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Springfield hosts Climate Strike ZOE BROWN Lifestyle Editor @zoe_zoebrown Chanting and impassioned speeches could be heard from over 100 people gathered to raise awareness about climate change and environmental justice at Park Central Square on Sunday.

The Springfield Climate Strike was held in conjunction with the Global Climate Strike, which took place in over 150 countries from Sept. 20-27.

People of all ages attended the rally and held signs displaying messages like, “Save the earth� and “God’s creation is in crisis.� One young boy in a Spiderman suit held a sign that read, “Be a superhero, save the planet.� “No more coal, no more oil, keep your carbon in the soil,� the crowd chanted.

Sean Atkins, senior political science major, helped organize the event. “We are going backwards on the issue at a time where, more than ever, we need to be going forward,� Atkins said.

According to a 2018 Pew

MSU says goodbye to $35 admission fee for incoming students AFTON HARPER Staff Reporter @affie888 Missouri State University no longer requires the $35 application fee, University President Clif Smart said last Wednesday.

Clif Smart announced at the most recent Board of Governors Executive Committee meeting that MSU’s total enrollment is at 26,001 students, 181 lower than last year.

To combat the decreased enrollment, Smart said he made a decision as the president of the university to waive a nonessential fee.

Smart said the board wants to make MSU accessible for more students. “It’s another way to level the playing field,� Smart said. “To make sure everybody knows that everyone is welcome at the university.�

Smart said they hope it will create a more robust application pool, so they can focus on promoting MSU to potential students.

Research study, 67% of U.S. adults believe the government is doing too little to combat climate change. However, many Democrats and Republicans propose different solutions to the problem and may disagree on the severity of the issue.

Democratic presidential candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have proposed the Green New Deal as a comprehensive solution to climate change and environmental justice issues.

According to the “Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 C� by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, carbon emissions must be cut by 40-60% by 2030 to avoid the worst effects of climate change. Natural disasters such as wildfires, severe storms and floods are seen as a result of the changing climate. “It’s about restructuring our economy and democratizing our economy in a way that addresses these issues,� Atkins said.

Making the transition away from fossil fuels would decrease U.S. reliance on foreign

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Climate Strike participants and their furry friends gather to chant and listen to various speakers talk about climate change at Park Central Square on Sunday. energy and reduce carbon emissions, which causes global warming and climate change. “We really only have a few remaining years to be able to reduce carbon emissions to an extent that we’ll be able to

avoid the worst impacts of climate change,� Atkins said.

At the Springfield Climate Strike, there were many references to the Green New Deal on posters, t-shirts and in speeches. “We know that the roots of

climate change are the patriarchy, colonialism, capitalism and racism, which is why we need a Green New Deal to not only combat the climate crisis, but also the growing inequalities in our nation and world,� said Amy Ramirez, an MSU

graduate student and representative of the Sunrise Movement, a youth-led environmental advocacy group. Ramirez was one of the speakers at the rally. u See CLIMATE, page 4

How campus programs are working to prevent assault CARISSA CODEL News Editor @CarissaCodelTV Missouri State University Campus Safety received 10 reports of sexual assault during the 2018 calendar year.

Under Title IX, sexual assault is defined as rape, fondling or unwanted touching. Not accounting for domestic violence, dating violence and stalking, Missouri State’s Title IX office received 29 sexual assault reports from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019.

Since July 1 of this year, they have already received five sexual assault reports.

Andrew Englert, assistant director of Campus Safety, said he thinks the university has made a lot of improvements towards educating students about sexual assault, but there is still work to be done. “I think we are improving, certainly after creating the Title IX office in 2015, which provided a lot of education about what sexual assault was,� Englert said. “While we saw an initial spike in reported sexual assaults, I think that was due to the education.�

Englert said if they can intervene in high school, they can address “problem behavior� before it becomes an issue in college. “Unfortunately, while higher education is doing a great job, we probably need to look at a younger population because I think some of the behaviors are developed prior to coming on a college campus,�

Englert said.

Jill Patterson, MSU Title IX coordinator, said she wished more was being done to educate young adults before they come to college. “We have been engaged in some very purposeful projects to increase awareness of (Title IX) so they know they can come to us for help,� Patterson said. “But the other side of that is, I think sexual assault in general, not specific to our campus but our culture, has been on the rise. I believe that things like all the access points through social media, all the exposure this generation has had to pornography, have created an uptick in sexual assault.�

Patterson was a prosecutor of sexual assault cases for 15 years before she came to MSU. She said a few key factors have led to a rise in behaviors consistent with rape culture. “The extraordinary access to pornography — the addictive nature of it — all of the sharing of nude photographs that goes on between people,� Patterson said. “I think that promotes a culture that is allowing sexual assault to feel normal to some people.�

Patterson said she rejects the idea that if someone is drunk they cannot be assaulted. She said being

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According to Jill Patterson, victims confide in people similarly to a funnel. More victims tell friends and family than victims who bring sexual assault to the attention of prosecutors.

intoxicated is not an excuse for assault. “It is still the responsibility of the person who harmed them and it doesn’t make it less because the person was drunk,� Patterson said.

Similarly, Englert said he does not agree with those who think assaulting an intoxicated person is harmless. “I have a lot of issues with saying, ‘Because of the state of a victim, a crime is OK,’� Englert said.

Preventing sexual assault

This way, the sober person can intervene when their friends are making decisions they might regret later.

Patterson said a sexual assault is “far more likely� to happen between people who know each other, rather than between strangers.

She said it is most often a betrayal of trust, meaning someone would never believe a person they know could behave in that manner.

While sexual assault can happen in a variety of places, Patterson said it is most likely to happen in a familiar setting, where someone thought they would be safe from getting hurt. “There is strength in numbers,� Patterson said. “Trust your senses when you feel something isn’t going well — be willing to ask for help.�

Patterson said even though it is always a good idea to speak out during a traumatic situation, it can be extremely difficult to find the words needed. “So I’m not blaming someone that does not find them,� Patterson said. “But on the other side of that, the person who wants to do something has to find their words to ask and get a clear answer.�

Patterson emphasizes strong communication between two people to reduce the risks of “misunderstandings.�

“We have a variety of initiatives,� Patterson said. “For one, we speak to every single GEP student and UHC student, which takes an enormous amount of time but it is time well spent because I think that people know who we are and know to come to us if they have an issue.�

Petterson said Title IX received grants for the Green Dot initiative and Project Heal. Both of the leaders of those groups speak to students and faculty. “Specifically Green Dot offers a lot of practical advice around how to engage in behavior that would prevent the issue from happening at all,� Patterson said.

Englert said Green Dot is a great part of the initiative to prevent sexual assault that teaches bystander intervention on how anyone can intervene in situations that they think might lead to sexual assault.

Englert said planning ahead is essential to staying safe before a night out.

Patterson said when it comes to victims reporting “Always have that sober individual that you assault, think of it like a funnel. go out with, don’t go out alone and establish what At the top of the funnel, the widest part is telling your ground rules are going to be with that sober u See TITLE IX, page 8 individual,� Englert said.

