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Briefs

Awareness group hosts week for deaf community

Gerontology Club joins in ‘Walk to End Alzheimer’s’

The MSU Gerontology Club has a team to participate in the “Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s” at 10 a.m. at Jordan Valley Park on Sept. 24.

The walk includes going to Hammons Field with a chance to meet the Cardinals’ mascot, purple pancakes, and t-shirts. The student on the Gerontology team with the highest fundraising will win a free-fall tandem sky dive.

To get involved in the Alzheimer’s Walk, go to http://2011Walktoendalz.kintera.o rg/springfieldmo/ger.

SPD offers citizen police academy

The Springfield Police Department will hold a Citizen’s Police Academy on Oct. 3. The academy will be held in the training unit on the second floor of the old city hall at 830 N Boonville.

The academy will be on Mondays from 6 to 9 p.m. and will cover topics including: budget and accreditation, internal affairs, public affairs, community oriented policing, DWI, traffic, special investigations, drug unit, SPD history, patrol functions, crime prevention, legal issues, selection process, academy, investigative procedures, robbery and homicide, and special victims.

To fill out an application, go to http://www.springfieldmo.gov/sp d/JoinUs/cpa.html. Seating is limited to 25 qualified applicants.

Circus Spectacular comes to JQH Arena

JQH Arena will host the Circus Spectacular from Oct. 6 to Oct. 9.

Acts will include a world-champion bicycle rider Michelle Audrey, Bo the Elephant, The Human Cannonball, a troupe of showgirls, a tiger act and a motorcycle act. Performers from 15 countries will offer family entertainment and a chance to meet the stars, ride ponies and elephants and take photographs after the show.

Calendar September 20 to September 26

Tuesday

Study Away 101 10 to 11 a.m. at Plaster Student Union 309 Jennifer Johnson Cano, MezzoSoprano 4 to 6 p.m. at Juanita K. Hammons Hall Student Activities Council Meeting 4 to 5 p.m. at Plaster Student Union 313 Student Government Association Meeting 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Plaster Student Union 313 GMAT Preparation Course 6 to 9 p.m. at Jim D. Morris Center for Continuing Education 407

Wednesday

Green Lunch 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Plaster Student Union 308 AB Chemistry Colloquium “Ionic Liquids Tasked for Separation, Binding, or Detecting CO2” 4:10 to 5 p.m. at Temple Hall 003 Jennifer Johnson Cano: MezzoSoprano 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Juanita K. Hammons Hall

Friday

Grammar Fridays at The Writing Center 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Meyer Library Bear CLAW Dance Bear-A-Thon 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. at Hammons Student Center

Saturday

Walk to End Alzheimer’s 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Jordan Valley Park

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The state auditor is questioning Michael Nietzel’s $160,423 salary after stepping down as president.

Contract criticized Auditor: Nietzelʼs deal may violate state constitution

By Megan Gates The Standard

Former Missouri State President Michael Nietzel’s contract may have violated state law and not been in the university’s best interest, according to the Missouri State Auditor’s Office.

In an audit report released Friday the contracts of the nine presidents of the Missouri public four-year institutions and the four chancellors of the University of Missouri campuses were reviewed. The audit said five of the contracts may violate the state con-

stitution because they were paid for past services after they left their positions at the university.

Nietzel was president of MSU from 2005 to April 2010, but resigned when he was offered a position as an adviser on higher education to Gov. Jay Nixon.

After he stepped down and became an adviser to the governor, Nietzel also become a tenured professor in the Department of Psychology “at an annual salary of $160,423, which is approximately $68,000 more per year than the highest paid fac-

ulty member in the department,” due to provisions in his contract, according to the audit.

Nietzel’s contract also allowed him to take a paid leave of absence for a semester for $80,211 during fall 2010.

“Although the President might have been involved in activities benefitting the university during the leave of absence, he was under no legal obligation to perform any services,” the audit said. “In addition, the salary paid to the former president when he assumed his new professorship duties appears to have been excessive.”

Nietzel returned to teach two upper level classes, PSY 597 and

PSY 695 “Law and Psychology, in spring 2011.

He then resigned from the university on July 31, 2011, to become the senior education policy advisor to Gov. Nixon, Scott Holste, said spokesperson for the governor’s office.

“He is the senior education policy advisor,” Holste said. “He advises the governor on K-12 as well as higher education issues. He’s a liaison to the education community both in our colleges and universities, as well as public elementary and high schools.”

The former president could not be reached for comment on the issue See NIETZEL, page 2

Ag school quiet giant at MSU

By Dayle Duggins The Standard

With its calm landscaping and quiet appearance, Karls Hall fools the majority the people that walk past it on campus. A closer look inside will reveal The William H. Darr School of Agriculture, known for its constant research efforts aimed primarily toward meeting the agricultural needs of southwest Missouri.

Most recently, the school of agriculture made two major breakthroughs impacting grape and wine industries in Missouri and potentially the entire Midwest.

Wenping Qiu, a research professor of agriculture at MSU, specialized in the area of molecular plant virology, and has been a major contributor to the school’s wine breakthroughs, along with students and other members of the department.

The first breakthrough revealed the entire genome of Norton, Missouri’s state grape. Now that the grape has been sequenced, its genetic code can be intensively examined.

The other breakthrough surrounds the first DNA virus ever found in grapes.

A closer look at this virus may lend a better understanding of how to prevent its spreading, creating much healthier and successful grapes.

Anson Elliott, director of the William H. Darr School of Agriculture, said the school ultimately hopes to produce a better version of the Norton grape.

“Wenping Qiu is truly trying to develop a new

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The Christopher S Bond Learning Center is the William H. Darr School of Agriculture’s buildings. variety of grapes that will Rimal said.

Kalyn Stevens, a senior utilize the Norton grape, which has a natural resist- agricultural business, sales ance to pests, but it doesn’t and marketing major, had have quite the quality that the opportunity to work as people are accustomed to an intern over the summer when they would drink the on this project.

“Our Mountain Grove French wines,” Elliot said.

“The French wines don’t campus was considering grow well in this environ- producing milk, so we ment so we are trying to were going to local grocross our grapes with those cery stores, convenient French varieties and come stores and super markets out with new varieties that within an 80-mile area and meet the public’s taste and getting their feelings on work in this environment.” locally produced milk,” Wine research is one of Stevens said. “The majorithe numerous projects ty of stores said there was a being conducted by the very high demand for school. This summer, pro- locally produced produces. fessor Arbindra Rimal and Stores in Springfield had a assistant professor Ben certain brand that they Onyango began working couldn’t keep in stock due closely on a feasibility to high demand, so they study of a dairy processing were excited to hear about plant in Mountain Grove, a new opportunity.”

The project is now in Mo. “We received a little the business plan phase to over $50,000 in funding see if all aspects of the from the Missouri Depart- concept are feasible.

The Journagan Ranch ment of Agriculture to examine the market for is another prime example locally produced dairy of the William H. Darr products such as cheese, School’s work toward ice cream and yogurt,” improving southwest Mis-

newest addition to the

souri’s agriculture industry. The 300-acre ranch donation, noted as the second largest gift in MSU’s history, has opened many doors for the agriculture school.

