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‘I’ve got my armor on. I am a fighter.’

Senator Claire McCaskill addresses public concerns during town hall series Chloe Skaar Staff Reporter @chloeskaar United States Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill brought firsthand insight to her work through Missouri by holding a series of eight public town hall meetings last week. The representative came to Springfield on April 14.

McCaskill told her audience that she selected the eight cities to host her town hall meetings because they were all places that President Donald Trump’s campaign had won by double digits.

She said she did this because her job is most effective when she is able to see the faces of those she represents, which is not always a group exclusive to those who cast their ballot in her favor.

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Sen. Claire McCaskill answers questions at Old Glace Place on April 14.

McCaskill visited Hillsboro, Sikeston, Fulton, Hannibal, St. Joseph, Parkville, Springfield and Rolla in three days.

Springfield’s new mayor, Ken McClure, initiated the town hall meeting by introducing McCaskill to an eager crowd in the Old Glass Place.

“She is one of us,” McClure said after detailing some of McCaskill’s most recent work in the Senate.

“She wants Missourians to be able to show up and chew on her about what they think she is doing right or wrong— in her own words.”

McCaskill conducted the meeting with a series of questions. She asked for a raise of hands from people in the room who would never vote for her, selected one and asked them to choose her questions from the basket

filled with submissions from the audience.

In about an hour, McCaskill answered questions about union protection, support for the middle class, campaign finance reform, health insurance, funding for politicians, global warming, activism, alternative fuel options, abortion, tax codes, education reform and Supreme Court nominees.

McCaskill said her and her colleagues are drawing on political will to simplify the tax code’s 73,000 pages during President Trump’s time of tax reformation.

McCaskill also discussed education reform and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos. She addressed the crowd members’ questioning whether DeVos was the right u See McCASKILL, page 2

Board of Governors no longer a boys’ club Two women hold chair, vice chair positions for the first time in BOG history

Chloe Skaar Staff Reporter @chloeskaar Missouri State University’s Board of Governors held an election on March 24 that was unlike any in the school’s history.

For the first time, women will simultaneously hold the chair and vice chair positions of the board. Virginia Fry will serve as chair, and Carrie Tergin will serve as vice chair.

Fry is a partner of the Husch Blackwell law firm as a member of their Healthcare, Life Sciences and Education industry team.

Tergin is in her second year serving as the mayor of Jefferson City, and she is the second woman to hold the position of mayor. She was a Jefferson City councilwoman for six years and is a small business owner.

What ties them together is they both are MSU graduates.

“I had an amazing experience at MSU, and my goal is to make sure others have a wonderful experience like I did,” said Tergin, who

graduated from MSU with a business management degree.

Tergin said that she wants to utilize her time serving on the board to build on MSU’s traditions while preserving the existing ones. She said she is grateful that the vice chair position will offer her a chance to see the university’s growth and potential firsthand.

Fry said she was surprised to learn that her and Tergin made the first female pair of chair and vice chair positions for the board, only interesting her to serve more despite the steep time commitment of the chair position. She said her experiences as an MSU student were also a big motivator in the decision.

“I remembered when I was a student, I kind of recognized who the members of the board were and viewed them as leaders, so, ultimately, I was honored to accept the nomination to serve,” Fry, who graduated with two degrees from MSU, said.

Fry said the board is filled with smart people and independent thinkers, which will aide in solving the difficult decisions that lay ahead.

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Left: Virginia Fry, chair. Right: Carrie Tergin, vice chair.

“I am looking forward to working close with President Clif Smart and his team as we figure out the next few steps,” Fry said. “Everyone knows we are dealing with budget issues now, but I have a lot of confidence in the background work of Smart and his team.”

Fry also said that any time there are challenges, the board looks for the accompanying opportunities.

“We have had great leadership on the board in the past and have a great future for the school now,” Fry said. “The board is looking to support the people at MSU and continue to make it an affordable school that can provide students an opportunity for good experiences.”

Tergin said one of the aspects about being a board member that excites her most is the opportunity to learn about students and the attributes they bring to the university. She said her and Fry both cherish the university’s prog-

ress and intend to prioritize it.

“I am most looking forward to working with Virginia Fry and being a team of female leadership in a historical moment,” Tergin said.

“I am honored to be a part of a leadership team that includes two women.”

Tergin said that the board’s members each have a background that adds to the value of the board and, ultimately, the university. She said that her and Fry feel it is an honor to serve with the members while making history.

“MSU is something that I hold a lot of pride in,” Tergin said. “What’s special to me is being able to wear my BearWear anywhere in the state because people recognize the bear and always have wonderful things to say. I can easily show my pride of Missouri State to other people and positions at work.”

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McCASKILL Continued from page 1 choice for the position.

“I am not against education choice as a concept, (but) I am against taking the cream off the top of the public school system’s students and resources,” McCaskill said. “For a number of communities, even those who supported Trump, their beating hearts are their public schools. I don’t think DeVos gets that.”

McCaskill was also questioned on the tricky topic of abortion. She answered by discussing an alternative solution.

“We all agree we want to prevent abortions,” McCaskill said. “But the number of abortions in the country is down.

The number of teenage pregnancies is also down. It’s not rocket science; it’s birth con-

trol. The only way I know how to increase the number of abortions is to not allow accessible birth control to every woman who wants it.”

McCaskill promised the crowd she would prioritize efforts to protect Missouri’s middle class after facing, what she described as, humbling election results.

“I’ve got my armor on. I am a fighter,” McCaskill said over applause.

McCaskill has been a long time hostess of public town halls for her representees since she began her time serving in the Senate in 2007.

According to a press release, she has covered over 1,000 miles of Missouri in 2014 for her last series, “McCaskill on Main Street.”

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Dem. Sen. Claire McCaskill answers an audience member’s question at the Old Glass Place on April 14.

Academia in record numbers Undergraduate research journal LOGOS receives record number of student submissions Asia Key Staff Reporter

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Sen. Claire McCaskill addresses the media.

A woman with a caterpillar-like scar inching from the base of her spine to the middle of her back adorns the cover of the most recent volume of LOGOS. The image depicts someone who has undergone surgery to correct her scoliosis, a curvature in her spine, and the photo was shot by an undergraduate student at MSU, Janeshae Henderson.

Henderson’s photo study titled “Permanent Fear” is a series of images of people who have been scarred by different types of trauma.

“Permanent Fear” is just one example of the research studies included in LOGOS, a journal that features undergraduate research from students at MSU. Dr. John Chuchiak birthed the idea for the journal back in 2007, when he was named one of the Rich and Doris Young Honors College professors. The publication is fully managed from within the Honors College and gives students of all disciplines the chance to elevate themselves professionally.

“My initial goal was to help to in-

crease interest and open new avenues for undergraduate publication on campus for everyone and to offer Honors College students to have the unique opportunity to gain experience in academic publishing and peer reviewed research while they were undergraduates,” Chuchiak, a history professor, said. “This is actually quite rare in U.S. universities, so I had hoped by the creation of LOGOS to offer our students this chance at getting more involved in undergraduate research.”

In the production cycle that has just concluded, LOGOS beat their record number of submissions, with a jump from 64 to 88.