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Public Affairs Conference 2019 Living in the 21st Century Digital World: A precursor to the upcoming Public Affairs TINSLEY MERRIMAN Staff Reporter @MerrimanTinsley The end of September marks the beginning of the Missouri State University Public Affairs Conference in 2019. The conference, officially running Oct. 1-3, is free to any student or person who wishes to attend.

Headed by cell and developmental biology Professor Paul Durham, the theme of the conference this year is 21st Century Digital World. Durham is also the director of the Center of Biomedical and Life Sciences at MSU and a member of multiple health organizations.

According to the MSU website, this years’ theme aims to examine the speed and effects of the constant use of technology by the world.

“Faced with the breakneck speed of technological change, how can an individual, a community or a nation celebrate its benefits while gracefully mitigating the price of progress,” the MSU website said.

On Sept. 30 from 7:30-8:30 p.m., a special pre-conference event will take place in the Plaster Student Union Theatre. The event, headed by music Professor Ann Marie Daehn, will be a musical production detailing the advancement of both technology and diversity in the Ozarks.

The conference officially kicks off Oct. 1 with the appearance of DJ Bobby Bones in Juanita K. Hammons Hall for Performing Arts from 7:30-8:30 p.m. Bones is the host of iHeartRadio’s “The Bobby Bones Show” and winner of Season 27 “Dancing with the Stars.”

The MSU website describes him as “the most popular country music DJ in America.”

The second day lasts from 9 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Topics range from connecting and using digital means for purchases, communication, healthcare or even agriculture.

At noon the second day, speaker Jason Anderson will cover privacy versus economics online. Anderson has worked with companies such as Microsoft and Blizzard, and now serves as head of independent music platform UnitedMasters.

“This session explores the reach and value of that hidden data and presents several longterm scenarios for the relationship among technology, regulatory policy, digital property rights and ethics frameworks for data science practices,” the MSU website said.

The second speaker of day two is Sam Eathington, chief science officer of The Climate Corporation. Eathington will use his years of studies in the agricultural field to outline how digital technology will affect the world’s food issues.

The final day will include topics about privacy online, the use of drones and how the digital age is affecting analog games.

The first speaker of day three is Spencer Harris, director of Springfield based tech company Mostly Serious. Harris’ panel is about how even though online games seem to be overtaking physical ones, players still enjoy traditional means of play alongside newer ones.

Following Harris is speaker Tianan Epps-Johnston. Founder and director of the Chicago-based Center for Technology and Civic Life, Epps-Johnston will cover how technology could be used to increase voter turnout during United States elections.

“She will focus on the approach the center takes in partnership with election officials, technology companies and civic engagement organizations to improve the U.S. elections process for millions,” the MSU website said.

Finally, Harris returns to round out the conference with a “games extravaganza” in Duane G. Meyer Library. u See AFFAIRS, page 8

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(Top left) Customer service representative Corinne Seitz talks to Naomie Corro at the Social Security Administration table.

(Top right) Juan Carlos Gonzalez converses with the passport service representatives at the Naturalization Ceremony reception. Juan is a non-degree seeking student from Venezuela.

(Bottom left) The Daughters of the American Revolution showcase a table of cookies for everyone at the Naturalization Ceremony reception.

(Bottom right) Sandy Wade at the passport service table talks to the new citizens about the steps needed to obtain a passport.

Missouri State hosts naturalization ceremony in Plaster Student Union CARISSA CODEL News Editor @CarissaCodelTV Just under 100 people became U.S. citizens at the Plaster Student Union on Sept.

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The ceremony started at 11 a.m. in the PSU Theater, where immigrants earned the title of U.S. citizenship. Afterward, festivities were moved upstairs in the East Ballroom where there was cake, cookies and an opportunity to get a picture taken in front of the American flag.

Juan Manuel Landazuri was born in Ecuador and said he is excited to be a new citizen. He was able to go to college in Oregon and said from then on he loved everything about the U.S. “I’m super happy,” Landazuri said. “I’m blessed. I love this country and now I can say I’m a citizen.”

He married his wife, who was born in America, and said in the end, they decided to stay in the United States.

“I wanted to be a part of this great country and hopefully be a positive addition to it,” Landazuri said.

He said getting citizenship can take about five years from the time of residency.

“Initially, I had a student visa before being a resident, so it was a non-immigrant visa,” Landazuri said.

Then he received a business visa when he began to work in the U.S. for a company that did international business.

“So, adding it all together for me has been about eight years,” Landazuri said.

Landazuri said becoming a citizen is “a great opportunity that should be taken with great respect.”

“The country I come from does not have the privileges or the gifts that you find in this country,” Landazuri said. “For me and my fellow immigrants that come to this country, I just wished that we would all pursue being a positive addition to this country and not take

“and now I love this country I can say I am a citizen.”

- Juan Manuel Landazuri

advantage of it.”

Sandy Wade, a window clerk of the United States Postal Service in the main office downtown, was at the reception helping the new citizens fill out passport information.

“The newly naturalized citizens want a new passport to be able to travel the world, back to their homeland,” Wade said. “They just received naturalization papers, which are required for their passport and another photo ID.” The postal service gave the new citizens the proper forms, helped them fill it out,

collect the fees, mail them out and make sure they are processed and returned in a timely manner.

“We’ve just been swamped,” Wade said.

“It’s just fascinating to see all these people and they’re all so happy.”

A normal passport takes about 15 minutes to fill out and four to six weeks to receive, according to Wade.

Teresa Pope with the League of Women Voters attended the ceremony to help new citizens register to vote.

Pope said the League of Women Voters has attended naturalization ceremonies for a long time.

“The national mission is ‘Making Democracy Work,’” Pope said. “What that ends up being is registering people to vote, advocating for voters, protecting voters and educating voters.”

Pope said the organization does other things that may not seem related to voting, but in the end, they enable people to vote.

“We work with people in poverty because we feel like if people cannot provide their basic needs for themselves and their families, they don’t have enough energy left over to think about voting,” Pope said.

When they worked at another naturalization ceremony in the spring, they had about 30 people register to vote.

“If we have a democracy that is serving its citizens as it is supposed to, everybody needs to vote,” Pope said. “We think it is a great privilege, but it’s also a duty.”

The League of Women Voters will be on campus again on Sept. 24 to help students register to vote.

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Flipping Blizzards prepared me for the real world

‘Rhapsody in August’ not quite rhapsodic R E V I E W

DAVID WHEELER Reviewer @DontTellThe_Elf Writer-director Akira Kurosawa’s “Rhapsody in August,” the penultimate feature film of the illustrious filmmaker's career, finds the then well-aged director revisiting a theme that often appeared in his filmography — the dropping of the two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the twilight hours of World War II. Viewing this film marks my twenty-first encounter with the work of Kurosawa, my favorite filmmaker. His films — such as “Ran,” “Seven Samurai,” and “High and Low” — are among some of my favorite films of all time, and his work remains to be some of the best films any cinephile would experience in their journey through world cinema. Sadly, however, “Rhapsody in August” rests low in Kurosawa’s 30-film filmography.

Kurosawa, who was 35 years of age at the time of Hiroshima and Nagasaki's abolition — an age old enough and wise enough to fully comprehend the terror of the war's end — would later moderately subsume his films with thematics concerning the bomb.

