized early, winning the No. 2, 4, 3 and 5 matches.

Graduate student Taylor Fricano and freshman Veronica Snelling refused to be swept however, winning their second and third sets.

Day two showed to be a similar challenge for Missouri State as they had 5-0 losses to No. 19 Tulane and No. 9 South Carolina.

The Bears finish their inaugural season with a 7-10 record, winning their only KAITLYN STRATMAN/THE STANDARD game at home against the Ottawa Braves Missouri State beat Ottawa University in 5-0 on March 22.

their only home match of the season 5-0.

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LOYOLA Continued from page 7 bids they’ve received is superior to every conference in the nation.

I don’t mean to portray the Valley as top in the nation; rather, the underrated power it has been.

Many in the Springfield community tend to underestimate it too. Missouri State students included.

It is time to start boasting Valley basketball as a larger part in the community.

It’s been a winning recipe in the conference in its successful time.

Loyola head coach Porter Moser pointed to the help Chicago gave Loyola after the buzz was created. Wichita State sold out arenas after a rebuild with head coach Gregg Marshall. When a community surrounds, energy is created and teams get better.

Missouri State head coach Dana Ford pointed to this in his experience coaching for Marshall at Wichita State and making it a principle of the future.

“Our entire university, we have to change or mindset when it comes to men’s basketball,” Ford said.

“When the word championship is brought up, we’ve got to be about that. That has to be our expectation. ...

When I was hired at Wichita State as a graduate assistant, we were on the bottom. When I went back as an assistant coach they had changed it around and brought it all the way back up to the top.”

So where should you look from here?

The next step is seeing who takes the Valley crown in 2019. Does Loyola regin the new kings of the Missouri Valley Conference, or is there room for someone with the mindset of Ford’s?

The nation will be watching, searching for a product that proves the conference belongs.

SOFTBALL Continued from page 7 also threw the first pitch for the first game of the doubleheader.

“I wasn’t really expecting that,” Hesse said. “I’ve been focused on 50 years of celebrating, and I was a little surprised by the video and surprised by the golden bat. It’s certainly nice to know the dedication, commitment and hard work I put in to this program for 30 years is appreciated.”

With legacy weekend over, Jones wants to remember what the program was built on: hard work.

“The best way to honor their hard work is to continue to live the way they lived,” Jones said. “They had pride in Missouri State, in their coaches and had passion for this game. So, every time we go out there and play, we have to remember we’re not only playing for ourselves and our current team, but we’re playing for our program that started many years ago.”

The legacy weekend ended with a sweep of Bradley on Saturday, 8-7 in the first game and 3-0 in the second game.

While legacy weekend is over, the softball team’s regular season is not. Missouri State will continue the homestead and face Southern Illinois in another doubleheader at noon and 2 p.m. on April 18.

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Scurry out, Cook in ALEC McCHESNEY Editor in chief @Alec_McChesney Reggie Scurry has a new home.

The former Missouri State Bear announced on Twitter Sunday that he would be transferring to Middle Tennessee State.

Scurry, 20, becomes the first commitment for first-year head coach Nick McDevitt.

“I would like to say I appreciate everyone that showed interest in me these last couple of days, but I have decided that will be transferring to Middle Tennessee for my last year of college basketball,” Scurry’s tweet said.

Scurry left Missouri State after an injury sustained in a cryotherapy session during the season. He made his last appearance on Jan. 20 against the Drake Bulldogs.

“My feet were only in the chamber for about five seconds,” Scurry told the Daily News Journal in his first public interview since the injury. “I think I was like 20 seconds from losing my toes. I went through the worst pain in my life.

Literally the worst. I don’t think you understand the pain I went through with my feet.

“That’s what I went through for probably two full months. Waking up in the morning, I could feel the blood rushing to the bottom of my feet and just cause agonizing pain. It was the worst pain I’ve ever had in my life.”

With the departure of Scurry, Missouri State head coach Dana Ford landed his second junior college recruit, as Keandre Cook tweeted Sunday his plans to attend Missouri State.

