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Burglary reported at fraternity house HANNA SUMPTER Senior Reporter @hannasumpter

“Where’s Johnny at?” asked a thief after waking Madison Arteaga, a sophomore studying dietetics, and her boyfriend at the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house in the early morning hours on April 21.

The thief was attempting to take Arteaga’s phone, laying on her boyfriend, as they slept. After waking up, her boyfriend asked the thief what he was doing.

The thief merely asked about “Johnny,” and Arteaga’s boyfriend told him to leave. That was the last time the thief has been seen since the incident.

“It’s honestly anyone’s worst nightmare,” Arteaga said. “It’s what you see in movies. I was just stunned; I didn’t know what to do in the moment.”

Arteaga also said she doesn’t know of any “Johnny” living at the fraternity house.

The thieves stole Apple products including a MacBook and iPad, game consoles, cellphones, wallets, cash, headphones and a phone charger sometime after 4 a.m. The 911 call came in at 4:32 a.m., according to Lisa Cox, the public affairs officer with the u See BURGLARY, page 11

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Friends and family support each other through the reading of the names of those lost this past year at the Missouri State campus-wide memorial service at Plaster Student Union on April 26.

Administration honors 13 lost Bears CHLOE SKAAR Senior Reporter @chloeskaar At the fourth Missouri State memorial service, administration honored scientists and singers, artists and athletes, educators and eccentrics — the 13 Bears campus lost in the last year.

Nine were students, two were faculty and two were staff.

“The list is too long, and many on the list left us way too soon,” MSU President Clif Smart said, before reading Psalms 23 — one of his favorite Psalms that helps him with grief. “My prayer for all of us

today is for God’s comfort. … As we celebrate today the lives of those who left us this year.”

Dave Embree, director of Christian Campus House and religious studies professor at MSU, said, through his spiritual work on campus, he is no stranger to grief.

Like Smart, he said he turns to Psalms and passages in the Bible written by King David for hope in grieving times.

“We come here today — parents, family, coworkers, students, teachers, colleagues, associates and friends — to pay tribute to and honor individuals who were with us not so long ago,” Embree said.

“Those we are honoring today were born

as close to here as Springfield itself and as far away as Germany. They were cut off before they ever made it to MSU, or they made it to age 77 before departing. They were taken by disease and violence and despair. … The stories differ, but the impact they made remains deep.”

Thomas Lane, dean of students at MSU, read the list of Bears who are now missing from their classrooms, dorms and offices.

Around him, seated in circles, families and friends cried and laughed together as Lane read their memories from times spent with their lost loved ones.

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Safety and Transportation director to retire Roles in safety department shift with new hire EMILY COLE Staff Reporter @EMCole19 Several personnel changes have been announced in the Department of Safety and Transportation this week.

Safety and Transportation director Tom Johnson will be retiring File photo/The Sept. 1 after three years Standard at Missouri State UniTom Johnversity. In his former role, Johnson was in son to retire charge of safety, trans- Sept. 1.

portation and parking.

University emergency manager David Hall will now be overseeing safety, emergency management, parking and transportation in addition to his existing duties.

Recent hire Cole Pruitt has been named transportation manager, a new position that encompasses the responsibilities of the previous position of parking-transit supervisor, along with some additional responsibilities, according to Hall. He joined the university staff April 2.

Pruitt, along with Associate Director of Safety and Transportation Andrew Englert and Radio Communication and Safety Technology manager Jacob Welch, will now report to Hall. In the past, the parking-transit supervisor reported to Englert, who then reported to Hall.

“When Tom Johnson announced his retirement, it seemed a natural fit to have that then reporting up through me,” Hall said.

The transportation manager will supervise three areas that Pruitt calls “the Big Three.”

He will have direct responsibility for the Bear Line shuttles, the university motor pool and parking. Other duties will include organizing on campus events by arranging parking and shuttles, as well as providing shuttles or busses for department or office trips through Fisk Transportation, the company that provides the Bear Line buses.

Pruitt spent six years in the military police. While stationed at Fort Monroe in Virginia, he was a traffic accident investigator in charge of coordinating parking for u See SAFETY, page 10

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OSHA investigates MSU owned TV tower collapse Fatality identified as Washington state man CHLOE SKAAR Senior Reporter @chloeskaar

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is conducting an investigation after the KOZK TV tower, owned by Missouri State, fell April 19, killing one employee and hospitalizing three others.

First responders near Fordland, Missouri, were dispatched just before 10 a.m. on April 19 to reports of injured employees. Andrea Mostyn, director of university communications at MSU, said OSHA began their investigation that evening.

It is unclear how long the investigation will take or what the results will find.

Mostyn also confirmed the fatality from the crash was identified to be Steve Lemay, of the state of Washington. He — along with the five other employees working over 100 feet off the ground during the collapse — was doing maintenance on the tower when it fell, according to an MSU press release. They were all external employees from Washington.

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Collaborative Diversity Conference addresses past, present scars of racism MADDIE KNAPP Staff Reporter @mapp_ Moving forward and taking action while acknowledging the past and present scars of racism was the main focus of this year’s Collaborative Diversity Conference, a signature public affairs event at Missouri State University. The conference included several events that invited speakers from all disciplines to discuss this year’s theme “Facing racism in 2018 and beyond: A changing dynamic.”

Damon A. Williams, Plenary Speaker Damon A. Williams, chief catalyst for the Center for Strategic Diversity Leadership and Social Innovation, was the plenary speaker for the conference.

Williams said that moving from awareness to action to innovation is a concept he had been studying and formulating during his career as a visionary and inspirational leader.

“You must be intentional in getting better,” Williams said. “You must stay locked in a continuous learning process about this topic, just as we would encourage our students to be continuous learners about any topic.”

Williams said to be an innovator, one must question, search for solutions across boundaries, engage other innovators, experiment with new ideas, take those ideas to scale and lead with courage, but it is not easy.

“At times being naked in your aloneness, at times being naked in your solidarity in being the first to say something, the first to act,” Williams said.

Finding the courage to speak up and take action usually happens in a time of crisis, Williams said, but he encourages people to find that courage everyday, even without the crisis.

Williams described diversity today as “the perfect storm.” Diversity is composed of multiple connected economies that intersect and elevate the discussion, Williams said.

Williams said this “perfect storm” interconnectivity does not make the discussion easier though. Williams

said social media gives groups the opportunity to be more inclusive or more closed off.

“We live in a world that is becoming increasingly more tribal, but think about that, connection making us more tribal,” Williams said.

Williams mentioned recent movements like Never Again and #MeToo that have made an impact and a change with the help of social media.

“Harvest that energy,” Williams said. “Take it as a moment to move, not just in awareness or action, but innovation.”

NAACP Panel In June 2017, the NAACP issued its first ever travel advisory for the state of Missouri, meaning they recognized several discriminatory incidents that could make traveling for people of color potentially dangerous, according to CNN. James Bonds, a professional development and life coach, led a panel discussion of five people to start a conversation about how the advisory came about, its impact and how the state of Missouri can move forward.

Rod Chapel, owner of The Chapel Law group, said there are clear indicators within Missouri’s past and current laws that were the cause of the advisory being set.

“Missouri has got a long history of racial injustice and intolerance,” Chapel said.

Gov. Eric Greitens signed Senate Bill 43 days before the advisory came about. Chapel said this piece of legislation would make Missouri have “the highest standard for proving discrimination in the nation.” He added that it would make it harder for people to sue businesses if they displayed discriminatory conduct.

“How long do you talk about these issues before you start telling people, ‘You better be careful if you’re going through there,’” Chapel said.

Springfield Police Chief Paul Williams said Springfield is the second whitest city over 100,000 people in the United States.

When Williams came to Springfield eight years ago, Springfield’s

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Damon Williams, author and leader in strategic diversity leadership, speaks to a crowd of students, faculty and administrators at Missouri State University on Thursday, April 26.