Ten years after the drop, Kurosawa’s 1955 film, “I Live in Fear,” finds actor Toshiro Mifune as an elderly man consumed with nuclear paranoia, fearing another day of nuclear holocaust is near, while his 1990 film, “Dreams,” devotes an entire sequence to civilian panic as a power plant melts down near the base of Mount Fuji, the fantastic sky superimposed by massive columns of flames. A year later, Kurosawa would adapt Kiyoko Murata's novel “Into the Stew” into “Rhapsody in August.”

Kane, an elderly “hibakusha” — a term designating the survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki who so often carried the physical effects left in the wake of the blast, such as hair loss, keloid scars, and genetic defects — who lost her husband in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, is caring for her four grandchildren over the summer in her Nagasaki country home. The anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing is nearing and Kane has received word that an estranged older brother on his deathbed is requesting a visit from her before he passes.

The older brother, Suzujiro, immigrated to Hawaii long ago, married an American woman and had a son named Clark, here played by American actor Richard Gere. The theme of paranoia carries over from “I Live in Fear” as conjectural tensions between Kane’s Japanese heritage collide with the guilt of America's role during the war, localized here into Gere's half-Japanese, half-American character.

The grandchildren play a central role in the film. At first, they serve to selfishly persuade their grandmother to journey to Hawaii, but the faded memory of her brother — in a family of reportedly 11 siblings — keeps her uncertain of the truth in his request. The children playfully mock the thin hair atop her head and only wish to go to Hawaii for the sights.

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Nagasaki, they soon learn of the city's tragic past through their grandmother and sojourns through the city itself.

A twisted, geodesic climbing dome serves as a memorial in a school's playground, its iron bars once used for play by schoolchildren are warped and rusted from the flames and shockwave, while monuments gifted from several countries lament the victims in a neighboring park.

In “Rhapsody in August,” three generations of a Japanese family, with American pedigree now sharing the family tree, respond to and recall the past. The grandmother details a massive eye peering out of the bright mushroom cloud on the morning of Aug. 9, her country home situated on the other side of a mountain that separated the countryside and metropolitan Nagasaki — a place far enough away to survive the flames but not the radiation. As she peers into the shrouded eye, her husband, at the children's school in Nagasaki, is meeting the fire.

It's a proper memorialization of Hiroshima and Nagasaki situated in the perspective of a singular family tree — yet Kurosawa, nearing his final years, a time where he was at his most didactic, instills within the film an overbearing amount of sermonizing lecturing, here filtered through the dialogue of the grandchildren as they, almost directly to the audience, recount the bomb and its postwar effects on Japan.

A remnant of the past and an ostensible victim of the blast itself, a broken pump organ — its key-pressed octave of rising and descending notes acting as an ellipses between some scenes as the eldest grandson works to tune it to correction — is fixed in the final act just as the thematic tensions between Japan and America are resolved. This maneuvering through history and memorial becomes a bit too maudlin at times, perhaps overcompensating for what is, in fact, a rather stale narrative.

The staples of Kurosawa's cinema are here undoubtedly, with his penchant for cutting from a loud scene to a quiet one, or vice versa, and in a distanced camera to emphasize ensemble staging that isn't so dissimilar from the viewpoint of an audience member seated in a Broadway theater — where the performers and their stage are in full view.

His ability to create geometric spacing between his characters and in supplying a sense of depth to the image is still ever-present as well, assuring his admirers that he still knows his craft. Even torrential downpours of horizontal rain and threatening winds — weather being a mainstay of Kurosawa’s style — make an appearance here.

The final moments of the film find the entire frame rife in animation when all of the 80 minutes preceding it reveled in stillness.

Yet, Kurosawa's brilliance, unfortunately, doesn't transpose into the narrative itself.

This is likely the weakest film from the able director that I have seen. The emotional resonance never quite lands as well as it should, and the sentimentalism for postwar Japan

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‘Stop ordering food best served on a plastic Mickey Mouse plate’ LINDSAY FARROW Columnist @lindsayfarrow28 Current status: heating up fried macaroni and cheese bites and contemplating life, wbu? But seriously, as I sat down to type this I had a goal of bashing picky eaters. Odd flex, I know, but really. I wanted to write about how picky eaters are point-blank problematic.

Then, something magical happened. An epiphany so clear, it was practically Glossier.

I AM A PICKY EATER. Not in the literal sense of the phrase — though I am currently about to indulge in a snack made for a five year old — but in life.

Picky eaters are, for lack of a better phrase, people who gravitate towards chicken strips and fries at every single restaurant they go to. These are people who refuse to branch out, are stuck in their

ways and are just unadventurous. Some may even say picky eaters lack cultured palettes. #Basic.

And really, nothing makes me cringe more than seeing somebody refuse to eat their Taco Bell Doritos Locos Taco because the employee forgot to leave off the lettuce.

And when we get to that age where “What fraternity are you in?” is no longer an acceptable ice breaker, trust me when I say you will always be bored with the “meat and potatoes guy.”

But, I get it. You like what you like, and you know what you want. Why try something new when you can go with something you already know and are comfortable with?

I laugh out loud to myself as I read that back in my head because that’s seriously me.

Not at a restaurant, trust me I will never not order the bougiest thing on the menu. But in life, in love, in the profes-

sional world. I am the pickiest of eaters.

And at times maybe that’s my problem, or maybe it’s what helps drive my motivation.

The key to this conundrum rests in the hands of Buddha. I’m talking balance, baby. You have to be a little bit of both. Be picky about things that matter. Know yourself and what you like and pursue the hell out of them. Remember to know your worth and then add tax.

But, branch out. Be adventurous. Try quinoa, make your own kombucha. I don’t know what the thing is that you refuse to try, but try it.

Stop ordering food best served on a plastic Mickey Mouse plate. Also, please stop talking to your ex because it’s a comfortable feeling but in really I know you want to break the chain.

Break that chain, honey.

And please, for God’s sake, eat your vegetables.

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I walked in the front door sporting a new pair of black slacks and black Converse.

I may have looked sharp, but my hands were trembling as I walked to the counter. My new boss tossed a large polo and used visor at me, instructing me to change in the bathroom. I tucked the much-too-large shirt into my waistline alongside my fellow new coworker who was listing all of the other jobs she held that year. Little did I know, she would be gone after two weeks.

At 16 years old, my first job was as a crew member at my local Dairy Queen. For six months I may have gone home smelling like a mixture of grease and curdled milk, but working at a minimum wage job taught me a lot about life and myself.

The first and biggest takeaway from my time at DQ was I wanted to continue my higher education. According to the food blog Mashed, more than 40 percent of fast food workers are over the age of 25.

After just a month of work, I learned how easy it was and is to get stuck in the “minimum wage cycle.”

These types of jobs are easy to obtain, provide light tasks and handsome hours. They are appealing but can suck people in. For the most part, Dairy Queen was an enjoyable job for me. Nonetheless, I did not make plans to stay there for long.

Balancing a part-time job, alongside school work and extracurriculars can be hard. Taking and bagging orders all day compared to studying for two exams and writing a research paper seems like the life sometimes, but never lose track of your goals. Keep grinding and you will see the reward in due time.

At Dairy Queen, I also learned a lot about patience.