“We have beef cattle at the Journagan Ranch,” Elliot said. “We’re next wanting to see if we can produce our beef on grass so that it’s at home and then produce it with less input from grains and make it into a product that is tender and has grade acceptability by the consumer.”

All of these projects have the potential to gain major recognition for the school’s successes along with financial rewards for Missouri State. But the William H. Darr School of Agriculture is much more than just a research powerhouse. Above all, it is a place for students to get a hands-on education with real-life application, a story that Elliott said many graduates of the school can confirm.

College life can be rough and even harder with a disability. However, raising other students’ awareness of a disability might make things a little easier.

September is national Deaf Awareness Month in the United States. The purpose of this is to bring awareness about deaf people, their culture, language, contributions and issues. It acts as an opportunity to increase the knowledge and interactions with the American public.

To help, students with disabilities have access to Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART), a program where someone captions what is happening in the classroom, which the person then reads on their computer.

The CART provider types the information into a stenotype machine using machine shorthand, which translates that shorthand into captions. The process is so fast that there is hardly any lag time between what is said and what the deaf person is able to read.

Interpreters are present to enable students to keep up with everything going on in classes. While they may be able to take notes themselves, they also have the option to have people take other notes to supplement them.

Craig Aslin is a deaf senior at Missouri State majoring in communication sciences and disorders with an emphasis in education of the deaf/hard of hearing.

“I am actively involved with Christian Campus House here at MSU,” Aslin said. “Therefore, I am involved in the hearing world for the most part. My friends do not view me as a deaf person. They view me as a person. I am able to communicate with hearing people with little to no difficulties.”

Aslin offered some advice for disabled students that are having a hard time at college.

“If I have any tips for students with disabilities, I would say that self-advocacy is the key to success,” Aslin said. “If I did not find selfadvocacy early in life, I would not be who I am today.”

In an effort to increase Springfield’s awareness, Deaf Awareness Group is hosting Deaf Awareness Week from Friday, Sept. 16 to Friday Sept. 23. The week will feature performances, an expo, a silent auction and a picnic.

Leslie Cockrum is the vice president of Deaf Awareness Group and a professor of communication sciences and disorders at Missouri State.

“Deaf Awareness Week is an opportunity to invite the deaf, hard of hearing and hearing community to enjoy the variety of events that may only occur one time a year,” Cockrum said. “It gives everyone a chance to socialize, practice their signing skills and make new friends.

Our performers tend to be deaf so they are a good example for our young generations to see that they too can be successful in any occupation with perseverance and passion.”

The week began with one such performance at Parkview High School’s auditorium by deaf actor/comedian John Maucere, famous for his character “SuperDeafy.” The silent auction also began that night.

The Deaf Awareness Group Expo was held on Saturday, Sept. 17. The free event was held at the First Baptist Church gymnasium and featured over 30 booths by local vendors, businesses and organizations that offer services to the deaf and hard of hearing. It also included a meet-andgreet with Maucere, and contests and door prizes.

The annual Deaf/Hard of Hearing Picnic will be held on Wednesday at Phelps Grove Park. The event will have food provided by local businesses and the Deaf Awareness group. The cost is $1 per person, and is open to the Deaf/Hard of Hearing community, students, interpreters, See AWARENESS, page 2

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Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011

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Cider Days warms hearts and bellies through wicked weekend weather

By Kaycie Surrell The Standard

When I moved to Springfield I got lucky and found a place right on historic Walnut Street. My apartment was prime for events like Cider Days, and I knew it was near when I’d hear the sound of trucks being unloaded and vendors staking their tents into the ground. The smell of hot apple cider wafting in off the street is impossible to resist.

This year’s Cider Days took a hit from this past weekend’s unfaltering rain. Downtown had turned into a gigantic water park by Saturday night and the sight of unprepared pedestrians standing soaked by the side of the road was not an uncommon one.

I was convinced that the festival would come to a complete standstill but not all too surprisingly, Springfield’s grit won out. There certainly weren’t nearly as many people out for the event that boasts up to 15,000 in attendance each year, but die-hard craft lovers and those in pursuit of treats like giant Polish sausages made their rounds.

Local artists like Jesse Stone were forced to battle the rain and make the best of the day. Her brightly colored handcrafted creations were a sharp contrast to the bleak gray sky and, despite the weather, this worked to her advantage. I noticed her booth right away, set apart from the others by a wreath wrapped in red yarn and ornamented with Scrabble letters that spelled out the word “zombies” and bloody baby doll parts glued on at odd angles.

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deaf educators, family and friends.

In case of bad weather, the event will be moved to the First Baptist Church, located at 525 South Ave. The Ozark Mountain Deaf Church will hold a potluck and service on

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before The Standard’s press time on Monday.

Interim President Clif Smart sent out a press release on Friday in response to the audit that said the university disagreed with the audit’s conclusions.

“We believe the Board of Governors acted within its rights and responsibilities in developing and executing contracts and agreements with not only Dr. Michael T.

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Despite the gloomy weather, Cider Days on historic Walnut Street attracted multitudes with its unique booths and hot cider.

Stone along with Tommi Clark, co-owner of local art gallery and store Good Girl Art, offered snarky crafts like hand-stitched ornaments bearing phrases along with cute crafts like hats and mittens, hair pins and headbands that have small fall gourds glued to them.

“I was a weird kid and we didn’t have a TV and I was in kind of a cultic church,” Stone said. “I was always talking so my mom gave me a big jar of buttons and would say, ‘I really need you to just sew all these buttons on this cloth.’ So I’d sew all day long and she’d cut them up, so I’ve just always done this. I think I have an anxious personality.”

Stone’s creations are available at http://etsy.com/shop/jessblissamber.

Sunday, Sept. 25. The event will begin at noon and organizers ask that everyone bring pizza and soda to share. The service will begin at 1:30 p.m.

Another way to get involved is to join the student Sign Language Club on campus. Started in the spring of 2011, the club is currently completing its constitution and bylaws in order to become an official organization. The goal of the club is to be

Nietzel, but also Dr. James E. Cofer, Sr. and Dr. Belinda McCarthy,” he said. “The separation agreements were legal and within all Boardapproved governing policies and procedures.”

Penni Groves, interim general council for MSU, said the tenure and retreat clauses in Nietzel’s contract are common practice.

“The tenure and retreat clauses, which were part of the audit’s focus, are very common for administrators,” she said. “It allows them to continue to have a relationship with the university even after their

Etsy is a popular website for handmade and vintage items. She is also the creator of Commie Clothes, a collection of functional artwork and interesting clothing fusions.

“I get a vintage T-shirt and a vintage dress shirt then I cut them up and breed them,” Stone said.

Have some witty and alternative crafts of your own that need showcasing? Stone and Clark have decided to have their own craft show for items just like that and they’re calling it Cirque de Handmade. It will be held the first weekend in December inside Canvas Art Gallery.

Not far from Stone’s booth sat what every Cider Days attendee looks forward to all year — hot apple cider, roasted corn and joined this

a place where students can practice sign language and interact with the deaf community.

