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Billingsley-Kooi wins election Billingsley-Kooi received 44 percent of the total votes.

HUNTER WOODALL Staff Writer For Xavier Billingsley and Helena Kooi, the results of the Missouri Students Association presidential election would come to define the rest of their college careers. If elected as MSA president and vice president, respectively, both Billingsley and Kooi would actively become the student leaders of MU. After months of visiting student organizations, talking to students in Speakers Circle and campaigning, Billingsley and Kooi were announced as winners of the MSA presidential election Thursday night in the Leadership Lounge of the MU Student Center.

“I’m excited to be here,” Billingsley said. “I’m passionate and thankful for everyone at

ELECTION RESULTS Xavier Billingsley and Helena Kooi 2,487 votes

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Xavier Billingsley and Helena Kooi are announced the winners of the Missouri Students Association presidential election Thursday at the MU Student Center. They received 2,487 student votes, 44 percent of the total votes.

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KAY YEUNG Staff Writer

Minutes before the results of the Missouri Students Association presidential election were to be made public Wednesday night, the Board of Elections Commissioners made the decision to postpone announcing the winner until a formal investigation had been completed.

The BEC made the announcement via email as soon as the election officially ended.

“The Board of Elections Commissioners has made

the decision to postpone the announcement of results for the presidential election pending a BEC investigation,” the email stated. “We have chosen to send this notification now as to not have an effect on the voting process.”

Following the announcement of the postponement, the BEC was given 48 hours to investigate claims against any of the three presidential campaigns. At 4:01 p.m. Thursday, the BEC announced its investigation was complete and they would announce the winners of the

See BEC, page 6

Results were announced 5 p.m.

Thursday in the Leadership Lounge

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Everett Bruer and Lexie Cartee 1,404 votes

Greg Loeffler and Lauren Damico 1,704 votes

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BEC investigates Residents to file racial possible election bias suit against CPD infractions HUNTER WOODALL Staff Writer

the university for their help and support.”

When Billingsley and Kooi announced their candidacy this September, their campaign was the first to officially register with the Board of Elections Commissioners. Roughly two months after officially announcing their candidacy with the slogan “Elevate Mizzou,” the slate will assume the office of president and vice president at the beginning of spring semester.

“I’m ready to get started,” Kooi said. “I’m glad that the election period is over. It’s time to push past that and get started doing real things and get to the real job.”

Voting started at 6 p.m.

Monday and ended at 6 p.m.

Wednesday. The BEC delayed announcing the results for 24 hours in order to investigate a possible infraction against one of the three campaigns. BEC chairman Thomas Bourneuf said that he could not say which slate was being investigated.

See MSA, page 6

Three police officers pointed guns at two men sitting in their car listening to music while in possession of alcohol, and arrested them on charges of suspicious behavior and failure to follow verbal command.

The two men, both of whom are black, said they believe the incident was racially motivated.

They announced plans to file a civil rights lawsuit against the Columbia Police Department at a news conference Wednesday afternoon.

Phillip Porter, 32, and Joshua Williams, 30, were sitting in a silver Ford parked in the park-

ing lot adjacent to the Rainbow Softball Center at Columbia’s Cosmopolitan Park at about noon Oct. 13 when the incident occurred.

“I feel like if that was a couple of white men out here, this wouldn’t have happened,” Williams said.

Attorney Stephen Wyse, the lawyer of the two men, said his clients did nothing suspicious and nothing wrong. He added they were having beer and listening to rap music. Although it is illegal to carry open containers of alcohol in most public places, Missouri’s open container law does not apply to the sports facility.

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Transgender community seeks to educate NASSIM BENCHAABANE Staff Writer Transgender Awareness, a series of events meant to raise awareness of the transgender community on campus and educate students, began Tuesday with the rocking vocals of Lucas Silveira of The Cliks.

Silveira is a transgender man, meaning he transitioned into the male gender from the female gender.

He spoke about his experiences and provided words of encouragement to those in the audience.

“I really enjoyed the event,” MU alumnus Kayden Prinster said. “I’ve been following Lucas for years. I was one of the people who supported the idea to ask him to come. It was interesting to hear about Silveira’s experiences.”

Lifang Wen and Daria Kalugina, who attended Silveira’s performance and speech, said it was educational.

“I got to learn about something I never thought about before,” Wen said. “It was nice to be able to hear Silveira’s first-hand experiences. It was very different from what I’m used to but really great.”