Restaurants are stressful to work in. It did not take long for me to realize that I needed to push down any anxieties I had about my work performance or communicating with others because there was work to be done and a lot of it.

One of my most distinct memories is from a closing shift I had early on. A group of boys came in late and ordered a handful of Blizzards. One of them ordered the underrated Hawaiian Blizzard, made from a blend of vanilla soft serve, pineapples and bananas.

Pineapple is probably the runniest Blizzard topping, which made flipping the treat over successfully, without any spillage, extremely difficult.

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MFA student channels her past into installation art GRETA CROSS Engagement Editor @gretacrossphoto

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Bobby Lewis, assistant professor of media, journalism and film, works on a documentary at his desk.

Professor honors family with documentary AFTER HIS FAMILY DIED IN A CAR ACCIDENT, BOBBY LEWIS REMEMBERS HIS FAMILY BY CREATING A DOCUMENTARY BASED ON HOME AND CELL PHONE VIDEO

“THE BEAUTIFUL THING ABOUT BEING AT MSU, THE FACULTY GIVE ME A LOT OF CREATIVE AUTONOMY SO I CAN CREATE PROJECTS.” - BOBBY LEWIS

TINSLEY MERRIMAN Staff Reporter @Merriman Tinsley Assistant Professor Bobby Lewis is making a documentary over the recent deaths of his sister, mother and father. Lewis plans on the documentary being about both the accident itself and what his life has become afterward.

Originally a musician, Lewis moved from Seattle to Los Angeles after graduate school to pursue a career in documentary films. He then moved to Missouri with his wife and son in December 2017.

Lewis became an assistant professor in the Media, Journalism and Film department in August 2018.

Lewis said the move was motivated by his family. At his father’s funeral, Lewis saw a lot of support for his father’s legacy as an educator. He said he was also just tired of the LA lifestyle. Even though he lived near famous actors, Lewis realized that fame doesn’t matter in the long run.

“Generations of people who came to the funeral said their lives were changed by all the time and energy my dad put into their lives,” Lewis said.

Lewis wanted to move into education to follow his father’s footsteps.

He said in LA he would be questioned about his camera work and enjoyed talking about it and showing how to operate it.

Lewis admitted that even though the people he was teaching made more money than him, he was fine with showing them the ropes for free.

Being a professor at MSU, he was

able to obtain a grant from fellow faculty to help finance his documentary. He also plans on creating the soundtrack for the documentary.

“I had been mulling over the idea of creating a film, and also writing music about all of this. The beautiful thing about being at MSU, the faculty give me a lot of creative autonomy so I can create projects,” Lewis said.

Lewis said the key part of the documentary is featuring footage from his mother’s phone prior to her death.

Lewis’s mother had recently traveled to Hawaii to see her daughter, who was organizing a marathon there. After they returned to the mainland, they, alongside Lewis’s father, died in a car accident.

“The whole trip was documented on the phone, so I thought, ‘I’m gonna go back to Hawaii and take their phone that still worked and use it as a map to go to these places she would have wanted me to see,’” Lewis said.

Alongside the phone documents, Lewis has worked with his uncle to find old family films of his parents to include in the documentary. He’s even collected things that his parents had never seen, such as footage of his mother as a baby.

Lewis said the accident taught him not to take life for granted and to live to the best of his ability. It also made him realize that fame is not all it appears to be.

“You have to figure out, do you go through life hateful and bummed out and resentful,” Lewis said. “Or do you say no, that’s not what they represented. In that, there’s a lot of beauty.”

A light film of plaster dust covers the concrete floor. Studio lights illuminate a half-finished project hanging from the ceiling.

This is master of fine arts student Casaundra Beard’s studio, located in the basement of the Big Modern Pop Up gallery in downtown Springfield. Walking into the barren studio’s first floor, which is bright and airy from the natural light pouring in, no one would guess Beard’s studio lies underneath.

Beard is a Springfield native and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Missouri State with an emphasis in drawing. Her current degree in visual studies has an emphasis in sculpting. She said her passion for 3D art became apparent during her undergraduate studies.

“Once I got into (drawing), I had to take a couple of 3D classes and sculpture and just found my ideas came across better three-dimensionally, and I just felt limited with 2D,” Beard said.

“I still graduated with a drawing degree but Missouri State is flexible, in that it’s interdisciplinary, so they let you play around.”

Before her time at MSU, Beard showcased a passion for art. Throughout high school Beard took as many art classes as her schedule allowed, and was involved in all art-related extracurricular activities she had time for. Even before then, Beard said in first grade a piece of her art was put on display in the Springfield Art Museum.

Today, Beard is an active graduate student, a wife and a mother to a 3-year-old and a 2-month-old. Beard described balancing her art with being a parent as “chaos,” with a sigh and bout of laughter. Beard said she spends roughly 20 hours a week in her studio. “(I have) to treat this like a job, otherwise I would just stay home and do laundry or cook or find something that needs to be done around the house,” Beard said.

One of Beard’s biggest inspirations is Louise Bourgeois, known for her sculpting and installation art pieces. Bourgeois was an artist who balanced the weight of being a mother, which is what inspires Beard the most.

“She didn’t let (parenthood) stop her from creating art, and she always found time to make it to the studio and then once her children were grown and out of the house, she made art up until she died in her apartment,” Beard said. “I really admire that and I want that to be a goal for me.”

Although her studio is full of various projects in the making, Beard is currently in the middle of her main MFA exhibition project. Her project revolves around how a family member’s mental illnesses impacted her upbringing.

“I’m really focusing on my relationship with them and how I coped mentally with that as a child and now into adulthood,” Beard said.

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MFA student Casaundra Beard creates a variety of sculptures in her studio.

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The idea of a Green New Deal has been met with controversy from Republicans, stating that the proposed legislation would allow for too much government intervention, which is counter to the idea of limited government, a foundational principle of conservatism.

“As the issue becomes more urgent, we’re going to see that we have no other choice than government intervention,” Atkins said.

Many corporations are moving to reduce their carbon footprint of their own accord, without intervention from the government.

Atkins argues, however, that though this does good for the environment, it does little to address systematic racial or economic inequality.

“They have an economic incentive to foster climate change more because they’re so embedded within the fossil fuel industry and into heavy carbon emission industries in general,” Atkins said. “As long as the money is there, they’re going to continue to do what’s best for their short-term profits.”

Because economic freedom is a pillar of the Republican party, many Conservatives have embraced the idea of moving toward renewable energy to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign energy, according to a 2018 Pew Research study. However, 57% of republicans think policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions can be harmful to the economy.

Atkins said taking the abstract idea of climate change and humanizing it will increase the salience of the issue in people’s minds.

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Participants chant and hold signs at the Climate Strike at Park Central Square.

“Start out with simply pointing out the facts,” Atkins said. ”Show them the reports that we are experiencing warming at an unprecedented rate, and that basically, every climate scientist agrees that we are in a period of manmade climate change.”

According to NASA’s website, 97% of climate scientists agree that humans are causing climate change.

“We’re all impacted by climate change in very direct ways, it’s increasing massive storms, increasing the rate of hurricanes, but it’s also making it harder to grow crops, increasing the spread of disease, increasing conflict, as we’re experiencing our first climate refugees,” Atkins said.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has acknowledged “climate, environmental degradation and natural disasters increasingly interact with the drivers of refugee movements.”