Scott Handley, assistant director of the Honors College, was hired in 2010.

“At that time, we had just released volume three and were in preparations for volume four. Fall 2017, we’re gonna publish volume 10,” Handley said.

He said he is proud of how the publication has affected students within the program.

“To watch not only as the journal itself has grown, but also the organizers who have expanded and become more sophisticated in the things that they do to complete the process of publishing, is ex-

tremely rewarding,” Handley said.

Shannon Wick, the chief editor of LOGOS and senior professional writing major, said that with each passing year, the submissions become more varied across departments.

“In the past fall issue, we had poetry and a lot of art submissions,” Wick said.

“Someone submitted photographs of their sculptures, which is really cool. We had several photography submissions. One student figured out how to find the area of a star as an equation. Another student wrote about ‘Mary’ as a blasphemous term in Spanish and South American colonies. A lot of things were covered in this journal.”

Wick believes the most rewarding thing about reading this journal is learning new things from students like her because it makes her feel connected.

“I really like to see the new ideas that students bring to the table,” Wick said.

“I like to see what my fellow students are creating. Even though I might not know anything about it, it’s still pretty interesting. Reading about the different type of work our students are doing u See LOGOS, page 11

THE STANDARD THAAD DEPLOYMENT:

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Doing South Korea more harm than good Qiuyue Li Columnist @Holiday12058442 A national consumer boycott of South Korean products and businesses is happening in China right now. The ever-so-popular K-pop drama and variety shows have started to disappear from the public eye, which, as you can imagine, is a nightmare for so many Chinese fans, including me.

Since 2014, nearly half of South Korean tourists came from China, according to the Korean Tourism Organization. But there are fewer and fewer Chinese visitors in South Korea every day.

The drastic movement is caused by the deployment of a United States-made Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system in South Korea. With North Korea constantly carrying out nuclear tests, it has imposed serious threats on neighboring countries and international societies’ stability and security.

This system is what irritates me and a lot of Chinese citizens the most. THAAD is supposed to track and defend against North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missiles; its radar can peer deep into the territory of China and monitor its flights and missile launches, like a spy cam system in your neighbor’s backyard.

The system can extend to as far as 2,000 kilometers, which is far beyond the North Korea-China border, as The Korea Herald observed.

I fully support any country taking actions to protect its security and stability, but I do not think the deployment of THAAD is the right judgment because it is pursued at the expense of China.

Unfortunately, South Korea ignored China’s condemnations and objections. China has taken a total of 43 retaliatory actions against South Korea, including banning entertainers from

performing in China and executing stricter import rules on cosmetics and electronics, Yonhap News Agency reported.

The anti-Korean sentiment escalated to a new level after Lotte Group, the fifth-largest South Korean discount retailer, which operated 99 supermarkets in Chinese mainland, agreed to provide a golf course to host THAAD’s deployment in South Korea.

About 90 percent of the Lotte stores on the mainland have been shut down since February due to Beijing’s retaliation and patriotic Chinese protests outside Lotte stores. The sales damage to Lotte from February to April could mount to an estimated $1.75 billion, as The Korea Economic Daily observed.

It’s shocking to see how much China matters to South Korea. China is the biggest importer of South Korean exports, and more than a quarter of South Korea’s export revenue in 2016 came from China, according to the direction of trade statistics of International Monetary Fund.

As a result, if South Korea continues the installment of THAAD, it is bound to suffer from a chaotic economic depression.

To me, South Korea failed to see who their true friend and supporter is. I am more than skeptical of the South Korean-American alliance because, as I have experienced, America’s intervention in Asia, including the Korean peninsula, in the past and present makes me believe it tries to seek world hegemony.

The installment of THAAD not only destroys regional balance and stability, but it could also provoke a counterattack by North Korea against its neighbor. If so, South Korea has to ask for help from its staunch friend, China.

Before things get any worse, I sincerely hope South Korean leaders wake up, make fair corrections and avoid catastrophic damages.

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Why can’t we be friends?

Friendships in college versus high school Ally Gaither Columnist In life, we all have friends—people we can depend on and waste time with.

Some friends are really more like acquaintances who you are friends with because you see them on a regular basis; these are the friends you make in class when you all have no idea what is going on, but at least you’re suffering and failing the course together.

Other friends are fun to hang out with and you have a fun time, but you know that you cannot rely on them for anything.

Then there are the friends who would drop everything to help you out or even if you just needed someone to talk to, no questions asked.

Throughout the course of our lives, our friends are constantly changing, especially when we’re young. Friends change a lot just from high school to college.

In high school, it was surprisingly more difficult to make friends, or at least that’s the way it was for me.

You would think being in the

same building and the same classrooms five days a week for four years would make it easier to make friends. Unlike most people in college, people in high school are mean. They judge you for the dumbest things, and since you see each other every day, drama tends to stick around for a while.

In high school, you were judged and ridiculed for wearing your pajamas to school, unless it was pajama day. Whereas in college, the person seen wearing a unicorn onesie while riding a razor scooter to class is regarded as a wise, beautiful human being. There was too much judgment in high school. College is much more laid back.

Friendships in college tend to grow stronger more quickly than friendships in high school. It may be due to the lesser degree of judgment in college. It also probably has something to do with the independent lifestyle that comes with college, though. For many of us, this is the first time in our lives when we haven’t had someone else telling us where to

be and what to do, so we have the freedom to spend more time with people.

At this stage in life, people have a tendency to feel alone. Our age group is actually the most likely to report feelings of loneliness, according to my PSY 359: Theories of Social Psychology professor. We are finally on our own, and deep down, no matter how independent we try to be, that scares us to death. So, we spend all the time that we can with friends, that way we are never alone.

It is because of this need to feel like we belong that friendships in college are so strong. We bond over student debt and lack of sleep. We help each other out when it comes to studying, and we encourage each other to do well in our classes even when we know we’re failing.

Sometimes we make sure our friends eat because we know that they wouldn’t if we didn’t remind them. As college students, we are going through a lot and we need time to waste with friends who are always there for you.

Time ‘wasted’ with friends isn’t a waste at all.

The dating obsession Ali Spies Columnist @alicethespy In college, people are at this weird point in life where they aren’t really grown-ups yet, but they aren’t kids. It’s almost like a stand-still between high school and real life. Our problems are more intense than high school, yet they are still trivial compared to “adult” problems.

One of the biggest examples of this phenomenon I see all the time is dating. So many of my friends are stressing themselves out over dating and hooking up with boys. Pretty much everyone I know is on Tinder, and they spend their days swiping through the random people, trying to find individuals who like them.

In high school, all of my friends were obsessed with boys or girls or whomever they were into, and in college it’s

just on a bigger scale. Instead of the cute boy who looked at you in the lunch line, it’s the hot guy that offered you a drink at the party. Even though the environment is different, the situation is the same.

When I think of adulthood, I think of being married, settled down, secure in my finances and life, but right now, I’m so far away from that. I think most people in college are, too.

There are those people in serious relationships; they were there in high school, and now they’re the people who get engaged before they graduate.

That’s great for them, but that’s not my norm.