Cook, a 6-foot-5 guard from Odessa

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A conference championship win would send the Bears to the Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association (MCLA) National Championships for the fourth time since 2009. They beat Creighton 12-6 for the spot last year. For the team, this has become an every year goal.

“I think more than anything, it sets up a tradition for Missouri State,” Kelley said. “It puts Missouri State’s name on the map for lacrosse. As a senior, that’s really what I want to do, is just sort of leave something that I can be proud of, and something that these younger guys can take and push even farther than what I’ve gotten to.”

Although Rich is proud of the team for qualifying in the past, he is focused on this season.

“It’s kind of like Christmas,” Rich said. “When it happens, all you care about is right then. It’s great that it happened all the years before, but right at that moment, all that matters is the fact that you that you and your assistant coach and all these guys right now get go experience that.”

Rich is also focused on taking the playoffs one game at a time because the losses start when a team loses sight of the game at hand.

“It’s going to be on executing, it’s going to be on playing passionate but also playing within ourselves,” Rich said.

Junior College, tweeted: “You know how far I came if you know where I been.

Super Blessed.”

Cook started in 24 games, while averaging 19.5 minutes and 15 points per game as a sophomore. An excellent shooter, Cook shot 56.2 percent from the field, 78.9 from the free throw line and 35.5 from beyond the arc. He scored in double figures in 27 of the 33 games he appeared in.

According to verbalcommits.com, Cook had offers from Cal State Bakersfield, Tennessee State, Louisiana Tech, UAB and Eastern Michigan. Ford was still the head coach of Tennessee State when the Tigers offered Cook, according to the website.

Cook will fit perfectly with an offensive rotation of Mustafa Lawrence, Jared Ridder, Jarred Dixon and Obediah Church. If those four are in the starting lineup, there’s reason to believe Cook and fellow junior college commit Darnell Butler Jr. will compete for the last spot in the starting rotation, serving as a floor spacer.

Butler drilled 80 3-pointers and scored 19.2 points per game as a sophomore at Seminole State Junior College a season ago. Standing at 6-foot-4, Butler will also provide length to an already positionless basketball team.

Ridder and Church are both listed at 6-foot-7. Dixon and Butler are 6-foot-4, and Cook checks in at 6-foot-5. Lawrence, who is the only true point guard on the roster, is 6-foot. The combination of these six, combined with Darian Scott and Abdul Fofana, who are 6-foot-11 and 6-foot-7, respectively, gives Ford plenty of options on the defensive end.

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Junior Reggie Scurry goes up for the jumpshot. Scurry transferred from Missouri State to play at Middle Tennessee for his senior year.

Regardless of who winds up in the starting unit, the Bears will have at least one electric scorer of the bench in Butler and/or Cook.

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FUND Continued from page 1 However, a review of the program in 2013 revealed that less than 20 percent of the newspapers were being picked up by students and faculty, according to SGA documents. SGA resolved that the program would be reviewed every February.

In 2015, a student body vote determined the program would turn solely into the mobile app. In 2016, SGA determined only 1 percent of the student body had downloaded the app. Each time the program was up for a vote, the student body voted to keep it, despite low usage.

In a March 2016 resolution authored by current Student Body Vice President Caitlin Schaefer, SGA proposed reallocating the $3 Readership fee into a Student Initiative Fund, to “provide opportunity to ignite student-led initiatives”

THE STANDARD and “increase the profile of SGA while providing more opportunities for students to express their ideas and implement changes they want to see on campus,” according to the resolution.

“When I stepped into my role in 2016, I was asked to review the fund,” Schaefer said. “I realized that there was never another option on the survey. It was either keep or eliminate. Therefore, I started brainstorming a choice to see what students really wanted. This idea seemed to benefit all students and had a potential to make a huge impact, so I put it on there, and the students voted to make it a reality.”

The Student Initiative Fund is an annually renewed fund of $100,000 that can be used to support student initiatives.