Vanessa Rodriguez-Aviles, a senior psychology major with a minor in sign language, is the founder and president of the club.

“Our club is focused on helping those who want to learn sign language and deaf culture or get involved with the deaf community,”

official duties are finished.”

These clauses also allow the university to remain competitive in attracting quality administrators, Groves said.

However, this may not be legal in the state of Missouri, according to the audit.

“While it is understandable the respective boards would appreciate and might want to recognize the past contributions of a long-term president in a monetary way, it does not appear legal to do so as Article III, Section 39, Missouri Constitution, prohibits the payment of compensation for services previously rendered,”

year by an oldie but a goodie, Caspers.

Everyone’s favorite bright orange restaurant at 601 W. Walnut St. joined the likes of Crossroads Barbeque and The Pie Box, serving up favorites like their famous chili and Frito chili pie.

Diane Thaemert, owner of jewelry company Two Charming Chix, recommended this year’s quirky addition to Cider Days — chocolatecovered cheesecake on a stick.

Thaemert’s booth offered an array of clever trinkets and charms made from found objects and her vast collection of old postcards.

She and her husband do all of the work themselves, with her husband doing about 90 percent of the soldering required to join the tiny pieces of silver together around the artwork that Thaemert either makes herself or finds and alters to fit a charm.

“I love to find the original art for these things,” Thaemert said. “I try to keep with art that you can put on 10 years from now and you can still pull it out and say, ‘Oh that’s cute.’ I have been an antique collector for years and collected postcards for decades.”

Old Halloween photos and postcards from the ‘40s and ‘50s grace the fronts of some of the charms, matched with clever limericks or poems.

Nearby, Amycakes Bakery had set up shop with an assortment of sweet treats. Cupcakes like their carrot cake topped with vanilla buttercream or maple buttercream and chopped pecans were available, as well as giant Snickerdoodle cookies.

Rodriguez-Aviles said. “There are no fees or dues, and it’s not for specific majors or minors. Anyone who wants to learn sign language is welcome to come.”

Students can enroll into one of four sign language courses at Missouri State, two for American Sign Language and two for Conceptually Accurate Signed English. According to Missouri House Bill 530, univer-

according to the audit.

The MDHE does not have authority over university personnel decisions, but it is their responsibility to make recommendations to the governing board of public education institutions in the state, according to the audit.

The Board of Governors is the ultimate authority in deciding what the university will agree to and will not

The corner of Walnut Street and John Q. Hammons Parkway marked the end of the rows of booths and vendors.

Fourteen-year-old singer/songwriter Jake Rogers played blues songs with emotion well beyond his years beneath a green tent covering a small stage for people coming to and going from Cider Days.

Sarah Hough, community event coordinator for the Urban Districts Alliance, works year round planning events like these to showcase Springfield’s talent. She and a small group of devoted individuals are behind events like Artsfest, Taste of Springfield and First Night Springfield, a community New Year’s Eve celebration.

Getting all of the food vendors and artists together certainly isn’t as easy as it looks. Hough and her coworkers go through the rigorous process of checking each Cider Days applicant’s submission and verifying that their work is hand crafted and original.

“We open up the applications mid-September for people to submit their application and then our panel of judges select the vendors,” Hough said. “We’ve got about 70 vendors this year and that’s pretty average.”

Although the rain continued on to the next day of the event, the artists and vendors powered through it and will surely do the same this time next year.

Cider Days marks the beginning of fall and sometimes that means less-than-perfect weather, a fair trade for pumpkin pie and a chill in the air.

sities are required by law to accept sign language classes to fulfill the language requirement of a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Contact Tara Oetting at taraoetting@missouristate.edu for more information about the sign language courses. For more information about the sign language club, contact Rodriguez-Aviles at Vanessa055@live.missouristate.edu.

agree to in personnel contracts, Groves said.

“We issued a press release from Interim President Clif Smart saying that we respectfully disagree with the comments of the auditor,” she said. “However, the board will look at issues raised by the auditors because, even though we disagree with it, that doesn’t mean we want to ignore their suggestions.”

Nietzel’s contract was similar to former President James Cofer, who resigned in June 2011, because he will also be returning to the faculty in a tenured position, Groves said.

“The board will discuss what happened with the audit either at the next board meeting, or at their retreat in the spring and determine how this will affect the search for a new president,” she said.

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Tuesday

Sept. 20, 2011

IDEA Commons offers Missouri State greatest chance for growth In July of 2008, Missouri State University made a presentation to Springfield City Council about its plans for the IDEA Commons.

As most are well aware now, the plan was to improve an area of downtown Springfield by infusing economic development, research and arts to the existing residential and retail properties of the neighborhood.

It was a plan that was supposed to revitalize downtown Springfield and help the university grow.

Two months later, Lehman Brothers filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Since then, economic development worldwide has become an increasingly difficult task.

Still, Missouri State has made progress over the past three years, especially with Brick City, and development of the project continues to be a priority with the university’s administration. It’s among a handful of projects President Clif Smart has said he continues to pursue during his interim leadership.

Among the difficulties they’ll face, the struggling economy is clearly the most daunting. People will need to be convinced to start small businesses, and there’s going to need to be a demand for new products or ideas that are developed as part of the research arm. They will also need to compete for grants to start these projects.

But if the university can keep IDEA Commons growing slowly during this difficult period and get out in front of a rebounding economy when the time comes, there’s potential for this project to greatly improve the city and the school.

David Mitchell, associate professor of economics at Missouri State, compared IDEA Commons to a similar, well-established development in North Carolina called Research Triangle Park.

The original facility, which focused

What is IDEA Commons?

Stephen Herzog Columnist

on technology and business development at Duke University, North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina, is now synonymous with the entire region. The park and the surrounding cities are now commonly referred to simply as “Research Triangle” or “The Triangle.”

On a smaller scale, it’s also reminiscent of Austin, Texas — a place where business, art and research flow together, and where the University of Texas is involved in almost every aspect.

Clearly we’re not there yet, but if you look at the plans the university and city have for the area, and take a look at the existing structures and their location, you can imagine what IDEA Commons could become.

And as that plan starts to take shape, Missouri State and Springfield should increase their chances of acquiring something there is still an abundance of — young and talented human capital.

Opportunities aren’t easy to come by for the graduating work force right now, but if IDEA Commons can offer that chance for young talent locally and nationally, Missouri State could start to grow very quickly.

And with increased enrollment would come further development of projects, and the cycle of growth should be under way.

There’s no certainty IDEA Commons will reach its potential, but right now it looks like Missouri State’s best chance.

IDEA Commons is an 88-acre area bordered by Chestnut Expressway, Water Street, Campbell Avenue and Washington Avenue in downtown Springfield.

IDEA Commons Goals • Develop a sense of place that will be attractive to young talent.

• Revitalize the downtown neighborhood with a combination of renovation of current properties as well as new construction.

• Expand opportunities for business development and commercializing research.

• Develop University partner ships with entrepreuneurs.

• Attract and retain creative, innovative and entrepreneurial human capital.

• Promote economic development.