“I’m really concerned that the governments

in Europe and North America, that are going to be less directly affected by climate change for a little while, are just going to shut these refugees out,” Atkins said.

Atkins said the US does not have asylum laws for climate refugees.

Mia Sethi, senior economics and religious studies major, and international student from India, attended the event. For her, the most pressing environmental issue is the international water crisis.

“People over there are using tokens from the government to get water, which is insane to think about because that’s my home,” Sethi said. “There are people outside of our neighborhood that need trucks to come in and give them water. They have to decide between using that water to wash dishes, or drink or take a shower.”

There is significant common ground on the issue of climate change, sophomore religious studies major Maya Speckhard said, though it

has become a token issue of the democratic party.

“In the end, everyone, regardless of their political party, would be in trouble if the earth started to die or continues dying at the rate that it is,” Speckhard said. “Eventually at some point, someone has to look at someone else and say, ‘We have to put our differences aside about this.’”

Atkins encourages young people to organize by joining activist groups, writing congressional representatives, taking part in demonstrations and making personal steps toward reducing, reusing, and recycling.

“Every little bit helps,” Atkins said. “If you can make yourself slightly more green, that pays dividends in the future, setting an example for everybody else.”

Atkins emphasized that climate defeatism is just as dangerous as climate denialism.

“When we organize together, we have so much power,” Atkins said.

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Women outnumber men in elementary education field Less than a quarter of elementary and middle school teachers are men

Gender equality is often thought of as women entering male dominated fields, particularly in STEM, and several initiatives in the last few years have started to address the lack of diversity in those fields.

However, there are many careers where men make up a very small minority. One field that lacks male representation is elementary education.

According to data from the U.S. Department of Labor, 77.9% of elementary and middle school teachers in 2017 were women. For preschool and kindergarten teachers, that figure was 97.2%.

At Missouri State University, women outnumber men in the elementary education program. Sophomore elementary education major Michael Chapman said in many of his degree-specific classes he is one of the few men.

Chapman said he is the only male in the room when he attends his introduction to elementary education course.

Minor Baker, assistant professor in the college of education, specializing in elementary education, said no more than 10% of the students he has worked with over the last two years have been men.

There are several ways to explain the lack of men teaching younger grades, Baker said. One is simply historical context. In the early 20th century, elementary education was one of the professions society deemed acceptable for women. They’ve had a strong presence in the field ever since.

Baker said many men might feel disheartened to

go into this area of education, choosing instead to teach middle school and high school because none of their early teachers were men.

“The unspoken message that many of those students may hear is that this is a specifically gendered place for women, and there’s not necessarily a place for male teachers because so few males go into education,” Baker said.

Chapman, who started at MSU as a vocal performance major, cites this as one of the reasons he moved away from teaching despite his passion for it at a young age.

Because there is little representation of men in elementary education, men may shy away from the profession. Chapman said the odd looks and “why-areyou-here” stares he got while working in a first grade classroom for a high school internship made him feel like he stood out too much or they thought he had some other purpose for being there.

There are a number of benefits men interested in elementary education might find by entering the profession.

For one, Rhonda Bishop, clinical instructor in the childhood education and family studies department, said male elementary teachers are highly sought after.

While high quality teaching skills are still important, Bishop said male teachers have substantial marketability because many schools are trying to balance their faculty gender ratio.

Denise Cunningham, head of the department of childhood education and family studies, said having more men in elementary education might help eliminate the ste-

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Increasing male presence in elementary education is important for the sake of diversity. Bishop said, with changing student populations and family dynamics, it’s important for both men and women to be represented.

Chapman said there are many kids who, for one reason or another, might not have a father figure present in their lives, and it’s important for their cognitive development that they see both strong men and women in the classroom.

When it comes to diversity in the classroom, the lack of a general male presence isn’t the only concern for some. Both Baker and Cunningham said that there is an overabundance of white female perspectives in most schools.

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The Wandering Found KATHRYN DOLAN Staff Reporter @kathryndolan98 Local band, The Wandering Found, has played in venues across Springfield including The Outland ballroom and on Missouri State’s campus.

The band, made up of six members, is rooted in Christanity, but members said they do not make worship music.

Thomas Yonke, a senior music composition major, is the lead singer of The Wandering Found.

Yonke said the members all met through church and started the band in February 2018. The group met through the campus ministry CREW and all played in the worship band.

“We all come from a background of worship music,” Yonke said.

In the fall of 2017, Yonke read the book, “All the Bright Places” by Jennifer Niven in one sitting.

The novel is about the effect of mental illness on individuals and the people around them. The two main characters Finch and Violet contemplate jumping off their school’s bell tower in a suicide attempt but save one another from doing so.

After finishing the book he started writing songs based on the impactful narrative, eventually writing an entire album.

“I realized I was going to need some help in order for the songs to be everything I wanted them to be,” Yonke said.

After long discussion and brainstorming with his roommate, Chris Matheson, a senior music education major, the pair decided to form a band around the album which is titled, “The Great Manifesto.”

Even though Yonke wrote all of the songs for the album he said there is a reason The Wandering Found is not a solo act.

“I think music is meant to

be collaborative because music at its core is about communication,” Yonke said.

Yonke said while he does most of the song writing, all six members work together to create the best possible product.

Matheson said the band name was inspired by the members backgrounds and experiences in Christianity.

“We wander through this life not exactly sure where we’re going--- we’re all kind of in the dark at some level as humans,” Matheson said, “but we find ourselves in Christ.”

Matheson said when the band initially set out to make music, they had a lot of positive experiences with worship music but members wanted to connect with people who aren’t Christians.

Matheson said The Wandering Found makes music that is accessible to everybody.

Carter Williams, guitarist for The Wandering Found, graduated from MSU last year with a mass media degree and describes the majority of The Wandering Found’s music as alternative rock.

“The beautiful thing about having a band of six people is that we can diversify ourselves,” Williams said.

The band tries out different styles of music like grunge and classic rock, drawing inspiration from bands like The Foo Fighters, Colony House and Walk the Moon.

Yonke said he came into college wanting to write musicals, he focuses on choral music and is a member of MSU’s touring ensemble.

“My experiences here at MSU have taught me a lot about being a musician,” Yonke said. “The skills I learn in class and from choir transfer over to (The Wandering Found).”

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Missouri State’s men’s soccer squad signs new teammate CLAIRE NIEBRUGGE Senior Sports Reporter @claireniebrugge “Be Strong and Pray.”

This is the motto of the new 10-year-old men’s soccer signee, Nick Heun.

At the young age of 5, Nick was diagnosed with an immune disorder where the body does not make antibodies, making it hard to fight off infections — hypogammaglobulinemia.

“A germ is the chocolate part of a M&M,” Nick said. “Your body is able to make the candy coating around the germ to keep your body from getting sick. I don’t make that candy coating, so I pretty much have no protection from germs.”

Because of Nick’s illness, he has to wear a mask when he’s indoors and in close quarters.

Outside is safer for Nick because people — and germs — are more spread out.

So, when Nick was nominated to Team Impact by an anonymous friend, being matched with a soccer team was the perfect choice.

