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MSU ranks 65th out of 100 in university safety survey AFTON HARPER Staff Reporter @affie888 Missouri State University was ranked the 65th most secure college campus based on security and property crime statistics.

A Secure Life, a security solutions company, posted a list of the 100 most secure colleges in the U.S. They narrowed their research down by including four-year universities with 10,000 or more students that have access to student housing on campus.

The company based its list on campus crime reports obtained from the U.S. Department of Education Safety and Security database. Their property crime analysis came from statistics gathered between 2007 to 2017.

The top-ranked college on A Secure Life’s list was Touro College in New York.

David Hall, director of university safety, said MSU’s relationship with the Springfield Police Department is valuable because students have the opportunity to get to know officers.

Hall said that there are many things that go into safety.

Lighting is an important component in safety, so campus safety tries to focus on places where there are deficiencies in lighting, Hall said.

Hall said improvements were made to the lighting in lot 31 across from Juanita K. Hammons Hall for Performing Arts this summer after they noticed there were a few vehicle break-ins.

“We’re constantly evaluating the lighting, and we make sure that it’s always working and we’re getting the coverage we would want,” Hall said.

Mason Phillips, sophomore business major and desk worker at Freudenberger house, said he feels “pretty safe” walking on campus.

“It’s a pretty good campus because it’s always busy, so there’s always going to be some people around,” Phillips said.

“Once you get off campus at nighttime, I’d use the buddy system.”

Hall also said there are over 700 color cameras around campus as well as two officers patrolling 24/7.

Nora Alsh, freshman entertainment management major, said she won’t walk around campus after dark because she notices a lot of the crimes reported on campus happen at night.

“I get a lot of alerts on my phone about thefts and sexual assaults that happen on campus at night,” Alsh said.

“So I don’t really feel safe walking alone at night.”

A total of 33 property crimes occurred on the MSU campus in 2017; thirty of which were motor vehicle thefts.

Hall said there are things students can do to prevent property theft on campus, like using U-locks for their bikes since they are harder to cut through.

Hall also said students should take their valuables out of their cars and lock their doors.

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Promoting equality in STEM majors University fights Missouri State receives federal grant to study, promote gender equity in science, technology engineering and mathematics GRETA CROSS Engagement Editor @gretacrossphoto Women made up 28% of all workers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics occupations in 2010, according to the National Science Foundation.

Recently, Missouri State has been taking steps to reduce the stigma around women in STEM fields in a variety of ways, specifically through research.

This August, Missouri State received the National Science Foundation grant to study and promote gender equity in STEM fields. The grant awarded $228,616 to the university for research over the next two years. The university will focus its studies on women faculty members in STEM departments.

According to a University Communications press release, there are three main goals for the grant: identify barriers for women faculty, formulate equity strategies for a successful change and develop a five-year equity plan for STEM departments.

Five individuals make up the research team, including Provost and principal investigator Frank Einhellig, Dean of the College of Natural and Applied Sciences Tamera Jahnke, Associate Dean of CNAS Jorge Rebaza-Vasquez, geography instructor Melanie Carden-Jessen and electrical engineering professor Theresa Odun-Ayo. “I am looking forward to working with my team to develop strategies that advance gender opportunities in STEM areas at Missouri State,” Einhellig said.

The research project is begining with an internal self-assessment, including the analyzation of reappointment, promotion and tenure documents, to understand any barriers for women that exist.

The grant also provides money for travel, allowing project investigators to visit or host others from universities who

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Sarah J. Morrison sits in her office in Kemper Hall. have conducted similar research.

“We could go to institutions that are maybe two steps ahead of us and go ask them questions or we could bring people here to Missouri State that are maybe two steps ahead of us and say, ‘Okay, what worked on your campus? What didn’t work on your campus?’” Jahnke said.

Jahnke, a co-investigator for the project, will focus her beginning work on connecting with assistant professors and graduate students in different departments through forums as a part of self-assessment.

Currently, the project team is in their first stage of work, including regular meetings about plans for research. They have not yet pinpointed a specific list of areas they wish to look over and fix, but a few stand out to Jahnke.

“I think there are probably some issues that we could figure out and be smarter about, like maternity leaves for faculty,” Jahnke said. “We could be better and more transparent about that. There’s not consistently available childcare for faculty on campus, nor students. That one is a

tough one for working women who may need emergency childcare.”

Physics, astronomy and materials science assistant professor Sarah Morrison has been employed with the university since August and said she has not experienced gender bias since her arrival.

Although in the past during her higher education, she said people were not overtly biased toward her, however, she did experience a few instances where she noticed gender played a role in her work.

She said those instances included having contributions she made to a project downplayed or accidentally attributed to a senior male colleague and having an instructor belittle her for asking a “stupid” question which was happily answered a few minutes later when asked by a male student.

“In my experience, having positive or negative social experiences in class or work comes down to whether or not people in the minority, not necessarily just in terms of gender, are welcomed versus merely tolerated by the majority,” Morrison said.

Looking forward to Missouri State’s involvement with the National Science Foundation grant, Morrison described addressing equity among faculty in STEM programs as a “win-win.”

“It not only benefits folks that experience more structural and social barriers during their career, but also having those folks here and their contributions to this community benefit everyone, too,” Morrison said.

If the university’s five-year plan appears to be successful, a second grant may be awarded to help fund the installation of the research.

“Although this National Science Foundation is focused on science, math, engineering, technology, ultimately I think this will help everyone from all the way across campus,” Jahnke said. “It won’t matter the discipline.”

enrollment drop AFTON HARPER Staff Reporter @affie888

While Missouri State University’s overall annual enrollment numbers dropped by 4.6% this year, there are departments within the university working to improve their own enrollment numbers.