150-year-old police force had never had an African American woman police officer.

“We predominantly perpetuated the stereotype of the ‘white male police officer,’” Williams said.

Williams said the Springfield Police Department has made strides in their recruitment efforts, noting there are currently two African American women on the force.

“We try to mirror our community by reaching out and recruiting people that look like us that live here,” Williams said.

Williams said the Springfield Police Department is one of the first agencies in the country to bring in speakers on the issues of implicit bias.

Sandy Howard, Springfield Chamber of Commerce vice president of public affairs, and Tracy Kimberlin, president and CEO of Springfield Convention and Visitors Bureau, both offered advice that businesses or organizations can take locally to create u See DIVERSITY, page 10

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Springfield Police Chief Paul Williams speaks about the NAACP Missouri travel advisory during a panel at Missouri State University. The panel was held in the Plaster Student Union Theater as part of the 2018 Collaborative Diversity Conference.

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Trumble takes on Garst Dining Center COLE TRUMBLE Critic @Cole_Tr Just a week ago, I heard some startling news from the gem of campus dining. Apparently at Garst Dining Center, there was some sort of a hullabaloo.

There was an uproar over a controversy tucked away in someone’s meal that made it on to Snapchat and Twitter and eventually here.

A ruckus of this magnitude could only mean one thing; Garst Dining Center had unveiled a new dish: Le Salade au Mouse.

After hearing of this commotion, I knew what I had to do. I immediately made my

way to our fine and never-atfault dining establishment, swiped my card and sat down to explore the complex array of culinary opportunities that such a dish could offer.

What follows is the one and only review of Garst’s Mouse Salad, in all of its delicious glory.

(Disclaimer: No mice were harmed in the making of this column … No columnists were, either).

The thing about a Mouse Salad is that it is, before it is anything else, an appetizer. As it is such, it is only right to pair it with a suitable entree and drink, and possibly a dessert.

Before I loaded up on rodents and ruffage, I scoped out how one would make a meal

out of this.

Obviously, ratatouille was on the menu for the evening (duh), but similar pairings also include dishes like squirrel stew or fried rabbit, to keep with the rodent theme.

As far as drinks go, I would recommend a mixed beverage aptly named “The Mousetrap” that is half-and-half pink lemonade and vanilla cream soda.

If you can’t get pink lemonade, yellow is fine, and both are conveniently located at Garst.

Instead of opting for the furry friends selection of entrees, I picked up a plate of fries in cheese sauce. Once the meal is well over, I figure the mouse ought to be happy, too.

Next up is the the salad, my reason for this meal. Now,

proper preparation technique is to gather what spinach you like in your salad, top with one whole mouse, and then drizzle an olive oil dressing or vinaigrette on top.

I may be wrong, but I believe this is straight from the Chartwells recipe vault. But don’t tell them I got in.

Sprinkle a little pepper on top if you’re feeling festive and then dig in.

The first bite was … confusing.

I’ll admit, I’m as excited to chomp down on mouse tail as the next guy, but the minimal prep was a bold move, even for the dining halls since they have been so unafraid to cut loose with seasoning — oh wait, I’m talking about the

DINING halls, I got lost for a second.

Anyway, the fur mixed surprisingly well with the spinach, so well that I completely understand why the fuzzy friend was left in without anyone removing it or supposedly noticing.

That’s where it belonged!

The olive oil and balsamic vinegar provided that little taste of bitterness that distracted you from the flavor of your university feeding you whatever was in the traps that morning.

Alternating bites between Stuart Little and the cheesy fries balanced the heavy and light flavors at play and made for an enjoyable dining experience.

Cole Trumble My only hope is that the fine chefs at Chartwells will continue to experiment with new flavors to provide only the forefront of innovative dining.

Perhaps they could take a look at the film “How to Eat Fried Worms” for inspiration.

Smart vision Snapchat gives Spectacles chance to shine, despite expensive past JONATHAN PETESCH Columnist @thepeach1999 In 2016, Snapchat released a pair of smart sunglasses with a camera inside them called Spectacles’.

A year and a half later, Snapchat is releasing a new version of the originally mildly unpopular sunglasses with a few new upgrades.

This time around, Snapchat is making its product more widely available by allowing customers to purchase the glasses online — a stark contrast compared to the first version of Spectacles which had to be purchased at a special vending machine location.

These vending machines contributed to the lack of sales as customers simply couldn’t get to one of these physical locations across the country, even if they were willing to fork out the $130 to buy the Spectacles.

Snapchat ended up making far more than the 150,000 units they sold and took a $40 million loss on the hardware.

Despite the product’s expensive past, Snapchat is still giving Spectacles another chance to shine by updating the looks and functionality of the wearable camera glasses.

Snapchat has updated the Spectacles design, making version two slimmer so the glasses can fit more easily in a pocket or hanging on your shirt.

Snapchat is also releasing multiple new frame colors outside of the basic black frames, which were the only option with the original Spectacles.

Gone is the yellow accent ring around the camera from the original glasses.

Snapchat has also improved the quality of life of Spectacles users by making all backups transfer in HD over the Spectacles’ built-in Wi-Fi network, compared to the original Spectacles system which only let users transfer a few of their favorite snaps in HD. This still does not eliminate the hassle of connecting to the Spectacles’ Wi-Fi network, but it is a step in the right direction especially considering the three to four times faster download speeds when importing snaps to your phone.

Spectacles are also now water resistant, allowing for brief encounters with water to get some shots from in the pool.

In addition to the glasses themselves, the charging case is also water resistant, allowing your glasses to stay safe even if they are charging.

The camera has also been upgraded, which is to be expected, and battery life has remained about the same despite the overall smaller design.

The camera no longer has a standard definition mode, as it eliminated the need for it by

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For those keen on buying a pair of the new Spectacles, they’ll cost $20 more than the original Spectacles, coming in at $150.

The price increase will not affect many customers, especially those who were willing to spend $130 on the original Spectacles but did not get the chance to.

This is still a lot to pay for sunglasses and with many other factors at play, such as limited availability, it is unclear whether price was a determin-

ing factor in the failure of the original Spectacles.

The real question here is whether or not these upgrades will be enough to convince consumers to go buy the second-generation Spectacles.

Of course, only time will tell, but with more widespread availability and better specs, the only things that will hurt the new Spectacles are going to be their previous reputation as a commercial failure and Snapchat’s dwindling user base following the controversial winter app update.

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RUNNING FOR A CAUSE

Missouri State junior trekking from San Francisco to Boston to raise money for cancer patients Baltimore. In her role, she provides the students with a training plan, supports their fundraising efforts and provides a point of contact to all Imagine going on a sumthe participants on the road. mer road trip from San Francisco, California, to Boston, “Teams give out chemo Massachusetts. It would take care bags and meet with patients,” Eddy said. “They stay 46 hours to drive over 3,000 at volunteer hosts like churchmiles across the country.

Now imagine the same trip es, schools or community cenon foot. ters and often share meals and After this summer, Misgive presentations to the comsouri State University student munities. 4K participants Ryan Tomlin won’t have to work to create a community of support across the country imagine. He will be running a route between the two cities for those impacted by cancer.” over a 49-day period, and the Eddy said the annual 4K is route he will take will cover one of UCF’s main fundraisers. In the 17 years that the around 4,000 miles. foundation has been sponsorTomlin, a founding father ing the run, it has raised over of Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity and junior marketing $6 million for UCF. management major, is particEach participant has to ipating in the 4K for Cancer raise money leading up to the sponsored by the Ulman Cantrip. Tomlin said he needs to cer Fund for Young Adults. raise $4,500 and, as of April This annual event consists of 26, has earned around $4,000, three runs and three bike mostly in donations from friends and family. He has also rides, all of which are cross-country. completed a bone marrow Tomlin is part of Team transplant drive.