“This fund ends the conversation where students discuss ideas they want to see on campus, and the conversation ends with, ‘But where would we get the money for that?’” Schaefer said. “This fund could enable students to bring new and improved resources to the classroom, additions to their residence hall, you name it.”

A few student initiative proposals have been passed since creation of the fund, including something that many students see every day — the international flag display in Strong Hall.

Thomas Lane, associate vice president for Student Life and dean of students, plays a role in the approval of the student initiative proposals. Students must finalize their proposals with him before it can be presented to the SGA cabinet.

“It has been encouraging to see the increased interest from a variety of students regarding submitting SIF proposals,” Lane said. “Students have to research their idea, share their ideas with SGA cabinet members and the full SGA senate, work with appropriate university faculty and staff, and ultimately provide a compelling enough proposal to garner the necessary SGA support for approval.”

As for the newspaper program, it could return to campus if the student body decided to ask for it and allocate another student fee to pay for it.

PERFORMANCE Continued from page 1 shoes off to sit on the mat, others standing outside, peeking through the door.

“I think it’s going to be different for every person,” Poorman said. “I just want them to have a chance to see the impact of the pollution and how greatly it affects the dancers in this piece metaphorically, but how it breaks them down and how it’s also legitimately breaking down our planet.”

Initially, the movement of the dance was slow. It became progressively elaborate as the dancers rolled in paint and plastic over a tarp. As they moved, the paint spread, staining their clothes and sticking to their hair.

Eventually, Stine, Griffiths and Key transitioned between what seemed to be fighting and helping each other, appearing worn and weak by the end.

“My whole purpose is to get across that we’re making a mess,” Poorman said. “We’re making a huge mess on this Earth, and the whole piece is just making a mess. We use paint and it’s kind of gross, disgusting, but it just kind of gives you the chance to visualize it in a different setting, in a different format.”

The performance fit in well with the Public Affairs Conference due to the focus on sustainability.

MEGAN BURKE/THE STANDARD “The whole purpose of sustainability, I think, just shows us that we can stop for a second, think, and just, you know, Graduate dance major Emily Poorman speaks pick up this trash or throw this away properly,” senior health about her choreographed dance titled “Until services major Khaila T. Pressey said after attending the There’s Nothing” which portrays pollution from event. the point of the planet rather than human perPoorman looked for strong dancers that would be “groundspective. ed” and “floaty,” with the ability to represent their element.

“I just wanted to do it because we all want to dance, because we’re trying to make statements and spread our own awareness to the saga.

“I want everybody to see it because we all have an impact,” through our art form, so this is a great way to do that, especially Poorman said. for something we care so much about,” Key said.

Poorman doesn’t want to stop with this performance. Instead “We can’t change what we’ve already done, but we can of adding on to it, she envisions eventually adding a part two prevent anymore (pollution) from happening.”

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How students can be a part of global food security CHIYIERRJA GRANT Staff Reporter @ChiyierrjaGrant Missouri State University's Public Affairs Conference continued with a session held April 11, on global food security. Brady Deaton presented the issue of food security around the world and plans of how students can become part of the solution.

With over 7 billion people in the world, counting food shortage and security has led to even more issues. The United Nations predicts that population growth is headed toward 10 billion, and, by the year 2050, that number is expected to increase to anywhere between 9-11 billion.

Deaton leads the Brady and Anne Deaton Institute for University Leadership in International Development based at the University of Missouri, whose mission is to build agricultural practices, raise discussions across university campuses and raise awareness to the improvement of food security. The institute also raises awareness to show how research and technology can lead to solving issues in health, malnutrition and environmental sustainability.

There's also a link between the lack in the world’s food security to violent conflict.

Deaton said conflict acts as a curse to multiple society’s who struggle.

“Conflict leads to starvation and undernourishment,” Deaton said. “It leads to a lifetime curse on the population and a lifetime strain on the budget on the world.”