“We are God-blessed and the luckiest team in the world because Nick and his family adopted us,” Missouri State head coach Jon Leamy said. “He has made us a better team and better people. We owe Nick the world for showing us what is important in life.”

Team Impact is a nonprofit organization, similar to Make-A-Wish. But instead of sending kids to Disney World, Team Impact matches kids with collegiate sports teams.

And now, Nick is Missouri State soccer’s 12th man.

“He’s just as much a part of the squad as every other player,” redshirt freshman Sean Green said. “He comes to every home game, and if he can’t make it, he’s watching us on TV.” Even when Nick was sick and throwing up on the couch at home, he was still watching his team and cheering on the Bears.

Nick said his favorite part of being a mem-

Photos courtesy of Missouri State Athletics Communications, Amanda Heun and the Nick’s Journey Facebook page

(Top) Nick Heun signs a letter of intent.

(Left) From left, Sean Green, Kyle Hiebert, Ben Stroud, Nick, Will Lukowski and Connor Langan pose for a photo.

(Above) Associate head coach Michael Seabolt smiles with Nick. ber of the soccer team is going to practices and hanging out with the guys.

“He is just a wonderful 10-year-old boy who is enjoying these kids on our team and a relationship with (assistant coach Will Lukowski), the other coaches and the trainers,” Leamy said.

Nick has a special bond with redshirt junior Kyle Hiebert. Nick and Hiebert exchange riddles when they see each other and see who can solve the jokes.

“He has stumped me on a couple,” Hiebert said with a laugh. “I’m not sure where he finds some of these.”

Nick’s mother Amanda believes this experience will give Nick the chance to create a social life and build life-long relationships. She believes God put Nick with these boys for a reason.

“I’ve not seen him light up like that in several years,” Amanda said. “I wish they could understand how much of an impact

they’ve had on him.”

The soccer team has an open-door policy with Nick — he is heavily involved with the team and is able to be a part of anything he wants to, including having his own locker next to the rest of his teammates.

“Even though he can’t do anything in the game to help us, just seeing his face and his smile gives us motivation to make him proud,” Green said.

Nick, a Bruner, Missouri, resident, sits on the bench during games, gives high-fives after goals, meets the coaches of the opposing team, heads into the locker room at half, attends practices and watches film.

And Nick isn’t the only Heun family member who gets in on the action.

Nick’s dad, John, has been seen running sprints with the team at practice.

“The entire family has bought in and become

Bears,” Lukowski said. “It’s a whole family commitment.”

Amanda said it’s good for the rest of them — John and Nick’s siblings Matt and Evie — to do something that forces them to focus on something other than treatments and illnesses.

Nick, who sees a total of seven doctors, has treatment every 28 days for 2-3 days at a time at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Louis.

“It’s impressive of all the positivity he brings to our team and the joy that is still on his face even though all the treatments and other things that he deals with,” Hiebert said.

Missouri State is honoring Nick on Oct. 1 during the men’s soccer game against Omaha for a fundraising event.

“Nick at Night” ticket proceeds, as well as “Be Strong and Pray” bracelet profits, will go to funding Nick’s Journey.

Men’s soccer remains perfect as conference play begins MONICA BLAKE Sports Reporter @monicablak3 The Missouri State men’s soccer team started last week holding both the Missouri Valley Conference offensive and defensive players of the week from the previous week. Junior Josh Dolling had been named offensive player of the week after a last-minute goal to win the match against University of Tulsa, and senior Kyle Hiebert had been named defensive player of the week.

The Bears ended the week ranked first in the MVC with a 6-0 record on the season. The second ranked team is Drake with a 4-3 overall record and a 1-0 conference record, and in third, lies Loyola Chicago with a 4-3 overall record and a 1-1 conference record.

Beginning the week 4-0, the Bears competed in their first two MVC matchups of the season against Valparaiso and Loyola.

The Bears took down Valparaiso on Wednesday, Sept. 18, at home 3-1. Goals were scored by seniors Stuart Wilkin, Ian Jones and Matthew

Bentley. Dolling assisted Wilkin and had three shots on goal.

“We got off to a great start today with the two early goals and were able to come away with a big conference win,” head coach Jon Leamy said. “The guys have worked hard to establish themselves and where they want to be at the end of the season.”

The Bears traveled to Chicago to take down Loyola on Sunday. The Bears won 2-1 in overtime.

“This was a total-team effort today, from the players to the coaching staff in some wet conditions,’’ Leamy said. “We put ourselves in

Missouri State falls to Kennesaw State in home opener AMANDA SULLIVAN Sports Editor @mandajsullivan The Missouri State football team recorded its first home-opening loss under head coach Dave Steckel. The No. 6 Kennesaw State Owls defeated the Bears 35-24 on Saturday afternoon.

Missouri State looked their best so far this season in the first half.

Senior quarterback Peyton Huslig started off the first quarter in strong fashion. The defense also dominated, keeping the Owls to seven passing yards.

The Owls are a run-heavy team and managed 48 rushing yards against the Bears in the first quarter.

The high tempo for the Bears gave them a chance to capitalize early. Huslig found junior wide receiver Lorenzo Thomas on a 6-yard pass.

The second quarter didn’t show much for either team until the final few minutes.

Senior punter Brendan Winthrow punted a ball that couldn’t have been placed more perfectly.

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Peyton Huslig stiff arms a defender.

His 52-yarder bounced and skipped out of bounds at Kennesaw State’s 1-yard line.

KSU’s quarterback Daniel David tried to rush the ball in but junior defensive tackle Claudio Martin forced a fumble and senior linebacker McNeece Egbim recovered it.

Huslig ended up running in a 2-yard keeper for a Bears touchdown.

A KSU 75-yard rushing touchdown put

the Owls on the board, but Missouri State took a 16-7 lead after sophomore kicker Parker Lacina placed a 37-yarder through the uprights.

Kennesaw State wasn’t out of it, though.

The Owls bounced back after 156 rushing yards in the first half.

Compared to the Bears’ 47 rushing yards, it seemed like a lot, but the Owls led all Division I football teams — regardless of subdivision — in rushing yards per game with 388.7.

By the end of the game, KSU had 479 rushing yards — and five rushing touchdowns.

For Steckel, those five plays were the five that cost the Bears the most.

“It’s disappointing. You can play so well for so long,” Steckel said. “Big plays devastated us.”

Egbim, a team captain, also said those plays were difference makers.

“We were doing things right,” Egbim said.

“It’s just one person — one play, and people don’t communicate. One play, two plays can make a difference if you’re not focused.”

The Bears have a bye week before their next game. They start conference play at Western Illinois on Oct. 5.

a hole with the goal in the first half, but we had a tremendous response in the second half and (Wilkin) placed a fantastic shot to win it.”

Bentley scored the only goal for the Bears during the first 90 minutes to tie the game. He scored off of a penalty kick to the left of the goalkeeper.

Wilkin won the game for the Bears with a shot fired from 18 yards out, just a minute and a half into overtime play.

The Bears will continue on the road against Western Illinois on Thursday, Sept. 26.

Ice Bears split first two games in Illinois STEPHEN TERRILL Sports Reporter @Stevethe2nd

The Missouri State Ice Bears’ opening weekend was filled with lots of goals and lots of penalties.