Boston — the group that will Tomlin said he hopes to be running from San Francisraise most of the rest of his co to Boston. The group conmoney through his high school sists of 25 college students cross-country team. They are from across the country who holding a 5K marathon, and half of the proceeds will go to will be running and working Tomlin to help fundraise for together over the almost two UCF. month trip.

The trip begins in San Tomlin got his start runFrancisco on June 17 at Crisning in junior high, where his sy Field. The runners will father was the track and field coach. Ever since, running has make their way across the Golden Gate Bridge and on been a part of his life. to Clearlake, California.

“I find enjoyment in it,” Throughout the following 49 Tomlin said. “I’ve done it for days, the route will take the so long that it’s just part of my team through 16 states across every day now. It kind of can BILL SIOHOLM/THE STANDARD the country. turn a bad day around.”

But Tomlin said he isn’t On Aug. 4, the group will Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity brother, Ryan Tomlin, talks on his preparaend its run in Boston at Boston tions and expectations for his 4,000 mile excursion from coast to coast sure what to expect this sumCommon park. mer. The farthest he’s run in this summer.

This long run may seem impossible, but Tomlin won’t van full of water. They will be running the full 4,000 miles drive ahead, then stop and wait on his own. for the runners and switch off.

“We’re going to do it relay There are also 10 built-in style, so we’ll do partner rest days for the trip. Several runs,” Tomlin said. “We’ll run of these days are also service two or four miles and then days, where participating stuswitch with another group, and dents will volunteer at hospithen just alternate and keep tals, cancer centers or Amerigoing. I think they said eight can Cancer Society Hope to 14 miles a day for each per- Lodges. son.”

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the past was a half marathon he completed last summer. A half marathon is around 13 miles.

To prepare for the 4K for Cancer, Tomlin has been on the organization’s training schedule since around the beginning of the year.

“They’ve kind of eased us in, working up milage each day and each week,” Tomlin said. “I think we’re at about 45 miles a week right now.

Just running, a couple off days and a couple lifting days.”

For Tomlin, a love for running is what led him to discovering the 4K for Cancer, but he also had more personal reasons to want to participate.

Both of Tomlin’s parents are survivors of cancer. As part of the application process for the run, Tomlin had to write several small essays about why he wanted to be involved and what he could bring to his running team.

In one essay, Tomlin wrote about how both of his parents have beaten forms of skin cancer. He said that experience influenced him to participate.

“I know this isn't one of the most dangerous forms of cancer, but it got me thinking,” Tomlin wrote in the essay. “It got me thinking about my future, with both my parents having had cancer and considering I have the same skin complexion as them, so it was only a matter of time for me to think about the possibility of myself being diagnosed. That's the reason why I want to participate.

I don't know what my future holds, and I don't know if I'll ever get an opportunity like this again.”

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•The Golden Gate Bridge •The Loneliest Highway — Route 50 •Grand Teton National Park •Yellowstone National Park •Big Sky Country •The Windy City — Chicago •Adirondack Mountains •Lake Placid Information according to http://4kforcancer. org/2018-team-boston/

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The yellow line running across the above graphic represents the route Ryan Tomlin will trek.

Trumble: ‘Cruel Intentions’ wild and edgy, but worth the watch COLE TRUMBLE Critic @Cole_Tr Today we go retro; I asked for suggestions for movies from the past that not many people had heard of, and today I offer you a doozy of a film.

This particular movie from the year 1999 is called “Cruel Intentions,” and it is one screwed up story. The plot is adapted from a French novel, and let me tell you, it shows; we focus on a stepbrother and stepsister of an affluent New York City family who pass their days by playing tennis at their family estate, driving expensive cars, and oh yeah: sexually manipulating people and destroying their lives. The first scene is the main character Sebastian, played by Ryan

Phillippe, at therapy, and it is revealed that he slept with his therapist’s daughter and posted nude photos of her online to get back at his therapist for overcharging him. His stepsister, Kathryn, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, originally condemns his actions, but only because she considers it, “too easy.” The plot thickens as the two make a bet on if Sebastian can seduce and “deflower” Annette Hargrove, played by Reese Witherspoon, who is the daughter of their prep school’s new headmaster and the author of a column in which she describes why she is waiting until marriage. This presents a significant challenge to Sebastian and also reveals his and Kathryn’s attraction to one another. That’s right. You gotta love French literature.

So right off the bat the movie comes at you saying, “Welcome to this crazy story about these really terrible and manipulative people,” and, honestly, I was super into it.

Okay, I wasn’t into the step-incest thing, but some of my favorite movies focus on initially unlikable characters and I think that it is a really good way to approach deep human themes since they are built off of their flaws. Writer and director for this movie, Roger Kumble, knew exactly how awful characters should be handled and still make a story entertaining. We see these people at the beginning as unredeemable, and, while they don’t necessarily become saints, by the end credits, we do get a full view of the truth that nobody is truly u See REVIEW, page 12

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Rodent reportedly found in Is Chartwells salad in Garst Dining Hall partnership sustainable?

CONNOR WILSON Staff Reporter @Connor4Wilson It was a typical group get-together in Garst Dining Center on Tuesday, which was quickly soured when Missouri State junior radiography major Dan Hammond discovered an unwanted pest in his plate of salad.

“I often eat spinach salads when I’m there, and they have tongs for the spinach, so I just took one heaping tongful of spinach and threw it in my bowl,” Hammond said. “I didn’t really feel or notice anything out of the ordinary. I then sat down, ate about half of the salad and saw something near the bottom of the bowl that didn’t look right.”

Hammond had found a dead mouse at the bottom of his bowl of salad.

“We all freaked out; we didn’t know what to do at first, and credit to Dan, he stayed calm the entire time,” freshman political science major Adam Lightner said. “He didn’t freak out. He was shocked but didn’t get dramatic or make it bigger than it was.”

It didn’t take long for the story to go viral. Lightner, as well as others who were present, shared photos of the mouse on Twitter and Snapchat, and from there the ripple started.

More and more people took screenshots and reshared what they saw until it was campus-wide news and beyond.

“Last time I checked (the tweet), it had 17,000 impressions,” Lightner said. “So 17,000 people have seen his tweet. And then it’s made Springfield local news and it was on USA Today and St. Louis Post Dispatch, so that reaches ... thousands of people, so a lot of people know about it.

Missouri State’s in trouble for this one.”

Missouri State’s Vice President for Marketing and Communications Suzanne Shaw, as well as Missouri State Dining’s Director of Marketing Nicole Young, directed The Standard to Meredith Bracken, the director of brand voice and digital strategy for Chartwells Higher Education, the

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Screenshot of junior radiography major Dan Hammond’s tweet (@chefyak) from April 24, which calls attention to a mouse reportedly found in salad at Garst Dining Hall on Missouri State’s campus. dining services provider that runs Missouri State Dining, who responded with an emailed statement.

“On Wednesday, a small mouse was discovered by a student in their spinach salad, which had originated from a pre-packaged, pre-washed bag of spinach from one of our suppliers,” Bracken said. “We take food safety very seriously and have since taken immediate action to make sure that any products from that supplier have been removed from the dining hall.

Bracken assured that they con-

tacted the supplier and won’t be utilizing their products until Chartwells can be assured corrections to prevent this from happening again have been made, and that the dining hall has since been sanitized.

“We requested a site visit from the local health department and they came on site yesterday afternoon,” Bracken said in the statement. “After a thorough inspection, it was confirmed that there was no evidence of rodents in the dining hall and that this incident was likely isolated to the product from our supplier.”

From lush towers harvesting plants in the dining halls to compostable corn plastic trash bags, Missouri State, partnering with Chartwells, is working to create a sustainable, healthy and enjoyable eating environment for students on campus.

“When students come to campus, a lot of them are leaving home for the first time, and we provide essentially the kitchen for them that they would have had in their home before,” Nicole Young, Missouri State University’s director of marketing of dining services, said. “The perk about us is that in their kitchen at home they didn’t have ready-made hot meals that they didn’t have to do a lot to acquire.”