Triangle Coalition Legislative Liaison Taylor Dukes said the event was helpful for giving other students a better perspective on the trans-

gender community and transgender issues.

“We wanted to kick off Transgender Awareness with a positive start,” Dukes said. “The event allowed members of the transgender community to see someone like themselves who is out and has achieved success in life. It was exciting to see so many people attend with such a positive reception.”

TriCo President Emily Colvin said Transgender Awareness Programming has been a tradition for four years but has been extended to two weeks this year. The programming includes events of awareness, celebration and remembrance.

Dukes said she is looking forward to InsideOUT, a discussion featuring a panel of trans-identified professionals, because coming out in the professional world is not often talked about.

“It will be a positive step forward,” Dukes said.

The discussion will take place at 5 p.m. Monday and will focus on what it is like to be a transgender person in the work place.

Afterward, Safe Space General Training, which is meant to train students to be effective allies of the LGBTQ community, will take place at 6:30 p.m.

TriCo spokesman Paul Reeves said he is looking forward most to

Wednesday’s event, Transtravaganza, a celebration of gender expression, which will take place from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

“Transtravaganza is all about how much fun it is to be yourself in a community that loves you for who you are,” LGTBQ Resource Center coordinator Struby Struble said.

Reeves said the event will be fun.

“I plan on rocking some crazy gender-queer outfits,” he said.

Question Persuade Refer will be held Thursday from 5 to 6 p.m. QPR, a nationally recognized suicide prevention training program, will teach participants how to recognize suicide warning signs and how to respond to save lives.

Prinster said he is looking forward to QPR because suicide prevention is an important issue to him.

Transgender Awareness will end at 7 p.m. Thursday with a vigil held in remembrance and honor of transgender individuals lost to violence and hate. Stories of those remembered will be read aloud, and attendees will be encouraged to share their own stories.

Previous events include a remembrance, where names of transgender individuals who died as victims of violence and hate were read aloud Thursday in Speaker’s Circle, and hourly showings of “Toilet Training,”

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Students read the names of people that were victims of violence against the transgender community Thursday morning in Speakers Circle. The reading of names was part of Transgender Gender Awareness 2011.

a documentary on bathroom issues and safety for the transgender community, took place Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

“Transgender Awareness is about increasing awareness and education of the transgender community on campus,” Reeves said. “We’re remembering transgender lives lost as well as recognizing and honoring the transgender identity.”

Colvin said the national

Transgender Awareness week movement began after a car crash where paramedics refused to offer aid to a victim who was transgender. She also said she is proud to be able to educate the campus.

“It’s an intense part of the year for the transgender community but it is important,” she said. “We look at how we are going to be callous for change and how we can impact the world on a positive note.”

Mizzou Climate: Transgender students MU receives email NASSIM BENCHAABANE Staff Writer The transgender community at MU is larger than most would expect, said LGBTQ Resource Center Coordinator Struby Strubles.

“It ranges from students to faculty,” she said. “We interact with transgender people on a daily basis and may not know.”

According to the MU LGBTQ Resource Center website, a transgender person is someone whose gender identity differs from conventional stereotypes or their biological sex assigned at birth.

“Gender is set by society,” Strubles said. “In many states, Missouri included, there is nothing that specifically forbids discrimination against transgender people.”

Triangle Coalition President Emily Colvin is a transgender student. Colvin transitioned from the male gender to the female gender, which she identifies with. Colvin said many transgender people conform heavily to extreme stereotypes of either gender, but she is more of a tomboy.

“It’s about figuring out who you are,” she said. “Learning that I wanted to transition was powerful. I knew that I needed it to be healthy and stable. Living as a gender you’re not comfortable with means living a lie.”

Strubles said the transgender community experiences high rates of violence and transgender students face harassment in schools.

According to the National Center for Transgender Equality the transgender community has higher rates of suicide than the general population.

Colvin said she has suffered physical abuse by members of her own family and has to “switch

modes” to go back home.

“It’s like constantly turning a switch on or off,” Colvin said. “It’s really difficult, especially when you’re forced to turn on a rusty old switch you never wanted to turn on again.”

Colvin said before her transition, she was constantly thinking, “This is not how my mind is wired. This is not how I think or work.”

Transgender students face discrimination and hate in using gender-specific restrooms. Strubles said that as a result, some transgender people develop urinary tract infections, among other medical issues.