I’m starting to realize that adult life might not be that different from college life and even high school life. Maybe I’ve been watching too many “Sex and the City” re-runs, but I’m starting to think adults have the same exact high school crushes and college

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hookups that students have now. Although, I still wonder what Carrie Bradshaw’s life would have been with Tinder in it.

I don’t understand why everyone’s lives revolve around dating, though. It seems like most conversations my friends and I have, no matter what

gender, always lead back to that. It’s not like I’m innocent from this at all, but I just wonder why dating dominates so many of our lives. Especially because of how media portrays couples, it seems like a relationship is the end-all be-all goal in life. I honestly think that is stupid.

Some of my friends are so obsessed with dating, they let it run their lives. They get dressed every day in hopes of seeing “him” even though who “him” is changes every week.

I just wish my friends would calm down and focus on themselves, rather than how others (especially guys) see them. My

friends are amazing, but don’t see it when they are just getting left-swiped.

I think that everyone should focus less on dating and impressing others, and focus more on being true to themselves and their friends — this is what I am going to start doing.

Campus Chat: Q of the Week What was the highlight of your spring holiday?

“Taking a well-deserved nap after starting two papers.”

Rachel Kramer, senior English education major

“The mimosas I drank after I worked all weekend.”

Mekahlia Jones, junior English literature major

“Being able to sleep a ton and watch T.V. guilt-free.”

David Iacob, junior English and creative writing major

“I finished Horizon Zero Dawn.”

Femila Manoj, sophomore microbiology major

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Robert Debbaut Nicole Roberts Editor-in-Chief @NReneeRoberts Standing on a podium in the middle of a large stage, white baton in hand, Robert Debbaut guides the orchestra through multiple compositions, his arms moving with the tempo of the music. As the music swells, his arm movements become more exaggerated, moving with the growing sound, the passion behind the baton shining through.

This passion has developed over decades. Debbaut, an MSU alumnus, said he remembers conducting when he was four or five years old while hearing an orchestra play on a record.

“I had never seen an orchestra live; I had never seen a conductor, and I picked up a pencil and started waving my arms,” Debbaut said, going on to describe how he started practicing trumpet when he was about nine years old.

It wasn’t until high school when Debbaut decided to pursue music in college.

Debbaut attended Parkview High School in Springfield and said his music director, James Norman, offered seniors the chance to conduct a four to five-minute piece of music. Debbaut’s junior year, there was little interest in conducting the band, so Debbaut stepped up and asked to conduct.

While most students picked popular pieces or marches that were easy to conduct, Debbaut picked “Elsa’s Processions to the Cathedral” by Richard Wagner. He said after he conducted this piece, Norman complemented his conducting.

Debbaut attended Southwest Missouri State University, now Missouri State University, and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in music education in 1979.

He went on to receive a master’s degree in music at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a doctoral degree in music arts at the University of Michigan.

While at the University of Michigan, he became the first American conductor to be Fellow in Conducting.

Debbaut described himself as a “music junkie,” and while attending SMSU, he was involved in several music activities, such as playing in the local orchestra, the marching band and at Tent Theater.

He said his time in Springfield influenced his conducting career because he had professors who were schooled at

Seasoned conductor began training at Missouri State major music schools. His trumpet lesson professors, Richard Norment and James Elswick, held him to high standards, which Debbaut thought helped push him to better himself and his playing abilities.

“Their high standards were considered too high by some here in provincial Springfield, but I responded to their demands, practiced a lot and studied hard,” he said. “I would not be where I am now without Richard and Jim and their high standards of excellence, as well as their encouragement and support, both personal and professional.”

Debbaut said one thing he wishes SMSU would have done was push him a little harder.

“College is not a womb,” he said.

“When you come to college, you are an adult. College needs to be, yes, nurturing, but … I wish people had kicked me in the butt more.”

Since his days at SMSU, Debbaut became a freelance conductor and started working as a licensed insurance producer for the state of Missouri. He has traveled all over the world, conducting famous symphonies. Some of the places he has conducted in are: China, Russia,

Ukraine, Canada, Poland and Guatemala.

His proudest moment was when he conducted a symphony by Antonin Dvorak, a Czech composer, at the Rudolfinum in Prague, Czech Republic.

Debbaut said he hopes to one day conduct the Chicago Symphony and that’s been his dream since college.

“Early on, I gained a huge respect for the Chicago Symphony,” he said. “When you would hear the Chicago Symphony … you would hear an incredible brass sound, and to match that sound was an equally incredible string sound that had to be loud enough that it could deal with the tremendous sound of the brass.”

He said even though he has conducted several compositions, his favorite one will always be “the next one.”

Debbaut credits composers Igor Stravinsky and Ludwig van Beethoven as influences on his career. He said he has several pieces of advice for young musician, including working hard, practicing the extra hour, acknowledging mistakes and having higher standards. He also emphasized that students listen more and u See DEBBAUT, page 9

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Robert Debbaut conducts musicians at Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City in 1992.

Get your hunting certification

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The lead hunter education instructor at the Nature Center, Allen Reed, talks about certification.

Mike Volding Staff Reporter @MiketheKid65 Spring is finally here, and for some people that means their thoughts travel to the weather warming up and the trees blossoming. There are others that hear the word “spring” and think of hunting season.

For Missouri, spring turkey season is finally here. The spring season began on April 17 and will end on May 7.

According to the Missouri Conservation website, by law, in order to hunt in Missouri, all hunters who were born on or after Jan. 1, 1967, who are are 16 years or older, or who want to hunt alone must complete the hunter education certification.

The first step to becoming certified is to complete a hunter certification course. This can be accomplished in two ways: there is an online course, or a course is taught at a local conservation center.

For residents of Springfield, the Springfield Conservation Nature Center offers a four-hour study session course that will have a classroom feel to it. In the study session, those interested in hunting will be shown videos and they will go over the chapters in the hunter handbook.

If you don’t have time to take the study session, there is an online version that a person is able to take at his or her own pace. The online section is split up into the different chapters of the hunter handbook. The only drawback to the online course is that there is a one-time fee of $15, while the session taught by the Springfield Nature Center is

free.

Once a person has completed the knowledge portion of the course, they must attend a skills session to complete the certification process. In Springfield, the next skills session will be held on Saturday, July 8 at the Springfield Conservation Nature Center.

Allen Reed, the lead hunter education instructor at the Nature Center, talked about what happens during the skills session.

“The skills session allows people to get hands-on experience,” Reed said. “We have firearms that are made for the sole purpose of demonstrations, meaning that the firing pins have been taken out, and the gunpowder has been removed.”

Reed said that people in these sessions will learn how to safely handle and load different types of firearms, along with learning about the types of ammunition.

This gives people an overview of the different types of actions and ammunition they will encounter in the preparation of the hunt.

At the end of the skills session, students are given a test which they must get an 80 percent on to pass and become hunter certified.

Bryan Porter, a junior cell and molecular biology major, said he thought the course was helpful.

“The skills session was pretty generic; they showed us how to safely handle and load the gun,” Porter said. “I think this course is very beneficial for people to learn how to safely handle firearms.”

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SPRING CONCERT 2017

A look into planning by Student Activities Council Zak Baldwin Staff Trainee @ZKBaldwin Student Activities Council is gearing up for the annual spring concert at Missouri State on April 19.

