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Young the Giant performs for Missouri State students on Tuesday, April 19 in the Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts for the SAC Spring Concert. Savannah was the opening band.

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According to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, a former Missouri State University student is suing university officials after he was kicked out of the MSU counseling master’s program because he would not counsel gay couples.

The claim states that Andrew Cash “was targeted and punished for expressing his Christian worldview regarding a hypothetical situation concerning whether he

would provide counseling services to a gay/homosexual couple.”

Cash was interning at Springfield Marriage and Family Institute in 2011. The internship is one of the requirements for the master’s counseling program. Dr. Kristi Perryman, former internship coordinator for the counseling department, approved Cash’s internship application.

As part of the internship, each student is required to create a class presentation.

Multicultural Resource Center is named after the first African American woman denied admission to Southwest Missouri State College 66 years ago

By Cortlynn Stark Staff Reporter @Cortlynn Stark

In 1950, Mary Jean Price Walls was denied admission to Southwest Missouri State College, now Missouri State University, because she was African American. On Friday, the new Multicultural Resource Annex was named after her.

Mary Walls applied for admission at SMS after graduating salutatorian of her high school class from Lincoln High School.

At the time, Lincoln was strictly an African American school. She waited for months to hear back from the university but never received a response. Mary Walls said it made her feel horrible.

Walls’s son, Terry, graduated from MSU in 2012. When he was here, he researched what happened to his mother 62 years prior. According to an article by National Public Radio in 2012, Terry Walls found a letter typed “on fragile, onion-skin paper,” from Oct. 2, 1950.

Mary Walls wrote the letter to apply to the university. In 1950,

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Mary Jean Price Walls’ received the first honorary bachelor’s degree in 2010.

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Stories of War series: Meet Chinedu Henry Anosike

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the western companies back home … make a mess of the environment, with the oil spills.

(People) can’t even drink the water, I have seen (this) with my two eyes. It’s filled with In northern Nigeria, Islamist militant so much oil … because the regulation is not group Boko Haram runs rampant and sets up as strict as it is in America, so they think they their headquarters in Maiduguri, displacing can just get away with it.” millions of families. Further south, families struggle to survive with their environment The curse of oil According to BBC “Oil has provided hundredged in oil. The Nigerian people have been threatened by violence and unsafe con- dreds of billions of pounds in revenue for the ditions for years now, hoping that the govern- government since it was discovered in the Nigerian Delta 50 years ago and yet the counment will step up for its people.

Chinedu Henry Anosike is a graduate stu- try boasts some of the poorest communities dent studying business administration at Mis- in West Africa.”

Although the oil and gas industry brings in souri State University. He has been in the States for two years now, pursuing his studies billions of dollars of revenue each year, these profits are not passed down to the people. to be an accountant.

Anosike is from the northern part of Nige- According to the World Bank, Nigeria is the largest country in Africa, with a population of ria called Maiduguri.

“That is the headquarters of the Boko around 173 million people, which is about 47 Haram and that is where everything is happen- percent of West Africa’s population. Nigeria ing,” Anosike said. “(My family) moved a long is also the biggest oil exporter in Africa and time ago. I left (Maiduguri) when I was three, has the largest natural gas reserve in Africa. but I have gone back there a couple of times. I Yet according to the Central Intelligence Agency’s World Factbook, over 62 percent of have seen what is going on around there.”

Anosike’s family moved to a southern Nigeria’s population live in poverty.

A mismanaged oil-gas sector impacts their state, Rivers State, Port Harcourt. They have been there for several years now. Anosike has environmental living conditions and costs the witnessed not only the violence in the north, Nigerians more than the fight against corrupbut the abuse of the people in the south under tion and poverty. In an attempt for reconciliation after years of drilling and spills, the oil companies polluting the land.

“The southern part of the country is more United Nations was asked to assess the conpeaceful, but it has its own problems too,” ditions of the oil industry in Ogoniland and Anosike said. “The country’s revenue comes Rivers State.

According to the UN report, oil explofrom oil and gas—oil and gas is in the southern part of the country. Sometimes most of ration started in this region in the 1950s,

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mainly handled by Shell Petroleum Development Company (Nigeria) Ltd (SPDC) in conjunction with Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) and Shell International. The report stated crude oil consists of a mixture of hydrocarbons that once come into contact with the soil alter its physical and chemical properties.

The report stated, “For example, a spill of heavy crude oil onto clay soil, the chemicals can remain within the soil for decades, altering its permeability, causing toxicity and lowering or destroying the quality of the soil.

In such circumstances, the soil itself will become a source of pollution.”

This alteration can affect those working the land through ingestion and inhalation as years pass. “(The people make a living) by farming or by fishing, but the water is bad, the land is destroyed, and they (can’t) do anything, so how can they survive?” Anosike said. “Most of the communities are bad because of these oil spills.”

During a visit to a village in Ogoniland in 2007, Peter Okwoche for BBC News relayed what he had seen in the region.

“I went to a small stream that gave people water for all their daily needs,” Okwoche said.

“The effects of oil spillage were clear. On the surface of the water there was a thin film of oil… Villagers told me no fish had been seen in the stream for more than five years.”

People living in these regions have no choice but to drink water that is contaminated by these toxic hydrocarbons. In some regions that seem to be unaffected, the problem has

Taking Flight: Learn about drones, how to fly them during this intersession course

By Blaine Wheeler Standard Trainee

Drone popularity continues to grow, yet there is little knowledge about them. How do you use them? What do they do? How do you get one? Where can you fly one?

Leonard Horton III, MSU media professor, is offering an intersession class, “Taking Flight” May 16-30 to answer all of those questions. The goal of the course is to provide drone users, as well as non-drone users, the basics concerning where and how to fly drones.

The class will register as one credit hour and is open to anyone interested. All students with any range of knowledge about drones are open to register. You are not required to have your own drone for the course.

Horton will teach the class over the rules and regulations that come with owning a drone and also how to use a drone, including how to shoot video.

“There are all of these rules — you have state regulations, federal regulations — that revolve around drones that people aren’t aware of,” Horton said. “So the class is going to be talking about those

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Anosike said he hopes to return to see Nigeria rebuild itself.

seeped underneath the ground, affecting well water and agriculture.

Desperate appeals to the government

“Around 2006 and 2007 (Niger Delta militant groups) had this uprising and they revolted against the government and started kidnapping (because of the oil crisis),” Anosike said. “That was the way they could get the government’s attention. They kidnapped some people from Shell Oil Company … and (others) from big oil companies that come to drill. They kidnapped some of the top personnel … and asked the government to pay ransom. When the cause started, it started for a good reason — they wanted the u See ANOSIKE, page 14

MSU has seen an increase in car break-ins over the last month

By Emily Joshu Staff Reporter @EmilyJoshu

policies and step-by-step of registering the drone. We will go over things like best practices, drone registration and policies surrounding drone flight. A lot of the days will be spent outside with a local drone expert.”

A professional in the drone business, Jason Preston, will be providing a first-hand perspective and insightful information for students.

Preston, owner of 417 Drone Imaging in Springfield, will be providing drones for the students to have a first-hand knowledge.

Photo from gizmodo.com

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On Tuesday, April 19, the Missouri State University Safety and Transportation Department reported that in the last month they have received 13 reports of stealing from motor vehicles on campus, as well as three close to campus. The thefts involve suspects breaking car windows and stealing valuable items.

This increase in these reports can be part of a trend in recent years.

According to Public Affairs Officer Lisa Cox, these thefts occur more often in the spring and summer, influenced by warmer weather.

“We do have the criminals who are very opportunistic and go through large parking lots,” Cox said.

However, Vice President of Marketing and Communications

Suzanne Shaw said differently.

“This is not a trend or seasonal activity that we see each year,” Shaw said.

Cox said that many of these thefts occur due to criminals seeing valuable items inside cars and breaking the windows. She advises not to have valuable items within plain sight in cars, such as textbooks, laptops, phones, etc.

This trend has been seen throughout the city of Springfield as well, rather than just the MSU campus.

The Safety and Transportation Department advised students to not confront suspicious individuals in parking lots. They also said to lock all car doors and roll up the windows before leaving the car unattended.

Safety and Transportation can be contacted at (417-836-5509.

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Free condoms but no tampons looked like a bright jolly rancher, but you have to have insurance.

Taylor Health routinely gives away free condoms, operating under the assumption that people are going to have sex, and not the fact that women are going to have periods. It’s very shameful that Taylor Health doesn’t want to live in the future but remain in the fading past.

Who are these condoms for anyway? A CDC survey titled Summary Health Statistics: National Health Interview Survey found 74 percent of women contacted a doctor for health care in the previous six months for medical treatment compared to 61 percent who were men. This shows men don't go to health care facilities as much as women, yet there are fewer services for women.

If your mom was making you dinner based on the preferences of your distance relative, that wouldn’t make any sense.

There is a good reason they are distant relatives.

Another clear message is being sent by MSU and across the United States is that we don't value our women as much as we value men.

There is something called ‘women's tax’, or a dollars and cents cost for just waking up a female. Forbes estimated that women spend $1,400 per year in extra costs and fees. The same article points to a consumer report that shows how equivalent products for men and women, like deodorant, shampoo, and soap. Women's products, though, are marked at a higher price.

If you are a guy at a market store with your girlfriend and you and your girlfriend bought identical bags of apples, but then the manager said, “We are going to charge her more because she’s a girl.” To her face. Wouldn’t that piss you off?

But that’s what's going on and store managers nation-wide go another day without being bodyslammed.