Transgender students may wish to change their names to match their chosen identity, but changing legal names requires time and money, which college students often don’t have.

“Students might be forced to out themselves when their name on the roster doesn’t match their physical appearance, their gender pronouns or their preferred name,” Triangle Coalition Legislative Liaison Taylor Dukes said.

Housing can also be an issue for transgender students.

“It used to be that I would be put in a female dorm because that’s the gender I’m given legally,” transgender MU alumnus Kayden Prinster said.

“Now there’s no way that would happen, but it’s still an awkward process.”

Triangle Coalition Communications Officer Paul Reeves said that gender neutral housing and specific protection of transgender individuals in anti-discrimination laws are the two most important issues that need to be addressed.

Strubles, Dukes and Reeves all said that the transgender community at MU has very different experiences.

“It depends what professors they have, what resident halls they live

in and whom their classmates are,” Dukes said. “The administration is supportive. MU has been slowly and progressively moving in the right direction, and gets better with every year, but we still have far to go.”

Dukes said MU has been great about having a LGBTQ Resource Center where members of the transgender community can talk about the good, the bad and how to fix the bad. Strubles said the center can offer help specific to MU, like offering a list of all single occupancy/gender neutral bathrooms on campus on their website.

“I’ve met some of the best people in my life here,” Colvin said. “The fact that we have a resource center speaks volumes as to where the community wants to be, where no harassment or discrimination is tolerated.”

Colvin said she has been physically harassed multiple times in Columbia, but that conditions for transgender people are improving over time.

“My hope is the following generation will never have to email professors to request the use of their preferred name or have to fear employment discrimination,” she said.

Strubles said MU is a small part of the worldwide community, and though society is growing more aware, work still needs to be done.

“We need allies to speak with us and for us,” Colvin said. “When it comes from someone else it has more weight. People in power listen when it comes from someone like them.”

Colvin said she would like to tell transgender students that addressing issues may be difficult but is worth working to make MU a more inclusive place.

“It’s just someone being who they want to be,” Strubles said. “It’s that simple.”

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In order to improve functionality, the Division of Information Technology is upgrading the campus’s email system in the next few weeks.

MU currently uses the 2007 version of Microsoft Exchange and is now upgrading to the 2010 version. DoIT Director Terry Robb said the email system is in need of an upgrade.

He explained the new version will bump up storage from two gigabytes to 15. It also will work to improve record retention by adding more managed folders, and will benefit students by outsourcing their email to Microsoft.

Other locations will be receiving similar upgrades as well. University Hospital and UM-Kansas City’s campus will be upgraded in the same way, and UM-St. Louis and Missouri University of Science and Technology will receive upgrades from Exchange 2003, Robb said. The different Exchange systems being used by the UM System are another cause of this upgrade. “(We are) looking to reduce the cost of operating multiple Exchange environments,” Robb said.

The upgrade for Columbia should be complete in a little more than two weeks, and the University Hospital should be upgraded a few weeks after that, Robb said. The time could vary depending on the size of the mailboxes being transferred. Robb also said students

shouldn’t be affected by the transfer process at all.

Freshman Hilary Schmidt said the email upgrade will help with managing the large amounts of email she receives.

“I get probably 20 emails a day,” she said. “I’ll be able to hold on to more of my emails, instead of deleting them and relying on my memory.”

Overall, Schmidt said she finds the MU email system’s design useful.

“It’s helpful to have an email address that corresponds with my PawPrint because I know all my school email will go to one place,” she said.

The process to upgrade the Exchange system should begin Friday.

—Tucker Moore, staff writer

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Officers were dispatched at 11 p.m. to the Motel 6 at 3402 I-70 Drive Southeast to contact Kyle Overby, 49, according to a Columbia Police Department report. Overby allowed the officers into his room and gave them permission to search it. The officers located two unopened bags of cocaine and a smaller bag that had already been opened. Overby was also found to have a large amount of cash on his person, the report stated. Overby admitted to his involvement in a drug-related incident and was arrested on

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1. TWO ARRESTED AFTER DISTURBANCE AT RAGTAG CINEMA Officers arrested two minors on Tuesday morning on charges of drug and alcohol abuse.