Grace Murray, concerts committee chair for SAC, took the lead planning and executing the spring concert for Missouri State students and local Springfield residents.

“Grace, the current chair, really plays a big role in help-

ing out our committee,” Mitchell Canada, sophomore biology major, said.

Canada, who is a part of the concerts committee in SAC, assists Murray, along with the other six committee members, with the spring concert.

The planning for the spring concert starts early, usually around early November. Surveys are given out to Missouri State students with artists from different genres.

This helps narrow down which genre students want to see, as well as specific artists.

“We took the results from what the campus wanted and saw what the taste was,” Murray, junior entertainment management major, said. “We used those results, and then from there we do a lot of direct communication with our middle booker.”

A middle booker is the middle-man between agents and the respective venue. For SAC, Batco Entertainment is the main communication between Murray and the artists’ agent.

To book an artist, some details are needed, so Murray

can ask for a sheet of “avails,” a compact list of all the artists that are available for the spring concert.

“Here is our budget, and then, here is what date we would like,” Murray said.

“And then if we could see artists available for that day in the rap, alternative, country, electronic and pop genre, (Batco Entertainment) will send us a large list email, giving all the artists available in those genres on that day and what their prices are.”

After viewing the sheet of avails, references go out for

the artists that have played at other universities. This is used to help determine how a potential show might run at Missouri State with a specific artist. After the lengthy process of references, SAC decides by vote who they want to see come to Missouri State.

“This year, specifically, we mostly just did (the vote) through (SAC executive board) because we had our All-Council fill out the survey, so their opinions were included,” Murray said.

SAC finalized their choice

in artists to D.R.A.M and Hoodie Allen after all variables were considered.

“One thing that’s really cool about this show (is) it’s a co-headlining show,” Murray said. “They each get equal sets, and that was one thing we really liked in the decision-making process because, though they are the same genre of artists, they kind of cover multiple bases on campus.”

After a decision is made,

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Eggstravaganza!

The Foster Recreation Center sponsored an egg hunt to start off Spring Holiday

Katie Haynes Staff Reporter @JournalistKatie

There is much to be celebrated when springtime comes around: spring holidays, plants in bloom and the many festivals around Springfield. With spring in the air, it can be a fun, yet stressful time with the end of the school year approaching.

This can include graduation, preparation to get ready to go home for the summer, or even get a summer job. To combat this added stress on students, events still take place in the spring semester, but maybe not as many as the fall semester.

So, what exactly does Missouri State offer when it comes to spring events? This year, for the first time, the Eggstravaganza took place in the Bill R.

Foster and Family Recreation Center, offering a fun hunt for eggs in exchange for some various prizes.

The day seemed to be a regular day at the recreation center: students using the workout equipment, the basketball courts occupied by matches between friends, and students using the indoor pool.

What really set the day apart was a booth by the entrance with prizes lining behind them, which hung a sign that read “Eggstravaganza.”

Curious and competitive students participated in the first ever Eggstravaganza to search for plastic eggs throughout the levels of the FRC, all in fun of the Easter holiday. The eggs placed strategically allowed for students to collect five eggs (maximum) in exchange for

prizes provided by the recreation center. Angela Porcelli, the event planner and a graduate assistant in applied communication studies, elaborates on why the event was created in the first place, and what it can offer to students.

“We started this for the first time this year because we felt that there were not as many events in the spring as there are in the fall,” Porcelli said.

“With this event, this allows for people to come into the facility, get familiar and win a couple cool prizes.”

Most of the prizes were focused on what the recreation center can offer through their facility. Some of these prizes include gift cards to events through the recreation center, recreation center swag, and Insomnia Cookies donated a

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Students participated in the Foster Recreation Center’s egg hunt on April 11. box of cookies to assist in the event.

As important as it is to focus on the planning of the event, students who participated seemed to have a good time while keeping the prizes in

mind. Emily Wilson, junior finance major, said the experience for her started after hearing about the gifts in exchange for the eggs.

“I’ve gotten two eggs so far, so that makes me pretty hap-

py,” Wilson said. “What really drove me to this event was all of the prizes they were offering. I would definitely attend this event again.”

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SHEPARD: A DEEPER, EXCITING LOOK INTO THE ‘TRIAL OF THE CENTURY’ Sarah Shepard Staff Reporter “The People vs. O.J. Simpson,” the first season release of a new true crime TV series

by FX, “American Crime Story,” which was recently released on Netflix, has won both critics and the public with its dramatizing of the “trial of the century” from the 1990s.

The miniseries features 10 episodes that follow the entire 1996 O.J. Simpson trial from start to finish.

In 1994, NFL star O.J. Simpson, played

by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the miniseries, was tried for the murder of his wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend, Ron Goldman. While the evidence pointed to Simpson, he ended up being acquitted.

The series does touch on the crime itself, but the hard hitter is the focus on the effects around the nation. With present racial tensions running high, the issues covered in the miniseries are still relevant.

Tensions between police officers and African-Americans are still seen around the country, both in the media and at the local level.

With the relatively recent deaths of African-American teenagers by police officers, many are skeptical of police. “The People vs.

O.J. Simpson” shows the effects of the trial and how the media’s portrayal played a part in the trial.

The series stars Sarah Paulson as Marcia Clark, the primary prosecuting attorney, and Courtney B. Vance as Johnnie Cochran, the famous “dream team” defense lead. Vance accurately portrays Cochran’s larger-than-life presence both in the courtroom and out, but Paulson is the true star of the show. Her portrayal of Clark makes you care for her character and her cause.

In just 10 one-hour-long episodes, the entire story was told. The writers focused quite a bit on the side characters of the case, including Rob Kardashian, played by “Friends” David Schwimmer. Writers Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski and Jeffrey Toobin crafted characters that you can connect with. Unlike the media portrayal of the prosecuting and defense attorneys, the series made an attempt to create realistic and believable people rather than just stock characters.

Because everyone already knows the outcome of the court case and trial, something else has to keep viewers hooked; it can’t be the story itself, so it has to be the way the production team tells the story.

With its refreshing cinematography and its

unique focus on the characters themselves instead of the proceedings of the courtroom, audience members become invested in the story lines of fiction based on reality.

“The People vs. O.J. Simpson” is one of many recent television shows to model their storylines after realistic events; others based loosely off of true events include, “The Crown,” a drama that focuses on the life of Queen Elizabeth II, and “Narcos,” a crime series that follows Pablo Escobar, a Colombian drug lord. Both were released by Netflix within the last two years.

“The People vs. O.J. Simpson” remains relatively unbiased, making an attempt to tell both sides of the story. The fact that no outright or overwhelmingly definite decision was, or will ever be made, regarding Simpson’s innocence was depicted well in the series. As a viewer, you are constantly questioning both sides. The production team successfully creates the doubtful mood that will keep you watching.

While Simpson was found not guilty of the two murders, he did end up in prison in 2008 for 12 counts, including kidnapping, assault, robbery, burglary and conspiracy.

According to Fox News, Simpson is eligible for parole on Oct. 1, 2017, so a hearing will most likely occur sometime in July. If

“The People v. O.J. Simpson” parole is granted, he will be released from prison by fall 2017, but if he is denied, he could be in prison until 2022.