Religious Studies Department Head Stephen Berkwitz said enrollment tends to be cyclical. But, in recent years enrollment has gone down, according to Berkwitz.

Berkwitz said the current generation of students are generally choosing more clearly outlined career paths, like mathematics or education, whereas humanities courses focus more on skills that can be applied to a broad range of fields.

Berkwitz said this shift is unfortunate because students may be hindering their ability to change fields or adapt to new challenges in their lives if their work in college is too narrowly focused.

“There’s kind of a tradeoff,” Berkwitz said, “You gain clarity in terms of knowing what job you’re going into, but it might make it harder to change careers later on.”

Berkwitz said their department has increased its online offerings to improve enrollment.

“Those online courses seem to be popular with at least some students,” Berkwitz said.

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The Department of Religious Studies is a few years away from allowing students to receive a major in religious studies completely online, Berkwitz said.

The department is now offering courses focusing on health and religion.

“We’re making efforts to try and partner with other units on campus and trying to identify what religious studies can offer to students in other fields,” Berkwitz said.

While some departments have lost numbers over the years, some have gone through a period of growth.

Criminology and Criminal Justice Department Head Brett Garland said their headcount for fall 2019 increased by a little over 2%. During the past three years, Garland said they have had modest increases for enrollment every fall.

Garland said the department faced the challenge of becoming a recognized department later than other universities because they became a complete department around 2011, while other universities similar in size to MSU have had criminology and criminal justice departments since the ’70s and ’80s.

“We’re facing a name recognition challenge,” Garland said. “One of the ways we have been addressing this challenge is to reach out to the high school counselors around Missouri.”

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Local production company documents fight against Texas detention center CONNOR WILSON Staff Reporter @Connor4Wilson Springfield is home to a unique business hard to find anywhere else: a nonprofit production studio. In just a week or so, this studio will be screening a documentary in New York City for the first time.

Carbon Trace Productions is led primarily by both its founder, Missouri State University media, journalism, and film professor Andrew Cline, as well as executive director Shannon Cay. While the group has filmed several documentaries in the past, all with collaboration from MSU students, this will be the first documentary released since officially becoming a nonprofit organization. This will be their first distributed film.

Cline calls the documentary, “Witness at Tornillo,” something that fell into Carbon Trace’s lap.

“We weren’t actually expecting to start producing anything,” Cline said.

What initially was a road trip to protest in El Paso, Texas, and get some footage, developed into meeting Josh Rubin, a friend of a friend from Brooklyn who came down to protest. “Witness in Tornillo” documents Rubin’s efforts with the Tornillo detention facility, which eventually was shut down.

Cay is a producer on the film “Witness at Tornillo.” At Tornillo, Cay said, many iconic photos of the Tornillo movement were taken of Rubin.

“Josh standing out there with a freedom sign

was picked up by the Washington Post, it was picked up by the New York Times, it was picked up by lots of media outlets,” Cay said. “That’s kind of where the steam really started.”

When unrelated protests in El Paso had finished, everyone had dispersed back to their cities and gone on with their lives. Except for Rubin, who came back to continue protesting Tornillo.

Initially, it was just a man from Brooklyn protesting a detention facility in Texas. Now, the Facebook page for the group “Witness: Tornillo. Target: Homestead” has over 13,000 members.

Carbon Trace Production’s feature-length film “Witness at Tornillo” follows Rubin’s story and the growth of the Witness movement.

Carbon Trace Productions doesn’t always know where their next project will come from.

Cline said generally ideas are brought to them in the form of student projects, requests, or situations like Tornillo where they were at the right place at the right time and had the experience to recognize a story was forming.

Cline said he always has a camera on him and documenting things is second-nature, but it’s also his experience as a journalist that let him see when they’d have a documentary or just some footage.

The moment Rubin came back from leaving, he knew this would develop into a Carbon Trace’s project.

This will be the production’s first project to be distributed. Cay said they’re hoping for

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(Above) Andy Cline and Shannon Cay at the Carbon Trace Productions office talking about their documentary projects

(Left) Andy Cline and Shannon Cay work at the Carbon Trace Productions office.

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Latinx Heritage Month starts off with discussion about cultural appropriation ANDREW UNVERFERTH Staff Reporter @overander Missouri State University began its observance of Latinx Heritage Month last week with an event to kick off the month as well as the first presentations on cultural appropriation.

These events were a precursor to the several planned for the month, with the rest consisting of additional speaker presentations, a banquet celebrating Latinx culture and a networking opportunity for Latinx individuals on campus.

Senior political science and modern language major Melissa Gutierrez, a member of the organizing committee for MSU’s Latinx Heritage Month, said the presentation last week was the first of three in a series called “Appropriation to Appreciation,” which is intended to explain parts of Latinx culture that people might regularly see but not fully understand.

“What are we seeing in our media that has more of an appropriation factor and, if this is going on, how can we turn that to more appreciation or get a deeper understanding of what these things are,” Gutierrez said.

The first presentation, which Modern and Classical Languages Department Head Jason Jolley, involved a conversation between him and attending students discussing what they felt cultural appropriation meant. This presentation was primarily centered around Caribbean dance and culture.

Jolley, whose department has come to offer a supporting role for organizing Latinx Heritage Month, said pushing beyond stereotypes and getting to hear from those who represent the culture are some of the positive parts of the month.

“As head of the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, I think anything that raises awareness about language and culture is good,” Jolley said.

As Gutierrez said, the “Appropriation to Appreciation” talks are intended to be smaller, more discussion-based events as opposed to other events that are designed more like lectures or speeches.

Gutierrez described the planned Latinx Heritage Month Banquet as the “big event of the month.” The event will feature performances including dancing and poetry reading as well as traditional food from different areas of Latin America.