IDEA Commons Buildings • Jordan Valley Innovation Center • Brick City • Robert W. Plaster Center for Free Enterprise and Business Development • Inspired Commerce Building • Jordan Valley Health Center • Missouri Highway Patrol Crime Lab

Source: This information was gathered from Missouri State Universityʼs website IDEA Commonʼs page.

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MSU football fans need to remember positives

Football season has been quite disappointing for Missouri State fans so far this year. Our beloved Bears are now sitting at 0-3, losing by an average of 32.4 points.

It should be noted though that two of the Bears’ games have been against top-tier FBS teams in Arkansas and Oregon. They were not exactly fair matchups to say the least.

However, conference play will begin for the Bears this week when they take on Southern Illinois (1-1), so there is still hope. League play is really what counts.

So to cheer up all of you fans out there, we decided to compile a list of positive things we can take away from the season so far. Maybe the Bears can use these things as motivation to earn some wins in the Missouri Valley Football Conference.

Against Eastern Kentucky, a fellow FCS school, Bears quarterback Trevor Wooden played well, going 22-for-32 for 262 yards and two touchdowns without an interception. He also ran for 71 yards and a score. This gives the Bears hope that he will also play well against similar conference opponents.

Redshirt freshman Julian Burton is quickly emerging as a star for the Bears with 349 total yards in three games this year. He is listed as a wide receiver, but also poses a threat running the ball and in the kick-return game.

In the game of football, field position is key. The Bears are lucky to have one of the best punters in the MVFC in senior Jordan Chiles. So far this season, Chiles is averaging 42.1 yards per punt with a season-long of 72. He has also landed five of his 21 punts inside the 20-yard line.

The Bears have arguably the best running back duo in the MVFC with seniors Chris Douglas and Stephen Johnston. Together they helped MSU rack up 195.6 rushing yards per game against the MVFC last season. Look for a similar result this year.

Senior receiver Jermaine Saffold, featured in a story on our sports page, is one of the best passcatchers in the MVFC, ranking fourth in yards per game in conference play last year. This year, he has three receiving touchdowns in three games and will surely increase his yards against MVFC opponents.

The Bears were picked last in the MVFC preseason poll, but we believe they are better than that.

Western Illinois lost to Missouri over the weekend 69-0. So the Bears did better against a top-10 team than WIU did against an average Big 12 team. So there’s at least one team in our conference we should be better than. Go Bears!

New York Stock Exchange protest reminiscent of Tahrir Square

Thousands of protesters, mostly 20-somethings, are marching on Wall Street with hopes to smother the New York Stock Exchange.

Now in the fourth day of protests, their mission is to occupy Wall Street and force the media to spotlight their cause.

A protest’s cause is to publicize the message, and this message is one of shared anger over the pursuit of money “over and above all else.”

Protesters say what unites them is, “We are the 99 percent that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1 percent.”

Official statements are to the point, but the protest signs are more fun: “Inflation Causes Starvation,” “People Not Profits,” “Make Jobs Not War,” “Capitalism Doesn’t Work,” and my favorite, “Why You No In Jail?”

What an awesomely ambitious idea this is. These protesters are attempting to roll on Wall Street and surround the stock exchange. Traveling into the lair of big business, these protesters aim to make demands of the top 1 percent of America.

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Dillan Conn Columnist

Most mainstream media hasn’t covered the protest yet, and they’ll likely downplay it as the New York Post did (reporting only 300 college students and aging-hippies showed up). Word is still getting out.

A live feed is running at http://livestream.com/globalrevolution and it’s been really entertaining. More than just fun, the livestream helps people all around the world experience the events in New York.

When the call went out for food, sympathizers around the globe called in $2,800 of pizza for the protesters in just one hour.

Following Twitter hashtags #OccupyWallStreet and #TakeWallStreet are an easy way to follow updates coming out of the protest’s home base in Zucotti Park,

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redubbed “Liberty Square.” Facebook works too.

I stayed up all Sunday night watching the feed. I saw the core of the protesters really gel and organize themselves. They created selfselected teams for things like “tactical issues,” “facilitation,” “outreach” and “civil disobedience.”

Everyone had a chance at the bullhorn and there was a constant exchange of ideas of what to do and where to go next. I felt like I was right there with them. When the crowd roared I got goose pimples the same as when I watched Tahrir Square.

Later in the night, leaders had the bullhorn taken away by the NYPD but brighter, younger minds prevailed as protesters created the “human microphone.” The human microphone is when one person says something and the whole crowd yells it back, in unison, really loudly.

It’s a bit cultish feeling—which might not be bad for the intimidation factor—but it is unavoidably redundant and kind of feels like watching your food microwave.

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Anyhow, it is effective.

Now, I’m watching Monday morning in NYC. The crowd is reforming, sleepy-headed urbanlooking activists are chanting, playing drums and the battle flute, and the opening bell doesn’t ring for another hour and a half. There are lots of NYPD around.

Earlier Monday there was a circle of protesters sitting cross-legged on the pavement receiving a crash course in Twitter usage.

Saturday saw between 1,200 and 5,000 protesters; being the first day the protesters pushed their luck and rolled straight onto 55 Wall Street where they were greeted by—what a YouTube video—called Swells, the rich elite.

The Swells literally scoffed at the silly protesters below while sporting their tuxedos, snapping camera phone vids and drinking flutes of champagne as the crowd chanted, “We are the 99 percent.”

Each day of the protests, especially Monday, have been accompanied with NYPD officers and metal barricades separating walkways from Wall Street. The large NYPD

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turnout made it impossible for the hundreds of remaining protesters to make it to the actual stock exchange.

By Monday the protests had lost some focus. There isn’t a leadership; everyone has a say, and that may be the problem. Although they are planning to stick it out through the week, protesters are in need of a concise list of demands, a little more structure and a lot more people.

What’s more: I was going to write about social media this week no matter what. Finding #OccupyWallStreet is what I wanted to talk about.

I was going to mention #F--YouWashington, a Howard Bealesque hashtag started by uberrespected journalism professor Jeff Jarvis, carried on by Jay Rosen, Jeff Howe and tens of thousands of others overnight. I was going to call it the best American use of social media to date. My fingers are crossed for #TakeWallStreet.

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Tuesday

Sept. 20, 2011

Calendar

September 20 to September 26

Tuesday

Quantum Groove 8 p.m. at Lindberg’s, free Let’s #@%! 9 p.m. at Jekyll & Hyde’s, free for 21+ and $5 for 18+ (only 100 minors allowed at a time) Open-mic night 10 p.m. at the Outland, free

Wednesday

Dug & the Soular Panels 7 to 10 p.m. at Patton Alley Pub, free St. Dallas & The Sinners 10 p.m. at the Outland, $3

SAC Weekly FIlm: Maria Full Of Grace 9 p.m. at the PSU Theatre, free

Thursday

The Detectives 10:30 p.m. at the Outland, $5 for 21+ and $7 for 18+ Trivia Night 7 p.m. at Patton Alley Pub, free Slapdash Science and The Spacetones 10 p.m. at the Highlife, cover charge Attack Attack! 7 p.m. at the Outland Ballroom, $15

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The Ben Miller Band creates a very Ozarkian sound using eclectic instruments such as the slide guitar, washboard and washtub bass.