Also there is also tampon tax in which tampons are not included in the non-luxury section of our tax code. Which doesn’t make sense because it's absolutely a necessity. Not to mention, according to Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, women make 18 cents less than men on a weekly average.

None of this is new information because most people,

taylor health reinforcing idea that men are valued above women

By Brian Wright Staff Reporter

It’s time to talk about something that is gross, uncomfortable and something no one wants to think about: inequality.

Missouri State University’s Taylor Health and Wellness Center gives away free condoms but not free tampons. The message it sends to its students, which is nearly 55 percent female, is sex is not a choice, but having a menstrual cycle is.

For starters, let’s clear the air; raising children and protecting the community from harmful STD’s should be a huge priority. Also, everyone has some type of natural fixed cost they have to deal with. If you choose to work far from your house, go ahead and be happy, but now you have to pay for transportation.

Being a women is not a choice that 99 percent of people get to make and every single woman has to deal with period, which is not something that should be taken advantage of.

If you buy a car, then didn’t buy insurance, but instead paid to get your car custom painted, people wouldn’t think you have good priorities. Yes, it would be nice if your car

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New athletic facilities won’t make winners

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@EmMcT “Exploring my new neighborhood in Chicago.”

Anyone who knows about college football can agree on one glaring fact about Missouri State: this is not a football school.

We have a stadium that holds about 18,000 people. What’s worse, the weight room looks like one that would belong to a high school, maybe even worse than what some high schools around the country have in terms of training facilities.

Last week, head coach Dave Steckel told the Springfield Business Journal that he wants the training facilities currently in place to be upgraded, saying that he works with 18-year olds, who are highly impressionable and choose to play football for a university based on what they see and not on what that university might have to offer outside of athletics. His view is that upgrades are necessary for recruiting, and having better facilities will attract more talented players.

But would that really improve the program?

I’m not so sure.

Stec, as he prefers to be called, was hired a little less than two years ago to not only put a winning team on the field, but also to spark any kind of life into a sports culture that has been mostly non-existent since I’ve been here.

I started at MSU in 2012.

Back then, Plaster Stadium was in bad shape. The field looked terrible. When it rained, the field looked even worse. On one side of the stadium was a rickety set of wooden bleachers that I thought was visitor side seating, until someone told me that it was actually the student section. Yikes! “Will those bleachers be able to hold a lot of weight without giving out?” I thought to myself.

After attending my first football game, I learned that I probably would never

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Celebrity deaths create mourning movements

By Spencer Martin Columnist @Spencer_XC

The music world was shaken Thursday when iconic pop singer Prince died at age 57.

When I heard the news, I was pretty bummed but largely indifferent. I have no fandom for Prince. I’ve never really listened to his music or consumed any of his various products. I honestly forgot he was an artist until I heard he had passed.

This doesn’t lessen my appreciation for what he did for the art form, though. Prince was legendary in pop for years, but he just wasn’t my cup of tea, so to speak.

This did, however, raise an interesting thought for me, courtesy of my editor-in-chief, Eli Wohlenhaus. How and why do people react the way they do whenever big name celebrities die?

In my mind, it’s a quite simple explanation: People want to be part of the moment and part of something bigger than themselves.

Is there anything wrong with this? No, of course not. People want to share in the triumphs and tragedies of our fellow men and women, especially those that are rich and famous.

Those in the public eye have often been the subject of some of our very hopes and dreams. We want to be like them. We want to be them. They entertain us, make us feel welcome and sometimes pump us up for a dance party. And when they’re gone, we want to share in the celebration and sadness of their exit from this plane of existence.

This celebration of life, gifts and talents is very normal. It's part of the grieving process.

But each time it seems to be the same story. We experience sadness, we dig up old videos and quotes, we try to cling to whatever bits and pieces of this celebrity we have left. Three months later, we've all mostly moved on with our lives. The music in the back of our minds, the quotes stashed away for another time, we hop to the next exciting news or celebrity death or next big pop song.

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including people who make the rules know this, and yet, it keeps happening. We don’t value our women as much as we value men and the people making the decisions don’t care about women. They just don’t.

But maybe the decision makers at MSU do care, and they don't believe in wage inequality, sexism and women’s tax, and those decision makers want to change all of that. That’s great, but that is going to take a long time. But you know what does not? Giving away free tampons. This can happen this week.

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have to worry about the strength of those bleachers. Only half the student section was occupied by spectators, if that. I asked my sports editor at the time why more students didn’t show up to the football team’s home opener and all he told me was that this is Missouri State.

Improvements were made two years ago.

Construction crews tore down those old bleachers and built the seating that we all look at every day when we pass by the stadium on the way to class. The grand opening of the improved Plaster Stadium was widely celebrated by the university. It was supposed to be a new era for Missouri State football. We had a new look. We could consume alcohol on campus on gamedays. The team barely missed the playoffs the year before and most of the starters from that season returned with playoff aspirations in mind.

The new student section was filled to capacity only twice during that season: the home opener against North Dakota (who didn’t have a mascot because some of their students thought it would be funny to depict a picture of a Native American holding a beer bong), in which MSU set a new attendance record with a sell-out and Senior Day. However, that Senior Day game featured a grandiose sea of green and yellow, as fans from North Dakota State traveled all the way to Springfield to watch their team win. Yes, our student section was fully occupied by opposing fans.

Many people make the argument that attendance will improve if the football team starts winning. But would that actually happen?

No one shows any interest, even when the team actually wins. When MSU made that playoff run in 2014, people still didn’t really seem to care. In fact, the first game of that season was held on a Thursday night. I showed up to school that morning and made a mental note about how there was no way to tell a game would be played that night.

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Fraternity smashes watermelons for charity

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Alpha Sigma Alpha battles Alpha Chi Omega during Lamda Chi Alpha’s Watermelon Bash on the ROTC Fields. donate to Ozarks Food Harvest.

By Cortlynn Stark Friday night, they put on a pageant to find Staff Reporter this year’s Ms. Watermelon Bash. The @Cortlynn_Stark contestants had to prepare a song or skit that What a lot of parents probably didn’t incorporated the fraternity, their sorority, expect to see on Family Day was a group of service and, of course, watermelons. students using a mat of smashed watermelons After the initial melon toss event, the as a slip’ n’ slide. Thanks to Lambda Chi majority of the watermelons had crumbled.

Alpha, they did.

Standing directly across from one another, The fraternity hosted their second annual teams of sororities tossed the melons between Watermelon Bash last week, with the final each other, trying to avoid letting them break. events culminating Saturday afternoon. The The result was a sticky mess. event was part of their efforts to raise money Shattered pieces of watermelons covered for their philanthropy partner, Ozarks Food the blue mat used to protect the grass and Harvest. expedite the cleanup process. Fraternity “The first year it went well,” vice president brothers and sorority sisters threw chunks of of philanthropy of Lambda Chi Alpha Jacob watermelon at each other, rubbing it on their Hunter said. “We got a good public buzz, friends’ faces and even using watermelon rinds people liked it and I was like ‘let’s make it as hats. bigger.’”

“It’s a lot of fun,” sophomore social work The first year consisted solely of the major and Xi Omicron Iota sorority member watermelon bashing. This year, the fraternity Rebecca Turney said. “It’s really messy and put on a whole week of events. Teams from sticky, but it’s worth it.” different sororities competed against each After they finished sliding around in the other in the hopes of earning the watermelon watermelon mess, they lined up for tug-of-war. trophy.

Teams of sororities tried to draw the other It kicked off on Monday with pie. team over a pile of watermelon that was Fraternity members received numerous pies in moved to the middle. The losers fell in the the face during “Pie-A-Lambda Chi.” watermelons, making them even stickier.

“We had of course tons of friends who “I liked the tug-of-war,” Turney said. “It wanted to pie us,” junior social work major was fun to roll around in the watermelon.”

Hunter said. “It was sticky sometimes but it Following the tugging war, sorority teams was perfect, our guys were willing to step up chose members to represent them in the final to the challenge and do a great thing.” event, hitting the “X” on a board by tossing a Tuesday evening, they did lip-sync battles, watermelon. Some hit the board and others and Wednesday they held a bake sale with didn’t throw it quite far enough. Katie Barton, watermelon themed bake goods. On Thursday, a freshman journalism major, hit the “X” on Lambda Chi Alpha collected canned goods to the spot to win the event for her sorority, Xi

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Jessica Yount, junior elementary education major, slides into a pile of smashed watermelon bringing her team, Xi Omicron Iota to victory.

Omicron Iota, winning the trophy. but (the other) Xi Om team… it’s not really “It felt pretty good,” Barton said. “We about winning, it’s about having fun.” didn’t really care about beating anybody else

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Students paint ceramic pots and planted seeds. Students were given the chance to learn more about the importance of Earth Day on the North Mall.

By Hanna Sumpter Staff Reporter @hannasumpter

MSU students spent last Friday painting flower pots and collecting Earth-themed goodies outside the PSU at the Student Activities Council’s Earth Day celebration.

This was SAC’s first year putting together an Earth Day event. The event was held in the North Mall outside the PSU along with Ecopalooza, a solar powered concert with a lineup of many local bands. For the first time, SAC and Students for a Sustainable Future partnered with one another to put together the Earth Day festivities.

Allie Smoot, the SAC campus events chair, said around 250 students came out to join the SAC members for the flower planting alone.

SAC provided soil as well as native wildflower seeds for students to plant in their newly painted flower pots.

Free items to promote green living such as bookmarks, key chains and recycled journals were given out to students at the event as well throughout the afternoon.