This is the first year the organizing committee has planned a Latinx student, faculty and staff networking reception. This event is designed to provide Latinx individuals at MSU the opportunity to get to know more people from their own background.

Gutierrez said she has found Latinx students and faculty are dispersed throughout campus, which makes it difficult for them to find others from their community. The organizing committee wanted to provide Latinx individuals,

especially students, the ability to meet others if they hadn’t yet.

“We wanted especially students to have this opportunity to meet if they haven’t because we’re kind of dispersed all throughout campus,” Gutierrez said.

“Since Latin students aren’t the majority here at Missouri State, sometimes it can be difficult to find each other or find who is from our community,” Gutierrez said.

Gutierrez said she feels celebrating Latinx Heritage Month is important for any college campus, but is especially important for MSU. “I think celebrating Latinx Heritage Month specifically on MSU’s campus is crucial for being a public affairs university, one of our pillars being cultural competence,” Guttierez said. “This is how you can work on that pillar, work towards achieving this pillar, in one form.”

Dates for upcoming events can be found in the Multicultural Services offices. These events are open to students, staff and faculty.

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No, it’s not over for the Democrats; here’s why KATHERINE COOPER Columnist @k8iek8_ The fall brings about a new season of politics for the upcoming primaries, which is debating and fundraising. With a large Democratic pack — which in a lot of ways mirrors the Republican candidates of the 2016 primaries — people are starting to get really nervous that this could be slipping away as we speak.

That concern is valid, and the emotions and tension that resides within the political system — specifically the two- party system — is also valid. But it’s not over for the Democrats, and here’s why.

Primary season has just begun. It may not feel that way with two de-

bates already out of the way and numerous rallies for several presidential hopefuls. But all of that is very typical.

Certainly, while both parties are in periods of political realignment, there is going to be a lot of stirring the voter base, which is something that happens every time there is a highly contentious and contested presidential race. Believe it or not, this is a good thing.

Democrats have widened their pool of applicants in order to find the best one. This gives the American people every opportunity to vote for and nominate the person they feel is truly a good fit to run this country.

Some say limited choices in candidates was the downfall in 2016, and the Republicans did it right that time.

But, is this not a little late for some of these people to be dropping out?

Well, a surefire way to blow an election is to not nominate someone soon enough, and lose the voter base from the losing primary candidate.

But with all the chaos that is the primary, it is still very early until that needs to happen. For reference, we could use the 2016 election as an example.

At the highest point — by the end of August 2015 — there were 19 Republican candidates. At the beginning of January 2016, there were still 11 Republican presidential hopefuls, and just four months later, by the end of May, there was one. This is the period in which caucuses and primary elections be-

gin and candidates begin collecting electoral delegates.

As of now, there are exactly 20 Democrats running for president. So the numbers are not far off.

This is not to say there are not issues within the Democratic party that need to be resolved, and obvious candidates that are either underqualified or have no chance of raising the money necessary to win a general election. A lot of candidates may be running for facial recognition for elections to come, or even vying for a spot on the bottom of the Democratic ticket.

There are some that argue certain candidates’ sole purpose of running is to drive the policy conversation, and keep the debates clean and focused on the issues instead of the

candidates themselves.

I’m not saying the Democrats have this in the bag by any means, but based on the timeline between now and November 2020, everything is happening in due time. The DNC, as well as the RNC, have experts and consultants with decades of experience to know when and how the candidate pool needs to evolve.

It is important as young voters to stay focused on the goal of finding the most qualified and best-suited candidate, regardless of party affiliation.

Use credible news sources, do not let your friends or family insist on changing your opinion to suit them, and, as always, register to vote for the upcoming election season!

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When I reviewed the film “Tusk” I thought, “Now, I like this movie, and there is a lot of good stuff in it, but I wish it were, you know, good.”

I can finally deliver unto you, a contender for the most ridiculous film to achieve certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes of all time.

I present to you: “The Man Who Killed Hitler and then The Bigfoot.”

Not only is this the longest title of anything I’ve reviewed so far, it is also one of the most enjoyable films I have seen in the past few years. “The Man Who Killed Hitler and then The Bigfoot” is not only an absolutely ridiculous ride about a man hunting down a well-hunted reclusive cryptid as well as The Bigfoot, it is also the story of a man.

Sam Elliott stars in this unexpected drama as Calvin Barr, a WW2 veteran recruited by the American and Canadian government to take down the biggest threat to international security since the war, The Bigfoot.

Throughout the movie, we are constantly bombarded with flashbacks to Barr’s younger days leading up to, and during, his service in the war. These serve, as you might expect, to illuminate the assasination of Adolph Hitler. However, these flashbacks serve the much more important roll of shedding light on Barr’s backstory and internal conflict.

The internal conflict is actually the focus of the film and not, oddly enough, Hitler or The Bigfoot. This message is really well-summarized in the scene where Barr is speaking to Federal and Canadian agents and he says that he is not a hero, he is just a man. This is the primary message of the movie but it is easy to miss given the erratic pacing of the movie.

Pacing is the largest problem this film has. Given that roughly 50% of the story is told through flashbacks.

About every other scene it breaks up both the ‘“present day”’ story and the “‘past”’ story enough that I found myself saying, “Really? Another flashback?”

The volume of flashbacks is well justified given the significance to Barr’s character development but they still feel awkward. Even with that, I cannot stress enough how good the rest of the film is.

One of the main attractive features of this film is how impactful the violence is in it. There isn’t so

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much of this while our protagonist is assassinating Hitler, but the scenes where Carr is hunting The Bigfoot are as visceral as they are ridiculous to describe.