Young works for Chartwells Higher Education Dining Services, the food service provider for all of Missouri State University’s food service facilities and about 289 other schools, from the dining halls to the Plaster Student Union, Meyer Library and Strong Hall.

Chartwells, while partnering with Missouri State, has worked to create a more sustainable environment for all students, faculty and individuals who come through campus.

For example, Chartwells employs two students from the agricultural department to work in the Zip Grow Room, at Kentwood Hall.

Within this Zip Grow Room, these student employees work to grow plants from seed form to harvest to be served in the dining halls. Once

the plants are ready to harvest, the towers of plants are transferred into the individual dining centers so the cooks can harvest the food on site.

“That’s about as local as you can possibly get,” Young said.

Foods such as cilantro, basil, parsley, dill, chervil, red leaf lettuce, baby romaine, kale and chips are all grown on campus.

“These (zipgrow towers) are industry changing. … We have dedicated space to it, dedicated labor dollars and dedicated time to make sure its successful,” Quinten Easton, resident district manager for Chartwells, said.

Young and Easton, with Rachel Veenstra, a MSU student and one of the interns in the Zip Grow Room, presented at a conference put on by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability and Higher Education discussing their innovative ideas on Zip Grow Towers.

According to Young and Easton, Missouri State University was the first school out of all universities to have Zip Grow Towers. Easton has worked, through Chartwells, to train other schools on how to start this process.

Chartwells, with Missouri State, has also worked to limit the amount of waste created by the, according to Young, 21,000 individuals that use the dining halls, and 42,000 individuals who use all food service providers, in an average week.

Young said Chartwells regularly charts the food wasted in the dining halls. According to Young, when Chartwells first came on campus in 2011, the average student wasted 0.27 pounds every meal. u See expanded version on the-standard.org

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(Left) The Bears celebrate their first MVC Championship since 2002 on Sunday after defeating Northern Iowa.

(Below) Freshman Ellie Burger and senior Anelisse Torrico Moreno hug after Burger clinched the championship for the Bears.

(Left) Senior Anelisse Torrico Moreno elevates slightly to play her return to her opponent in the MVC Championship. The Bears defeated Bradley, Drake and Northern Iowa on three straight days to win the championship.

(Right) Junior Phoebe Boeschen returns a serve from her opponent during the MVC Championship.

Boeschen gave the Bears their winning point against Drake in the semifinals.

Bears take MVC Championship for the first time since 2002 Story by AMANDA SULLIVAN Photos by KAITLYN STRATMAN Winning the Missouri Valley Conference Championship was the last place junior Fati Khamissi thought the Missouri State tennis team would end up at the beginning of the season.

But, on a very windy April Sunday, the Bears did just that.

It all started early on Friday morning against Bradley.

The Bears tallied their first doubles point against an MVC opponent of the season against the Braves.

“Our mindset going into the match was to get up in doubles and win the point right away,” freshman Ellie Burger said. “I think Alye (Darter) and I wanted to go out there and give it all we had to ensure that we got that point.”

The Bears had a noticeable energy as they stepped onto the courts for their singles matches. Burger, Khamissi and senior Abbey Belote gave the Bears the remaining points needed to defeat the Braves 4-0.

Next up for Missouri State: No. 1 Drake.

During the last weekend of the regular season, the Bears fell to Drake 5-2 in a high-energy match held at the indoor courts of Cooper Tennis Complex.

Due to weather constraints throughout the spring season, all MVC teams had limited time on outdoor courts.

Missouri State, however, held a slight advantage: The championship was held in Springfield on the very outdoor courts the team practiced on every week.

“I love that we’re hosting this tournament on our own courts,” head coach Mallory Weber said. “In Southwest Missouri, it’s exceptionally windy down here, and I think it helps us more than it hurts us. We’re used to playing in the wind. Even if we’re not playing matches, we get to practice in the wind and we are a little more exposed to those conditions.”

On Saturday morning, the concern about weather didn’t exist. High energy radiated from both teams. Drake — who earned a bye on Friday for seeding No. 1 — wanted a second win against Missouri State; the Bears wanted redemption.

And they got it.

The Bears won 4-2, winning their second doubles point in a row.

In singles, Khamissi and Belote tacked on points while Drake’s Summer Brills and Megan Webb gave Drake its first two points of the day in the No. 1 and No. 5 matches.

Junior Phoebe Boeschen gave the team its winning point of the day after a threeset match.

Boeschen won her third set 7-5, ending another third-set match in the No. 2 match between MSU senior Anelisse Torrico Moreno and Drake’s Liza Petushkova.

“It was one of the best college tennis matches that I’ve seen or been a part of as a player and as a coach,” Weber said.

“These matches matter more, so if we can only win once, this is obviously the one that we wanted to get. Drake and us, we have a huge rivalry, so this is a very emotional and positive win for us.”

Northern Iowa had its own Cinderella story happening in the lower half of the bracket.

On Friday, the Panthers faced No. 3 Illinois State. During the regular season, the Panthers lost 5-2 in a tight match at home against the Redbirds.

Other teams, except for UNI, expected a similar outcome.

Illinois State immediately earned the doubles point, but UNI came back and earned four points in singles to win 4-3.

The Panthers’ last postseason win came in 2015 against Bradley.

The fire was there.

And it continued into Saturday against No. 2 Stony Brook.

Stony Brook, located in New York, primarily competes in the America East Conference but competed in the Missouri Valley Conference Tennis Championships for the first time this year.

The Seawolves did not play any regular season conference matches against Valley teams but got seeded second. They won their first match against No. 7 Valparaiso 4-1.

The Panthers earned two points from a forfeit in doubles and by default in the No. 6 singles match.

The Panthers tacked on two more points to win 4-2.

On Sunday, an energy overwhelmed the air at Cooper: Drury hosted the Division II Tennis Regionals on one set of courts, and Missouri State and Northern Iowa warmed up on the other set.

The Bears carried their rally into the Sunday match and won their third doubles point in a row.

Darter and Burger did not finish their match but came back from a slow start to trail by one.

The winning momentum carried into the singles matches.

Khamissi finished first, winning in two sets.

Khamissi was the only player to go undefeated in the MVC.

From there, she floated from court to court, cheering her teammates on.

“When you turn around and you see someone cheering you on, that does a lot for your mental game,” Khamissi said. “Everyone here knows how to play tennis; it’s more of a mental game now.

When you see that people are here for you and that you’re not alone, you can do it.”

UNI fought throughout the day. In the No. 1 match, Darter lost the point, but not before taking the second set into a 10-8 tiebreaker.

Boeschen lost in one of three matches that went to three sets.

Torrico Moreno’s match in the No. 2 spot went unfinished through three sets.

The first two sets split with scores of 7-5 in both.

The third set ended with Torrico Moreno leading 5-4.

The Bears won the championship due to Burger’s fight in the No. 5 match.

Burger won the first set 6-4. She fell behind in the second set, ultimately losing 6-3.

Before the third set began, Burger talked to Weber about what to do. She was frustrated and unsure of what to do to ensure a win for the Bears.

Weber’s advice was simple: Don’t get down, stay with them and don’t let them get too far ahead.

Burger did exactly what her coach said.

She stayed with UNI’s Valentina Caro and won the set 7-5.

The Bears won.

All the players rushed the court with Torrico Moreno trailing slightly behind after running from her court.

The team celebrated its first MVC Championship since 2002 and its first winning record under Weber.

“The girls came out again and were extremely focused,” Weber said. “That was the difference. They were really hungry to get this and believed in themselves. From start to finish, they were in control of the match, and that was crucial because UNI fought really hard all the way to the end.”

After an off day on Monday to recover, the Bears will begin preparations for the NCAA Tennis Team Tournament.

They will find out their opponent on Tuesday, May 1, during the selection show held at 4 p.m.