Starting with events like Earth Day, Smoot said SAC is making an effort to put on more events during the daytime in order to bring more types of students together, such as commuting students who are typically not on

campus to take part in the evening events put on by SAC. “This event will show what other types of students we can bring out,” Smoot said.

“Everyone is stressed, and this is a creative way for students to mingle.”

SAC members were adding tables and chairs just an hour after the celebration began to better accommodate the unexpected amount of students which came out to join in the event. Many students were sharing positive reactions throughout the afternoon.

“It is cool that campus is getting involved,” Kerri Young, sophomore studying administrative management said.

“(This is) a cool event to learn about the Earth.” said Caroline Byrd, a junior and modern language major.

The students also shared their passion for the meaning and purpose behind all of the Earth Day celebration as they filled their colorfully painted terracotta pots with soil and wildflower seeds.

“We only get one Earth, and it sustains our life,” Hannah Bogue, sophomore public relations major said.

Bryanna Grzyb, sophomore speech and theater education major, spoke about sustainability, “(We must) work to preserve the Earth we live on and it is beautiful.”

Indie rock band performs at MSU SAC brings Young the Giant to campus for spring concert

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Young the Giant performs at Juanita K. Hammons Hall.

Missouri State’s Student Activities Council hosted their annual spring concert, indie rock band Young the Giant, on April 19 at the Juanita K Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts.

In years past, the spring concert has typically been held in the JQH arena.

According to Alex Gustin, SAC concert chair, the change was made this year due to budgets, schedules and target audiences.

“We really haven't used Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts for SAC shows,” Gustin said. “So we wanted to try it out and do something new, with a different venue and genre to appeal to a another group of students- as opposed to hip hop and rap like the past few years. Also, we brought slightly larger than normal artists for the opening and winter week concerts, (The Mowglis, Jesse McCartney) which cost a bit more. Because of this, it left a bit less for the spring show. ” Gustin also said that budgeting for

the SAC concerts is one of the largest factors when deciding which artists will be considered to appear on MSU’s campus. The SAC typically has a concert budget of somewhere around $99,500 per school year.

“I don't think a lot of students realize what our budget actually is and who we can actually afford,” Gustin said.

“For example JQH sells out with names like Carrie Underwood, Brad Paisley etc. SAC doesn't have the budget to bring the caliber of artists that would fully sell out JQH Arena.

Just to put it in perspective, Drake costs over $300,000, The Weeknd costs $250,000, and Taylor Swift starts around $500,000 which are all way over SAC's entire budget.”

According to Gustin, another perk of bringing in slightly smaller artists for the concert is not only the smaller dent in the SAC’s budget, but also cheaper ticket prices for students and the general public.

“Another thing to consider is our ticket prices for students. We aim to

provide affordable options for concerts. For Young the Giant, student tickets were very affordable at $10 and $15 compared to $25 for past JQH SAC shows.”

Tori Wehde, Missouri State student, attended the SAC’s spring concert, and was happily surprised at the divergence from the usual genre of artists.

“My friends and I were all really excited to hear that Young the Giant would be the spring concert this year,” Wehde said. “Yeah, it’s a big difference between Nelly and Childish Gambino the past two years, but since those artists had so many problems getting her,e it seems like it makes sense.”

Wehde also said that the different venue was a good decision from the SAC and it made the concert more enjoyable for Young the Giant fans.

“I really felt like the Hammons Hall was a good place to have the concert at,” Wehde said. “Since the crowd was a little smaller and the band had kind of a slower, low-key sound, it was a better environment all around.”

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Ah, remakes. Along with reboots and sequels, remakes are a telltale sign that Hollywood is running out of genuine, original ideas. Most of the time they hardly seem needed. Why do filmmakers feel the need to remake “Frankenstein” every other year? It’s a great work of literature that gets extremely debased each time it hits the big screen. Poor Mary Shelley is rolling over in her grave. Luckily for Rudyard Kipling, he can slumber peacefully in his casket because “The Jungle Book” is a fun, gorgeous, albeit uninspired, family flick.

The story is almost beat-for-beat

akin to the 1967 animated classic.

Meaning, it’s still a departure from the book of short stories it is based on.

Mowgli, an abandoned child raised by a pack of wolves, is trying to live his existence as one of the animals in the jungle. But, his peaceful cohabitation is shattered when the ferocious, maneating tiger Shere Khan returns to the jungle and orders the wolves to turn over their man-cub to him. Now,

Mowgli must leave the only home he’s ever known so he can return safely to the man-village.

Easily the most outstanding aspect of “The Jungle Book” is its attractive aesthetic style. It’s an eye-popping mixture of green screen and motion capture CGI, mixed with the live action of child actor Neel Sethi. Even the computer generated talking animals looked strangely realistic and anthropomorphic, while the jungle had a living, luscious vibe.

The performances are of equal quality, with entertaining voice acting from Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Christopher Walken, and Scarlett Johansson. Though he has moments of flat emotion, even young Neel Sethi delivers a performance that’s better than the usual child actor fair.

Considering he had to pretend a sound stage in downtown LA was the middle of the Indian Jungle at 11 years of age, I will give him the benefit of the doubt.

But, I have reservations about “The Jungle Book” because it feels like nothing more than a pedestrian walk down memory lane. It’s one of those remakes that never really needed a new vision. This film is a fairly entertaining experience, but I felt like it was unambitious.

Don’t get me wrong, the way it was made was very ambitious.

Director Jon Favreau and his team obviously put a lot of hard work in motion, and it shows in the visual side of things, but the movie itself feels devoid of any staying power within the mind of its audience.

“The Jungle Book” will probably be a delight for its younger target audience, and even if you’re an adult looking for something fun to watch for two hours, go ahead and buy a ticket to “The Jungle Book”. But if you’re hoping this new iteration of a classic has anything new to say, you’ll be disappointed.

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Allison South holds first track meet

By Alec McChesney Staff Reporter

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For the first time in eight years and the first time at Betty and Bobby Allison South Stadium the Missouri State Track and Field team hosted a meet. Three school records were broken in a Bears victory on Friday afternoon.

Georgia Richardson, Marissa Kurtimah, and Melanie Raterman led the way for the Bears as they each broke school records in their individual events.

Richardson, a sophomore, broke her old personal and school record in the pole vault when she cleared 3.66 meters. Thanks to her efforts, Richardson holds the school record for this event in both indoor and outdoor track and field.

The 200-meter dash was the most exciting event of the day as it came down to a photofinish between sophomore Kurtimah and her teammate, senior Shavonne Husbands. Kurtimah edged out Husbands by just 0.005 seconds setting the school record with a time of 23.115, which is the 11th best time in the NCAA West region and 19th overall.

Breaking school records has become a bit of a hobby for Raterman. With her hammer throw of 53.20 meters, Raterman etched her name in the record books for the second time this season. The junior from Warrenton, Missouri has now broken the school record in the event every year she has competed.

It wasn’t just these three, the whole MSU track and field team performed in excellent

fashion as they finished first in the meet totaling 87 points. Murray State and Austin Peay battled for second place, and Murray State came out on top as they finished with 33 points to Austin Peay’s 32.

There were 34 personal records set by 23 Bears in 13 separate events. One of these personal records was set by freshman, Alyson Jones.

Sophomore Jessica Allen and Jones dominated the 3000 meter run finishing first and second respectively.

Allen bested her previous outdoor record for this event with a time of 10:32.44 and Jones set her own individual record with a time of 10:56.11.

“It felt really good, everyone on the team trains hard, so it was fun to see everyone’s hard work come together on our home track,” Jones said. “Running on our home track was incredible, because we put in work on it every day. It’s a top-notch track and Pole vault facility.”

The Bears’ next meet is this weekend, April 29-30, in Starkville, Mississippi at Mississippi State University. Following that event, the Bears will begin preparing for the MVC Conference Outdoor Championships beginning May 13 in Terre Haute, Indiana.

“We are hoping to get everyone performing at the same time, we have been performing great sporadically, but we are looking to have everyone firing on the same page for conference,” said head coach Ronald Boyce.

“That is the biggest goal for us going forDistance ward.”

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MSU campus to host high school football and basketball championships Wyatt Wheeler Staff Reporter @realYitWheeler

The Missouri State High School Activities Association will be bringing the high school football and basketball championships to the Missouri State campus over the next couple of years starting this fall.

At their annual April meeting, the MSHSAA voted that the 2016 MSHSAA Show-Me Bowl will be played at Missouri State’s Robert W. Plaster Stadium this fall, while the MSHSAA Show-Me Showdown will be played at JQH Arena for the next five seasons.

The MSHSAA made the announcement on April 8.

“We are very excited about using a venue for our basketball championships for which we have received many positive comments,” said MSHSAA Executive Director Dr. Kerwin Urhahn said in a press release. "We appreciate the work that the cities put into this bid process and we have taken this process very seriously. We are especially humbled by the amount of community support the city of Springfield showed in putting together its bids.

We have an obligation to our membership to find not only the best facilities to host our championships, but also the best support from the host site to serve our school’s needs.”

Responsible for putting together the bid was the Springfield Sports Commission and the Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Springfield Convention and Visitors Bureau President Tracy Kimberlin sees these games on MSU’s campus having a positive impact for the athletic programs with future recruits.

“When I would go to Southeast Missouri State for band camp, I seriously considered them because I was familiar with the campus,” Kimberlin said as he went on to choose Missouri State. “In my opinion, I feel like the games being played at Missouri State could lead to potential students.”