Friday

The Ben Miller Band enhances bluegrass

Trak Masta Tom "No Time For Rhymin'" CD Release 9 p.m. at the Outland Ballroom, pay what you can

By Nick Simpson The Standard

Springfield Jazz Festival 7 to 11 p.m. at downtown venues, free

Saturday

Springfield Jazz Festival Noon to 7:30 p.m. at downtown venues, free Manhattan Short Film Festival 2 to 4:30 p.m. in the PSU Theatre, $10 Cannabis Revival Noon to 11 p.m. at the Landreth Park Amphitheater in Joplin, donation

Dubfixx: White Noise Edition 8 p.m. at Remmington’s Downtown, $10 if you’re wearing all white, $12 otherwise Enduval with Glass Bottom Boat Ride, Videovamp and From Skies of Fire 9 p.m. at the Outland Ballroom, cover charge

Sunday

Members of Speakeasy 8 p.m. at Ebbet’s Field Downtown, free

It’s a common misconception in the Springfield area that a band born in this region is doomed to die in this region.

While this may be true in the case of many acts to grace our stages, the same cannot be said for a talented, lucky few. One group in particular that climbs out of this portrait is The Ben Miller Band from Joplin, Mo. The trio consists of front man, slide guitarist and songwriter Ben Miller, multi-instrumentalist (washboard, drums and trombone) Doug Dicharry and washtub bassist Scott Leeper.

While these veterans of the Springfield music scene have played in many different venues in Springfield, Joplin and around the country, perhaps one of their most common plots of stomping ground can be found at Patton Alley Pub.

It was here that the trio played a highly-anticipated show with guest guitarist Shawn Eckels of Springfield rock band Speakeasy during Patton Alley’s late-night happy hour on Thursday, Sept. 15.

The Ben Miller Band have garnered a significant following in Springfield alone, thanks in large part to concise musicianship, many heartfelt performances and the songwriting prowess of Miller, who said it’s difficult even for himself to put a finger on their sound.

“It’s tough to describe the sound,” he said. “There’s a lot of different influences and tones that we take.

Tones meaning like a string band sound, or a Dixie sound, bluegrass or blues, but there is some direction through all of it. I’m not exactly sure what it is but I feel it has something to do with the region we’re from. I think that what we do really sounds like our area.”

Miller said he originally began

operating out of Oklahoma, but after moving to Joplin it didn’t take much for the trio to fall into place. He said he believes he has found something truly special in the music they are able to make together.

“I was running these open mic nights, and I quit my job and was sort of just floating,” he said. “I never really had an intention of starting a band, but just met these two guys that I got along with and were just incredible musicians.”

Leeper is a drummer from Pittsburgh, Pa., who one day found himself playing washtub bass — a homemade instrument dating back to African American communities in the early 1900s. He said he has been playing this unique rhythm instrument as a member of The Ben Miller Band for about six years.

“I saw one that had weed-eater string on it, and thought it sounded really good,” he said. “So I went home and made one and then I found

Monday

Open mic night 7 to 11 p.m. at Harlow’s, free

Briefs

By Lauren Healey The Standard

Jazz Festival

The 2nd Annual Springfield Jazz Festival will be held this weekend, Friday, Sept. 23 from 7 to 11 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 24 from noon to 7:30 p.m.

The event will be hosted by many venues such as the Bistro Market Pavillion, Nathan P. Murphy’s, Springfield Brewing Company, The Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the performing Arts and many more.

The event is free and open to the public. Visit http://springfieldjazzfestival.com for more information.

The 12th Cannabis Revival held since 1997 will be Saturday, Sept. 24 from noon to 11 p.m.

The festival, organized by the Joplin chapter of NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws), will feature nationally recognized speakers (including Springfield city councilman Doug Burlison), arts and crafts, marijuana law reform information booths, food and drink vendors and, of course, music.

Bands that will be performing at Cannabis Revival will be The Bootheel, The Wreckards, The Ben Miller Band, The Floozies, Mouth, Jah Roots and many more.

The festival will be held at the Landreth Park Amphitheater in Joplin, Mo. Entry is free but a $10 donation is suggested.

Visit http://www.cannabisrevival.com for more information.

Bassnectar

Dubstep giant Bassnectar will be at the Shrine Mosque on Tuesday, Sept.

27.

Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show will start at 8 p.m. You must be 16 or older to attend.

Tickets are $31.75 and can be purchased at http://metrotix.com, Kaleidoscope, Stick It InYour Ear or the day of the show at the Shrine Mosque.

See BEN MILLER, page 5

Have you heard? Byrd is the word!

14th Annual C-Street Loftwalk & Traditional Music & Dance Showcase Noon to 6 p.m., $10 in advance or $12 day of event

Cannabis Revival

that I could play it fairly well. I was a drummer for about 35 years before I ever even picked one up.”

Miller said his band has been attracting a great deal of national buzz, culminating in a brief recording session for Warner Bros. in Burbank, Calif., and another in Nashville, Tenn.

“They flew us out to Burbank and had us play a showcase of like five songs,” he said. “They liked it and sent us a record deal offer that didn’t really make sense with us to do at this time because there are too many options for them, and not enough options for us in my opinion. I think we’d be selling ourselves short if we just jumped on it.”

Miller said the trio has been working with an engineer named Vance Powell, who has been helping the band with their sound.

“He’s worked with Jack White and a bunch of other people,” Miller

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Queen City Productions and Colby Moore’s Photography studio teamed up to inspire indie audiences.

Concerts intensify downtown indie scene

By Dylan Becker The Standard

The indie scene was thriving Friday evening during the Queen City Productions presentation of Listener, Peyote Wolf and more at the chic Colby Moore’s Photography studio on Park Central South.

Many bohemians and trendy natives gathered around to appreciate the photography of Colby Moore and the creative sounds of the indie genre. Seth Kean, a promotional agent for Forever Endeavor Productions, hosted the event while Colby Moore, a photographer, used his own studio as the venue. The building had a mixture of modern and urban vibes that created a relaxing ambiance that fit the overall theme well.

Starting at 7 p.m., the 4-hour event introduced five independent bands that are passionate about their music: Charlie, Superstar Runner, Peyote Wolf, Listener and The Midwest Indies. Each band played some of their latest tracks, which gave the enthusiastic crowd about 45 minutes of pleasure per band.

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Superstar Runner front-runner Ben Johnson is a senior at MSU.

The band that started the night off was Charlie, an avid folk band that rocked the venue. With a combination of metal bongos and strings the band head-banged their way into the pumped crowd.

Another band in attendance was Superstar Runner, a donation-

based band who garnered their name from a Death Cab for Cutie CD. “I do these events to play with the band,” said Ben Johnson, front-runner of the band and senior religious studies major at MSU. “Listener, who is playing tonight, is awesome and it’s a great opportunity to play alongside them.”

Peyote Wolf came on the scene after Superstar Runner and the crowd was ecstatic. An uproar of applause introduced the hip crew who gave off waves of energy. The young band that had a sound similar to The Black Keys lured the crowd in with personality and appeal, intensifying fan reaction even more.