We grow so desensitized to violence in movies that it gets hard to create a fight scene that can hold surprises for an audience. This film has found a solution to that problem thanks to the director, Robert D. Kyzrkowski, and the team of editors on the team.

Truthfully, the directing is phenomenal, with the right angles focused on meticulously dressed sets edited together so that any given scene has a powerful mood and plot point that is effectively delivered with style and grace. There is a lot of cinematic value in this film for examples of fine cinematography and editing, as well as ways to humanize the stories that come from seemingly outlandish ideas.

When compared to films with similar subjects, “The Man Who Killed Hitler and then The Bigfoot” far outclasses them in almost every category, even those B movies that became popular and amassed fans.

I have always found movies like “Sharknado,” “Rubber,” “Tusk” and other bizzaro plots and concepts interesting. This is not only because I found it interesting how they managed to obtain funding, but also as a question of what makes these movies likable? Why are these films featuring challenges that are so outside of real life something that people connected with enough to watch and rewatch and love and appreciate?

But I believe the answer is in the question, people embrace these films precisely because they are outlandish.

Originality counts, and a funny visual never hurts, and these films don’t fit any of the molds of typical blockbuster genres but they bring elements that are a little more daring to try to subdue into a movie that brings something more daring to the table.

I really urge you to watch “The Man Who Killed Hitler and then The Bigfoot,” especially if you’re someone who likes goofy movies or someone who likes to be constantly surprised and shocked by them. This film is an absolute experience and I can promise you will never get bored watching it.

Watch this with at least one friend for someone to talk about it with after.

Rating: 7/10

LINDSAY FARROW Columnist @lindsayfarrow28 With Hurricane Dorian claiming at least 30 lives in the Bahamas last week and making its way towards the states, the country waits for the impending destruction it will bring.

Destruction that, as of late, the United States has become all too familiar with.

It seems as if every day brings with it a new natural disaster. This may partly be because the emergence of social media and the ability to connect with people from all over the world in real time has exposed us to when and where disasters are taking place and the immediate damage. But, the truth may lie with a policy issue that some individuals still claim is a hoax: climate change.

Look, I’m no Greta Thunberg, but there just comes a time when so much scientific evidence is available that it becomes naive to ignore the facts. NASA and the U.N. have conducted extensive research and have entire websites designated to inform

people on the issue. Two very credible sources that have the money and resources to dive deep into the problems our planet is facing.

At this point it is just point-blank undeniable. Sea levels are rising, the earth is warming and the ice caps are melting.

These contributing factors have all led to a perfect storm of severe natural disasters that are happening at a seemingly increased rate all around the world.

Climate change may not be the initial cause of a natural disaster, but rather a factor that intensifies them at a deadly rate. Lives and livelihoods are destroyed and communities are left to pick up the broken pieces of what once was.

With the last two years bringing forth some of the costliest natural disasters we have ever seen, this opens up a new dilemma for politicians and economists alike. How do we pay for these disasters?

Rising financial burdens caused by natural disasters that are taken on by the government pressures our elected officials to start taking the climate change conversation serious-

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Lead singer of Fishing for Saturday, Mady McCrea, belts out lyrics during their performance at Start the Conversation on Saturday evening.

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GRETA CROSS Engagement Editor @gretacrossphoto The final bell rings, dismissing you for the day. However, your evening has just started. You hop in your car, guitar laying in the backseat, and head to a few hours of band rehearsal. Time for dinner and homework? Not quite yet. You rush back to school for swim practice. You have a swim meet in two days and a rock performance this weekend. On top of all that, you have an essay due next week.

Jackson and Preston Martin, Alex Herrel, Mady McCrea and Josh Henry live this reality each week. These five high school students make up a local rock cover band called Fishing for Saturday. They are not only student-athletes but artists.

The band felt the reward of their work this August upon receiving news they won the voter’s choice category of the Celebration of Music competition. The band will fly out to Los Angeles, California next summer to perform in studio on national television for a new Public Broadcasting System series showcasing young bands, musicians and dancers across the country.

Winners, ranging from ages 4-25, from 18 different cities will perform on the series. According to the Celebration of Music website, the band members will also be introduced to a variety of LA producers, agents and managers, along with an invitation to record a professional single with Ethan Bortnick.

The Celebration of Music competition was inspired by Bortnick to give young artists opportunities in the music industry. Bortnick, now 18 years old, became known at the age of five for composing his own original songs. He won the Guinness World Record for “The World’s Youngest Solo Musician to Headline His Own Concert Tour” at age nine.

The quintet advanced through three rounds of the competition, including a video submission, live performance and online fan voting.

“We started with a video submission that we did at our music school during one of our band practices,” Herrel, Springfield Catholic Schools junior and guitarist, said. “We sent that in and then we got accepted to go in the next round, which was at Fox Theater. We won there against twenty (acts) and ended up winning the voting portion.”

Fans voted for their favorite contestant on the Celebration of Music website. Fishing for Saturday was the only band in the finalist round, competing against 19 other solo artists.

Two other solo musicians were chosen to perform in LA from the Springfield competition, including Missouri State senior Morgan Ladyman.

The three high school seniors and two juniors that make up Fishing for Saturday met at Pellegrino’s School of Music & Art in Springfield.

The school offers group band lessons where students are placed in a band with others their age with similar music interests. Members practice

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(Top) Alex Herrel, high school junior, strums a chord during Fishing for Saturday’s performance at SAC’s Welcome Week Concert.

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Climbers wait to begin the 9/11 Memorial event.

(Bottom) Josh Henry, high school senior, drums for Fishing for Saturday at the Gilloz Theatre for Start the Conversation. for one hour a week with the aid of an instructor.