With the top high school teams from all over the state will be coming to MSU’s campus, Kimberlin says part of the decision of submitting a bid was the economic impact the games will have in Springfield.

Kimberlin says that basketball alone will bring in around $2.5 million per year to the Springfield economy. Hotels and restaurants will assist with the economic boom that these events will bring.

The Show-Me Bowl has been played at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis since 1996. With the Rams moving to Los Angeles, the Show-Me Bowl will be returning to Springfield for the first time since 1995.

The Show-Me Bowl will be played in Springfield in 2016, but will move north to the University of Missouri’s Faurot Field in 2017 with no locations planned past that. Kimberlin says that he hopes Springfield can secure the football championship games after the 2017 season.

MSHSAA’s basketball championships will also be making its return to the MSU campus after the games had been played on the University of Missouri campus since 1992. MSU’s Hammons Student Center last hosted the championship games in 1991.

Hammons Student Center will be used over the course of the championship weekends.

Kimberlin says that he is thankful for MSU’s cooperation throughout the bid process while helping to land the championship games.

“There’s a sense of pride in the community to host these championships,” Kimberlin said. “I think the community will be really excited about this.”

Softball drops four games against MVC foes

By Cortlynn Stark Staff Reporter @Cortlynn_Stark

The Softball Bears took back a win Sunday over the University of Northern Iowa to cap a week of losses.

UNI took an early but short lead in the first inning off two walks and two hits. Junior pitcher Erin Struemph ended the inning with the bases loaded to cut the Panthers off.

In the third inning, the Bears found a spark on offense, scoring six total runs. Junior Elena Gambill started the Bears’ off with a leadoff walk and made it to second by a sacrifice play by sophomore outfielder Hailee Vigneaux. Another sophomore outfielder, Erika Velasquez Zimmer, hit a single to put runners at first and third. MSU scored their first run off junior second baseman Olivia Roark’s double.

“Just how hard we fought and how well we competed,” head coach Holly Hesse said about the best part of the game. “The team just continued to fight hard.”

The Bears didn’t stop at one run. After Roark’s play, sophomore second baseman Madison Jones hit a double to left-center field to bring in two more runs. Junior first baseman Mary Stephens then capitalized on a UNI error, hitting a three-run homer. The Bears haven’t scored six runs in an inning since they played Texas Southern in February.

UNI added a run in the bottom of the third to make it 6-2 with the Bears clearly dominating.

MSU scored twice more in the fourth.

Gambill singled to right and UNI got a quick

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Junior third baseman Elena Gambill awaits a pitch against Wichita State on April 20. two outs. They committed their second error of the game to keep MSU’s offense alive in the fourth. Jones drove in two runners off a single.

UNI tied the game in the sixth inning 8-8, but sophomore pitcher Kaitlin Beason held the Panthers to the two runs.

In the seventh, senior shortstop Erin Duewel, who leads the Bears in slugging percentage, runs scored, hits, runs batted in, doubles, total bases and at bats, got to first off a

third UNI error and to second on a wild pitch.

Beason moved Duewel to third off a sacrifice bunt. Freshman catcher Darian Frost brought in the win for the Bears with a single to left to bring home Duewel. Beason held the Panthers from scoring any more in the bottom of the seventh to end the game.

“Certainly our offense was a bright spot today with double digit hits and scoring nine runs,” Hesse said. “It was a lot of fight.”

The win capitalized on a week of well-

fought games against offensively dominating teams. The Bears lost twice to UNI on Saturday and twice to Wichita State on Wednesday at home.

The Bears lost 4-2 in the first game against UNI. The Bears took an early lead off a run scored by Roark in the first and followed with Beason’s sixth home run of the season, taking the lead by two.

UNI scored hit three home runs to take the game away 4-2.

In game two against UNI, the Bears outhit UNI 12-6 but still lost 11-8. The Panthers scored eight runs in the fifth inning off two home runs, an MSU error and three walks to put the game out of reach for MSU. “We did out hit them both games and we out played them on defense as well,” Hesse said. “They’re just a power-hitting team and they score a lot on the home runs.”

During the double header against Wichita, the Bears lost 17-6 in the first game and held the Shockers to a 3-2 loss in the second.

“Kaitlin Beason did a great job pitching wise, anytime you can hold Wichita State to just three runs, you’re doing something good on the mound,” Hesse said.

Wichita and UNI currently lead the Missouri Valley Conference. UNI leads the MVC in team batting with an average of .311 and Wichita is right behind them with an average of .309.

“We’re probably playing the two best hitting teams in the league, the double header against Wichita, the series against UNI and the single game coming up against Wichita,” Hesse said. “I’m just really proud of how our kids are fighting.”

A year later, cancer survivor Allie Alvstad tells her story

By Cortlynn Stark Staff Reporter @Cortlynn_Stark

At the beginning of her freshman year, she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. Now, sophomore softball player Allie Alvstad is back on the field.

She was admitted to the hospital on Sept.

1, 2014. The doctors diagnosed her with the deadly cancer that harms bone marrow and blood. Alvstad started chemotherapy eight days later.

“It was pretty devastating “ Alvstad said.

“I was always in great health growing up, never had any issues, never even broke a bone. I kind of thought I was invincible, as I feel like a lot of athletes my age would.”

The Missouri State softball team also felt distraught.

“At first it was extremely devastating because it hit really close to home for a lot of people, and everyone was really close to Allie,” junior pitcher Erin Struemph said.

Alvstad went through a second round of chemotherapy in October and then received a bone marrow transplant in December. Following the transplant, Alvstad spent more than three months in the Baylor Medical Center in Texas before she was able to return home on March 21.

When summer came, Alvstad immediately started to get back in shape so she could get back on the field. But after spending three months in the hospital, she faced a number of complications.

Alvstad got a bad case of lymphedema, which is swelling in the extremities because of radiation.

“That was a big set back,” Alvstad said.

“I have a lymphedema pump, and I wear compression socks the majority of the time and it’s pretty much under control.”

Alvstad also had to deal with the simple fact of being out of shape.

“I think some of her biggest challenges have just been her knowing the limits of her body and her wanting to get back and do things,” Struemph said. “Knowing the limits of her body and knowing how hard she can push herself and still feel good has been one of her biggest struggles and getting back into it without going too hard too fast.”

On March 11, Alvstad earned her first hit of the season in a 2-0 loss against Northern Omaha. With two outs already up, Alvstad hit a line drive into right field.

Before that, Alvstad recorded a couple of walks in previous games.

“It was pretty bitter sweet honestly,” Alvstad said about her first on base. “I don’t think there was a dry eye in the stadium, so that was just so awesome to get on-base.”

She received the Missouri Valley Conference Most Courageous Award for 20142015 last year. The award is given to athletes, coaches or university administrators who “demonstrate unusual courage in the face of personal illness, adversity or tragedy,” according to an article by the MSU softball page.

Next year, Alvstad has a lot to look forward to. She will return as a utility player and hopes to get more time on the field.

“She’s always been a great hitter, and that’s really where her talents lie,” head coach Holly Hesse said. “So she’s come a long way this year and I’m sure she’ll come a long way again next year.”

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Baseball drops series to Evansville

By Wyatt Wheeler Staff Reporter @realYitWheeler

All seemed right with the baseball Bears following Saturday’s win as they appeared to be back to the team that is ranked sixteenth in the nation.

The Bears then turned into the Bears as of late as they failed to capture their first Valley series win of the season.

Missouri State (28-10, 3-5) lost two of three to the Evansville Purple Aces (23-15, 6-3) and are still seeking their first Valley series win of the season. The Bears have now lost five of their last eight.

Over that stretch the Bears have scored two or less runs in four of the five losses. The Bears have been outscored 48-25 in the six games since their 16-1 win over the University of Missouri.

“People are starting to pitch around our bigger hitters and that’s snowballed a little bit,” Bears head coach Keith Guttin said. “We’re still getting runners on; we just haven’t done a very good job recently on getting them in.”

Out of the 38 games played this season, the

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Sophomore pitcher Austin Knight unloads a pitch on April 22.

Bears starting pitchers have only put together 11 quality starts.

“We’ve got to get better starts out of our starting pitchers,” Guttin said. “We’ve got to try to get five innings out of our starting pitchers and take some pressure off of having to

come from behind.”

MSU won Saturday’s game after a disappointing 14-5 loss on Friday night. The Bears looked like they were returning to form by defeating Evansville 10-6.

Sophomore third baseman Jake Burger and freshman shortstop Jeremy Eierman carried the Bears over the weekend. Each hit a home run on both Friday night and Saturday afternoon.

Since hitting the first home run of his career on April 1 against Central Michigan, Eierman has batted .392 while hitting five home runs, batting in 18 runs and scoring 11 of his own.

Eierman’s hot bat this April has moved him from late in the order to the clean up spot for the first time in his young career.

“Hard work’s paying off,” Eierman said.

“The coaches are noticing and everything and it feels good.”

While it seemed like the slump was going to continue early on Saturday, the Bears were able to overcome a first inning deficit of 2-0 thanks to Burger’s three-run blast in the bottom half of the first for his 16th homer of the season.

Evansville would tie it up in the fourth, but Eierman’s two-run shot put MSU back on top and they didn’t turn back.

The Bears didn’t bring that momentum into Sunday’s rubber match as the Purple Aces jumped out to a 3-0 lead by the end of the second inning.

MSU would score one in the third inning due to a junior outfielder Blake Graham’s RBI single, but that’s all the Bears were able to score as they left 13 runners on at the end of the day and were 1-10 with runners in scoring position.