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After walking away from playing tennis, Ledis Molina celebrates with her teammates after they won the 2018 MVC Tournament

(Above) Ledis Molina watches her teammates during the MVC Tournament from the bench, where she has turned into a coach and a mentor for the rest of the team after hanging up her tennis racquet following knee injuries.

From the courts to the computer, Ledis Molina is all in, all the time

thing that will inspire the animation. They all have come together to help me create this. It’s not only something that one person can do.”

Both passions are time consuming, but Ledis puts 100 percent in both, focusing all of her energy in the task at hand.

“When I’m here, I’m here,” Ledis said. “I’m not thinking about anything else. It’s just here, the moment. Every time I’m in animation, it’s just animation. Tennis, it’s just tennis.”

Even as Ledis separates tennis from animation, she recognizes how her learned strengths play into both.

“Tennis is a discipline where you have to be organized, controlled, and you have to have that determination and positive thinking,” Ledis said. “Animation is a process where you have to be patient, so patient.

Tennis has helped me to be positive and be organized.”

Her dedication is not only seen in the time Ledis gives, but in what others have to say about her. Weber recognizes her talents outside of tennis.

“She’s unbelievably creative,” Weber said.

“It’s so fun to listen to her stories she tells, and I think it’s been so fun for us to get to see that artistic side.”

Ledis’ fiance, Nestor Mancia, who lives in El Salvador, credits her work ethic.

“That’s one of the most important things and also what I admire the most in her, her dedication and passion for what she studies is something unbelievable,” Mancia said.

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up and walk around, sometimes,’” Ledis said.

Ani then chimed in, in agreement.

“One time I saw her biking home at like, I don’t know, like 3 or 4 a.m, (in the rain, from Brick City to her apartment). I called her and I was like, ‘Are you okay?’ and she was just like, ‘Yeah, I was just working on my animation.’”

Not only does the time she dedicates to tennis transfer over to her animations, but her passion for helping others shows through her work, too.

“I want to do different stories that can convey a message to all the people and that can be really impactful to people, too,” Ledis said.

The two messages inspiring Ledis’ senior project are the importance of learning self-defense as a woman and preventing technology from taking over one’s life. Ledis initially planned on learning about sports psychology until she opened the front page of a book listing Missouri State’s majors, and animation caught her eye.

“I didn’t really know what animation involved, but I knew that I liked drawing, I liked art and all that, and then I started reading about animation and I love all of the movies,” Ledis said. “I always wanted to know how they do that; I didn’t know it was something possible.”

The possibilities, which once seemed far off and tough to reach, became more believable as time went by.

“Big fan of Pixar, big fan of Dreamworks; they’re my inspiration,” Ledis said. “Also, my family, my team, my fiance, they all put some-

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Her name is Ledis Molina,“not the vegetable” senior Anelisse Torrico Moreno jokes on the first day of the women’s tennis championship tournament. Seniors Ani and Ledis became friends after messaging on Facebook before Ani even joined the team. Ani questioned coming to Missouri State but credits Ledis for convincing her to play.

“I started talking to Ledis and then she explained everything about Missouri State, the team and that she was having a really good experience,” Ani said. “It sounded like a great place to be, and she wasn’t wrong.”

When Ani eventually came to Missouri, Ledis could no longer play. Ledis worked through multiple knee injuries before, but when it continued to cause problems her freshman year, she decided that taking a break would be better for her future.

“At the beginning, I knew it was going to be hard,” Ledis said. “I knew that I was injured before and I was probably going to get injured again, so I was just trying to get a positive mind, like keep it positive all the time and try to like do rehabs and all of that. At the end, I gave up tennis because it was either my health or tennis.”

Even though her injuries forced her to leave the court, Ledis didn’t leave the team.

“Basically, it was just passion for tennis that kept me here,” Ledis said.

Just like her teammates, Ledis goes to every practice and game. She does whatever she can

to help out, from hitting with girls to offering advice. After coaching tennis in El Salvador, her home country, Ledis has the experience and knowledge to have an impact on the team.

“She came in as a freshman and was just so positive and so excited to be here, and even as a freshman, was really a leader,” head coach Mallory Weber said. “She had so much experience playing internationally, and she came in with a lot of confidence.”

Lacking an assistant coach to help watch the six athletes play, Weber appreciated Ledis filling the role and providing another set of eyes. Ledis will most often watch Ani and junior Fati Khamissi from the bench, a big supporter after becoming so close with them. “(Ledis) has a lot of experience, and the things she tells me on court, they help a lot,” Ani said. “Especially because we speak the same language, so we understand each other pretty well. She has been a big part of at least my success, because she’s always on my court.

She’s always by my side, so she’s awesome. If it wasn’t for her I wouldn’t win some of (the matches) I think.”

Ledis mirrors her commitment to the sport to the computer. When she is not with the team, she is working on her animations for hours. For her art and computer animation major, Ledis is learning about 3D programs, modeling and posing characters and animating them for short films.

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Surrounded by her teammates and coaches, senior Erika Velasquez Zimmer is surprised by a proposal from her recently deployed boyfriend in the Marines. The proposal came at the end of a doubleheader against Indiana State on April 28 at Killian Stadium.

Softball sweeps Indiana State on senior weekend COLE SUTTON Sports Reporter @colesutton23

The Missouri State softball team battled against Indiana State this weekend, its fourth straight series against Missouri Valley Conference competition, honoring the seniors in their final home game of the 2018 season.

Game 1 started out on a sour note for the Bears as they left two runners on base in the first inning. Then the bad luck continued when Indiana State’s Kylie Stober hit a solo home run over the left field fence.

Missouri State starter, senior Holly Kelley, wasn’t rattled, though, and got herself out of a jam as the Sycamores left three runners stranded on base to end the second.

“Home runs are a part of the game now; it’s a hitter’s game,” Kelley said. “Of course, I was upset giving it up, but I knew we were gonna score more than one run.”

Missouri State bounced back in the third inning after senior Hailee Vigneaux advanced home from third on a past ball, evening the score at 1-1.

The Bears gained momentum in the field as well when right fielder Hannah Heinrichs stretched above the fence, robbing a ball destined to get out of the park. This kept the game deadlocked until Missouri State stepped into the box.

The Bears’ offense strategically advanced runners with sacrifice bunts and a walk to Kelley, loading the bases for center fielder Erika Velasquez Zimmer. Zimmer knocked a base hit past the first baseman, notching two RBIs off of Stober, two of her three runs allowed in the game. Zimmer’s single raised MSU’s lead to 3-1 in the bottom of the fourth, and the Bears didn’t look back.

“I was just trying to make

a difference; I just had a feeling I would be up in that situation,” Zimmer said. “My teammates set it up perfectly, and looking at them, I knew they all believed in me.”

A two-run lead was more than enough for Kelley on the mound, as she kept the Sycamores scoreless for the remaining three innings. Kelley pitched all seven innings, while only letting up five hits. She didn’t take all the credit, though.

“I was very confident; I know my team has my back out there,” Kelley said. “They lay out for everything and work their butts off just like I do. I just knew if I was struggling out there, or was a little fatigued, they’d be ready for it.”

ISU had an opportunity to even the score with their final at-bats but couldn’t get it done, leaving a runner on first and second to end the game. The win for Missouri State was a big momentum builder heading into the second of the doubleheader, which had fans on the edge of their seats throughout.

Game 2 of senior day started similarly to the first, with Missouri State playing from behind. The Sycamores took an early third-inning lead 1-0 after an RBI single by Mallory Marsicek. While they couldn’t come up with any offense in the third, the Bears’ bats chipped away at the ISU lead in the fourth.

A leadoff double by shortstop Daphne Plummer put a runner in scoring position to start the fourth. After a flyout, with Plummer still on second, up came Kaitlin Beason. Beason ripped a line drive off the outfield wall, scoring Plummer with ease and evening the game at one.