When the headlining band Listener got on stage, the entire room eagerly sat down in anticipation.

This Springfield-native band has toured internationally for the past month. They have a soulful appeal that grabs everyone’s attention.

With heart and passion, the lead singer used his gravelly voice to engross the crowd. Not only did he sing, he also used a special sub See INDIE, page 5

Ever remember hearing about Schwagstock? Well, when one door (or in this case, campground) closes, another one opens. So you can think of Byrdfest as Schwagstock’s newborn incarnate.

Byrdfest 3 will be held Friday, Sept. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 1 at Byrd’s Adventure Center, about two and a half hours south of Springfield, in Ozark, Ark. There will probably be less people at Byrdfest than you might remember seeing at Schwagstock, but the beautiful venue and exhilarating, good-natured atmosphere will be the same. And the music, of course, will be just as nostalgic as always.

The Schwag, a Grateful Dead tribute band, will play both nights with Melvin Seals of the Jerry Garcia Band. Also playing both nights will be a Pink Floyd tribute band, Think Floyd, and a Phish tribute band, Freezer.

Aaron Kamm and the One Drops, a rock-reggae band from St. Louis, will play Friday night. Brother Leadfeather, who plays music from nearly every genre and is from Batesville, Ark., will play Saturday afternoon. FreeVerse, a psychedelic funk jam band from Little Rock, Ark., will play late Saturday afternoon.

You’ve got nearly two weeks to request off from work and make travel arrangements, so start planning. It will get chilly at night, so make sure you bring plenty of warm clothes and blankets.

Tickets are $60 per person for Friday and Saturday. There is an extra $10 charge for Thursday arrivals and tickets for Saturday only will be $35.

Camping is included in the ticket price. Visit http://www.missouristate.edu/recreation to see the variety of camping gear you can rent from the campus recreation department.

Visit http://byrdsadventurecenter.com or call 479-667-4066 for more information on the festival.

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said of Powell. “He’s been perfect.

He’s incredible at what he does. His facility — not only his studio facility — but his personal facility is just amazing and his ability to find sounds and get performances that we feel represent us more accurately and bigger than what we’ve done before.”

Miller said the Nashville recordings came to fruition from a conversation between himself and Powell’s brother about the possibility of a benefit release for Joplin, still recovering from the EF5 tornado that ripped through the city on May 22.

“I’m really surprised not many bands have come out of the Joplin area,” Miller said. “The cost of living is so low. We’re still a hometown band — we still play our places.

Some of them are gone. It’s been a real shock but it really hasn’t changed the game plan.”

Miller said getting the chance to work with an engineer as prolific as Powell has been a breath of fresh air for The Ben Miller Band, and now they’re search for a breakthrough.

“So we went to Nashville for free,” he said. “Powell got us in the Blackwood Studio which is a $3,000a-day studio. We did the Joplin benefit and I think it was just sort of feeling each other out, asking, ‘Do we really want to work together?’”

“This was an opportunity for us to work in a safe, cost-free environment, and at the end of it he said, ‘I’m really, really happy that someone from my hometown is doing something I dig.’ And I thought, ‘You’re our guy for engineering,’ and he felt the same way so we’re going to continue.”

Miller said his passion and commitment has always been for the lyrical content of a song, and that a song-

a poetry and music combination.

“Introducing talk music is hard work, but good work,” said Listener front man Dan Smith.

Continued from page 4 Ending the show was The Midwest Indies — a geek chic group genre of music called “talk music.” that used a sweet blend of bass, Talk music is a genre that features keyboard, and banjo to create a

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writer walks a fine line when finding a common balance between composition and lyricism in a piece of music.

“We’re limited in a certain way but sometimes limitations can bring strength,” he said. “If we had an orchestra we could do everything and in a way that’s not good. There’s a sweetness to limitations and the intention.

“Our music isn’t about building these towering infernos of sound, it’s more like building a birdhouse. It’s like a bullet — the music is the gunpowder. It’s the thing that sends the song to the person, but the lyrics are hopefully what draw blood. The gunpowder is only so good if it gets the slug to the target.”

Miller said his songwriting is a very organic process, but that it began with a journey inward.

“I don’t have a recipe at all for songs,” he said. “To me that’s really important because if you have a recipe you make the same dish every

sound similar to Mumford & Sons and Arcade Fire. The group was entertaining and charismatic, making the remainder of the night a mellow time.

The feedback from the show was enormous. By the end of the night, talk of Queen City Produc-

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The Ben Miller Band had their humble beginnings in Joplin, Mo.

time. I’m not sure how I arrive at dle a song.” songs. Most of the time I try not to You can find more information conceive them too much, and I try not about The Ben Miller Band at to consciously strong arm or manhan- http://facebook.com/benmillerband.

tions had spread rapidly and people were talking about the date for the next show.

“When there are bands playing and the admission is cheap, it’s a good time for anyone,” said Emma Wolken, a freshman business major. “I’m surprised the bands

aren’t so much more popular — they are so good.”

If you would like to learn more information about each band, you can follow them on Facebook and Twitter. You can also follow Queen City Productions at http://facebook.com/QueenCityProductions.

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Scorebox

Football Saturday, Sept. 17 Oregon 14 21 21 0 - 56 Missouri State 7 0 0 0-7 Volleyball Friday, Sept. 16 Illinois State 2 Missouri State 3 Saturday, Sept. 17 Indiana State 0 Missouri State 3 Men’s Soccer Friday, Sept. 16 Cincinnati 0 0-0 Missouri State 0 1-1 Women’s Soccer Friday, Sept. 16 UMKC 1 0 0 0-1 Missouri State 0 1 0 1-2 Field Hockey Thursday, Sept. 15 Saint Louis 0 1-1 Missouri State 1 2-3 Sunday, Sept. 18 Iowa 5 5 - 10 Missouri State 1 1- 2 Men’s Golf Tuesday, Sept. 13 Fairway Club Invit.

2nd place Women’s Golf Tuesday, Sept. 13 Chip-N-Club Invit.

5th place Hockey Friday, Sept. 16 Nebraska 0 1 0-1 Missouri State 1 1 0-2 Saturday, Sept. 17 Missouri 0 1 2-3 Missouri State 2 3 4-9 Sunday, Sept. 18 Kansas 0 0 0-0 Missouri State 3 3 0-6

Calendar September 20 to September 26

Tuesday

Men’s Golf 8:30 a.m. away at Kansas Invitational

Friday

Field Hockey 11 a.m. at home vs. Kent State Women’s Soccer 6 p.m. away at Indiana State Volleyball 7 p.m. away at Wichita State Hockey 7 p.m. at home vs. Ferris State

Saturday

Football 6 p.m. away at Southern Illinois Men’s Soccer 7:30 p.m. away at Saint Louis Softball noon at home vs. Crowder College Softball 4 p.m. at home vs. Evangel Hockey 7 p.m. at home vs. Ferris State

Sunday

Women’s Soccer 2 p.m. at home vs. Saint Louis Volleyball 2 p.m. away at Stephen F. Austin Field Hockey 11 a.m. at home vs. Ohio

Monday

Women’s Golf all day away at Marilynn Smith/Sunflower Invit.