“It’s baseball. That’s just how it goes sometimes. It comes and goes,” Burger said. “It was good to have the same vibe that we’ve had the entire season (Saturday) and it’s something that we can build off of.”

The Bears will have a rematch with the Missouri Tigers on Tuesday in Columbia as they look to find their offense that they had last time against Mizzou.

The Bears will also once again be seeking their first Valley series win in a three-game weekend series at Indiana State starting Friday.

“We’ve got to tell ourselves that we’re better than the other team,” Burger said. “I think that we still have that vibe. It’s just a collective thought that we need to be better than the other team.”

Tennis sweeps Evansville, wins ten matches

By Trevor Martin Staff Reporter @Trevorsaur

As the Missouri State Bears tennis team made its final push to the Missouri Valley Conference tournament this past weekend, they needed to go through conference rivals Evansville and SIU. Coming into the weekend with a record of 1012 (2-3), the Bears would need to post a good final two matches leading into the MVC tournament.

The Bears started the weekend looking sharp against Evansville. They swept all three doubles matches, winning with final scores of 6-3, 6-4, 7-5. Going into singles the Bears already held a 1-0 edge, but it would be a non-factor, as the Bears would sweep in singles as well. The closest match was a 5-7, 6-4, 10-8 comeback win by senior Miranda Poile. The Bears would complete the day with a 7-0 sweep of the Purple

Aces to carry a lot of momentum into their Sunday matchup with the Salukis of SIU. The match against SIU looked to be a competitive one on paper. The Salukis boasted a slightly better overall record of 13-10, but held a much better conference record with their only loss coming against Wichita State.

In the end, the Salukis would prove to be too much for the Bears. Missouri State fell behind early after being swept 3-0 in the doubles point, which, according to Coach Mallory Weber, put the Bears in an early hole.

“It puts a lot more pressure on singles,” Weber said. “It’s pretty tough to win four singles matches against a team that is as good as Carbondale. Our goal is always to win across the board though, so our goal is always the same, it just makes it a little bit tougher.”

Not only were the Bears battling against a tough opponent in the Salukis on Sunday, the wind also became an unlikely

adversary for the Bears.

“It makes footwork and the mental game even more important,” Weber said. “You can’t always do the things you want within your game, and you’ve got to make some adjustments. I think our girls did that really well.”

Although the Bears lost, they laid it all on the line against the Salukis. To conclude the doubles point, seniors Ema Turudija and Poile lost a close match that finished 7-6 (9-7).

In the final point, Poile made a few critical errors in situations that called for perfect execution, and the Bears ended up losing the point. The emotion of the situation could be felt by spectators and competitors alike, but Turudija was there to pick up her teammate.

“Miranda showed a lot of heart after going down a set and going down 5-2 and battling back,” Weber said. “Miranda is

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Lacrosse splits final two regular season games Parker Padgett Staff Reporter @PadgettParker

The men’s lacrosse team played their final two games of the regular season this past weekend, April 22 at home against No. 23 Missouri Baptist, and on the road against Saint Louis University on April 23.

It was the first match the team played since March 30, because of a Creighton forfeit on April 16.

The Bears (6-4) split the weekend, losing at home to Missouri Baptist (8-4), 8-4 and winning their final game against Saint Louis, 9-7.

On Friday, it was senior night for four Bears, midfielder Matt Krick, defender Matt Hanes, Goalkeeper Mason Goodwin and defender Nick Gander, who were playing their game at the Betty and Bobby Allison South Stadium.

Gander unfortunately was not in uniform for the team. He had sat out his entire senior season with a torn ACL and lateral meniscus but still supported his team from the sideline.

“It sucks,” he said. “After tearing it, I questioned whether or

not I wanted to come back out there because you just have to watch. But these guys are like family, and it made sense to come out, support and be a part of this team.”

After senior recognition, the Bears took the field to battle a Spartan team that had won seven out of the last eight of their matches due to a strong offensive firepower, outscoring opponents 77-35 and also ranked No. 23 in the Under Armour MCLA Division II Coaches Poll.

And their momentum didn’t stop.

57 seconds in, Baptist struck first.

After the quick score, Krick answered the call, and the midfielder evened the game for the Bears.

“I just wanted to leave it all out on the field, I’ll never play here again” Krick stated. “Monte (Bordeaux) fed me and I just put it in the goal.”

Then Baptist scored two straight, giving the Spartans a 3-1 lead.

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Offense impresses in spring scrimmage

By Eli Wohlenhaus Editor-in-Chief @eliwohlenhaus

Spring and football are not often synonymous, but when these two words are used together it usually means stiff competition.

Not in the Tom Brady vs. Peyton Manning kind of way, but in a Brodie Lambert vs.

Breck Ruddick kind of way.

Both Lambert and Ruddick saw time behind center last season for Missouri State Bears football, but neither was able to really get into a rhythm. In fact, the Bears couldn't get into a rhythm as a unit, and the final record of 1-10 highlighted that inefficiency.

Lambert set himself apart passing with 20 completions on 331 attempts for 216 yards and two touchdowns, while Ruddick did it on the ground, rushing for 76 yards, including a 69-yard touchdown run.

Receivers Deion Holliman and Malik Earl both caught five passes for 91 yards with two of Holliman’s receptions going for touchdowns. Despite the scores going to Holliman, Earl had a knack for getting open when Lambert was under center.

“Malik and I have very good chemistry, so I always feel comfortable going his way,” Lambert said.

The Bears scored only 82 points through 11 games last fall, so putting up 51 felt great, leading to some celebrating led by Lambert.

“That’s why we play football, the enthusiasm,” Lambert said. “We enjoy getting in the paint… and it is always fun celebrating.”

Head coach David “Stec” Steckel, who enters his second season at the helm—and with his second different offensive coordinator(s) says it felt a lot different than a year ago.

“It feels a lot better,” Stec said. “I think we’ve made progress from last year. Obviously until we play September first we won’t know how much progress, but it feels a lot different—I feel more in control.”

Stec said the players feel more in control, too, understanding the expectations a lot more clearly.

No positions that were being battled for were decided during the game, but that could change.

“We’ll find out when we watch the video later today,” Stec said.

While the battle continues for who will start under center come September, those who protect the quarterback received high praise.

“The offensive line played well, which makes my job a lot easier,” Lambert said.

The quarterbacks were not the only ones on display Saturday afternoon, as Phoenix Johnson took 17 carries for 86 yards and one touchdown.

“We prepared like a game so it felt pretty good, like a game atmosphere,” Johnson said.

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Deion Holliman looks to make a cut after making a catch for the white team.

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The white team celebrates after scoring a Quarterback Breck Ruddick high steps into the end zone to cap off a 69-yard run. touchdown Johnson got the bulk of the carries on the day because fellow halfback Calan Crowder was held out as a precaution.

Also notably on the shelf for the game was senior leader Dylan Cole, which was just another precautionary measure by the coaching staff. His presence was felt on the sidelines, as he pumped up the defensive units and helped the younger players.

The defense came away with three take-

aways. Darius Ivy and DeAndre Williams both grabbed interceptions and Skyler Hulse forced and recovered a fumble.

To add to the quarterback question mark, redshirt freshman Michael Briggs took a majority of the second half reps, going 12-15 for 120 yards and two touchdowns, both to Zac Hoover.

After two seasons of having BearFest Village tailgating festivities moved onto the

north end of the stadium on campus, the athletic department added that element to the spring game, too. Rick Kindhart, assistant director of athletics and communications, said that their hope is to keep building on that every year for the spring game, drawing more interest from fans and students.

MSU opens up its regular season at Plaster Field on Thursday, September 1, at 6 p.m. against Southwestern College.

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MSU celebrates Family Weekend at Hammons Field

Courtesy of Zoe PIxler/MSU Family Association

Students posed with their families in front of a Boomer Bear cutout at Hammons Field on Saturday, April 22. sister Samantha.

To Brandon, having families on campus and at the park is not only good for the students, it is also a good recruiting tool for prospective Bears. “I think it makes the school and campus look better to have families here,” Bradshaw said. “Especially while they’re giving tours to people.”

To his mom, Family Day was a great way of getting to find out about her son’s involvement with the school. “It’s fun getting to spend time with your student, getting to see their surroundings and getting to meet their friends,” Bradshaw said.

As for his sister, the answer to the question of “What is the best part of Family Day?” was simple.

“The gift shop.”

Whatever the occasion, it’s always pleasant getting to see families after a long period away from home. Some travel from hours away and others travel minutes, but no matter the distance, Family Day is something special for everyone involved.

And it’s always a bonus when the Bears win.

By Trevor Martin Staff Reporter @trevorsaur

Spending time with family is one of the most amusing parts of life. All families have their tougher moments. Since we college students already know everything, we tend to get a little frustrated when parents give us advice and we especially don’t enjoy the constant annoyance of our brothers and sisters.

However, being around family has its shining moments. Everyone loves being around mom’s loving embrace. We all look forward to going out to a restaurant and dad asking “What’s the damage?” when he gets the bill. Most importantly, it’s always a boatload of fun when we get to poke fun at our siblings. Being away at college, these moments become fewer and farther between as the years go by, but once in awhile, opportunities emerge for families to come hang out.

This weekend was one of those opportunities.

As the Missouri State Bears baseball team rolled to a 10-6 win over MVC rival Evansville, families poured into Hammons Field as a part of Family Day, hosted by MSU. Hammons field was buzzing with families having a good time, including the family of freshmanmarketing major Colin Summers. Summers’ family from Lee’s Summit was at the game enjoying their first official Family Day with their college student and getting to experience campus.