According to World Food Programme, a humanitarian organization that works to fight world hunger, said people have to spend 60-80 percent of their income on food.

In some of the world’s poorest countries, sometimes even more.When this much income is spent on food it leaves families with having to turn to self grown farming and vegetable based diets.

Families often cut the number of meals eaten within a day, to possibly little to none, leading to malnutrition, according to World Food Programme.

Malnutrition is one of the leading obstacles born from food shortage. Malnourishment also affects how children perform in school. According to the world's first global charity for children whose dedicated to giving all children a future they deserve, Save The Children, a child can suffer severe damage in their ability to read and write due to malnourishment.

One of the most important aspects of Deaton’s mission is recognizing that the issues unfolding as the population grows isn’t left for one specific country to deal with alone.

“We don’t live in isolation; we live in a very interconnected world,” Deaton said. “It’s not just what’s happening in your country, it’s what’s happening in the global economy that’s providing food to your country and that can be very significant,” Deaton said.

Deaton’s solution involves students from multiple different majors, skills and partnerships with other universities.

The Deaton Institute works with Illinois State University, Mississippi State University, Delaware State University, the University of Missouri and Missouri State University. The goal requires bringing together all students for collaborative research to ensure the most productive and effective solutions.

“Students are trying to learn from each other in a new and exciting way because the problems we face in the world will require that broad perspective,” Deaton said.

Sophomore marketing major Autumn McNeal was surprised to hear how urgent of an issue food security has become in our world. McNeal also said there is plenty we can do within our own community to help the issue.

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Low young resident turnout for local elections CHIYIERRJA GRANT Staff Reporter @ChiyierrjaGrant The results are in after Greene County's general election, held April 3. The call to action to be taken on some of the county's most important issues awaited voters.

Most of the ballot included issues regarding the area's school districts, such as the board of education director for Republic, Ash Grove, Fair Grove and Marion C. Early school districts.

According to the Greene County Clerk’s Office, both propositions to issue obligation bonds in two of the county's school districts were passed. Since they each passed, it means the funds will go toward constructing, furnishing, repairing, renovating and equipping facilities.

Greene County is populated with college students from Ozark Technical Community College, Drury University, Evangel University and, of course, Missouri State University. Close to 50,000 students choose to further their education in Springfield, according to Live In Springfield.com, calculating enrollment from all colleges and universities in Springfield.

Unlike the presidential election, the county election didn't seem to appeal to as much of its younger population. According to Census.gov, 38 percent of young adults aged 18-24 voted in the 2012 presidential election, while only 16 percent voted in 2014 during the non-presidential election.

Freshman Kendall Stiles, whose major is undecided, was aware of the election but said most of the student body lacks interest.

“I don't think anyone pays attention, really,” Stiles said. “I think if it applies to them, they pay more attention.”

Stiles also said each student’s vote matters, but students may think their one vote doesn't count for anything, possibly holding them back from actually voting.

“It's just one vote as most people think; it's not going to matter,” Stiles said. “If everyone went out and voted, it would matter.”

According to the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, 33 percent of college students are registered to vote in their college town, while 67 percent are registered to vote in their hometown.

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It takes precision and concentration as community member Sarah Jones carefully fills in her coloring page. For the past three years, the adult coloring circle has been meeting every Wednesday in the Park Central Branch Library.

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toddler right off the bat.

I am not an advocate for child murder outside of film, but it really improves the experience, especially in horror. When you watch horror movies, you usually have a pretty good sense of who will die or at least in what order they’ll die. When a movie kills a child, and kills a child so early in a movie, it removes the predictability of the film and makes it much more scary and unsettling. It abolishes any rules the viewer might have expected and found comfort in.

The largest quality this film advertises is the use of sound and lack thereof. If you were not aware, “A Quiet Place” takes place in a world after strange monsters have invaded.

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against the top graduate students from each college.

After winning both, she was chosen to represent Missouri State in Grand Rapids.