Columbia Police Department officers were dispatched to the Ragtag Cinema at 1:04 p.m. at 10 Hitt Street in response to a disturbance call, according to a CPD report. Philip Young, 20, and Richard Coolbaugh, 19, admitted to being involved in the disturbance. Young allowed the officers to search him for weapons, and they found a box of marijuana and a marijuana pipe located on his person.

The officers smelled alcohol on Coolbaugh’s breath and he was arrested on charges of purchase or possession by a minor. Young was charged with possession of 35 grams or less of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

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Monday night on multiple drug charges. Officers were sent at 10:32 p.m. to the Motel 6 at 3402 I-70 Drive Southeast in response to a drug call, according to a police report. Officers investigated the room of Erika Turner, 28, and found ecstasy pills in a wrapper on her person. Turner agreed to allow the officers to search her vehicle, in which the officers found a bag of marijuana. Turner was arrested on charges of possession of controlled substances felony and misdemeanor, and she had three municipal warrants out for her arrest at the time she was found with the drugs.

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charges of distribution, delivery, manufacture or production of a controlled substance.

4. MU STUDENT ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF SHOPLIFTING An MU freshman was arrested on Tuesday on charges of shoplifting from Kohl’s. At 8:38 p.m. an officer was sent to the Kohl’s department store at 1010 Green Meadows Road in reference to

a shoplifting. Loss Prevention employees at the store advised the officer that Kelli Stearns, 19, selected a purse, jewelry items and two shirts and attempted to leave the store without paying for the items. She was arrested on charges of misdemeanor stealing.

-Turner Johnson, staff writer

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MU honors veteran men, women TOM LEONARD Reporter With Veterans Day this week, groups around campus organized several activities for students to pay their respect to the men and women of the military, both past and present.

The events began Sunday evening at Stotler Lounge, inside Memorial Student Union, where the Missouri Student Veterans Association held a banquet for MSVA members, veterans and their guests.

Monday kicked off the annual “Tigers 4 Troops” supply drive. The event encourages students to donate useful items that will then be sent in care packages to Missouri soldiers overseas, in hopes it will brighten the day of a serviceman or servicewoman in time for the holidays.

The first Veterans Week blood drive was held Monday. Students and faculty alike gathered in the Mark Twain Ballroom at Memorial Student Union throughout the day, eager to save lives by donating a pint of blood.

Carol Graham spoke to a large audience Monday in Stotler Lounge about several topics, including recognizing signs of depression and how to cope with grief.

Graham lost both of her sons in 2003.

Her youngest son Kevin committed suicide.

Her older son, Jeffrey, was killed in Iraq seven months later.

Graham stressed the importance of recognizing suicidal warning signs, and explained how to assist someone showing such signs. She also encouraged the audience members to seek help themselves if they ever felt depressed, especially for those serving in the armed forces.

The main attraction of Veterans

Week took place Tuesday night in Jesse Auditorium. Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta addressed a crowd of hundreds of people to tell his stories about Afghanistan, and also to stress the importance of teamwork, selflessness and leadership.

Giunta is the first living winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. Under ambush from Taliban militants, Giunta’s bravery, selflessness and determination to follow orders saved most of his men from certain death.

“When all of the men alongside you would rather die than see you die, you are almost impossible to stop,” Giunta said.

“That is the kind of bond that we shared over there.”

Giunta also explained that he believes that his medal of honor actually belongs to everyone sacrificed for the country, not just himself.

“We see heroes everyday,” Giunta said.

“So many people out there among us have stories a lot like mine. That’s why I find it so ridiculous that I am the only one standing up here tonight.”

Sgt. Giunta ended the evening by thanking all of the veterans with a long uproar of applause, followed by a series of questions from the audience.

Earlier that day, Giunta visited with MU ROTC cadets from all of the three main branches of the military.

“He told us that he really appreciated the commitment that all of us have made,” army ROTC cadet Jeff Dorn said. “He also told us to keep working hard and to get the most out of our experience here, because ROTC creates the future leaders of our military.”

Sgt. Giunta was stationed near the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, where

Departments begin preparations for winter season CHRIS JASPER Staff Writer Students at MU prepare for the upcoming winter in many different ways. They can buy some new boots, a scarf or two and send their shorts and tank tops home.

MU’s staff have already taken steps to winter-proof the school.

“Last week we met and we brought in the police department, Res Life, Campus Dining Services, athletic department, hospital staff, Construction and Energy management and Parking and Transportation, among other departments,” Campus Facilities spokeswoman Karlan Seville said. “We all come together and talk about whose responsibility it is to take care of what.”