“I think it’s good to find out what kids are involved in at school,” mother Caryl Summers said. “And I think it’s a good opportunity for the parents to get involved with the campus.”

His dad, Scott, also thought it was a nice event to bring a good reputation to the school. “I think it’s good for the school to host Family Day so the families can come down and really see what the school is all about. It’s also nice to see what our kids are doing,” Summers said.

The Summers were one of many families enjoying their day at Hammons Field. Shortly after a Jeremy Eierman two-run home run put the Bears ahead in the game, I had the opportunity to talk to freshmancomputer information systems major Brandon Bradshaw, his dad Greg, mom Lisa and

When is the next Family Weekend?

October 28-30, 2016 For more info, check http://www.missouristate.edu/be arsfamilies/familyweekend.htm

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Young entrepreneur set to expand business

MSU students get rare opportunity in Los Angeles

By Alec Gura Standard Trainee

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Students can keep up with Chillbillys’ plans on coming to Springfield by following the snowcone stand on social media. The instagram account is @chillbillysnowcones11 and the Facebook page is “Cillbilly’s snowcone.” easier for him to balance his duties as billy’s feel like a family-friendly place for

By Bailey Vassalli business owner and college student when people to enjoy snowcones. He is just Staff Photographer he attended East Central College, about a good with people.” @BaileyVassalli half hour away from the Sullivan ChillMason has been going to Chillbilly’s Chillbillys is a popular snowcone billys – but admits it could be more diffi- with Fleer since the Sullivan location opened earlier this month. He says that stand in Sullivan and owner Aldwin Fleer cult now that he is further away.

“Being a full-time student and a full- the business is booming and he cannot is planning to expand his business to this time business owner will be more diffi- imagine how busy the new location will Springfield area this summer.

Fleer, a sophomore business adminis- cult than before since I have two loca- be whenever it opens.

“This is the meeting place in Sullitration major, has owned the stand since tions to manage,” Fleer said. “I have faith van,” Kayley Sappington, Chillbilly’s he graduated high school in 2013. He in what I can do.”

The newest Chillbillys location will be customer said. “I could definitely see it bought the business from his brother for $17,500. His brother offered to let him opening mid-June with no specific day becoming a hangout spot for college-aged pay half and then pay the rest whenever set just yet. Fleer hopes to find a vacant students in Springfield, too.” lot to park his trailer and sell snow cones Customers can keep updated with he started working and making money.

“I sat on that for a while,” Fleer said. from throughout the summer, but if that Chillbillys and keep an eye out for the “But I took the chance, and the first two falls through he will serve from various opening date of the Springfield location on social media. They can follow Fleer’s weeks that I worked it I could see that vendor approved lots.

“Chillbillys is going to be really suc- Instagram @chillbillysnowcones11, add people were really excited about it.”

Fleer made his money back quicker cessful when it comes to Springfield,” the snapchat account “chillbillys,” and than he had originally expected, and says said Justin Mason, freshman business like the Facebook page “ChillBilly’s owning the business has paid off. It was management major. “Aldwin made Chill- snowcone.”

Twenty-one Missouri State University Acting and Musical Theatre seniors hoped to jump-start their careers by spending 10 days in Los Angeles, where they got to perform for industry professionals and MSU alumni.

The focus of the trip was the 2016 BFA Acting Industry Showcase, the students performed on April 5. The showcase consisted of the seniors performing an hour of five-minute scenes they had been practicing.

“I did a scene called The Office,” Kate McAllister, senior acting major said. “The scene was set in a sitcom format, so we watched several existing sitcom shows to get the timing down. The Office is about two girls who work at this soul-crushing job and dream of being something much more.”

“The performances went amazingly,” McAllister said. “It was a blast to be up there with the people you have seen grow and who have supported you for the last four years.”

Apart from the L.A. Showcase on April 5, the seniors took part in a wide range of activities from script readings to voice workshops, as well as a tour of CBS studios.

“Every day was packed with wonderful opportunities set up by our professors and Missouri State alumni,” McAllister said.

Among the other seniors on the trip was Sean Simpson, who plans on moving to Los Angeles after graduation to pursue his acting career.

“One thing that stuck out was that Bill Holmes, our voiceover workshop instructor, said the most fun he had was when he was just starting his career with his comedy group doing shows at bars,” Simpson said. “I can see how that was fun, struggling and working your ass off because you love this craft.”

Every spring, the L.A. Showcase continues to present incredible opportunities for graduating seniors to further develop their skills, as well as giving them a chance at representation in a fun environment.

“This trip was an awesome experience and I feel incredibly blessed that I was able to participate!”

McAllister said in an email from Los Angeles.

Guest speaker visits Drury University to discuss Free Exercise Clause

By Ryan Day Staff Reporter

On Wednesday, renowned professor and legal scholar Brian Leiter appeared at Drury University to give a talk over his book “Why Tolerate Religion?” a book which examined the case law and philosophic underpinnings regarding the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.

Leiter explained he views the Free Exercise Clause as a

broader right to conscience in general, that regarding a general sense of “certain things we must do and things we must not do.” As such, he claimed that answers for religious toleration were not just limited to religion.

During the Q and A portion of the talk, he also gave his view on recent important Supreme Court cases, including the controversial Hobby Lobby decision, which let the company deny its employees health coverage of contraception based on its religious objections; and that of Hosanna-Tabor, which

allowed a Catholic school to fire one of its teachers for being diagnosed with narcolepsy and not be sued for this due to the ministerial exception in the Civil Rights Act. The lecture was part of a joint effort between students and professors in the Philosophy, Law and Religious Studies departments from Evangel, Missouri State, and Drury. As part of this program, Leiter also gave workshops Thursday on the campuses of Evangel and MSU campuses.

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way before it’s all said and done. But, based on how the football program has fared since I’ve been here and even before then, it might be a lost cause. MSU hasn’t won a conference championship since 1990, which is also the last time the team made the playoffs. Based on attendance each year, it’s hard to see how the program brings in any kind of revenue. If the school spends money on improving facilities, would they make that money back or even make a profit? It’s hard to say they would.

We have other sports that, while they may not be as popular as football, still manage to have more success. The men’s and women’s swimming teams have had a lot of success over the course of several consecutive years. The women’s team won seven conference championships in a row. The men’s team sent swimmers to the NCAA Championships two years in a row. These teams haven’t seen any kind of improvement to their facilities.

They have the same swimming pool inside Hammons Student Center.

The baseball team hosted a regional last year and have a legitimate shot at doing it again this year, but they don’t have their own venue. They share Hammons Field with the Springfield Cardinals, which denied them the opportunity to host a Super Regional against Arkansas last year. What if that same thing happens again this year? They worked hard and should have been rewarded with hosting last year’s Super Regional. This isn’t fair to them.

MSU should reward teams who win with new facilities and not teams who don’t win. Stec makes a valid point in explaining why he needs new facilities, but this is something the school should have addressed a long time ago. When the university hired Terry Allen, he was promised upgrades. Those upgrades didn’t come until the last year of his contract, and the only upgrades made were to the stadium, but not the weight room. He was dismissed after his contract ended, despite never getting everything he was promised.

If the football team can’t win or even bring in revenue for the athletic department, there’s really no reason in having it. Either wait and see if something can turn around, or scrap the program all together. The school can invest money in the winning products they already have.

The football team was 1-11 last year. The program should show it can be successful before the university spends money on improvements.

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He’s not the first instance of this, nor will he be the last. held close in someone’s heart. So go listen to “Little Red The same sort of thing happens nearly every time. I can’t Corvette,” “Space Oddity” or “Dr. Love.” Celebrate the life tell you the number of times I saw Robin Williams quotes, of those who are gone but will never be forgotten. clips and images all over Facebook in the few months following his death. David Bowie, Maureen O’Hara, the list goes on.

These legends and paradigm-shifters become a part of our households. They become part of our families. But when they pass on, sure, we post some memorable quotes or pictures in memoriam. But then, we move on.

Moving on is normal, don’t get me wrong. If you never move on, you can become stuck, forever in pain, which is a rough place to be. Moving on doesn’t mean to forget, though.

One thing that I’ve come to experience in the grieving process is that connecting positive memories of those who have passed on to things in our day-to-day is one of the best ways to remember and honor their memory. While this is a neat thing to do for celebrities important to you, it’s a wonderful practice for those personally close to you.

Another interesting way to connect memories of those we’ve lost is to connect some of those meaningful works by your favorite artist who just passed on—David Bowie for instance—to another one of your family members who may have already passed as well. Then both memories will hold a prominent and positive spot in your heart.

For myself, I’ve connected the party-loving, energetic music of KISS to the memory of my late Uncle Brandon, an avid KISS fan. Every time I listen to the melancholic tones of “Detroit Rock City” or the party starting melodies of “Rock and Roll All Nite,” he’s there.

Though celebrities may be part of our adopted family on occasion, it’s important to remember that they have family, too. Somebody is still waiting for that person to arrive on their front doorstep.

Death itself is a peculiar thing. Celebrity death can be even stranger. Remember that celebrities are people too, and just like your own friends and family, they want to be remembered and

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So you think you can dance?

Students will show off their dance skills during Thursday’s Spring Dance Concert

By Sarah Shepard Copy Editor

The Theatre and Dance Department is preparing to debut the annual Spring Dance Concert on Thursday, April 28.