Missouri State had another opportunity to take the lead in the fourth but ended the inning with two runners in scoring position.

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Sophomore pitcher Erin Griesbauer fires a pitch to the plate against Indiana State. inning, but their momentum stalled when a base hit by Kyana Mason was called back because she exited the batter’s box. Missouri State battled to a runner on first and second with one out, but a ground ball

by Plummer struck Zimmer while Zimmer was running to third base, causing an out. The inning ended with a flyout to leave another Bears baserunner stranded.

This bad luck carried into the sixth inning for the Bears as well, as Stober cracked a double to center over Zimmer, scoring two and raising the Sycamore lead to 3-1. Missouri

State took the lead back in the sixth through an odd set of circumstances.

The bases were loaded for the Bears, courtesy of two singles by Beason and Heinrichs and a walk to Madison Hunsaker. Sycamore pitcher Abbey Kruzel bounced back and produced two straight ground balls, dodging the damage.

But with two outs, Zimmer bounced a single into the infield that Marsicek threw to third base.

The throw was bobbled by the third baseman and ricocheted back towards the Missouri State dugout. This Syc-

amore error brought in all three Bears baserunners, lifting the Bears back on top 4-3.

Indiana State tied the game once again, briefly, in the seventh inning after the speedy Leslie Sims had an infield single to start the inning. After she advanced to second, Shaye Barton brought her home with a base hit, knotting the game again at 4-4.

After two quick outs to start the bottom of the seventh for Missouri State, it felt like we would see some extra inning softball at Killian Stadium.

But Beason had different plans.

Beason rocketed a walk-off solo shot over the left field wall, sealing the series for the Bears.

“It was a pretty surreal feeling,” Beason said.

After the thrilling walk off victory in Game 2, Missouri State had one final matchup against the Sycamores Sunday afternoon. There was no way that Game 3 could end in a more dramatic fashion than a walk-off home run, but the Bears were up to that challenge.

Missouri State bats came alive quick, getting two hits in as many pitches to start the first. A sacrifice fly from Darian Frost brought in a run for the Bears, giving them an early 1-0 lead.

The Bears held onto that one-run lead until the third, when Zimmer led off with a base hit. This regular single meant much more, though, as Zimmer climbed into the top five all-time hits in program history. Zimmer eventually tagged up on a sac fly to stretch their advantage to 2-0.

“It really makes me thankful to play this game,” Zimmer said. “It’s really more than a game. It’s given me a second family. I wanted to come out and enjoy this weekend knowing it would be my last on this

field.”

The Bears kept the fun going into the fourth, adding another run via a Kelley double and an error on the defensive side from Indiana State. The Bears had a commanding 3-0 lead going into the fifth and looked like they would avoid another wire-to-wire ending.

The Sycamores had other ideas.

ISU was scoreless until the sixth inning, when they finally broke through with four runs, taking the lead 4-3. A line drive off the wall by Amanda Guercio of ISU started the rally, and Marsicek drove home another two runs, giving the Sycamores the lead.

Missouri State had its back up against the wall, an out away from the winning streak coming to an end. Madison Jones walked earlier in the inning and was the lone runner on base when Plummer stepped into the batter's box.

Plummer hit a line drive that fell a bit in front of the Indiana State left fielder. Jones advanced to third, but ISU’s Rebecca Gibbs threw to second in hopes of catching Plummer. The throw sailed over the second baseman’s head, allowing both runners to score. This was the second straight walk-off victory for Missouri State and their fourth consecutive win, 5-4.

“I was just hoping to make it to third, then I just saw coach waving me home and just prayed I would get there,” Plummer said.

“This team just stays in the fight until the fight is over,” head coach Holly Hesse said. “It starts with our never give in, never lay down attitude.”

Next up for Missouri State softball is a big three-game series against the MVC leading Drake Bulldogs.

The Bears will look to continue their four-game winning streak and keep the momentum going all the way into the MVC Tournament.

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Bears fall to Mizzou, take two of three from Bradley SAM GRUS Sports Reporter @SCGRUS_6 Missouri State’s baseball season is nearing its end, and the Bears have been playing some of their most meaningful games.

Last week, the Bears won two of their four games against in-state rival Mizzou and Missouri Valley Conference rival Bradley. Losing one to Mizzou and taking two of three from Bradley, Missouri State remained in first place in the Valley. Still, the Bears have fallen out of favor on the national stage.

On Tuesday, April 24, the Bears traveled up to Columbia, Missouri, and dropped the season finale against the Tigers, losing by a score of 8-2.

The Bears’ only runs came from a two-run home run by first baseman Ben Whetstone in the first inning.

Freshman Ty Buckner took the mound and only pitched 4.1 innings, giving up three runs on five hits and one walk. Buckner struck out five, but he had four wild pitches in his first outing of the week. Every Bears pitcher who entered would wind up surrendering at least one run in the loss.

Over the weekend, the Bears traveled to Peoria, Illinois, to play Bradley for a three-game series in a battle of teams atop the MVC standings. The Bears would have better luck on the other side of the Mississippi River, taking two of three. In Game 1, the Bears jumped out to an early lead, getting RBI base hits from catcher Logan Geha, shortstop Jeremy Eierman and designated hitter Drew Millas.

In his 11th start of the season, junior Dylan Coleman gave the Bears a chance to win. In seven innings of work, Coleman gave up all four of the Braves’ runs. Coleman had to pitch out of the stretch for most the game — after all, he did walk five and scatter six hits in his seven innings of work. Coleman’s inability to command the strike zone has been the biggest problem for the Bears’ ace.

Game 2 of the three-game series did not go the way Missouri State wanted as it fell 2-0. Getting a strong start from junior Logan Wiley, the Bears just could not get the bats going on Saturday afternoon.

Wiley dominated on the mound again for the Bears, much like he did in a spot start earlier in the season against Illinois State. The right-hander

pitched six strong innings, scattering seven hits, giving up two runs, walking two and striking out seven. Only one of the runs Wiley gave up was earned, as an error by second baseman John Privitera led to the second Braves run on the game.

Offensive standouts of the season, Eierman and Millas each had one hit and combined for three strikeouts. The entire Bears’ offense was stifled by the Braves’ Mitch Janssen. The Bears struck out 12 times and only walked twice. The offense came ready to play in the third game of the series. The Bears would run-rule the Braves, 13-2 after seven innings.

The Bears were led by Eierman, as the junior went three for four with two singles, a two-run home run and four RBIs. Junior Hunter Steinmetz scored four times for the Bears. The centerfielder went three for four as well, collecting two doubles and an RBI of his own. Head coach Keith Guttin’s plan of putting Steinmetz directly in front of Eierman has paid off in dividends, Steinmetz has an on-base percentage of .405 and an on-base plus slugging of .829. Meanwhile Eierman’s numbers are outstanding, having an OBP of .403 and an OPS of .965. The duo, along with Millas, have helped carry

the Bears through the season.

During Sunday’s game, Buckner got his second start of the week. This one would go a lot different for the freshman, pitching a complete game and only allowing one-hit. Buckner would walk two and surrender two runs. The start was a bounce-back opportunity for the young righthander. After getting roughed up by Mizzou, getting a big Valley win over the Braves was a confidence booster.

Where does all this leave the Bears in their pursuit of another Missouri Valley title and a trip to the postseason? As of Sunday, the Bears sit atop the Valley with an overall record of 27-13 and 10-2 in conference play.

The Bears are looking to win the Valley outright and possibly earn a trip to the postseason — nine of the next 10 games are conference games for the Bears. The final three are against second-place Dallas Baptist.

Winning at least six of 10 should lock up the Valley.

On the field, guys like Eierman and Steinmetz will need to keep the bats rolling at the top of the order.

Meanwhile, guys like third baseman Matt Brown needs to keep doing the right things. Brown is batting .238 with an OBP of .415 and an OPS of

.475. Brown is getting on base further down in the order and is setting up scoring opportunities by playing smart baseball.