Because inclement weather can appear at any time, the university must plan ahead.

“Our plan is very extensive, and we plan in advance and we prepare as much as we can,” Seville said. “Once the weather starts to change, the plan kicks into action.

Pete (Millier, the Director of Landscape Services) will call the necessary people, so groundskeepers and custodians might come in a few hours early and put ice melting chemicals down.”

One of the most important steps in the plan, Seville said, is to clear the hospital emergency room entrance as soon as possible.

The most important part of any plan is for the people in charge to remain in contact. To do that, administrators, including the chancellor and provost, will hold daily conference calls at noon to remain informed of the situation.

“Key personnel throughout the department remain in constant contact through email, phone and in-person throughout the duration of a winter weather emergency to respond to the immediate needs

and safety of the students,” Residential Life Communications Manager Jill Fox said in an email.

If the weather remains a problem for a longer period of time, such as last year’s snowstorms, MU has a contract with the nearby Hampton Inn to reserve rooms for workers from out of Columbia.

“They aren’t able to get to town sometimes, so we’ll put them in hotel rooms if it’s a longer-term event and we need them on campus,” Seville said.

Rough winter weather can mean cancellation of classes, which is a decision made by the chancellor based a series of recommendations by Millier, the police department and Associate Vice Chancellor of Facilities Gary Ward.

These plans are null if the administration is unable to communicate with the students.

“We are able to quickly respond to developments in the weather situation and disseminate key messages across posters, emails, Facebook and Twitter,” Fox said.

Students on campus will not have to worry about food or other campus services shutting down in the event of a campus closure, as most Campus Dining Services will remain open.

“Having a meal is of utmost importance,” CDS Marketing Manager Michael Wuest said in an email. “Students will have options.”

Those options will not include retail outlets like the J Café, Catalyst Café, Mizzou Market — Central, Starbucks and the Wheatstone Bistro. The other two Mizzou Markets at Hitt Street and Southwest will remain open along with the student center’s dining locations.

All other residential dining halls will remain open, with the possible exception of Plaza 900 Emporium, Huckleberry’s, Rollins Late Night and Time Out, depending on staffing and need.

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Members of the Marine Corps preform a drill to celebrate the corps’ 236th birthday Thursday at Columbia American Legion Post 202. Several campus groups organized activities for students to pay their respect to veterans and active duty members.

Wednesday’s movie at Wrench Auditorium, “Restrepo,” was filmed.

“Restrepo” tells the story of a platoon stationed in the Korengal in 2007. Under constant attack from Taliban Militants, the soldiers manage to build a fortress that they named Outpost Restrepo after one of their fallen comrades.

ROTC cadets held a memorial vigil Thursday outside Boone County Courthouse.

At Memorial Union, students gathered to write thank-you cards for veterans, which were then sent to the veterans hospital on campus.

Thursday also marked the 236th birthday of the Marine Corps, and a celebration was held at American Legion post 202.

Friday’s events include a parade beginning at the Columns at 10:40 a.m., as well as a few memorial ceremonies beginning at noon on the east side of Memorial Tower.

Veterans Week is capped off with a showing of “Captain America: The First Avenger” at 7:30 p.m. inside Wrench Auditorium.

“Without those guys, we wouldn’t be able to go to great schools like this,” Dorn said.

“America would also be a much more dangerous place to live. The least we can do is show them that they are appreciated.”

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aware of the other things that are happening outside of the little bubble that is Mizzou,” Peters said.

He said he looks forward to being able to cover controversial issues he had to shy away from in high school.

“It was kind of tough in high school because of the politics and not being able to express opinions,” he said.

Henry-White hopes to bring awareness of human rights violations to students’ attention.

“To me, human rights cover all bases, so everyone is affected by human rights,” she said. “One way or another we are going to encounter some sort of violation in our lives.”

Another way Mizzou Amnesty hopes to bring awareness of human rights violations to campus is through documentary film screenings.

“It’s really hard to get a good idea about it and I think film will be a good way to get an idea of what’s going on in the world where we can’t see it,” Henry-White said.

Peters said he hopes to get as many students involved in the organization as possible and to see high attendance at the first meeting.

“I would be just happy for the organization to be successful and to have people come to the meetings,” he said. “Amnesty International is a huge organization worldwide. We’ll be doing good things. I would be happy just to know that other people care and we have other people that can help us.”