Skaar: ‘The Night Ocean’ is slightly dry, but good as a gift Chloe Skaar Staff Reporter @chloeskaar Have you ever imagined reading a book about your favorite author’s darkest and most damning secrets?

Have you ever imagined writing one?

Paul La Farge experienced the variety of emotions that come with composing this kind of project while writing his fifth book, “The Night Ocean.”

It tells the story of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft’s controversial and mysterious friendship with the openly gay 16-year-old Robert Barlow during the summer of 1934.

Many of Lovecraft’s fans, even today, speculate at the two-month period that Lovecraft lived with Barlow’s family in Florida that summer.

There is a large knowledge gap as to why the two were such close friends and how they filled their time.

La Farge uses complex characters and a psychological perspective to layer his fictitious characters with the historic events of Lovecraft and Barlow’s friendship.

“The Night Ocean” by Paul la Farge Brilliant psychiatrist Marina Willett narrates the story, which begins with her husband, Charlie, disappearing from a hospital in what is deemed a suicide. Marina is not convinced.

Her hunting for hints about her

husband’s disappearance leads the story into Charlie’s obsession with Lovecraft and his endeavors. La Farge implements this obsession into his character to introduce his research and the historical element of the story.

Charlie becomes infatuated with the odd relationship of Lovecraft and Barlow, which La Farge said was a reflection of his own interest in Lovecraft that began at a young age.

“I was cautious about how to write the story,” La Farge said. “I didn’t know if the secret love life of Lovecraft would be enthralling past the initial thrill. I tried to write it as an interesting idea to explore. What would happen if someone asked the question? How would others try to answer it?”

“The Night Ocean” and all its oddities is reviewed as La Farge’s most successful book.

La Farge said he was floored by the response to his book; he regarded it as a strange story even while writing it and imagined the public would, too.

“My thought was, this is kind of

a weird book,” said la Farge. “I had always imagined a novel about the mystery between Lovecraft and Barlow, but I thought it would alienate some readers because Lovecraft fans would object to tales of his sexuality and most other readers might not care about the story.” la Farge said, for this reason, the majority of his readers had strong responses to the book; incredibly intrigued or put off from skepticism on the focus of Lovecraft’s sexuality. He said if Lovecraft were alive today to read it, he would likely agree with the latter.

“Lovecraft would be horrified and outraged at this book,” la Farge said.

“But that’s the thing about being a dead public figure; people can kind of take liberty with what they learn about your life.” la Farge, who said he fell in love with Lovecraft’s work at age 10 or 11, got the inspiration for taking liberty with Lovecraft’s story when a fellow fan, Robert Kelly, first disclosed with him the mystery of the summer of 1934.

“I thought it would be a great idea

for a novel,” La Farge said. “A way for me to revisit my childhood infatuation with Lovecraft but with deeper material because of Barlow’s fascination and life’s sorrow. Lovecraft’s place in my imagination has changed and his place in the public’s imagination has as well.”

La Farge tells his story with careful detail and precision. His extensive research is apparent, from numerous names and dates to the full recollection of exact conversations.

I am suggesting you give “The Night Ocean” as a gift because of the excruciating detail which showed me parts of the book may be a bit dry for college-aged readers. But, any history-loving relative would be hooked by the mystery La Farge introduces in the first sentence and stretches to the book’s last words.

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ROUSSEAU TO RETURN MEN’S HOOPS’ MVC TITLE CHANCES IMPROVE WITH THE RETURN OF POINT GUARD

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Ronnie Rousseau III will return after missing most of last season.

Missouri State men’s basketball took another step towards being the Missouri Valley favorites for next season with the return of their point guard.

Bears head coach Paul Lusk announced Thursday that junior guard Ronnie Rousseau III will return to the team for his senior season after sitting out the majority of last season for personal reasons.

“I’ll continue to say that he’s a young man who did absolutely zero wrong on or off the floor,” Lusk said. “He went through some things, and it was tough to see him go through those things.”

Rousseau stepped away from the team on Jan. 7, just three games into the conference season for the men’s basketball team.

Lusk said that the Bears were in constant communication with Rousseau as he stayed with his family in Cincinnati. He said the door was always open for a Rousseau return and he and the team are excited for him to be back.

“We embraced him and supported him,” Lusk said. “Basketball was the furthest thing from mind. He’s doing great. We’ve seen him

a couple times. He wants to be here. Everyone is on board with him coming back. We’re really excited.”

According to Lusk, Rousseau will be back with the team during the summer session and attend summer school. He will be eligible immediately.

Rousseau is a junior college transfer from State Fair Community College in Sedalia.

When Rousseau was on the court during the 2016-17 season, he averaged 11.6 points per game. He averaged 27.1 minutes per game while also starting in 14 of the 14 games he played in.

The Bears were 11-5 leading up to Rousseau’s decision to leave the team on Jan. 7, before Missouri State’s home game against Southern Illinois. They were 7-12 after the announcement.

“I just think he helps,” Lusk said. “He’s a guy that stirs the drink. We were playing really good basketball (with him). I don’t know if we ever found ourselves after he left the team.

“He’s a point guard, and I think he can do multiple things. He has a tremendous attitude.

We know about his work ethic. He’s really dedicated to getting better, and he brings people with him.”

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Abdul-Hakim Fofana posts up a player while at Dakota College at Bottineau.

Lusk adds another Newcomer of the Year?

Mike Volding Staff Reporter @MiketheKid65 With two signees from the last two classes winning MVC Newcomer of the Year, Bears head coach Paul Lusk is hoping for another repeat performance.

Missouri State men’s basketball finished the day with two players signing national letters of intent to play with the Bears in the 201718 season.

The Bears signed two players from junior colleges, freshman Abdul-Hakim Fofana out of Burkina Faso, West Africa and fifth-year transfer James “J.T.” Miller from Howard University.

During November’s early signing period, the Bears signed three additional players in freshman Mustafa Lawrence out of Newark New Jersey, freshman Darian Scott out of Las Vegas, Nevada, and freshman Reggie Scurry out of Atlanta, Georgia.

“This has been a great day for Missouri State basketball.” Lusk said. “You win the recruiting battles, but you have to go and win games.

“We believe that these guys that we signed today will help us do just that.”

Lusk said that one thing that he liked about this signing class is that “we finally got older,” adding some seniors to the locker room will be nothing but beneficial.

Abdul-Hakim Fofana

Fofana is a 6-foot-6-inch redshirt freshman

forward who transferred from Dakota College in Bottneau, North Dakota. He was described as a “freak of an athlete” by his junior college coach, Brock Lemon.

Is his first season at Dakota College, Fofana averaged 15.4 points and 11.8 rebounds per game.

In 2017, he earned All-Mon Dak Conference honors while also earning NJCAA All-Region XIII honors.

The redshirt freshman spent his first year in the U.S. at Houston Community College, which does not have a basketball program, making him eligible to transfer after his first full season at a junior college.

“Abdul’s story is just phenomenal of how he got into the states,” Lusk said. “And to get someone that has three years of eligibility left is a positive for us.