Briefs Missouri Southern Stampede canceled

The 23rd Missouri Southern Stampede was canceled after lightening and continuous rainfall in Joplin on Saturday. About two inches of rain fell during the day to cancel the event.

The next meet for the cross country team will not be held for two weeks when the team will travel to Louisville, Ky for the Greater Louisville Cross Country Classic.

Men’s basketball changes exhibition opener time

The first exhibition game for the Missouri State men’s basketball team on Oct. 27 has been changed to 8:05 p.m. The change was made because of homecoming activities on campus that weekend.

The Bears will be opening exhibition play against Truman State before they take on William Jewell at 7:05 on Oct. 29 and travel to Joplin to play Missouri Southern State for their final exhibition on Nov. 5.

The first game of the regular season for the Bears will be on Nov. 1 away against Nevada.

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Senior wide receiver Jermaine Saffold leads the Bears with 166 yards receiving and has averaged 55.3 yards per game this season.

Late nights yield success Saffold is closing in on record books

By Harrison Keegan The Standard

Midnight is a pretty quiet time on a college campus during the summer. The academic buildings are all closed up. The lights at the Plaster Sports Complex have been turned off. But as the 100-degree Ozark air slowly cooled down this summer, two figures darted back and forth across the football field — senior wide receiver Jermaine Saffold and senior cornerback Jimmie Strong.

“We would come out here at midnight and just do some things,” Strong said. “He would run routes on air, and I would work on some

cornerback drills. We just did some things that will help us get better this year.”

So far, the late night work has paid off big time for Saffold.

Through his first three games, the all-conference wide receiver had tallied eight catches for 166 yards and all three of the team’s receiving touchdowns, including a 71yarder against Eastern Kentucky.

Last season, the senior from Grandview, Mo. came within 36 yards of breaking Missouri State’s single season receiving yards record. Saffold said that breaking the record is one of his goals this season.

“I have to break it,” Saffold said. “And coach (Mike) Chandler is going to help me by pushing me everyday in practice and making sure that if I really want to break the record, that I’m going to work hard to do it.”

Chandler, who coaches the wide receivers, said Saffold stands a

good chance of breaking the record because he has the ability to turn any catch into a big play.

“His speed is something you can’t teach,” Chandler said. “I wish I could, I would have more guys run like him. That’s always going to be the best part of his game is that he can just simply run.”

Saffold ran track in high school and he has flashbacks to his 100meter dash days when he lines up out wide and sees defensive backs crowding the line of scrimmage.

He knows that if he can get off the line cleanly, it’s a race to the end zone.

“I love press man (coverage),” Saffold said. “It’s easy to get by a defender, especially if they are one yard off of me. I know that I can just run right by them.”

Speed may be something that you can’t teach, but there’s a lot more that goes into being a wide receiver at the college level.

The Bears didn’t recruit Saffold

Saffold’s career statistics 2009: 25 catches 439 yards receiving 3 touchdowns 17.6 yards per catch avg.

2010: 53 catches 869 yards receiving 5 touchdowns 16.4 yards per catch avg.

2011: 8 catches 166 yards receiving 3 touchdowns

coming out of high school, so he went to the University of Central Missouri and redshirted for a year before following his high school teammates, senior safety Jarrett Wright and senior linebacker Darius Blow, to MSU. Since he arrived on campus, Saffold has worked to become a complete wide receiver. Chandler said that Saffold has made bounds, See SAFFOLD, page 7

Volleyball takes weekend series

Freshman comes up big in overtime

By John Cook The Standard

By Adam Hammons The Standard

The Missouri State volleyball Bears improved to 9-3 (2-0 MVC) this past weekend, running through Illinois State 3-2 and Indiana State 3-0. A spark from freshman Olivia Brand helped push the Bears to a 5match winning streak.

Friday night, down 0-2 to the Redbirds, MSU head coach Melissa Stokes decided to give Brand a shot. The Springfield native came out firing, drilling six kills in seven attempts, propelling the Bears to an early 113 lead.

“I think as a team we just found the confidence we needed,” Brand said. “We had to get scrappy. We weren’t playing Bears volleyball, and coach let us know it during intermission.”

Once MSU gained momentum they never looked back, taking the last three sets 25-17, 25-16 and 15-8. Brand had a team seasonhigh 22 kills, while senior Calli Norman provided the defense with a career-high 10 blocks.

Stokes said it wasn’t a coincidence Brand

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Volleyball is 5-1 at home this season.

played so well.

“She (Brand) earned the playing time,” Stokes said. “The great thing about our team is depth. It can be Brand one night, Kaitlin Jaeger the next, or someone completely dif See VBALL, page 7

Baseball takes backseat As soon as New Orleans Saints kicker Thomas Morstead made the opening kickoff to the Green Bay Packers to start the 2011-12 NFL season, much of the nation forgot about the real American pastime.

Baseball should not be forgotten as soon as the NFL season begins and fantasy football leagues commence.

While Packers rookie return man Randall Cobb was busy putting on a highlight show with his 108-yard kickoff return for a touchdown, the Boston Red Sox were busy trying to hand the

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American League wild card to the Tampa Bay Rays.

As it stands now, the Red Sox have been able to hold the lead for the AL wild card by two games as of Monday morning.

However, at the start of September the Red Sox were in first place in their division

and the Rays trailed the Yankees by eight and a half games in the wild card standings.

All the talk after week one of the NFL season was about Tom Brady and his storm of 517 yards passing only a day after the Carolina Panthers watched their golden ticket Cam Newton debut with 422 yards passing.

While Newton was making his much-awaited appearance, the St. Louis Cardinals were busy making their attempt to summit the See BASEBALL, page 7

Two goals by freshmen sealed the deal for the Missouri State women’s soccer team, after MSU blasted away 32 shots defeating UMKC 2-1 in double overtime Friday night.

This is the second straight year that MSU beat UMKC by one goal in overtime, and it’s also the first win for the Bears at Plaster Sports Complex this year. MSU tallied a total of 32 shots compared to just 10 by the Kangaroos.

Sophomore Tiffany Laughlin led the team with 8 shots, but it was red-shirt freshman midfielder Michelle MayneNicholls who scored the winning goal in the 104th minute. It was her first career goal.

“It was just a really good feeling overall,” Mayne-Nicholls said.

“That it was my first career goal, in overtime, against a team that we’d been battling all night.”

The game ended on a bright side for the Bears, but it didn’t come easy.

UMKC came out physical in the first half, scoring the first goal of the game. A UMKC forward stole the ball from an MSU defender and chipped it over goalkeeper Jessica Teahan’s head ending her three-game shutout streak. MSU ended with 14 shots in the first half, but still

couldn’t tie up the game.

“We just kept trying and trying and it seemed like nothing was working out for us,” MayneNicholls said.

The Bears worked on getting the ball to the outside midfielders who would then drive the ball up and cross it to the middle. It was a good strategy as they had many chances on goal, but still, none of those chances went in.