Including Henry-White and Peters, there are also two other officers involved with Mizzou Amnesty. All four of the officers can be contacted on the group’s Facebook page and Henry-White said she hopes students take advantage of that.

“We’re all really passionate about it and really excited,” she said.

Campus to welcome new Amnesty International chapter Staff Writer MU has added an Amnesty International chapter on campus. The group, Mizzou Amnesty, has its first meeting this week.

“Amnesty International is the most wellknown and historic human rights organization in the world,” Mizzou Amnesty’s Facebook page stated.

The group is headed by president and former Maneater staffer Jamie Henry-White, who has worked with Amnesty International before.

“I’m a transfer student, so I originally got involved with Amnesty at my first college,” she said.

When Henry-White came to MU, she discovered there was not an Amnesty International chapter on campus.

“I started looking into other avenues for how I could get involved,” she said.

Henry-White was hired by Amnesty International as the Missouri student area coordinator. She serves as a liaison between the Amnesty International office and all student chapters in Missouri.

MU also has a history with Amnesty International.

“There used to be a Mizzou organization here and that fell through,” Henry-White said.

She talked to her friend, Trevor Peters, about this, who had his own Amnesty experience.

“I helped start the Amnesty International chapter in my high school,” Mizzou Amnesty Vice President Peters said.

Together, Peters and Henry-White worked to start MU’s chapter.

“It ended up being a really easy process,” Henry-White said.

The group will participate in human rights advocacy activities, such as letter-writing campaigns to end unjust imprisonment. “(Amnesty International) gets people

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MSA: Pair will BEC: Ruled no connection take office in 2012 could be made to actual slate Continued from page 1 Billingsley-Kooi earned 44 percent of the popular vote with 2,487 votes total, according to a release from the BEC. Slate Greg Loeffler and Lauren Damico had 30 percent of the vote and 1,704 votes overall while slate Everett Bruer and Lexie Cartee earned 25 percent of the popular vote and had 1,404 votes cast in their favor.

“Xavier and Helena will do a great job and I have the utmost fate in them,” Loeffler said. “I will continue to work with them all the way through their term.”

During their campaign, Billinsgley and Kooi said they wanted to have a One Mizzou week to help encourage unity within the study body. Following the announcement of their victory, Kooi said the One Mizzou week project was her first priority.

“We want to start having plans for One Mizzou rolled out,” Kooi said. “We want to do the One Mizzou week in the spring. That’s definitely going to be one of our first focuses, just making sure we can start booking speakers and perfomers and

trying to get that laid out.”

Next week, Billingsley and Kooi will be attending a Big 12 conference. The conference will mark the slate’s first time representing MU as president and vice president. Current MSA President Eric Woods and Vice President Emily Moon will join them at the conference.

“We have to get that situated going to the Big 12 conference,” Billingsley said. “Picking our cabinet is also going to be next on our to do list. I also really want to work with Campus Dining Services. I think they’ll be really open to including health options in the student center.”

While their term doesn’t officially start until next semester, both Kooi and Billingsley said they want to start working immediately to help the MU student body. Thursday night, however, was a night for the campaign to celebrate their victory with the family and friends who had gathered together in the student center to hear the election announcement.

“It’s crazy,” Billingsley said.

“I’m just blessed to be here right now.”

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Before the BEC announced the results of the election, candidate and president elect Xavier Billingsley said he was anxious to hear who would become the next MSA president.

“To do everything that you’re supposed to (during the election) and get this in the end is kind of discouraging,” Billingsley said.

Fellow MSA presidential candidate Greg Loeffler said he would trust any decision the BEC made.

“Obviously we have nothing to do but trust in their judgment and know that they’ll make the right decision in the end,” Loeffler said.

Five days before the start of voting in the election, the Loeffler and Lauren Damico slate was cited for a minor infraction stemming from misplaced campaign posters in the Arts and Science building. Before Wednesday night’s announcement by the BEC, the infraction had been the only one to be announced.

After announcing the winner of the election Thursday night, BEC chairman Thomas Bourneuf said he was able to discuss what infractions had been investigated, but was unable to reveal the name of the slate that had been under investigation.