Walker earned an impressive second place finish at the regionals, scoring higher than a field full of Ph.D. students and some of the most brilliant researchers in the country — she said a few are working on discovering the cure for cancer.

“It’s just the best of the best researchers,” Julie Masterson, associate provost and dean of the Graduate College, said. “It is absolutely amazing and very impressive that Mecca placed second out of all those people.”

The general premise of 3MT is to condense and simplify a complicated body of research. The judging panel is a group of educated layman, the goal being that someone who is unfamiliar with the topic can understand it after watching the three-minute presentation.

“Students who are engaged in research present their work to a non-academic audience,” Masterson said. “(Walker) had to do this … in a way that was meaningful, engaging, entertaining and scholarly impressive.”

“I told him to grab a colored pencil and start coloring,” Echols said. “It’s fun, so why not?”

Seidner said choosing a color palette isn’t necessary because it will look good regardless.

“It’s impossible to make a mistake,” Seidner said. “The colors don’t go together, but they do at the same time.”

Bohnenkamp said many kinds of people go to the coloring circle.

“The type of people who are interested in coloring is not always who you think it’d be,” Bohnenkamp said. “It’s always fun to see who’s going to show up.”

These monsters are completely blind but have incredibly advanced hearing and move extremely fast to kill anything or anyone that makes noise. This means that Krasinski, his wife (Emily Blunt) and his children, need to live their lives in complete silence, or risk being slashed apart by these creatures.

Because of this, most of the movie takes place in near or total silence.

The effect this creates is that every noise, no matter how loud, is very much intentional and a part of creating the mood.

There is not accidental noise in the whole film, and you can tell the every person in the sound department put an incredible amount of work into this project.

Even the most minute scratch and clatter furthers the suspense and tension of every scene and puts the viewer on edge the entire movie. With this foundation, the director, also Krasinski,

builds a world where the characters adopt habits to minimize the noises that might be present in daily life: like not having any battery operated toys or only listening to music through earbuds.

“A Quiet Place” is a movie with relatively few errors, so is it the best movie of all time? Well, no, and it doesn’t come exceptionally close either.

This isn’t because of any fault in it’s creation — in fact to the contrary. It’s because, aside from the concept of noise being the driving force of suspense, it doesn’t do a ton to be exceptional. It explores the concept well, not as thoroughly as it could have, but they didn’t take any shortcuts either.

Frankly, Krasinski just didn’t add much extra beyond that. He looked into the world and took it at face value and ran with it, but he didn’t include extras and in this negligence to add more idiosyncrasies, this movie lacks the crucial ‘it’ factor that makes a great mov-

ie.

Walker’s presentation was over fair trade, an issue she’s been interested in since studying economics and Latin American business at the University of Nevada as an undergraduate. She used Starbucks coffee to illustrate her point.

“We’re constantly buying coffee … we don’t know where it comes from,” Walker said. “But the research shows that the coffee we spend $3, $4 (or) $5 on is coming from people who are living on 10 cents a day.”

Although initially intimidated by the backgrounds of many of her competitors, Walker said 3MT reassured her that social issues like fair trade are equally as important as scientific research and need to be discussed in academic settings.

After earning a degree in economics, Walker said she is very aware of how much money goes to big corporations. She wanted her presentation to beg the question, “Are we paying attention to the little people?”

She said she was happy to learn that this issue she considers to be important is also important to other people.

“It gave weight to the value of social sciences,” Walker said. “Even research based on inequality, international trade — these are things that are actually very significant aspects of our lives.”

Her presentation was well-received by her accomplished competitors and the diverse judging panel. She said the

“It is a major tribute to her faculty in the MBA program and the College of Business that they prepared someone who was so scholarly strong.”

-Julie Masterson, associate provost and dean of the Graduate College, talking about Mecca Walker.

3MT experience was both validating and educational. Because of the 3-minute format, each student who qualified was able to engage in casual conversation about their topic, without using professional jargon.

As a business student with little knowledge of scientific research, Walker said she was pleasantly surprised by a conversation she had with a fellow competitor who’s presentation dealt with brain cancer research.