“We hit a couple of posts and cross-bars,” head coach Rob Brewer said. “We had a couple near misses, their keeper made some good plays.

You got to figure those things are going to happen, but you also figure if you keep it up you’re going to get yours to go in.”

Finally, one of those chances did go in when freshman Bethany Smith headed in the tying goal early in the second half from Nia Williams’ corner kick.

“I love crosses like that on corners,” Smith said.

“It was a good feeling, especially because we needed it so bad.”

Smith said that goal gave the players a sense of relief because they thought they should have had a goal a long time before.

As the night progressed, tensions stayed high until Mayne See SOCCER, page 7

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Field hockey reigns supreme during home opener

By Kyle Boaz The Standard

Sometimes change can be a good thing. The Missouri State field hockey team is proof of that.

The MSU field hockey program has had a rough time the last couple of years, winning only about a quarter of their games the past two seasons. The 2011 squad appears to be on track to end that trend.

“I think we can do something this season,” sophomore forward Catrina Schmidt said.

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ferent.”

The first two sets the Bears were plagued by mental errors, as ISU made up 10 points on attack errors and four on service aces.

“I didn’t yell and scream at them after the first two sets,” Stokes said. “I just wanted to challenge them.

They needed to realize if they took care of the little things it would be a different game.

ISU wasn’t doing anything that was hurting us. We were

Missouri State stands at 3-4 after a 3-1 victory over the Saint Louis Billikens last Thursday and losing to Iowa 10-3 on Sunday.

The sole SLU goal on Thursday sliced the lead to just one goal in the second half, but the Bears refused to derail.

“It doesn’t matter, we keep going,” freshman forward Abbey Heller said.

The team iced the game with a second half goal from freshman forward Sarah Bradley.

The Bears had two goals called

making our own mistakes.”

Saturday the Bears didn’t let up, sweeping the Sycamores 25-19, 25-17, 25-17 to begin MVC play with two wins.

With a season-high seven aces and an array of different player combinations by Stokes, the Bears cruised by Indiana State.

“When you don’t play your best and you still win in three, I think that’s a good sign,” Stokes said. “We showed moments of greatness tonight, but we’re also playing a lot of different people. That tends to disrupt the flow of things.”

Stokes said the Bears

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National League wild card and possibly their division.

On Sept. 11 the Cardinals were finishing off a sweep of the wild card leading Atlanta Braves.

With the attention on football now, what many fans may miss is the Cardinals making a run at a goal that seemed impossible when they were down eight and a half games to the Braves on Sept.

1.

Since Sept. 1, the Cardinals have gone 11-5, as of Monday, including a 42 11-inning win against the Philadelphia Phillies who had clinched a playoff spot

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as evidenced by his breakout junior season (53 catches, 869 yards, five touchdowns), but he still needs to work on run blocking and catching off-target passes.

“He’s not a natural wideout, but he’s made himself into a wideout,” Chandler said. “The only way to do that is through hard work.”

The Bears have had a player taken in the NFL draft

off for rule violations, but their confidence was unshaken.

“Next time we’ll just execute within the guidelines,” senior forward Casey Bayliss said.

Bayliss delivered two goals in the contest, bringing her season total up to six, which leads the team.

Bayliss has only played in half of the team’s games this season, but she is still averaging two goals and one assist per game. Sophomore forward Hillary Lawless’ two assists placed her second in team points behind Bayliss.

came out with a much better start, but still have too many ups and downs.

The Sycamores started the second set on top 8-4 and kept close to the Bears in the third set only down 16-14.

But MSU never lost focus, holding Indiana State to a .117 attack efficiency while hitting .246 themselves.

“It was a statement win for us,” Brand said. “We needed to win in three and we did.”

The Bears face their first true conference test on Friday, traveling to Wichita, Kan. to battle rival Wichita State.

Norman said it’s always

earlier in the week.

When the Tampa Bay Rays began their mid-September series against the Red Sox, they were five and a half games behind Boston in the wild card race.

The Red Sox had yet to press the panic button, but I bet they thought about it after the Rays swept them to close the gap enough to have hope.

Much like the Red Sox and Braves possible collapses as September wears on, the TV ratings for last year’s World Series collapsed from 2009’s ratings.

ESPN reported that the average rating for the San Francisco Giants/Texas Rangers 2010 World Series was down 28 percent from 2009’s World Series that featured the Yankees winning in six games.

Schmidt said the team worked all week on the details of the game in order to prepare themselves for SLU. “We finally kind of learned how to work together a lot to sharpen up on the little things we need to work on,” Schmidt said.

The Bears’ defense was airtight, limiting SLU to two total shots, both coming in the second half.

Sophomore goalkeeper Andrea Bain acts as the field general, making sure her teammates are prepared during battle.

an electric atmosphere when the two teams meet.

“We’re going to be preparing for them all week,” Norman said. “They’re our biggest rivals and they have a great home atmosphere just like we do.”

Stokes said she expects a tough five-set match against the Shockers, but if the Bears don’t play consistently, they won’t make it that far.

MSU goes on the road the next two weekends, finishing up against conference favorite Northern Iowa Oct. 1 before returning home Oct. 7 to play Creighton at Hammons Student Center.

What provides hope for the continuation of the popularity of our nation’s pastime is the higher rating that the final game of the 2010 World Series received over Monday Night Football.

About 15 million people decided to tune in to the final game of the 2010 World Series, while only 11.9 million viewers watched that week’s Monday night matchup.

Without a careful eye on baseball’s pennant races we will miss a glimpse of glory that cannot be seen in the early weeks of the NFL season.

While the NFL season begins, we must not forget that Major League Baseball is wrapped up in numerous pennant races that are finally coming down the home stretch after a 162 game race.

each of the past two seasons and Chandler said that Saffold has a chance to continue that tradition in April.

“He has a very good shot,” Chandler said. “It depends a lot on this year and his development. Through the little contact I’ve had with the guys who come and scout him, they like what they see.”

Like anyone who plays football at the college level, Saffold dreams of suiting up on Sundays. His late-night workouts just might help him get there.

“There’s a lot of good communication,” Schmidt said. “Andrea was telling everyone where we needed to be.”

Cheers from the crowd provided strength and extra motivation, Lawless said.

“You don’t want to lose for them,” she said. “We want to show them we can win.”

Missouri State’s win split the season series between the two schools.

Missouri State’s next test is at 11 a.m. Friday against Kent State.

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Nicholls got that winning goal in overtime from Michelle Sommer’s assist.

Even though it wasn’t Sommer who got the goal, that assist gave her some recognition as players and the coach commented on how well she played in the midfield Friday.

“She’s a skill player, but tonight she had to be a bit of a harder player,” Brewer said.

“And she provided

that for us in the midfield.”

The Bears kick off their conference schedule next week after finishing 5-3-1 against non-conference teams.

Brewer said playing Missouri Valley Conference teams is what the whole season is about. Players are also excited to play their conference rivals.

“We’re going to have a really good season I think, I’m really pumped up for it,” Mayne-Nicholls said.

The Bears play at 6 p.m.

Friday night at Indiana State University.

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