Currently, the band covers hits from the ‘60s to today, focusing on music in the rock genre. They have covered top tracks from bands such as The Beatles, Pink Floyd, U2, The Black Keys and Coldplay.

As middle school students, the band performed their first “gig” in April of 2014 at Classic Rock Coffee, now called the Riff, said manager and father of Jackson and Preston, Tyson Martin. Just one year later, in August 2015, the band drew a crowd of over 400 people when opening for T.R.O.Y (The Reality of Yourself).

The band has opened for International Blues Competition finalist Katy Guillen and the Girls, Nashville awarded artist Liz Moriando, iTunes and Billboard Top 10 Artist The Jeremiah Johnson Band and Colony House, among other regionally and locally well-known bands.

The band’s most recent performance was Saturday evening at Gillioz Theatre for the Start The Conversation event, which focused on the promotion of awareness and education about youth suicide. The band performed alongside rock and soul band The Rosy Hips and The X-Factor finalists Makenna and Rock. The event was free to the public.

This summer the band released their first original single, “Worn Out Tapes,” which can be accessed on iTunes and streaming services.

To keep up to date on Fishing for Saturday’s work, visit facebook.com/Fishingfor Saturday.

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Participants brave the heat as they climb 110 flights of stairs at Plaster Stadium to honor first responders who lost their lives during 9/11.

On Saturday morning, 350 individuals filed into the Robert W. Plaster Sports Complex to participate in the Springfield Area Memorial Stair Climb.

The climb is a tribute to fallen first responders whose lives were lost during the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and all those who have lost their lives on duty under similar circumstances.

Climbers completed five laps, traveling up and down the stairs around the stadium. On the fourth lap a bell was rung, and each individual read out the name of a fallen firefighter lost during 9/11.

This is done on the fourth lap at the 50-yard line, because it is about equal to 78 floors of stairs, which was the highest floor reached by Orio Palmer, a Battalion Chief of the New York City Fire Department, who died while rescuing civilians during 9/11.

"Hey bud," Adam Neff, a Battalion Chief of the Nixa Fire Protection District, exchanges with other firefighters, fundraisers and climbers. As the founder of the event, Neff had the honor of announcing Orio Palmer’s name during the climb.

Neff was inspired to organize a stair climb in the fall of 2012 after one of his friends was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, however, the idea was pushed aside until he proposed the idea to a few like-minded individuals in the fire service community.

This then became a reality in 2013 when the first Springfield Area Memorial Stair Climb took place.

The event had 200 climbers and raised $11,000. Seven years later in 2019, the event has gathered 350 climbers and is expected to raise anywhere between $40,000 to $60,000, which is donated and dispersed to other services by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation.

“To say is this program successful, you really have to define what success is,” Neff said. For him, the

success of the event is measured by the people.

“Dollars being raised is nice, but the important thing is having people show up every year and experience it,” Neff said.

That is one reason why this is an event for everyone to participate in, not just firefighters.

Everybody climbs with each other, a civilian could be climbing right next to a firefighter in full gear, carrying equipment.

“I cannot tell people what it is like, they just have to experience it, and the recurring theme is that [the climb] is really heavy physically and emotionally,” Neff said, wiping away tears.

The event is meant to be a tribute while serving to educate and inform younger generations that may not have been alive during the time of the tragedy or were too young to remember.

“It really has enabled people to use this [the climb] as a starting conversation, especially for their children,” Neff said.

Battalion Chief Josh Donham of the Nixa Fire Protection District can relate to the educational component as he was only in middle school when 9/11 occurred.

“Everybody knows where they were at when it (9/11) happened, it was a mark in time,” Donham said.

“But now for people that had not been around or never saw it or experienced that impact, this is a way to remember those lives lost and bring that impact home with them.”

The Springfield Area Memorial Stair Climb has increased in money raised and climbers each year. Both Neff and Donham hope to see the event continue to grow in the future through education and student involvement.

“I hope that it continues to be successful,” Donham said. “With any event, as time goes on the impact becomes less because there are less people that were around when it happened, and it gets buried in the history books. I think as we continue to grow we need to remember and keep that impact up to teach these younger generations about (9/11).”

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The creators of “Recoiled,” left to right: Brandon Huddleston, Nathan Westrope, Claire Grim, Shalom Simmons, Kersten Schatz.

EA students turn idea into award-winning film KAYLA CURRY Staff Reporter @kaylalcurry Sleepless nights in the studio fueled by endless cups of coffee became the norm for a group of electronic arts students spending the past year working on their thesis project — a 3D animated short film called “Recoiled.”

The film, which received initial skepticism from professors, has received international attention and has been accepted into eight film festivals so far, including the Silicon Valley African Film Festival and 11th International Inter University Film Festival in Bangladesh.

The project’s core group of students consists of electronic arts graduates Claire Grim, Shalom Simmons, Matthew Fuller and Shelby Corely, as well as electronic arts seniors Kersten Schatz and Brandon Huddleston. The six of them wanted to create a 3D animated short, a project that has been attempted by many EA students before but never completed.

The team said seeing previous attempts falter and being advised by professors of the difficulty of the project motivated the group more.

“The fact we got it done is impressive,” Grim, director of the film, said. “You don’t see a full 3D animated short out of a student film often.”

Huddleston, lead sound designer said “it was fate” the group met each other and were able to accomplish the animated short with the help of over 40 other students from inside and outside of the EA program.

He described the making of the film as like having to “become like a business.”

Fuller recalled flipping through pages of technical documents and time logs, as well as reaching out to software companies to adapt to technical issues. He said everyone on the team logged more than 20 hours a week on the project on average. Schatz, screenwriter and director of photography, also had to adapt by learning marketing skills to promote the film.