“We were able to communicate about each of our subjects … we were

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able to have that dialogue, and it was beautiful because (I) had to learn to be adaptable to a worldly holistic subject,” Walker said. “It was incredible.”

Masterson said Walker’s second place finish at this academic conference is a testament to her research, as well as the skill set of the faculty and staff within the College of Business and the entire Missouri State Graduate College.

“It is a major tribute to her faculty in the MBA program and the College of Business that they prepared someone who was so scholarly strong, but really her presentation skills were absolutely excellent,” Masterson said. “Clearly she had been coached and prepared to do well.”

Masterson said many of the schools represented at 3MT, like the University of Michigan, the University of Minnesota and Ohio State University, are “research institutions” who have significantly more resources for their graduate programs than Missouri State.

Despite receiving a small amount of funding, comparatively, Masterson said Missouri State graduate students are well-prepared for academic competition like this one.

“Our graduate students can go up and compete against anybody, whatever level,” Masterson said. “This is an incredible tribute to the quality of Missouri State graduate education.”

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The Foster Recreation Center offers students a place to destress, whether they choose to run on the indoor track, lift weights or use any other equipment in the gym.

The power of unwinding in times of stress MADISON BRYAN Staff Reporter @MadisonBryan14 Continuous stress can play a huge role on our health both physically and mentally.

But learning how to handle this stress — in each student’s unique way — may ensure more focus on schoolwork and less focus on those pesky side effects of stress that are different for all of us.

Dr. Amber R. Abernathy, assistant professor with the psychology department at Missouri State University, researches stress. Abernathy said, while no one enjoys stress, it has many great properties, such as teaching us safety and reaching deadlines.

Long-term stress, however, can cause many health problems. So it is important to find time to unwind through ways like meditation, exercising or relaxed breathing.

“This will help the HPA system, also known as the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis, (which is responsible for the stress response) have time to recover,” Abernathy said.

Unwinding benefits our health by making us less susceptible to illness.

“Appropriate unwinding can allow our stress response system to ‘reboot,’” Abernathy said. “This decreases the cortisol or stress hormone in our bodies.

Billie Green, professional school counselor for Neosho High School, guides students dealing with stress in their day-to-day education.

“Doing something to unwind and relax occasionally is essential for all of us,” Green said.

Taking time to relax acts as a reset button on our bodies. Adding any type of physical activity releases serou See UNWIND, page 14

embraced us and allowed us to become a part of this campus,” Samson said. “It cracks me up how some people think we’re associated with MSU, but it’s a great situation because — in some way — we wanted to be.”

Samson said creating a warm environment for MSU students has been a focus of The Potter’s House for as long as he could remember, recalling one student who had completed her senior art project in what used to be a storage room.

“She just went in there with a cardboard box and made this amazing elephant head for her senior project,” Samson said. “After she finished it, she brought it back to us and said, ‘This is where I felt most comfortable and I wanted to give it back to you.’”

That project still hangs on the wall today, and for Samson, those connections with students are the most rewarding part of his near-14 hour days. “(MSU students) have given us more than we ever expected, and we hope in every way to return the favor,” Samson said. “We had no idea what we were doing. We just had a lot of heart.”

But heart — and coffee — was all they needed to create a home away from home for the thousands of students across the street.

“It’s been amazing to just be a part of what happens on this campus,” Samson said. “This is a great generation.”

Students often praise The Potter’s House for its location, coffee and comforting atmosphere. Sitting beside a window near the front door, junior communications major Paige Sutberry said she was even connected with the MSU campus Wi-Fi connection from across the street.

“It’s just really cute and homey, and it’s kind of become a part of MSU,” Sutberry said. “If you haven’t gone to Potter’s House, are you even at Missouri State?”

Sutberry said she often visits to meet with friends, but she always makes sure to say hello to Samson.

“We’ll either reserve downstairs or upstairs and watch movies until it closes (at midnight),” Sutberry said. “It’s literally a second home.”

