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Donald Trump waves to supporters as he delivers a campaign speech at Sun Center Studios on Sept. 22, 2016.
Trump to visit 10 minutes from campus Chloe Skaar Senior Reporter @chloeskaar
President Donald Trump will kick off a campaign to overhaul U.S. tax policy in Springfield Aug. 30 at Loren Cook Company at 2:30 p.m., according to a White House news release. According to a Bloomberg report, the president won’t outline his own plan, but instead hopes to rally support for the public cam-
paign—his administration officials and a group from the House and Senate seek a unified approach for tax reform. Loren Cook Company manufactures fans, vents and similar systems, according to their website. The Bloomberg report also said Trump’s main themes of the campaign will be tax cuts for the middle class, simplifying tax codes and stimulating business competition to encourage job creation.
Getting Smart with competition
According to the report, Missouri will kick off the campaign due to the state’s increasingly Republican presence and the president’s 19-point victory over Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in November. The campaign will draw attention to the Senate race, as Missouri’s Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill faces a difficult re-election in 2018. Katie Boyd, a spokesperson for Republican Sen. Roy Blunt said that, if asked, Blunt will
Domestic assault victim speaks out She was assaulted by a former MSU student in 2016
Chloe Skaar Senior Reporter @chloeskaar
Chloe Skaar Senior Reporter @chloeskaar
For many college students in the Midwest, Missouri State University and the University of Missouri haven’t been in the same conversation for decades. But now, the dialogue seems to be changing. Undergraduate students across Missouri continue to fuel a feud to fill the classrooms and stadiums of two of the largest public universities in the state. The score is consistently neck and neck: Mizzou’s Greek life towers over MSU’s by about 4,000 students and its instate undergraduate tuition by about the same amount in dollars. Mizzou Athletics joined the Southeastern Conference in 2012. MSU is scheduled to play them in football on Sept. 2, for the first time since 1923. Mizzou offers its undergraduate students 203 degree programs, while MSU only offers 114. But, for some students, it’s more than a game of numbers. It’s about pride. “There’s always some competition between students at Missouri State and the ones at Mizzou,” sophomore Sophie
On April 17, 2016, ex-Missouri State University student Chad Arnone assaulted a woman in the Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity house, resulting in a 75-day “shock time” jail sentence—56 of which he served before his release on parole Aug. 10, 2017. The victim, a current MSU student, agreed to speak with The Standard in regards to the event that night, everything that led to her assault and her relationship with Arnone. The Standard reached out to Arnone, but he failed to respond to a request for comment before the time of publication. Arnone’s lawyer, Thomas Carver, declined to comment. According to the Springfield Police Department’s probable cause statement, Arnone and the victim had shared an on-and-off relationship for over years. “Chad and I had been in an on-andoff relationship for about four years,” the victim said. “We first started dating my freshman year of high school and the relationship had been on and off because of his anger problems. “Towards the end of my senior year of high school, and basically all of my freshman year of college, I did not want to be with Chad and he could tell.” After years of on-and-off dating, on April 17, 2016, she went to Arnone to officially end their relationship. Prior to her arrival, the victim said
Missouri State Nelms, a communication sciences and disorders major, said. “But at Missouri State, I like that there’s smaller classes that let classmates get to know each other.” For Missouri State University President Clif Smart, it’s not about keeping score; it’s about each school doing their part to serve Missouri’s students. “Our goal is to provide a great education and a great experience at a great price,” Smart said. And, after MSU set another enrollment record for the first day of classes with a 1.2 percent increase from fall 2016, that goal seems attainable. u See MIZZOU page 8
attend the president’s event. The office said more details will be released soon. “I’m glad that President Trump will be in my hometown of Springfield to highlight the economic benefits that tax reductions and other pro-growth policies will have for Missouri families, farmers and small businesses,” Blunt said in a press release. “The president and the Senate have taken important steps to roll back burdensome regulations and create a stronger foundation for economic growth.
“I always kind of had a feeling that he might eventually assault me, but I figured it would’ve been just a slap or something like that, not a full-blown assault.”
Arnone became extremely emotional and irrational over text messages. Apparently, this behavior was not uncommon in their relationship. Arnone’s text messages were an indicator of what was to come. “The assault happened when Chad told me to leave, and then I said ‘gladly’ and started heading for the door. That is when he then pulled me back and I fell and hit the edge of his bed (at that point I wasn’t hurt at all, just kind of shocked).” The next thing she knew, the victim said, she was in the fetal position on the ground, getting beat up by Arnone. According to the police statement, Officer J. Stacy observed facial injuries to the victim and Officer G. Cecil observed “large quantities of blood on the victim’s face, clothing and hands.” The statement continued to say the victim’s nose appeared “curved” and
was actively bleeding, her face was red and swelling and that her left collarbone had a large red mark. Cecil also documented observing a large amount of blood and the victim’s hair on the carpet of the room. The victim said Arnone had not been drinking or smoking marijuana during their two-hour conversation leading to the assault. “(The assault) was very surprising,” the victim said. “I always kind of had a feeling that he might eventually assault me, but I figured it would’ve been just a slap or something like that, not a fullblown assault. My friends and family were also surprised.” Despite occurring in a fraternity house on campus, the victim said she did not believe any members in the house at the time of the assault heard what was happening due to her lack of screaming. Though when the police showed up, the victim said the fraternity members were shocked by her injuries. The victim said that following her release from the hospital, a member of AKL brought flowers to her dorm room. “A few of the members in his fraternity, I have been friends with since middle school and I’m still friends with them, and the other members that I had met my freshman year at Missouri State still say hi to me every time I see them,” the victim said. “I even spoke at one of their meetings about an event my sorority was holding last semester. u See DOMESTIC page 2
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