The team split two games with Illinois State on the road, losing the first game 6-2 and winning the second game 6-4.

The first game was off to a promising start when sophomore forward Nikita Salnikov scored early in the first period to put the Bears up 1-0 early.

Salnikov’s wrist shot from the left faceoff circle was so accurate it knocked the ISU goalie’s water bottle out of its holder on the back of the net.

Illinois State quickly evened the score — defenseman Jack Kremer got a shot past senior goaltender Brady Griffin. That would be the first of four goals scored by Illinois State in the first period.

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Women’s soccer Bears start conference this week STEPHEN TERRILL Sports Reporter @Stevethe2nd The Missouri State women’s soccer Bears are 6-2-1 as they get ready to start Missouri Valley Conference play.

Those six wins are only two short of the Bears’ 2018 win totals when they went 8-9-2.

The Bears split games last week, losing 1-0 to St. Louis University on Wednesday, Sept. 18, and beating the University of Nebraska Omaha 1-0 on Saturday, Sept. 21.

While the Bears have been outshot on the season 95-59, junior goalkeeper Kaitlin Maxwell has continued to stop shots.

She has a goals against average under one and a save percentage of .825 through nine games. “(Maxwell) is doing great,” Bears head coach Rob Brewer said. “She was great last year too. She was goalkeeper of the year in the conference. I don’t know how you leave her off of the preseason (all-conference) vote, but we’ll just add that to the chip on our shoulder.”

The Bears’ offense has been led by a new face: freshman forward Unnur Bergsdottir from Reykjavik, Iceland.

She has a team-leading three goals in nine games and was named MVC newcomer of the week on Monday, Sept. 17.

She said she is pleasantly surprised by her quick start.

“I’ve definitely been better than I thought I would be,” Bergsdottir said. “The process since I’ve gotten here has been good. The first two weeks — they were hard, but it’s been better since.”

The Bears begin MVC play on Saturday, Sept. 28, against Valparaiso at home. The Crusaders are 0-8-1.

Brewer said that conference play has a different feel to it than the other part of the season.

“When you get to that part of the season, the nonconference records go out the window,” Brewer said. “You’re fighting for a

Missouri Valley Conference Schedule Sept. 28 vs. Valparaiso Oct. 5 vs. Drake Oct. 12 at Loyola Chicago Oct. 16 at Evansville Oct. 19 vs. Northern Iowa Oct. 25 vs. Illinois State Oct. 31 at Indiana State Nov. 3 MVC Tournament Quarterfinals on campus sites Nov. 8-10 MVC Tournament in Springfield, Missouri The Bears play at Loyola on Oct. 12, at home against Northern Iowa on Oct. 19 and at home against Illinois State on Oct. 25.

Brewer said he thinks Illinois State and Loyola will be contenders for the MVC championship. new season.” record of .500 or higher.

To play in the MVC tournament, which is Of the eight MVC women’s soccer teams, The other three are Loyola Chicago at 5-4-1, being held in Springfield this year, the Bears four, including the Bears, have a nonconference Northern Iowa at 4-4 and Illinois State at 6-4. must place in the top six in conference play.

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Junior goalkeeper Kaitlin Maxwell punts the ball on Wednesday, Sept. 18, against St. Louis. The Bears head into conference play with a 6-2-1 record, losing only to SLU and UMKC.

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Missouri State’s women’s cross-country team competed at the Southern Stampede in Joplin on Sept. 21, capturing the program’s first team title since a 2013 top finish at the Hurricane Festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The Bears finished atop the team standings, beating out 28 other schools by posting scores of 5-15-21-28-31 in the 5-kilometer interdivisional meet.

“Even if it’s over some high-quality Division II schools, it still shows a lot for the growth of our program” head coach Jordan Fife said. “We got out and established ourselves early on and that led to us being able to hold on to some good places at the end.”

Junior Grace Breiten led Missouri State in the first 5-kilometer race of the season, finishing in sixth with a time of 17:41:4. Sophomore Ednar Bar knocked almost a minute off her personal best time, running 18:03.4 on her way to a 17th-place finish.

Senior Erica Wollmering posted her third straight top-25 finish for the Bears with a time

Delaney rounded out the scoring for the Bears as they turned in personal bests of 18:28.2 and 18:32.9, respectively.

Next up for Missouri State is a trip to Fayetteville, Arkansas, for the Chile Pepper Festival on Oct. 5 with the 5K race set to begin at 10:20 a.m.

Fife said the plan of attack going forward comes down to staying healthy as a team because the Bears are already down a few runners due to injury.

Though, the team has shown its depth with younger runners stepping up and contributing at key times.

“Some sophomores have taken ownership, and they know we need a solid top-five,” Fife said. “Regardless of who’s up there, they are going to go in and fill that void. We just can’t afford a whole lot more to happen in regards to health.

“If we can stay healthy and nurse some back to health, we should be in good shape. The BILL SIOHOLM/THE STANDARD expectation is to be ready as we can be by conference time.”

Junior Grace Breiten runs at the Southern Stampede in Joplin, Missouri.

The first conference meet for the Bears is the Under Armour Pre-National Invitational at of 18:14.6 in a meet that featured 283 runners.

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TITLE IX Continued from page 1 friends or family. Then comes Title IX, followed by Campus Safety, then reporting the assault to the police. At the bottom of the funnel, the smallest part, are the cases that actually get prosecuted.

“We probably get more (reports) in because people can come to us and be confidential,” Patterson said. “They can just ask for advice, or sign the paperwork and file a complaint, or ask for us to do an investigation.”

Jane Henke, a victim services and advocacy specialist at the MSU Counseling Center, said her role is to provide treatment for survivors and to advocate for them on campus.

“I joined the Counseling Center team in March 2018 specifically for the purpose of providing treatment to survivors of sexual assault, dating or domestic violence and stalking,” Henke said.

Englert, Patterson and Henke have all seen reports of sexual assault spike upward.

Being at the top of the funnel, Patterson is used to getting more reports than others.

But lately that number has increased even more, and it might not have to do with more assaults.

“I think reporting and reaching out for help to our office has increased,” Patterson said.

“Which is not the same thing as sexual assault increasing.”

Henke said the same has been happening at the Counseling Center. She said she is seeing an uptick of students coming to her over sexual assault.

Last year, she saw about 35 students and expects the same amount this year.

“I would not interpret that to mean that there has been an increase in the incidents of sexual assaults on campus, just students seeking treatment,” Henke said.

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Patterson said Title IX is also a safe place for men.

“When I was only talking about female victims, those were the only people who were coming to see me,” Patterson said. “I have to be very specific about who can be hurt in any of these categories. There is no doubt in the world that women are victimized at extraordinarily high rates compared to anyone else and hurt by men.”

Englert said besides learning about Title IX as a freshman in a GEP class and then never hearing about it again, Campus Safety offers other programs to keep students educated about sexual assault.

“One of the ongoing programs that we offer is called Sexual Assault Prevention and Defensive Tactics,” Englert said.

In this program, the focus is on how to avoid being a victim, such as learning better situational awareness. Also taught is how to be a proactive bystander, as well as some of the barriers that keep people from reporting sexual assaults and then a few basic moves of self-defense.