This year, the concert doesn’t have a specific theme. Sara Brummel, dance instructor and coordinator of the concert, said that the pieces this year are about “moving images and pictures in movement.” Brummel advised those planning to go to the concert to not get hung up on trying to find a story within the pieces.

“Approach (the concert) the way one would approach a contemporary art exhibit. Just let the images wash over them,” Brummel said. “Each piece has a distinct quality to it.”

The concert will include an eclectic mix of dance styles, including tap and contemporary ballet. There will be a total of nine pieces, including two pieces performed with live original music by Kyle Aho, music instructor.

Sophomore dance major Austin Grigg spoke about the preparation going in to the concert.

“Every Sunday we rehearsed for four hours with Inertia Dance Company and Ruth would teach us all the movement that would be included in the dance,” Grigg said.

Ruth Barnes, a theatre and dance professor, is one of the MSU faculty members who choreographed some of the pieces.

Grigg said that after they had been rehearsing for a while, Barnes would make parts become more personal to each individual dance, exploring their own style.

“This performance put me in a new mindset within the dance,” Grigg said.

The Theatre and Dance Department brought in a guest choreographer, Mark Santillano, to choreograph one of the nine pieces. Santillano is a Missouri State alum who has worked extensively with Pilobolus, a widely acclaimed dance company known for its unique and creative style.

The piece that he choreographed is called “Queen for a Day”, and it features eight student

dancers. According to Brummel, “Queen for a Day” is modern in style with some hints of old Hollywood. Auditions were held, and then he spent a week with the students in order to prepare the piece.

While senior theatre and dance major Emily Rankin is not dancing in the piece that Santillano choreographed, she was able to take one of his master classes in partnering.

“He pushed us to limits that we didn’t know we were capable of reaching,” Rankin said. “He got us out of our comfort zones very quickly.”

The production will run throughout the weekend at Craig Hall in the Coger Theatre with performances at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday through Saturday and a 2:30 p.m. performance on Sunday. Tickets are $14 for adults and $12 for students and seniors, but tickets are only $8 if bought in advance with an MSU ID. “Come with an open mind,” Brummel said. “Interpret things the way that they want to interpret. There’s no right or wrong.”

To buy tickets visit http://www.missouristatetix.com

Photo courtesy of the Theatre & Dance Department

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Board of Governors approves new campus resources

By Matt Campanelli Standard Trainee

A meeting from the Board of Governors Executive Committee saw the approval of new equipment in the Foster Recreation Center.

The board approved a motion that would allow the Free Motion Fitness treadmills from Orthotech Sports Medical Equipment, Incorporated. The new treadmills will be replacing similar treadmills that are already located in the rec center.

“I think it’s nice that we can keep up with new equipment in the rec,” said senior student worker Chris Cahill. “The cardio machines are usually busy and seeing new ones for people to use will be cool to see.”

The elevators will be purchased using funds from the student activity fee.

Other items on the list included the renewing of security contracts for events at JQH Arena and approving an outside source to evaluate grants for the Viticulture and Enology Science and Technology Alliance.

In March, the board also approved to remove Red Mango from the Plaster Student Union food court and replace it with Burrito Bowl. According to approved minutes from the Missouri State University website, Burrito Bowl will serve food such as rice bowls, burritos, quesadillas, salads and street tacos.

MO State Quest for the Cup team wins Quest for the Cup Challenge

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The Speech Language Hearing Clinic’s Quest for the Cup team won the Quest for the Cup Challenge at the Missouri Speech-Language-Hearing Association convention April 7-10 in Osage Beach.

The team included second year graduate students Kalli Conner, Riley Hammond, Megan Goforth, Cassaundra Lowe, Kelsey Dethrow and Christian Wall. This is the third year in a row the team has won the Quest for the Cup Challenge.

The cup goes back to the university that wins each year.

The team also won a plaque, and each person on the team won a voucher to pay for their Praxis exam, which is $120 for speech pathologists.

“We were very happy,” Dethrow said. “It was great to bring home the cup another year.”

MSHA has hosted the convention every year for the last 13 years. It is an event to prepare students to become speech pathologists, audiologists or speech therapist educators for the deaf or hard of hearing. Universities from across the state come together

for this event and each university’s team competes against each other by answering questions to prepare for their national exam.

The Quest for the Cup Challenge consists of 20 questions that could be on the Praxis exam. The questions are over topics like assessment intervention, professional issues, screening and all of the diagnoses they work with. It is organized to prepare the students to study for their national exam.

Our team tied at the half with Southeast Missouri State University, but pulled ahead in the final ten questions.

Clinic Director of Communication Sciences and Disorders Jill Oswalt said there was a lot of pressure on the team, because the team won the challenge four times in the past five years and many undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty and alumni attended the event.

“If you’re taking a national exam, there’s a lot of pressure from that to begin with, and to me, it would be really hard to be in front of your professors, your classmates, past graduates and people you don’t know as well answering these questions,” Oswalt said. “It

says a lot for the students that they’re willing to do that to represent the university … It was quite the honor that they answered so easily. They answered with confidence.

Obviously they had studied, so we appreciate that as faculty.”

Dethrow said each person on the team had their own area of expertise, so they made a rule that if there was a discrepancy, the person in the area the question was covering would have the final say on the answer.

“At first, it was kind of nerve-wracking looking out and seeing everyone, but I think our team had a good strategy.”

Dethrow said the team studied as a group a couple times and they each studied on their own once they chose their areas of expertise. They also already knew some of the material from when they studied for the comprehensive exams for all of their classes.

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Cash’s presentation was on Christian counseling.

The presentation was presented by W.K. Boyce, executive director of SMFI. When asked whether he would counsel gay couples, Boyce said he would counsel them individually but not together since homosexuality goes against his religious beliefs, but he would refer the couple to another counselor if they wanted to seek couple counseling.

According to the lawsuit, shortly after the presentation, Perryman told Cash his internship at SMFI would be terminated and that SMFI would be taken off the Department of Counseling’s list of accepted internship places due to “ethical concerns.”

Perryman asked a hypothetical question about whether or not Cash would counsel gay couples. Cash said he would do what Boyce had recommended and counsel the people individually, but not as couples since it would be against his religious beliefs.

He would refer them to another counselor.

The lawsuit stated Cash’s “approach to counseling is centered on his core beliefs, values and Christian worldview and these would not be congruent with the likely values and needs of a gay couple.”

Perryman told him he could not have those views because they were “unethical” and went against the American Counseling Association’s code of ethic as “discriminatory toward gay people,” according to the lawsuit.

Cash said Perryman allowed him to find another place to intern at. After Cash submitted his application for a new internship, he was placed on a remediation plan, which required Cash to attend 10 counseling sessions about countertransference issues and participate in some supervised practicum sessions. The plan also audited two courses that Cash had already passed, and told Cash that he had to complete a self-assessment. All of these steps in the plan would be reviewed by a committee.

The committee decided the 51 faceto-face hours Cash had done at SMFI were invalid. Cash appealed to Counseling Department Head Tamara Arthaud, the Dispositional and Retention Committee, the Dean of College of Education and the Provost office. All of these appeals were denied. Cash claimed he was not provided any evidence of concerns.

At the end of 2014, Cash was told

by Counseling Department Head

Tamara Arthaud and the Dean of College of Education that he was removed from the MSU counseling master’s program. The lawsuit stated Cash had a 3.81 GPA and no violations on his record.

One of Cash’s lawyers, Thomas Olp, is from the Thomas More Society, a chicago public interest law firm that represents people on religious freedom issues. He said it was ridiculous that Cash was kicked out of the program because of his answer to Perryman’s question.

“It was a hypothetical question, so why would you be thrown out of a program based on a hypothetical question?” Olp said.

According to the lawsuit, Cash filed a complaint with the Office of Institutional Equity and Compliance. The office said after its investigation that “it was inconclusive that religious discrimination had occurred” but “that Dr. Perryman’s personal feelings about this experience were the catalyst for (Cash’s) dismissal from (the) internship.”

The lawsuit stated this report was dismissed when Cash made his appeal.

MSU Spokeswoman Suzanne Shaw said she would not comment on the pending litigation but said MSU “strictly prohibits discrimination on the basis of religion or any other protected class.”

According to Shaw, MSU has not been served with the lawsuit as of Friday morning.

The defendants in this case are Perryman, MSU Board of Governors, MSU President Clif Smart, Arthaud and Angela Anderson, who was in charge of the remediation plan.

Smart said he couldn’t comment on the case since he has not seen the petition yet. However, he said he did not understand why he was a defendant in the case since he had “no role in any decision related to this student.”

Olp said Cash is not seeking a specific amount of money in the lawsuit but wants to be re-admitted to the MSU counseling master’s program so that he can complete the program and get a degree.

In 2006, a similar lawsuit was filed

by Emily Brooker, a student who claimed to have been discriminated against by social work faculty members after she voiced her opposition to homosexual adoption. MSU settled this lawsuit out-of-court. MSU cleared Brooker’s academic record and gave Brooker about $27,000 towards schooling.

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the university was all-white. Terry Walls continued to look for additional information and found letters between Roy Ellis, the president of SMS, and other university presidents. These letters reportedly refer to Mary Walls as “the colored girl,” the article says.

The article adds that the university’s board of regents met specifically to discuss Mary Walls’s case.

They denied her admission because the classes she wanted to take were available in Jefferson City at Lincoln University, an all-black college.

However, Mary Walls couldn’t afford Jefferson City. The all-black college was also four hours away and Mary Walls’s father recently fell ill, so the move would be too far.