“He has a huge upside, and he is a servant, there is not an ounce of entitlement; I believe that he will be a good addition for us.”

James “J.T.” Miller

Miller is a 6-foot-4-inch senior guard who transferred from Howard University in Washington, D.C. Miller had been a key player on the Howard University campus for the past four years.

He was second on the team in scoring during the 2016-17 season, averaging 14.7 points per game.

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Austin Ruder (left) and Chris Kendrix (right) will leave the men’s hoops team.

Kendrix, Ruder to transfer Blaine Wheeler Staff Reporter @blainewheeler21 Missouri State basketball announced junior Chris Kendrix and redshirt junior Austin Ruder will transfer. The two players who averaged a little less than 13 minutes per game last season announced their departure just before junior college transfers Abdul-Hakim Fofana and J.T Miller signed their letters of intent to Missouri State.

Head coach of the Bears, Paul Lusk, said that there are times where you are surprised by guys transferring out, but this time, it wasn’t that way.

“Sometimes that you maybe anticipate that,” Lusk said. “I think from our staff perspective we probably anticipated some of this.”

6-foot-5-inch Kendrix has seen a decline in average minutes over his last three years as a Bear. Kendrix was a three star all-state recruit out of Willard High School, 11 miles from Springfield.

After arriving in Springfield just three seasons ago Kendrix finished just outside the program’s Top 15 freshmen in scoring and started the last 15 games his freshman year. A year later, in Hendrix’s sophomore season, he was named to the MVC Most-Improved Team and ranked third in scoring among underclassmen in the Missouri Valley.

According to Lusk, Kendrix told him at the end of last season that he planned on transferring after starting just one game and playing 20 or more minutes in only eight games this

season. In those eight games, Kendrix combined an average of 12 points per game, the same as the season before.

3-point specialist Ruder is from down the road as well. Ruder attended Nixa High school and was ranked the No. 7 3-point shooter in the 2013 class. Ruder was a Class 5 Consensus All-State selection and earned All-Tournament honors at the Bass Pro Tournament of Champions a year before Kendrix played in it at JQH Arena. The two were the only players left on the Missouri State roster from the Springfield area.

In Ruder’s freshman season, he earned MVC All-Freshman team honors after hitting the most 3’s by a freshman in school history and third best by a freshman in MVC history.

In the same rookie season, Ruder started 32 of 33 games while leading the Bears in minutes per game averaging just under 30 minutes per while averaging 8.6 points a game. Ruder kept the same pace his sophomore year and early in his junior season until he missed the last 27 games of the season.

On Feb. 2016 Ruder underwent successful hip surgery after just 5 games into his junior season. This season, Ruder started in seven games, after starting 32 and 25 his freshman and sophomore year, and averaged 13.4 minutes per game after averaging 29.7 and 31.2 his freshman and sophomore year. In his final and fifth year of eligibility, Ruder is getting his degree in Accounting.

Lusk said that he has granted the two players full release and he wishes them all the best.

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Why don’t students go to games?

Cortlynn Stark Staff Reporter @Cortlynn_Stark Missouri State University’s football team is the most well-attended sport on campus.

This may surprise some students, but it’s true.

On September 13, 2014, they played North Dakota and 18,386 people watched the Bears topple the Fighting Hawks 38-0.

In the 2015-2016 season, they averaged about 10,000 people each home game. However, football is widely considered one of the least-attended sports.

It’s no secret that Missouri State University has an attendance problem. Freshman radiography major Morgan Engel said she wishes more students would go.

“I wish student attendance would increase because the more people that come, the more fun it is, and I feel like it allows the teams to do better because they have more support,” Engel said.

On April 11, she went to MSU’s baseball game at Hammons Field.

“When I attended the baseball game against Arkansas they were giving away free tickets, shirts, and other little things, which encouraged me to go,” Engel said.

Athletic Director Kyle Moats said that student attendance at games is something the office is constantly working on.

“That’s something we work on all the time,” Moats said. “We have our marketing folks who are working on it, we have Maroon Madness who works on that, the Traditions Council is working on that and we have our individual teams who work on that. We have a lot of individual resources working on it to improve attendance every year.”

Statistics on attendance can be found on the Missouri State Bears athletics website.

“As a freshman, I feel games are not very well attended,” Engel said.

“I always see a lot of empty seats when I attend games or other events.”

Football, for instance, averaged 11,665 in attendance in the 2014 season, topping the following year.

But in 1996, they averaged over 13,000 for home games. In 1997, they averaged.

In the meantime, Robert W. Plaster Stadium was renovated — more stadium seats were added, but attendance continued to drop.

Men’s soccer, on the other hand, averaged 493 people for home games in the 2016 season. While this number is considerably lower than 18,000, they also play in a smaller stadium.

“We play in a really cool spot; we’ve got a nice stadium, and it’s real central to campus,” head men’s soccer coach Jon Leamy, who’s in his 26th year coaching at MSU, said.

One problem Moats addressed is that students and athletes often be-

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This Bears fan went to a football game. He watches on sadly as the Bears lose to NDSU in 2016. come part of separate groups.

“You have to engage the students,” Moats said. “Students want our basketball players to know that they really are students; they’re not this some untouchable thing.”

But students show up to men’s soccer for one main reason — engagement.

“If you can just engage, if you

can walk down the street and smile and just not be that person that has the headphones on and staring at a phone and missing life,” Leamy said.

“If you can just be a good person and engage sometimes, I think that goes a long way, and I think that’s more important for an athlete than anybody sometimes.”

Men’s soccer also often helps out

special events like fundraising for students with cancer or simply supporting events put on by other campus groups.

“When we have a chance to do something or interact with our campus community, it’s just awesome, it’s a great thing,” Leamy said.

Be Still: Bears rebound after dropping three straight

breakout week.

The freshman, who was chosen by www.D1Baseball.com to be the Missouri Valley Freshman of the Year before the season, went 8-for-14 with five RBIs in the three games against New Mexico.

Senior outfielder Blake Graham also enjoyed a good weekend in New Mexico as he doubled his home run total from two to four.

Sophomore shortstop Jeremy Eierman continued his dominance by tying a career-high four hits in a single game during Missouri State’s Saturday win. One of the hits left the park for his thirteenth home run of the season.

Missouri State will go to Columbia for a midweek battle with Mizzou starting at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

The Bears will return home to take on Missouri Valley rival (for now) ,Wichita State, for a weekend series starting on Friday.

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Coming off of a series sweep over Missouri Valley powerhouse Dallas Baptist, the Bears were looking unstoppable.

Until they were stopped. And they were hit hard.

Missouri State (22-13, 6-0) was outscored 38-17 in three straight losses after coming up with three straight wins.

The Bears lost to Arkansas (12-4) in a midweek game at Hammons Field, and they went on to lose the first two games of a weekend series in New Mexico on Thursday (17-8) and Friday (9-5).

Junior pitcher Doug Still wasn’t going to let them lose a fourth straight game.

Still gave the Bears their top pitching performance of the season by throwing a complete game shutout in Missouri State’s Saturday 8-0 win over New Mexico.