“It’s crazy because a year ago we were being told that this wouldn’t work, this might be hard, this would be difficult, and I think a lot of that really just inspired us,” Huddleston said. “We took it as a challenge and worked harder.”

Simmons, the producer of “Recoiled,” graduated in May this year from the EA program, and during a brainstorming session, came up with the idea for the film. The story follows character Kalli, a young African American girl, who must learn to love herself as she struggles to accept her hair which plays its own sentient character in the film.

“My niece, who watched the film, loves it because she likes the fact there’s a main character that looks like her.” - Brandon Huddleston Simmons said the film is centered around being an individual by focusing specifically on the issue of hair, which she says is a big deal in the black community.

Schatz turned the idea into a script, earning a second place award from the Missouri Broadcast Education Association.

“Spite is a powerful motivator,” Schatz said.

Huddleston said his family, especially his niece, loved the film, and he has received phone calls from some of them crying.

“All my nieces and nephews have curly hair,” Huddleston said. “My niece who watched the film loves it because she likes the fact there’s a main character that looks like her. Even adults and parents love it. My uncle loves it because he always has to brush my niece’s hair. A lot

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Throughout the production process, the film was critiqued by skeptical professors. Technical director of “Recoiled,” Fuller said every week the group turned in a script and professors “tore it apart,” until they reached the finished script.

“The scary part about it is the professors have a heavy hand in it,” Grim said. “And if they don’t like it you don’t get greenlit.”

The group underwent a “grueling process” of getting the green light from their professors, Simmons said, but when talking about the process of creating u See RECOILED, page 7

Some people of color go their entire academic career without being taught by someone who looks like them. Others might be lucky enough to find such a teacher in high school or college.

For Yvania Garcia-Pusateri, former executive director of Multicultural Services at Missouri State University, the first time she met a Latina faculty member was in graduate school. As a woman of color, a sense of empowerment came with the experience, she said.

“I’ve had mostly majority white teachers, so I did have people who did invest in me,” Garcia-Pusateri said. “Even if they were white, they were still formative to me and my development, but there is something different when you see someone that looks like you, in front of you, leading the classroom discussion.”

Garcia-Pusateri’s career in multicultural services has spanned a decade. She started as assistant director of university affairs and coordinator of diverse student development at Miami University. Then she moved to Springfield and started at Missouri State. On Sept. 9, she’ll begin working at Springfield Public Schools as chief equity and diversity officer.

“I’m really excited,” Garcia-Pusateri said. “It’s a whole new environment for me, especially moving from college students to K-12. But it aligns with my passions which are education, working with diversity and inclusion and equity matters.”

At her new position at Springfield Public Schools, some of her responsibilities will include creating diversity and inclusion initiatives which

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will mean training and establishing diversity, equity and inclusion goals for the district.

She will also be involved in addressing any biases in the district’s schools.

Much of her work in the public school system will involve building relationships and consulting teachers to see what they think about the state of diversity in the district.

Garcia-Pusateri hopes to have a genuine, positive effect on students.

“Everything that they bring, the way they present, the way they identify, is going to be something that will be celebrated and embraced within their own learning,” Garcia-Pusateri said. “The learning that is going to take place is because we’re invested in the whole student.”

Garcia-Pusateri’s last day at Missouri State was Sept. 4.

She said in her three years working at the university, she’s found a lot of satisfaction in her work. Managing the Inclusive Excellence Scholarship and Award Program and teaching the associated GEP course was one way in which she was able to connect with and educate diverse students about their identity.

As her colleague Matthew Banks, coordinator for multicultural programs and LGBT student services, explained, Garcia-Pusateri was also in charge of programming for heritage month observances at MSU and oversight of the

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Cross-country finishes in top 10 in Wichita CLAIRE NIEBRUGGE Senior Sports Reporter @claireniebrugge The Missouri State cross-country team took second out of 15 at the J.K. Gold Classic on Saturday, Sept. 7, in its second meet of the season.

“As a whole, today was a better showing for us,” head coach Jordan Fife said in a release. “The team was able to execute the race plan very well, and it allowed them to work together through the tough parts of the race.”

In the past two years of attending the meet, Missouri State has fallen short, placing third out of three in 2018 and fourth out of four in 2017.

The Bears fell 21 points behind host Wichita State in the 4-kilometer race, but paced three top-10 individual finishers.

Erica Wollmering led Missouri State with a seventh-place finish and a time of 14:38.1. The senior set a new personal best for the 4k by one second.

Junior Grace Breiten came up right behind Wollmering, earning eighth with a time of 14:38.3, while sophomore Edna Dar placed ninth with a time of 14:49.7.

The Bears picked up two more top-15 finishes, as sophomore Adyson Delaney placed 13th with a 15:04.7 personal best.

Junior Shelby Palmer followed in 14th place, running a personal best time of 15:09.2.

Missouri State is back in action at the Missouri Southern Stampede on Saturday, Sept. 21, in Joplin, Missouri.

Last season, the Bears placed second out of 32 at the 5-kilometer race.

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Jordan Valley Ice Park temporarily closed while crews work to repair the system that keeps the ice rinks cool. The Ice Bears will to open their season at home on Sept. 20 at Illinois State. The home opener is on Oct. 4.

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Soccer starts season with three wins STEPHEN TERRILL Sports Reporter @Stevethe2nd Women’s soccer currently stands at 3-1-1 through five games.

The team opened the season with a 2-1 loss at Western Illinois when the Leathernecks scored two unanswered goals to win after Bears senior forward Ashley Coonfield scored the first goal.

The Bears played Central Arkansas and Arkansas-Little Rock on Aug. 30 and Sept.

1, winning both games. Senior defender Brittney Robinson scored late in the second half against Central Arkansas to secure a 3-2 win. The late-game go-ahead goals continued against Arkansas-Little Rock when junior forward Jordan Eickelman scored with eight minutes to go.