Englert said they are also working to add two more classes, one that teaches more advanced self-defense and another that teaches individuals to use pepper spray.

“If you are in a situation where you need to use pepper spray, I absolutely want you to use it, but by that point it has gotten too far,” Englert said. “So anything that individuals and the institution can do to assist people in avoiding those situations, that’s where I want to focus our efforts.”

Englert said he definitely wants people to be prepared for a “worst-case scenario,” but he said he wants to educate students before the worst-case scenario occurs.

Englert said part of the education on campus is getting students to know what sexual assault is.

“We’re letting both victims and perpetrators know what consent looks like, what sexual assault looks like,” Englert said. “So regardless of what the situation is, everyone knows beforehand.”

The hope is that when students are educat-

She shared that over her lifetime she has moved over 40 times, due to a family member’s illness.

“We lived in so many houses and apartments but none of them really felt like home to me,” Beard said. “It was just another place we were moving to. As of right now I am making a project with that. I am working with plaster and mold making and I have a little over one-hundred houses right now that I’m setting up as an installation.”

Beard’s plaster houses vary in size and shape to represent the contrasting places she lived in growing up. Pulling out a few houses which were smaller than the others, she explained that her family never stayed long enough in any of their homes to formulate connections. She decided to represent this feeling by creating halves of houses.

Currently, Beard does not have a set number of houses she wishes to create for installation. Rather, she said she plans to be “making houses until I go crazy.”

Sarah Williams, graduate coordinator of the MFA program, said Beard’s interest in installation art is more present than other graduate students in the program. These installations allow her to create an environment for the viewer.

“This requires her to not only think of a sculpture in the round but an entire space and how a viewer approaches it, moves through it, exists in it and how those experiences communicate her ideas and concepts,” Williams said.

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“We just weren’t prepared,” Ice Bears head coach Jeremy Law said. “We were running around in the D-zone, and we left Griffin out to dry.”

The scoring slowed in the next two periods — only three more goals would be scored.

Ice Bears junior forward Alex Rubin scored the other MSU goal in the third period.

Senior goaltender Bailey Stephens came in to relieve Griffin at the start of the second period, but the Bears were unable to threaten the ISU lead.

Law said the game was closer than the score suggested. The Bears had over 40 shots on goal but were unable to score.

Saturday night’s game was a penalty-filled affair — the Ice Bears had 47 penalty minutes compared to ISU’s 15.

“I never really chirp the refs, but I thought the officiating was atrocious,” Law said.

The Ice Bears’ penalty kill held ISU scoreless on eight of 11 power plays. Two of the three power play goals the Redbirds scored were during 5-on-3 opportunities.

“For us to get the win — being in the penalty box that much — it was huge,” Law said.

“I’m really proud of the guys.”

Law opted to start Griffin again on Saturday. He said it was the team’s way of apologizing for the night before, and Griffin made 43 saves on 47 shots.

The Ice Bears were unable to hold onto a lead for long throughout the game — each time they scored the Redbirds would answer with a goal of their own.

The most impactful goal of the night for MSU came on the

ed about what consent looks like, fewer “misunderstandings” will take place.

“It’s pretty easy to blame the drunk girl who gets hurt,” Patterson said, following up with “Saying ‘it was a misunderstanding’ is just an excuse.”

‘Healing is absolutely possible’

When a victim of sexual assault walks through the Title IX door, Patterson said they let the victim lead the discussion. Patterson said students can choose how much information they divulge, whether they include names, and if they file a complaint.

“We don’t have a specific path we go down,” Patterson said. “We listen, we offer resources on campus and in the community.

We ask whether they wish to file a complaint or make a police report, we can help with either thing.

Patterson said she believes people are getting better at analyzing a situation of sexual assault in the hypothetical sense, but they aren’t doing a good job when they’re living it.

“The responsibility for (sexual assault) stopping, needs to be with the people who are being abusive, taking advantage of situations and hurting people,” Patterson said.

Patterson said it would be foolish if she suggested there was any community without some amount of rape culture, but she is working on making campus a little bit better.

“We are doing what we can to break down those stereotypes, but I would say MSU is like the rest of the world,” Patterson said.

Englert said his office is more focused on the response after an assault has been committed.

“Certainly, we are very concerned about prevention and we want to prevent as much sexual assault as possible but we want to make sure that we are not revictimizing someone,” Englert said.

Englert explained revictimization as when a person walks into the Campus Safety office and walks through what happened to them, it is like they are becoming a victim again.

penalty kill — sophomore forward Matt Matyi blocked a shot from the point man on ISU’s power play and raced down the ice to beat the ISU goalie oneon-one shorthanded.

“That was a huge energy goal for us,” Law said. “We were frustrated with the reffing — to score short handed and kind of shove it down (ISU’s) throat — that felt good.”

The Ice Bears also got goals from Salnikov, Rubin and senior forward Zach O’Bryan.

Salnikov’s goal came late in the third period to give the Ice Bears a two-goal lead.

Ice Time The Ice Bears were unable to practice for a majority of the preseason — the backup ice plant at Jordan Valley Ice Park, which was being used while the main plant was undergoing maintenance, had a pump failure leading to both rinks melting right as practices started. Two backup pumps were brought in to replace the broken pump, and that was used to complete the ice sheet MSU will play on. The Ice Bears had their first practice on the new sheet on Tuesday, Sept. 17, at 10 p.m.

Up Next The Ice Bears will travel to Ames, Iowa, this weekend to play two games against Iowa State. The Cyclones are ranked No. 3 in the American Collegiate Hockey Association’s preseason poll.

The next weekend the Ice Bears have their home opener against Western Collegiate Hockey League foe Colorado on Friday, Oct. 4, at 7 p.m.

They will play Colorado again the next night.

“Every time that individual tells their story, they are retraumatized,” Englert said.

He said victims do not have to give all the details about what happened, his office is mainly there to point them toward their resources.

“Do they want to file a police report right now or can we assist them in connecting with the Title IX office?” Englert said. “This way they are aware of what their options are and minimizing the number of times they have to tell their story.”

Patterson said Title IX is confidential and will follow the victim’s lead about what they want to share if they decide to come to her office.

“Sometimes people come to us just to ask advice about situations and we are happy to offer that too,” Patterson said.

Henke said if a victim confides in someone about being assaulted, there are a few steps they could possibly take.

The first step being listen well and do not minimize what happened by saying, “It wasn’t that bad,” or blaming the friend for what happened to them.

“Ask what they need or how they would like to be supported,” Henke said. “Share resources you know about on campus and check in with your friend regularly.”

Henke suggested calling the Counseling Center or other campus leaders if concerns arise about self-harm or thoughts of suicide.

“We have to do a better job in our culture of not blaming the victim,” Henke said. “No one asks to be sexually assaulted. The perpetrators of these assaults are responsible and we must bring about the kind of change in our culture which no longer excuses this type of behavior.”

“Free, confidential help is available,” Henke said. “Healing is absolutely possible.”

If you or anyone you know is in need of help, you can reach the Counseling Center at 417-836-5116, the Title IX office at 417-8366810, the Victim Center at 417-863-7273, Harmony House at 417-837-7700. The National Sexual Assault hotline number is 800656-HOPE.