BAILEY VASSALLI/THE STANDARD The junior pitcher went the disThe Bears played against St. Loutance while only allowing five hits Jeremy Eierman attempts to turn a double play during MSU’s game against Arkansas. is on Monday night in a game that and one walk. He retired 18 of the concluded too late for this edition. final 21 New Mexico batters he faced.

The last Missouri State shutout the Huskies on the very same field in Although the Bears went 1-3 on The complete game shutout was the came on Feb. 22, 2014 against North- New Mexico the last time it hap- the week, freshman outfielder Jack ern Illinois. The Bears were playing pened.

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‘This weekend will make us more determined’ Softball wins one, drops the next two before Wichita State series teams in the Missouri Valley Conference throughout the game, as she focused mainly on pitching to contact.

“It’s amazing having such a good After using solid pitching and defense behind me,” Beason said. fielding to dominate Game 1 of Fri- “I’m not really a strikeout pitcher, so day’s doubleheader against Evans- just knowing that I have a solid deville, the Missouri State softball team fense behind me gives me more confaltered and lost the second two fidence. I know that if they put the games of the series to the Aces. ball in play, my defense will make In Game 1, junior pitcher Kaitlin the play.”

Beason pitched seven flawless inBeason entered Friday’s contest as one of the ERA leaders in the MVC, and she outdueled Evansville’s Morgan Florey. Florey is the strikeout leader in the Valley, but the Bears were able to manufacture a run off Florey in the first inning.

Junior outfielder Erika Velasquez Zimmer walked to leadoff the game, successfully stole second base and eventually scored on a wild pitch by Florey. The run in the first would be the only offense until the sixth inning.

In the sixth, Beason helped her cause as she successfully laid down a suicide squeeze to give the Bears a 2-0 lead. Evansville would score once in the top of the seventh, but Beason would close the door on the comeback and secure the victory.

Coming into this weekend series, the Bears ranked in the top three in the MVC in pitching, hitting and NINA TODEA/THE STANDARD fielding. In Game 2 of the series, MSU struggled in all three facets of Hailee Vigneaux the game. nings, allowing just one run on on Junior pitcher Holly Kelley startsix hits while striking out three. Bea- ed the first inning off with a walk. son relied on one of the best defensive The walk was followed by an error Alec McChesney Staff Reporter @Alec_McChesney

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Elena Gambill takes a big swing during matchup against Evansville. and consecutive base knocks by the Aces. Before the Bears had a chance to bat, they trailed 3-0.

Kelley settled down as the game went on to pitch a masterful seven inning game. But, the Bears offense didn’t muster a hit until the fifth inning, scoring just one run on the afternoon.

After little offense by both teams in the doubleheader, the Game 3 rubber match saw 10 total runs and plenty of offense.

The Aces would hit two home runs in the early going and jump to a 6-1 lead. That lead would stay pat all the way till the bottom of the sixth inning, when the Bears started their comeback.

Senior third baseman Bethany Sullinger led the inning off with a

triple; Beason laced a single to right field to bring her in.

The Bears loaded the bases and added two more runs in the inning to cut the deficit to 6-4.

In the seventh inning, the Bears, once again, threatened the Aces by putting runners on second and third with just one out. MSU would come up short in their comeback as Evansville held off the Bears to win the series.

“A game like that is always a good game to be a part of...It sucks to come out on the losing end of it, but it just proves that we are not a quitting team,” Velasquez Zimmer said. “Every single one of these girls believes in each other, and I am proud of every one of these girls.”

After the weekend, the Bears are

now 21-15 overall and 9-6 in the MVC. A season ago, the Bears won just 22 total games. Now, they are on the verge of surpassing that in the coming games.

“All of our attitudes have been completely different this year and team chemistry has been amazing,” Velasquez Zimmer said.

Next weekend, MSU will make their last ever conference game trip to Wichita State. The Shockers are currently in first place and will prove to be a difficult matchup for the Bears.

“This weekend will just make us more determined,” Velasquez Zimmer said. “Wichita is always a big series for us. We love to beat Wichita,, and we have to prove ourselves in the Valley once again.”

PRESIDENT SMART HOLDS TOWN HALL BUDGET CUT MEETING

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Earlier this year, Gov. Eric Grietens announced a $146 million budget cut, most of which would be coming from higher education and transportation, according to STL Today.

On Monday, April 10, President Clif Smart held a Town Hall meeting to discuss how the Springfield campus would balance the $7.5 million cut to its budget and to receive input from staff and community members on how to go forward.

The meeting was divided into three parts. The first 30 minutes was dedicated to explaining the deficit and how the

first $6.87 million would be resolved through tuition increases and non-academic and provost resources.

For Missouri residents, tuition would increase 2.1. percent, along with all other public universities in the state, parallel to the Consumer Price Index for the upcoming year.

This, along with a 4.2 percent increase in tuition rates for outof-state residents, would accumulate roughly $3.4 million, leaving a little over $4 million to balance.

The next $2.8 million would be coming from non-academic and provost resources.

This includes 20 open positions eliminated, reduction in payroll expenses by about $685,000, one less day of the

Public Affairs Conference and the elimination of funding for the Center for Community Engagement. Summer Commencement will also be cut after this upcoming summer season.

According to two faculty members, the cuts made were reasonable and expected. Associate Registrar Rebecca Harbaugh said she had been keeping up-to-date with the cuts and wasn’t surprised.

“I thought President Smart explained the non-academic budget clearly, and the areas for the cuts seemed reasonable,” Harbaugh said.

Associate Professor Aida Hass agreed that the changes wouldn’t affect her directly in the workforce.

“None of those things seemed to be of tremendous significance to me, personally,” Hass said.

The second part of the meeting was dedicated to explaining four scenarios committee members produced to clear the remaining $1.2 million. Smart proposed decreasing the online course incentive program; doing so could potentially lower the deficit to $260,000.

The program currently gives online course instructors $55 per student that enrolls.

The scenarios Smart proposed included lowering the charge to $40, further to $30, taking the full deficit somewhere else in the colleges or finding a new solution altogether. According

to Smart, about a third of employees benefit from the online incentive program.

Hass is one of these instructors that currently benefits from the stipend. She currently teaches two online courses per semester in the Criminology department.

“If the program was reduced to $30 per student, it would cut my pay by about $2,000,” Hass said.

However, according to other employees like Harbaugh, the cuts to the program would be both unfortunate but reasonable.

“The scenarios were reasonable based on the proposed deficit,” Harbaugh said. “My husband is a faculty member, so I see both sides.”

At the end of the meeting, Smart had the 300 attendees take a poll asking which solution the audience thought was the most favorable. Over half of the attendees were staff and faculty. Of these, 123 votes were in favor of dropping the rate to $30 per enrolled student while 102 votes favored $40.

Regardless of which scenario, if any, will be chosen, there was no mention of where the remaining deficits would be taken from. According to Smart, the Executive Budget Committee will take into account the results from the poll and make a recommendation to the Board of Governors for the 2017-18 budget.

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HUNTER Continued from page 4 If you want to hunt this season, but don’t have the time to take the tests or attend the skills session, there is a temporary alternative to taking the test. If you are hunting with a person who is already a licensed hunter, then that qualifies you to receive an apprentice hunters licence.

But this license is only temporary. A person can have it for one year before they have to go through the hunter certification process.