The Bears had their home opener on Sept. 6 — a gritty, physical affair against UMKC that ended with a scoreless tie after double overtime.

The Bears beat Southern Illinois-Edwardsville 1-0 on Sept. 8.

Scoring has been spread out among the Bears. Six players each have at least one goal so far.

Redshirt sophomore forward Anna Durnin is the current shot leader on the team, with six shots in five games.

Bears head coach Rob Brewer said after the game against UMKC shooting is something the team needs to improve on.

“In the two games that we did not win, we — as a group — made a tactical error, that we didn’t get to the end line enough,” Brewer said. “We’re going to keep working on it.”

That seems to be a large part of the season — the Bears have been outshot 54-39 by opposing teams so far. Brewer said that may be more of an offensive problem than a defensive one.

Junior goalkeeper Kaitlin Maxwell has played in net for the Bears every game this season, posting a .821 save percentage through four games. She made 12 saves to shutout UMKC on Sept. 6.

“I’m feeling really good,” Maxwell said about the season after the game against UMKC. “Our defense has been solid. Even if we’ve conceded a few, I think we’re moving forward.”

The Bears begin a three-game homestand on Friday, Sept. 13. They will play Tulsa, Murray State and St. Louis in six days before going to Nebraska to play University of Nebraska-Omaha on Sept. 21.

Brewer said he is planning to try to keep the attitude from the tie against UMKC going into the rest of the season.

“I think taking care of yourself and being healthy, and competing like that is what we will focus on going forward,” Brewer said.

The Missouri State Ice Bears have run into a complication with their regular season schedule set to open up in the next couple of weeks.

Jordan Valley Ice Park, home of the Ice Bears, is closed through mid-September due to a mechanical failure at the ice plant. The park’s operations will be temporarily frozen as crews repair the system that keeps the ice rinks cool.

That means hockey practices for the Ice Bears will be canceled until the park reopens, according to a Springfield Greene-County Park Board news release.

“Jordan Valley Ice Park is one of our key facilities,” parks director Bob Belote said in a statement. “Our staff and contractor are doing everything that we can to get our patrons and programs back up on the ice.”

The ice plant was taken offline in mid-August to go through scheduled maintenance, repairs and upgrades and was shifted to a temporary external unit installed behind the ice park in early-August, according to the release.

The external unit started experiencing pump failures on Aug. 29, and despite emergency repairs and installation of replacement parts, the system hasn’t been able to keep the temperature low enough to make or maintain ice on the rink for several days.

The Ice Bears general manager Ryan Armstrong said the team has replaced practicing with vast amounts of ice cardio, team meetings and system breakdowns.

“These are the vital parts of hockey that are hard to improve on while on the ice,” Armstrong said.

Armstrong, who took over general manager duties in September 2018, said the ice rink closing down has an effect on the team, but it’s

not as negative as one might think.

“This is our first obstacle, and our players have an opportunity to grow closer to each other and bond as a team,” Armstrong said The Ice Bears are putting an emphasis on preparation for the upcoming season.

Armstrong said the players are getting plenty of cardio that is being orchestrated by the coaching staff, and he expects the conditioning levels to be apparent by the start of the season.

“The guys have been keeping it positive,” Ice Bears head coach Jeremy Law said. “They know it’s just one of those unfortunate situations. We have an old team — these guys know facing a little adversity never hurt anyone.”

The team has gotten help from a local business — Genesis Health Clubs has been giving the team free spin classes since the failure occurred.

Spin classes are usually intense hour-long sessions of indoor cycling on a machine. Cycling weekly is said to possibly burn over 800 calories in a single hour.

“None of us had really done that before,” senior goaltender Brady Griffin said. “We definitely have more respect for those that do it now — it’s not easy.”

Law said the team may travel to a rink in St. Louis, Kansas City or Arkansas to get some ice time in the meantime.

The ice plant failure occurred sometime on Thursday, Aug. 29, right when the Ice Bears were about to begin their third practice.

Law said Jordan Valley Ice Park has been giving the team frequent updates on the situation. The park board estimates it will take 10 days to rebuild the ice and open the facility, according to the release.

While not practicing before the season starts is challenging, Law said that it’s better that it happened now versus a different part of the season.

“It could have been a lot worse,” Law said.

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Crews are working to repair a mechanical failure at Jordan Valley Ice Park.

“It isn’t great, but I think the timing is a lot better than it could’ve been.”

As the season approaches, Armstrong’s excitement level remains high despite the ice rink situation at Jordan Valley Ice Park.

“We are all looking at this as a glass half full,” Armstrong said. “We are going to be a much stronger team on the ice due to the amount of off-ice team building players and coaches are accomplishing. The team schedule has also changed a little, so fan support this year will be more important than ever.”

The Ice Bears home opener will be Friday, Oct. 4, against league opponent University of Colorado.

Bears go winless on road trip DEREK SHORE Sports Reporter @D_Shore23 After finishing second in the Dr. Mary Jo Wynn Invitational, the Missouri State volleyball team hit the road for the first time in the 2019 campaign from Sept. 3-7.

Missouri State went winless during the road trip, dropping all four games.

The Bears played their first road game against Oral Roberts on Sept. 3, where Missouri State fell in a five-set loss.

That continued the Bears early season trend of lengthy matches. Missouri State owned a 2-1 set lead before an 18-7 run over the final two periods propelled the Golden Eagles to a 3-2 victory.

The Bears were tied with Oral Roberts at 18 in the fourth set when the Golden Eagles closed the set on a 7-1 run before bolting to an 11-6 lead in the final set.