On the mound, Coleman will need to command the strike zone better. He has been averaging 10.9 strikeouts per nine innings but is allowing over four walks per nine innings. Other starters like Buckner and Wiley will need to build on the successes of their last starts and look to continue that down the stretch.

The bullpen has been a big key to keeping the Bears in contention this year. Appearing in 10 games this season, Jake Lochner has an earned-run average of 2.08 and has learned that he doesn’t have to just blow pitches by hitters to get outs. Pitching to soft contact has been the biggest key to his success and the success of the bullpen.

The Bears have plenty of exciting baseball yet to be played this season.

Their next game is Wednesday, at Hammons Field, where they will host the Kansas Jayhawks. Wednesday evening’s game will be the final non-conference game of the season.

The next conference game for the Bears is a three-game series against Valparaiso this weekend.

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Bears sent five to Drake Relays CLAIRE NIEBRUGGE Sports Reporter @Claireniebrugge The Missouri State track team sent five athletes to the infamous Drake Relays over the weekend.

Senior Jessica Allen placed fifth in the 5,000-meter run with a 16:38.55 — the fourth best time in MSU program history. Sophomores Grace Breiten and Jordyn Capra placed sixth and seventh, respectively, in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. Sophomores Paityn Howat and Erica Wollmering competed in the unseeded 1,500-meter run and finished with times of 4:42.26 and 4:38.41.

The Bears spent more than just the week before the meet preparing for Drake Relays.

Allen spent her entire career working toward qualifying for the meet.

“To qualify for Drake is the cherry on top for my collegiate career,” Allen said. “I have not been given the opportunity to run in a track meet with this level of competition before, so I am very grateful to now have this chance.”

As the only senior who traveled to Drake Relays, Allen felt bittersweet as her final season comes to a close. She said she hopes to leave a legacy at Missouri State by inspiring and motivating young girls along the way.

“My collegiate career is winding down, so, at this point, I am motivated to see how much I can do with the time I have left,” Allen said. “I am starting medical school in July, and I know that I won’t be able to train the way I do now with the workload I’ll have in school. So, I want to see how fast I can go. I also am motivated to leave my team better than it was when I joined it.”

Breiten qualified and competed Thursday evening in the steeplechase. The sophomore felt prepared going into the weekend due to her “all in” mentality. She focused on doing the little things — even if she didn’t like them — because she knew it would pay off in the end.

Capra also competed in steeplechase. For her, having her teammates next to her every day at practice, made the difference in her

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performance. Capra wanted to go to practice to surround herself with her teammates, no matter if they were laughing, crying or just making it through the workout.

Howat competed in the 1,500-meter run with Wollmering. After coming off an injury last season that kept her from competing during outdoor, Howat said she is glad to be back to doing what she loves most even though it’s challenging.

“Running is kind of like life; it’s hard,” Howat said.

As for Drake Relays, she, too, felt more than prepared.

“Our coach has been training us really hard, telling us that he’s really confident in us and that he wants us to feel that same confidence,” Howat said. “He wants us to go into it and know that we’re supposed to be there.”

Wollmering, on the other hand, said she was thrilled to be able to see the Drake Relays from a competitor standpoint, not a spectator.

“The Drake Relays have been something that I went to when I was younger with my parents,” Wollmering said. “I always remember thinking it was so cool. So, it’s almost kind of been a dream of mine to be able to run there.”

On Friday, Allen, Breiten, Howat and Wollmering competed in the 4x1600-meter relay, running a 20:15.10.

The Drake Relays have traditionally been one of the largest outdoor track and field meets. It attracts the best collegiate, high school and professional runners, throwers and jumpers. In order to qualify for Drake Relays, athletes have the entire season to make the qualifying cut.

“They have standards that set a qualifying time that you have to have, but it also depends on how many people are entered and who enters what times,” Wollmering said.

Although known for its high prestige, as of the last few seasons, it has not been on Missouri State’s priority list.

To the Missouri State track team, the conference championship meet is the most

important meet of the season. Sometimes, that means that a traditional relay-only meet — like Drake Relays — gets booted from the schedule.

“It typically falls as the last regular season meet before our conference championship,” distance coach Jordan Fife said.

“Because it’s primarily a relays meet, even though we want to go, we feel like our athletes are better served by going to a meet where they’re going to be in their individual events.”

This year, though, the coaches thought it might be fun to put it back on the schedule. While five distance runners competed in Iowa, the rest of the team went to Memphis, Tennessee, to compete in the Memphis Tiger Invitational.

Even though the remainder of the team didn’t to Drake Relays, that does not mean they couldn’t have qualified.

“I definitely don’t want the understanding to be that (distance runners) were the only ones that got in,” Fife said. “We didn’t even enter anyone from any of the other event groups.

“There’s no doubt about it that we would have jumpers and hurdlers and sprinters … we would definitely be able to get those teams into the Drake Relays,” Fife said. “But where we are in the season, and what those coaches want to get accomplished, they felt that going to a different meet and focusing more on the individual events was going to be better for them.”

While Drake was a prominent meet for the team, Fife wants to keep the girls in the right mindset going into the last big meets of the season.

“This sport is all driven by the mental side,” Fife said. “They can do all the right things physically and get themselves prepared, but if they’re on that start line and they don’t believe that it’s going to go well, or they don’t think they can beat somebody, then it’s not going to happen.”

After Memphis and Drake, the track and field team heads to Terre Haute, Indiana, to compete for the title at the Missouri Valley conference championship meet May 11-13.

has the potential to improve the demographics of Southwest Missouri. She said Springfield is looking to other communities and their organizations and then applying their best pracContinued from page 2 tices locally.

Kimberlin said doing diversity training a more open and welcoming community. helped him tremendously with cultural comHoward said she believes people from petence. coastal areas will eventually move to the Mid“You can’t fix a problem if you don’t know west to escape the overcrowded cities. This you have one,” Kimberlin said. “And we are

doing what we can to fix it.”

Having diversity training and panel discussions has helped his staff with welcoming visitors from all over the world.

Heather Hardinger, director of programs and communication for the Taney County Partnership, said Branson has around 2,000 job vacancies.

Branson Chamber of Commerce looked to Puerto Rico to recruit, and around 200 Puerto

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large events in the limited space of the facility.

That role gave him the experience needed for his new similar role here at MSU. Pruitt was hired in the midst of the reorganizations, but he said he believes the transition will increase efficiency.

“There’s been a lot of changes in trying to implement a stronger chain of command where not everything is going into one person and they’re completely overwhelmed, but splitting those roles up and everybody reporting into one person,” Pruitt said.

Hall said the more efficient hierarchy in the department will allow them to focus on better serving the MSU campus community.

“I think you will see us really making a concerted effort to ensure that the students faculty and staff know our public safety officers, feel comfortable reaching out to them, know the services that we’re offering and knowing how we’re there to help keep our campus safe,” Hall said.

Hall’s responsibilities include developing emergency plans for all MSU campuses, training students, faculty and staff to follow those plans and running tests like fire and tornado drills.

Johnson has stepped away from his position as of the announcement of his retirement but will remain at MSU until Sept. 1, working on a few special projects including working on policy manuals and doing building assessments to create emergency plans for active shooter situations.

He said he agrees with his colleagues that the changes will be a benefit to the department and the university.

“I think it’ll be more efficient,” Johnson said.

“I think there will be more chances to branch in ways that haven’t been done before.”

Johnson is retiring after 33 years in his career at three different universities.

He spent the last three years at MSU. As for his retirement plans, Johnson will remain in the Springfield area for the time being.

He may try to work as an usher for Springfield Cardinals baseball games but mostly plans on enjoying his life post-retirement.

Ricans moved to Branson to accept jobs.

Hardinger said she is currently working to create a more welcoming environment for new workers in the Branson area.