Hunting season is here, so for those of you who want to hunt this season, make sure you have completed all of the steps to become certified.

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Allen Reed, the lead hunter education instructor at the Nature Center, showed some basics of gun safety.

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Robert Debbaut talked about his years in school learning about music and the following years when he conducted around the world.

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understand that music cannot be “self-absorbing.”

“If you’re sitting in a band or orchestra and you’re only listening to yourself, nothing will improve,” he said. “Music, society is all about community, working together.

Music always requires listening, listening deeply to what someone is doing, knowing when you need to be in the background so that this person can shine, which is generosity. It’s what people have to do. Sometimes you have to be in the background to let this person shine and carefully listen to them to help bolster them up.”

Segio Pallottelli is the artist teacher at Longy School of Music of Bard College in Boston and was a former student of Debbaut. Pallottelli graduated from the University of Utah, where Debbaut was the director of orchestras, and has continued on with his music career, performing around the world, just like his director.

Pallotelli said Debbaut made the orchestra feel like a family and that having a

tough, but passionate teacher influenced him as a young musician. He said there is a huge competition in the field, which can be discouraging to young musicians.

“You don’t have this clear vision of what you’re going to do once you’re out of school, so having a teacher everyday, even at that young age, to tell you everyday that you can do it … It was a major influence for all of us.”

Pallotelli said he remembers Debbaut’s reading that a director should lead by example, which Pallotelli thinks Debbaut did.

“He led by example, and as the semester went by, we saw that it wasn’t just smoke.

This guy wasn’t just doing this for classroom teaching, it was who he is,” Pallotelli said. “For us, basically still in school, seeing that our teacher was truly living what he preaches because of his passion was major.”

Waving his baton while on the podium, Debbaut watches the young musicians he is influencing, guiding them through the music.

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CONCERT Continued from page 4 SAC reaches out to the artists and make an offer. If accepted, SAC will then get into “the nitty-gritty” of the artist’s contracts and what they will need to perform the show at Missouri State.

SAC then goes through the process of “production procurement.”

This is the process of production where companies bid to work the event, covering all necessities SAC will need the day of the show.

Once production is covered, contracts and hospitality needs are decided based on what the artists requests are and SAC’s accommodations.

“Once we get a little bit closer to the show, there is a lot of promotion,” Murray said. “Promotion is a big part of what I do. I’ll work directly with our VP of publicity and our VP of marketing to form a marketing plan.”

The marketing plan lays out the agenda for which marketing tricks will be used to market the show. This includes everything that will adver-

THE STANDARD tise the event which the committee itself takes on.

“Our biggest jobs as members of the concerts committee is mainly advertising,” Canada said. “This includes advertising the voting poll when we were selecting the performers, but as it grows closer to the spring concert, we do things like chalking, handbilling and promoting the concert on Twitter.”

Murray said she thinks SAC’s publicity does a good job gathering everything like posters, flyers and handbills.

Along with that, publicity also covers the downtown area. The spring concert is the only event that has publicity that reaches the public due to it being a ticketed event.

About a week out from the spring concert, “day of schedules” are made. These are agendas that lay out what will happen during the day of the show.

“Anything that needs to happen the day of show, we lay out exactly when it’s gonna happen, exactly who is going to do it, where it’s going to go, where it’s going to come from, who is driving,” Murray said.

The day starts early for SAC for the spring concert. They start their day around 6:30 a.m. and will end

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The opening band performs for the crowd at SAC’s 2016 spring concert. around 1:00 a.m. that night.

After the show, it's smooth sailing for Murray and SAC. With as big of an event as the spring concert is, SAC can look forward to upcoming year.

“Day of show is always nerve-wracking, but it’s so excit-

ing,” Murray said. “It’s like your baby. Since early November and even before that, you’ve been thinking about it, running (through) it in your head.”

If you are interested in joining Students Activities Council and possibly helping out with the concerts

in the future, you can fill out the application that comes out the beginning of every semester, call the SAC office at 417-836-4626 or stop by their office in Plaster Student Union room 115.

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If you missed the Eggstravaganza this year, the Bill R. Fos- campus facility, and have a good time with some good friends, ter and Family Recreation Center plan to have the same event or may even meet someone new. next year. This simple and creative event allows for all students to get into the spirit of the Easter holiday, check out an on-

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Students search the Foster Recreation Center for eggs on April 11 during the FRC’s Eggstravaganza.

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makes me proud to be a Missouri State student.”

The purpose of LOGOS is twofold, Handley said. One part is showing that MSU can hold its own in the world of academia and the other is giving Honors students professional experience.

“We are trying to demonstrate the outstanding academic scholarship at MSU and the quality work our students are doing,” Handley said. “We want people to know the university is a

center of academic excellence and the kind of place that the top caliber students should want to come and be encouraged, challenged and supported.

“The second objective is to give students who are interested in publication the opportunity to be involved in formal critique and evaluation and response to submissions, to think about writing in a very technical and professional sense, to work

together on a complex, multi-thousand dollar project that extends 10 to 12 months per year. To deliver that on time, at a high level and on high stakes, to all of our different audiences, will give them an edge later on.”

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had 84 rebounds.

“J.T. has been through the ups and downs of college basketball.” Lusk said. “He is a big With only 83 games with Howard University the senior guard managed to score 930 career strong guard that can help us; he has had a lot of experience in college basketball, and we think points with a lifetime average of 11.2 points per game. that he will fit right in.”

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Kierra Mundt, Senior, Public Relations Major “I think my favorite part has really just been finding myself here and figuring out who Kierra is — like what I love and my interests.

I came into college a totally different person than what I’m leaving as. I feel more myself.

I wouldn’t have found that if I went to a different college.”

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Sayo Ayeomoni, Senior, Psychology Major “I’m from a city of 20 million people, so for me coming here to Springfield is kind of small. Since I’ve been here, it’s been really good ­— a lot better than I thought. But the food, oh my God, it’s so much better back home, and we don’t eat so much processed food.”

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Pilar Karlen, Energy Manager, Facilities Maintenance “We manage the utilities for the entire campus, and we have remote access to all buildings, from the downtown buildings to the Mountain Grove campus. All the cooling you see around campus is coming from several chillers that we manage here, and we also produce steam for the buildings for heating.”

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Arjo Mitra, Freshman, Non-Degree Seeking Student “What I’m spinning today is called Poi, and I have been doing it for about six weeks. I first began with cylindrical, long, straight objects like batons and sticks. Those were more for finger skills since Poi focuses more on your elbow and wrists. I really just find spinning stuff cool, and so I do it for fun.”

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Melanie Sikyta, Senior, Dance Major “Last Wednesday, I bruised my tail bone during an assisted lift. I just came down too hard, and though I was only out from dancing for a couple days, some moves are still hard to complete. I am working on my Senior BFA performance that will be on May 6 at 2:30 p.m. in Coger Theatre.”

Brandon Huddleston, Junior, Electronic ArtsAudio Studies major “My dad is an artist and a producer, so he’s always had a studio and had me around the equipment. I enjoyed playing on the instruments and using the MIDI keyboards, and it just felt right whenever I came to Missouri State to be in something that interests me as much as this.”