Missouri State rallied to even the fifth set at 11 apiece thanks to a kill by senior Aubrey Cheffey and owned a pair of match points at 14-13 and 15-14. However, Oral Roberts closed with three-straight scores for the 17-15 victory in the fifth-set to secure the 3-2 win.

The Bears served 10 aces on the night, which was their most since Sept. 8, 2017, but committed 17 service errors and hit only .159 as a team.

After the loss, Missouri State traveled to New Orleans to play in the All-State Sugar Bowl Collegiate Volleyball Classic for the first time in school history. They began the tournament with a three-set loss against Tulane.

Tulane, which ranked fifth nationally with 29 wins last season, won 25-17, 25-22, 25-16.

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The Bears started the first set 5-for-9 on the attack to an 8-8 score, but cooled off after Tulane remained error-free for most of the set.

The Green Wave hit .387 with 12 kills and four aces to hand Missouri State its first opening-set loss of the season.

The second set featured 12 ties and seven lead changes, but Tulane finished on a 6-0 run

for the 25-22 set win. The Green Wave continued that momentum in the third set, running away with a 25-16 third set victory.

Tulane hit .239 compared to .074 for the Bears.

Missouri State finished the tournament with losses to Ole Miss and Houston Baptist in straight sets on Sept. 7. The team falls to 2-5 on the season.

In the first match against Ole Miss, the Bears scored the first point but never led again after that, managing only 26 kills against 22 errors while the Rebels hit .298 as a team.

Ole Miss gradually pulled away in the first set, using a 5-0 run to gain a comfortable 17-7 lead, and jumped ahead 12-2 in the second. The Rebels completed the sweep after the Bears had nine attacking errors and just six kills in the third period.

Houston Baptist hit .286 with 10 aces and 11 blocks, stuffing Missouri State’s offense to a .082 attack percentage in the second match.

The Huskies led 20-8 in the first set before their first attack error. Houston Baptist used a 7-0 run to lead 17-10 in the second set, and the Bears clawed all the way back to even the score in a 5-0 run to 23.

The Huskies answered with a block and an ace to take the 2-0 lead and cruised to a sweep with a 25-12 win in the third set.

Cheffey earned all-tournament honors for Missouri State after finishing with 24 kills and 21 digs in three matches.

The Bears are back at Hammons Student Center for four matches from Sept. 12-14 as Kansas State, Southern Methodist, Dayton and Weber State come to Springfield for the Missouri State Fall Invitational.

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“Recoiled” now, the group was all laughs as they reminisced about the long hours they spent together.

Huddleston said looking back, he still isn’t sure how they completed the project.

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The team said they brought coffee makers and meals to the studio because they spent a majority of their time working on the film.

A typical work day lasted from noon to midnight, and Simmons said the group knows each other very well because of the long hours they spent working together.

Missouri State, she was also proud of the new traditions she helped start. The Multicultural Graduation Ceremony and Reception, for example, allows for the celebration of diverse Continued from page 5 students and their experiences at Missouri State PSU Multicultural Resource Center, the MRC while also highlighting how they were helped Annex and the LGBTQ Resource Center.

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“We definitely bonded through our suffering,” Schatz said.

The group is now helping other electronic arts students pursue producing animated shorts because they understand the challenge of completing a project like “Recoiled.”

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all we do is get together and just recognize this group of students,” Banks said. “It’s not about outwardly educating the larger community; it is purely just about singing the praises for the amazing work that these students have done and will continue to do after graduation.”

Banks said the multicultural graduation ceremony was just one example of how Garcia-Pusateri left a positive mark on MSU be-

around 20 different showings and that this is another piece in expanding the scale.

“We’re really trying to grow into an empire here locally,” Cay said. “We’ve lost far too many people to LA and New York, great talented people that we could have here in the Midwest if we just had a place for them to work, and I think this is a really great opportunity to start building up. Right here in the midwest.”

One of Carbon Trace Production’s main efforts lies in collaboration with MSU students, both with pitching ideas and in creating the films. While they’re building a reputation as a professional, nonprofit Midwest film production, much of their staff is student volunteers, and they’re always looking for more proactive students to join, Cline said.

“We want students to come in and learn,” Cline said. “You can’t teach initiative.”

cause of her personalized approach to her work.

“From the graduation ceremony to the different heritage month celebrations to just the advising and relationship building that she had, she came at this kind of work from a ‘Let’s build up these communities to make them more visible, make them more empowered, make them ready to change the world after graduation,’” Banks said. u Read the rest online at the-standard.org

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Some of the courses offered include studies in forensics, criminal profiling and terrorism.

Garland said some of their biggest growth has been in online enrollment. “We have several students who are online who are nearby and choose to take our online courses because it provides a lot more flexibility,” Garland said.

There are some departments facing lower numbers due to demographic changes.

Biology Department Head Alicia Mathis said after at least a decade of substantial growth in their department, enrollment is down this year.

The number of undergraduate and graduate students enrolled as biology majors decreased by 7% between 2018 and 2019, Mathis said.

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“This trend has been true for several years, but our efforts at recruitment and retention have helped to delay the effects of the declining pool,” Mathis said.

Mathis said part of their focus is on outreach to future students.

For example, Mathis said the biology department sends representatives to various university-sponsored recruitment events and visits individually with high school students to give them a tour of the department.

The biology department also focuses on building a strong community through small lab sections.

Mathis said they want to give students the resources they need to succeed.

“We want our students to know that when they leave MSU, they have the background to be leaders in their fields,” Mathis said.

MSU is focusing on stabilizing their enrollment numbers by expanding non-traditional course offerings and creating partnerships with other colleges to recruit prospective students, according to an Aug. 26 Administrative Council meeting report.

MSU anticipates another enrollment drop for the 2020-2021 school year.

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