Senior art education major Rachel Compton lives off-campus, but she visits the coffee shop about three times a week using the Bearline. She cited accessibility and the lighthearted atmosphere as her favorite parts of visiting The Potter’s House.

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Stephen Rippee, a barista at The Potter’s House, says that it feels like home there. “It’s a place to come where you can relax and try to do work, but you end up making friends.” parents’ house, and I feel like you can miss that cozy environment living in a dorm,” Compton said. “You can come in and just feel relaxed.”

For Proffitt, the goal has always been to foster a sense of community and belonging – recognition and awards come later.

As for students’ favorite parts of the shop? He doesn’t mind the debate.

“When people take whatever they can get from here and plant that wherever they go — that’s the rewarding part of it for me,” Proffitt said. “I’m just grateful that so many students appreciate what goes into this.”

While Proffitt is often busy working as a relationship counselor, he said he’s been pleased with Samson becoming the face of The Potter’s House over time.

But Proffitt also called this inevitable, citing Samson’s passion in serving the community.

“I can’t get (Samson) to take time off,” Proffitt said with a laugh. “This is his

family and everybody that comes through that door is his child.”

Proffitt also recalled a former student who frequented the shop as a freshman at MSU. While teaching English in South Korea, he went on to open a coffee shop of his own.

“There’s a Potter’s House-style coffee house right outside the gates of a university in Sheehan, South Korea,” Proffitt said, smiling. “So it’s not just graduating and leaving. For the ones who stay connected, we build a lifetime friendship.”

For Proffitt, those lifetime friendships with students have been the underlying motivation for The Potter’s House since its opening in 2000. The goal has always been to create a house, and a home, where students can enter as guests and leave as friends.

“I wouldn’t be here without their continual support,” Proffitt said. “We want people to continue to feel like this is a place they can be a part of.”

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tonin which makes us feel happy and relaxed. When added with enough sleep and eating healthy, you have a perfect recipe for handling stress.

There are a lot of different ways to successfully unwind. Everyone is different and not everything will work for everyone.

Other students shared how they unwind. Jessa Stone, junior entrepreneurship major, chooses a more hands-on approach to battling stress through rock climbing.

“All stressors are pushed out of my mind,” Stone said.

Easton Flaugh, senior mechanical engineering technology major and a member of the Missouri State football team, feels stressed through-

be registered there.

Freshman sports management major Matthew Talty said voter turnout may be due to unawareness.

Pew Research found that people aged 18-29 express less interest in politics and political news.

Compared to older generations, 39 percent of millennials talk about politics a few times a week, whereas 49 percent of baby boomers talk about politics at least a few times a week.

“I’d say about 40 percent of students pay attention because they don't really know what's going on,” Talty said.

“I think it'd help if one week in advance papers were out informing everyone.”

NPR found that millennials continue to have the lowest voter turnout of any age group, yet also makeup half of the voting population.

When young adults come together to vote, it makes room for a more diverse voice and places importance toward issues that may affect millennials now or in the future.

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out the week due to his busy schedule.

“I unwind from stress by playing video games, watching YouTube and taking a nice nap,” Flaugh said.

“Doing these things, I am able to get my mind off school and football.”

Mikayla Christiansen, a sophomore psychology major, said she unwinds by working out, taking long hot showers and making new music playlists.

James McFerron, senior mass media and digital film major, finds peace from stress by hanging out with friends and roommates, visiting downtown, watching movies and playing video games.

And, even with dozens of ways to positively unwind from stress, there are

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Foster Recreation Center still negative ways that a lot of students find themselves participating in.

“These ways often involve substance usage, large social groups or media usage,” Abernathy said.

“Although, many consider this as taking a break, it can still activate the stress response system.”

A lot of students take a break as a way to procrastinate which only increases

stress.

The best way to handle a stressful life is plan ahead and allow time for breaks.

If you have planned ahead, you will have time to do work and unwind.