“I advise businesses on best practices and work on recruitment,” Hardinger said. “Part of that strategy is to focus on diversity and inclusion efforts, having conversations about what that looks like and identifying deficits in the community that we can work on together.”

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Collaborative Diversity Conference session focuses on cultural education, welcoming international students BATOOL ALZUBI Staff Reporter @AlBatoolz Multicultural education and welcoming international students is a way to fight racism, said Kelly Cabrera, coordinator of international leadership and training center, at the Diversity Conference.

Missouri State University held a two-day conference to celebrate diversity and discuss racism on April 26 and 27.

International students have a huge role in making MSU’s campus diverse, Kelly Cabrera said.

Kelly Cabrera said she was an international student from Colombia at MSU, so she understands the difficulties they might face through their college journey.

“It is important to make them feel welcomed here,” Kelly Cabrera said. “If they do, they will

tell their friends, their family and we will have more diversity.”

Kelly Cabrera said when she came here she felt welcomed, decided to stay and help other international students.

Her brother, Juan Cabrera, decided to come to MSU after hearing her good feedback about the Springfield community.

“After my first semester I said, ‘Yes this is the place I want to be in to practice my English,’” Juan Cabrera said.

According to the National Center of Education Statistics, the number of international students coming to the United States has decreased by 3.3 percent since fall 2016.

Maan Ayyash, graduate health administration major and the president of the Saudi Students Club at Missouri State, said he thinks international students are discouraged sometimes to come to the U.S. by what they hear in the media.

“That period that banned some Middle Eastern (countries’ citizens) from entering the U.S. also affected other countries that are near by them,” Ayyash said.

Kelly Cabrera said some of the executive orders from President Donald Trump and the cost of higher education in the U.S. is making students look at other countries like Australia and Canada as an option.

According to International Services, undergraduate international students pay a total of $23,794 per year, and undergraduate Missouri residents pay $17,381.

Ayyash said there are 86,000 thousand Saudi students in the U.S., and the number is expected to drop by almost 20 percent next year.

Paula Moore, English Language Institute special programs director, said during a drop from international students like this, it is important to challenge these misconceptions and

make them feel safe here.

“We try to be connected with our community of international students here,” Moore said.

“We try to put out the message that Missouri State and Springfield community are welcoming.”

Moore said they want to increase the diversity by sending more faculty to partner universities to show students that we want them here.

Dandan Liu, China operations specialist, said the Springfield community can also help by joining programs like the International Friends program that help international students to develop friendships with American families.

The program connects one international student with a domestic family. The family then is expected to contact the student at least once a month, and do activities with them.

“Since 2012, we have connected more than 900 students with 900 families,” Liu said.

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Cox said the police report says the burglary happened sometime between 1 a.m. and just before the 911 call after 4 a.m.

Arteaga and her boyfriend said going to sleep again after the incident just wasn’t an option.

“Our adrenaline was just so high, and it was just terrifying,” Arteaga said.

Arteaga said the thieves were inside the fraternity house for almost half an hour, but that wasn’t the first time the thieves had been there that day.

Arteaga said, and police reports confirm, there were claims from fraternity members that they saw the thieves wandering through the house earlier that night, around 11 p.m.

The men who saw the thieves believed they were friends of someone else in

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“I’m just thankful my boyfriend and I are still here and no one got hurt because so many different things could have happened,” Arteaga said.

The investigation is still open, but there are currently no suspects in the case, Cox said.

“Definitely something needs to be done, like higher security around here,” Arteaga said.

She said the men at the fraternity house have changed the locks on the doors and been far more cautious about who is coming in and out of the house, but Arteaga said she still has trouble sleeping in the nights following the burglary.

occurred earlier this month when a property manager said he saw two men attempting to break into an apartment complex on the afternoon of April 13 at 1030 E. Elm St. The property manager caught two white males who seemed to be attempting to break a window, Cox said.

The manager yelled, and the two men ran off.

The report said one suspect, wearing a gray hoodie and a backpack, managed to escape the property manager chasing after them.

The other suspect, wearing a red hoodie, was eventually picked up by someone driving a gold Ford Crown Victoria.

Cox said this case has been suspended as police officers have exhausted all initial evidence and will not be able to pursue the case further unless new clues or An attempted break-in evidence appears.

Apartment break-in

“As members of the Missouri State University community, it’s important and it’s appropriate for us to come together and celebrate the lives of those who left us this year,” Dee Siscoe, vice president for student affairs, said after reading a short poem about grief. “The students, the faculty and the staff that left us too soon.”

Siscoe said the ceremony, an annual event, was inspired by a similar one held at University of North Texas, where a Bear, Brad Ferguson, was honored four years ago.

Siscoe said Ferguson graduated from North Texas and was a faculty member in the theatre and dance department at MSU. His family, moved by the memorial, brought the idea to MSU for others to receive the support they did.

And, through spiritual guidance and a place to grieve as needed, the MSU community welcomed that support when they gathered in the Union Club on April 26.

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A member of the Missouri State faculty receives consolation from his family at the Missouri State campus-wide memorial service.

“You are each somewhere in your own process of adapting to this change which has colored your world,” Embree said.

“Missouri State University, too, has changed. We became more

of what we are when your loved one became a part of our community. We became a little less of what we could be when we lost that person, but we want to remember with you.”

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Hey look, cute dogs (You’re welcome) REVIEW Photos by BILL SIOHOLM

Junior undeclared major Erin Drees and sophomore marketing major Ashlyn Dickey, parade their borrowed dogs through Missouri State University’s North Mall at Sigma Pi’s “Dog Days” event. The event benefits the Route 66 Animal Shelter.

Sophomore psychology major Lydia Masnado spends some quality time at Sigma Pi’s “Dog Days” event on April 26.

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completely evil or truly and completely virtuous. Everyone is made up of different parts and experiences that are more than an overall “good” or “bad.”

On top of having well-written, flawed characters, this film also has a lot of good directing choices in the cinematography and music selection. If you watch this movie, you’re going to get a lot of edgy and possibly annoying, yet catchy, pop music. But hey, it’s from the ‘90s. The soundtrack selection fits every scene incredibly well and opens with a song about death and love to a panning shot of a cemetery, which is good for all sorts of reasons obvious at the end of the movie. The cinematographer had the opportunity to play with different rooms in a variety of mansions and penthouses and gave each building a cohesive quality of space that let us know the layout of the houses while still keeping it interesting and stylized. Watch a movie with poor cinematography and you’ll understand that we take this for granted sometimes.

Though the directing is incredibly strong, it does fall short in the resolution at the end of the film. Kumble very effectively proves his point in his message at the climax of this movie, but once the falling action has subsided and the story needs wrapping up it seems like he just sort of … shrugs. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not like he said, “Screw it!” and pissed away the end, but it all feels weak. It ends how you might imagine it to but without any punch. In short, he lost me for the end other than a mild interest.

While the directing has its low points, the most notable drawback for me is the acting.

The acting of one character specifically — Sebastian. Sebastian is a tough role because at the beginning of the movie he is a sociopath, in the middle he is an asshole and at the end he is a hopeless romantic, so he does have a lot of conflicting traits. That being said, I think they end up cancelling out instead of compiling to make a deep personality, at least in the beginning. It isn’t terrible, but it does get uncomfortable to watch. For example, any time Sebastian smiles, it is a large point where the acting falls through, and it looks really fake.

After watching this film, I have to say it was very enjoyable. It does play with pretty abstract concepts and goes beyond its first appearance. What could have been a cheap, smutty romance turned into a wildly interesting exploration of human faults and the things that draw us to each other. It’s totally messed up and is the perfect combination of trainwreck and well thought out emotional examination. I would absolutely watch “Cruel Intentions” again, and while I recommend it, I would say it is not a movie for everyone.

But, for those that do enjoy it, it is one that I’m sure you will remember.

7/10