Her dream was to be a teacher. In 2010, MSU gave her the first-ever honorary bachelor’s degree. Now, the MRC Annex will bear her name When asked how the naming made her feel, Mary Walls said “like a celebrity.”

According to Dee Siscoe, vice president for student affairs, the naming was spurred by a letter of demands received in the fall from a group of students. One of the demands was a recommendation that the annex be named after Mary Walls.

Siscoe sent emails out to students informing them and asking for additional ideas. Students voted on the naming on the Student Government Association ballot.

“We wanted to make sure that everyone was

involved in the decision making,” Siscoe said.

While the MRC Annex has been open for a couple weeks, the grand opening was on Friday.

“I think it’s wonderful,” Siscoe said. “Earlier you couldn’t walk in here; it was packed, it was crowded.

We’ve had lots of people come and go so I’m very happy.”

Students, faculty and members of the community visited the annex on Friday. Mary Walls’s daughter Sonya “Missy” Walls was there as well.

“It feels great, outstanding, wonderful, I can’t put it all in words. This is like history in the making,” Sonya Walls said. “We are so proud that this building is being named after her. She deserves it.”

The new building offers a number of services to students, such as a study room, kitchen and the LGBTQ Resource Center.

“I hope that students will come over here, hang out, have small study meetings, have organization meetings, events in the evening or weekend,” Siscoe said.

Mary Walls was at the grand opening, munched on cheese and crackers and sipped on punch while she talked to people who came to see her.

“She has come a long way from the time when she couldn’t go to school to getting her undergraduates degree,” Sonya Walls said. “I am really proud of the university for making this right with her.”

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known to be a fighter out on the court and I know she’s always going to give it 100 percent.

Today she just came up short.”

The only win of the day for the Bears was a tough battle, ultimately won by Turudija with a final score of 6-3, 2-6, 7-5.

After losing the second set, Turudija battled back to win, and it did not go unnoticed by Weber.

“That’s a great win for Ema,” Weber said. “It came down to mental toughness, and both of them were competing physically at a very high level and Ema just got the edge and finished really well.”

With the regular season concluded for the Bears, they look forward to the Missouri Valley Conference tournament, where they will open things up on April 29 against the Bulldogs of Drake University.

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Freshman Faty Khamissi returns a serve against an SIU opponent during the Bears last home match of the spring 2016 season.

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government to do something — but at some point, it went into a bad cause, and they started just kidnapping for money.”

As Anosike has witnessed in recent years, these kidnappings are used to further one’s agenda. Founded in 2002, Boko Haram has been threatening the people of Nigeria for more than a decade now through abductions, assassinations and bombings.

“My country is known for its corruption, and that is the biggest problem in Nigeria,” Anosike said.

The age of Boko Haram militants

Boko Haram’s official name is Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad, which in Arabic means “People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad,” according to BBC. Boko Haram’s founding leader, Mohammed Yusuf, was killed in 2009 after launching campaigns across the country to create an Islamic state.

“When he started this, everyone thought it was a joke, but when it started getting serious, the government took it seriously and they arrested (Yusuf) and executed him,” Anosike said.

“When he died, a year or so (later) someone from (his former) group started it again. When they killed (Yusuf), they arrested most of (his group) and put them in prison. When it started again in 2010, they got a new leader, (Abubakar Shekau,) and he is still the leader up to now.”

Boko Haram militants broke into Bauchi Prison and freed more than 700 inmates, over 100 of those from Boko Haram, in a revolutionary 2010 prison break. After this victory for the Islamic sect, the attacks worsened under President Goodluck Johnathan.

“When those (Boko Haram members) broke out of prison … they (came together) stronger than before. (The violence) became even worse,” Anosike said. “(Boko Haram) carried out a lot of attacks. They go to the parks … because they know there is a crowd. They go into the market, and they bomb. They go to the mall, they bomb.”

The bombings started escalating when Boko Haram thought the government wasn’t paying attention.

“They did that a few times and the government wasn’t taking it seriously until they went to the (United Nations) headquarters in Abuja … and they bombed it,” Anosike said. “(Boko Haram has) killed … thousands of people in my country.”

Anosike has not had any family or friends from his tribe, Igbo, affected from the violence in the north, because his tribe is an eastern tribe, and many families in the east do not travel north.

Hope is not lost

Anosike has returned to the north twice.

“The last time I went there, I went to get my birth certificate (to travel) because you have to

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Drones go back to the state (where you were born) to get your birth certificate in my country,” he said.

“So I went back there and I saw how things were, and it’s much different from how it was before I left.”

“We have 36 states in my country, and (Borno state, where Maiduguri is located) was at least the top-10 nicest places we liked to visit,” he continued. “When I went there when I was 15, it was still OK, but when I went back there when I was 22, everything had changed.

I’m sure the Boko Haram problem displaced … millions of people from that state, so the place was very empty and people had run for their lives. Most of the buildings had collapsed.

Everything was different than what I saw seven years before. I was scared.”

Anosike said he believes people do not understand Africa until they visit and learn about the people. “(Africa) is not what people think it is,” he said. “I’ve heard a lot of people asking me some weird questions about my country, like, ‘When you wake up, do you see lions and tigers?’ I remember when I was a kid, if I (was) coming back from school, I (could) walk into any of my neighbors’ houses and just grab something to eat. They don’t have to know me … we live a very community (style) life.”

Anosike said he thinks the situation in Nigeria can improve if the government takes it seriously.

“Most of Nigeria is so corrupt, and the government plays politics every time,” he said.

“They do not care about the people.”

Anosike’s family is currently spread across Nigeria. His sister is living in Lagos, his brother is in the east for college, and his father remains in Rivers state. Anosike said he hopes to return to Nigeria after earning his degree and spending some more time in the States.

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Preston specializes in television commercials, event photography and videography, wedding photo/video, precision agriculture and closedset movie production.

Preston will talk about it from his professional perspective and the experiences he has had with using drones.

Horton and Preston plan to join knowledge and experience to provide an enjoyable and informational course and to shed light on the unknowns about drones.

One of the things that people don’t understand with drone ownership is there is a lot of responsibility associated with drones. Drones can be dangerous, trespassers and create many problems that drone owners may not have prior knowledge about.

“It’s not like buying a model airplane that you fly in the middle of your backyard,” Horton said. “Drones go very high in the sky. If you live near West Bypass or the airport and if you were flying a drone and it collided with an airplane, you’d be in some huge trouble.”

Horton and Preston hope to not run into that trouble with students during this intersession course. They are going to teach students how to avoid these legal and ethical issues.

“It’s a great class; I think people will gain a lot from it, especially now with drones being so affordable,” Horton said. “It will be great for people that just want to learn how to use one.”

The class is open for registration, class registration number or CRN is 34998.

MSHA

Continued from page 12 “It was good to be back together and share our experiences from the semester,” Dethrow said.

Also at the convention, second year graduate student Jessie Goben was nominated for Outstanding Graduate Student by the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.

“It was such an honor to be nominated as Outstanding Graduate Student,” Goben said. “I am so grateful I had the opportunity to represent MSU at the MSHA convention while being surrounded by the classmates and faculty who have made the past two years such a memorable time in my life. It was the perfect way to finish my career at MSU and I look forward to what the future holds.”

Second year graduate students Kristen Box and Kaitlin Maher as well as Dethrow received honorable mentions for their posters in the category of outstanding graduate research. Everybody in the graduate program has to do a presentation.

Maher and Box were paired together on their presentation of the investigation of parent/child interaction between digital and print storybooks, and Dethrow’s presentation was her research on how different people with aphasia reacted to a community music-making group.

“That was exciting, too,” Dethrow said about winning an honorable mention. “It was an allaround great weekend and conference.”.”

Lacrosse

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Then back-and-forth scoring ensued and the first half ended with Baptist leading 5-3, the third goal for the Bears coming from freshman midfielder Trent Hagedorn, who scored his after juking out a couple Spartans.

After the Bears hung around for a solid first half, the Spartans’ started pulling away. They went on a 3-0 run before junior attackman Zach Matthews scored, leaving the score 8-4.

But it was too little too late and the Bears fell in their home finale, 8-4.

After the game, Hanes mentioned that even though it was his last home game, he wasn’t letting the fact get to him.

“We just tried to go out there and have fun,” he said. “Focused on beating Baptist, obviously didn’t get that done, but we had a good time.”

Goodwin called the game “bittersweet.”

“We played a hell of a game,” Goodwin said proudly. “We couldn’t pull it out, but I’m actually really proud of everybody for the effort they put in.”

Less than 24 hours later, the Bears took to the road to face a 3-8 Billiken team from Saint Louis University.

And the team took care business and finished the season strong, winning 9-7.

The Bears finished the season at a record of 8-4, an improvement from their 2015 record at 5-6.

The Bears did well enough in the regular season to be awarded the opportunity to participate in postseason play, something the Bears haven’t been a part of in three years.

And that’s something the entire team is excited about.

As for the seniors, their life will take turns

for their futures that are far from the lacrosse field.

Gander plans on moving back to St. Louis to find a job in procurement with his degree in logistics and supply management, while Hanes will be getting his degree in criminology and hopes to be a police officer.

Krick hopes to work in an IT job with a degree in CIS, and Goodwin wants to go to culinary school with his hospitality and management degree.

Up next, Bears will represent the No. 2 seed from their region and travel to face the No. 1 seed of another region in the Quarterfinal of the GRLC Division II tournament.

The Bears’ opponent will be 3-8 Robert Morris University–Illinois, a team that lost 109 to Emory University. Missouri State previously beat the Eagles 10-6.