“About halfway through the election, we started receiving complaints from students stating that several girls had gone

around and manipulated students into voting for a particular slate,” Bourneuf said. “The way that it was described to us was (the women) would go into a Greek house with a computer and essentially say (to) vote for a certain slate, and if you do we’ll give you candy. That itself wasn’t a problem.”

Bourneuf said the BEC became aware of the possible infraction during the second day of the election.

“One of the persons who complained stated that the girl took the computer after he had logged into the voting apparatus, selected the slate, even after he protested, and hit submit,” Bourneuf said.

Bourneuf said the BEC had received more than one complaint concerning the same group of women.

“We received several others, totaling four, at three separate fraternities,” Bourneuf said.

Earlier this academic year, the BEC added revisions to its handbook. Bourneuf said the BEC was looking at possibly having MSA controlled polling locations for next academic year, but the idea is still in development.

“The logic behind that would be voter turnout may be less, but it would be completely accurate,” Bourneuf said. “Part of the problem with the current system is that it’s not enforceable.”

The BEC Handbook dictates that two major infractions can lead to a slate being removed from the election

ballot. According to the BEC Handbook, slates have 24 hours after they are issued the infraction to respond to the allegations.

“We decided when the complaints were coming in (that the BEC) didn’t have hard enough evidence to stop the election,” he said. “In order to do that we would have had to have overwhelming evidence. We decided to let the election run its course and postpone the results (of the investigation) as to not influence the election.”

Had the investigation found the allegations to be valid, the slate would have either been able to accept its punishment or appeal the charges. According to the BEC Handbook, if the charges had been appealed by the slate the MSA Student Court would have decided the case.

“What we decided was the best option was to postpone the announcement of the election so that we could conduct an investigation,” Bourneuf said.

“Therefore we wouldn’t be interfering with the results.”

The BEC Handbook contains a section stating if a slate is found to be manipulating students into voting for a particular slate, the slate will immediately be expelled from the campaign.

“Essentially, what we discovered was we could not make a connection between the individuals doing the manipulation and the actual slate itself,” Bourneuf said.

Stephens and Scott Decker pulled both men from the car and handcuffed them. Williams said the officers also questioned him about a felony conviction he said he didn’t have.

Williams said one of the police officers broke his wrist while handcuffing him. He was detained for about an hour, he said during a press conference at the Rainbow Softball Center.

Williams said he told the officers about his wrist when he was handcuffed because he had had surgery on the wrist last year.

He said the police didn’t pay attention.

“Now I probably need another surgery to stop the pain,” Williams said.

Wyse said CPD freed his clients without charge.

The officers explained the incident as part of their training, Wyse said. He said the offi-

cers cited suspicious behavior and failure to follow verbal command. He said the police didn’t mention loud music and beer.

According to previous Maneater reports, the police department has been working with the Bias-free Coalition to reduce racial profiling within the department.

Wyse said he thinks CPD Chief Ken Burton is trying hard to make changes at this point of transition, but his department doesn’t want to turn the corner.

“But you have to acknowledge the problem,” Wyse said.

Wyse said he has plans to file a Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit against the Columbia Police Department. He said the officers used excessive force and violated the Fourth and the Fifth Amendments.

CPD could not be reached for comment.

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Williams said he first noticed a flash of light about 25 feet from his car but didn’t recognize what it was. He opened his door and heard faint voices so he turned down the music and saw three cops standing about 10 feet away holding guns. The light was from their motorcycles.

Williams and Porter said they heard the cops shouting phrases like “Don’t move! Hands up!

Don’t do it! It’s not worth it!”

According to Williams, the officers asked them if they possessed weapons and they acknowledged they had a 40-caliber gun in the car. The police also asked about whether they had previous records of felony conviction and they said they didn’t.

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OUTLOOK Poll: Most Americans favor small businesses

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA - Americans trust small business owners for job creation more than large corporations, the president and congressional leaders, according to a recent Gallup poll.

Local Iowa City small business owners say that’s because of the personal relationships among customers, employees and employers they work to build.

The poll showed that while 79 percent of Americans polled trusted small business owners for job creation, 52 percent trusted President Obama, 44 percent trusted Democratic leaders in Congress and 43 percent trusted Republican congressional leaders.

— The Daily Iowan

By Dora Grote

Studies at JMU, Ohio State find ‘freshman 15’ a myth JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY - The “freshman 15” could be a fluke. A study to be published in December’s edition of Social Science Quarterly by The Ohio State University Center for Human Resources researcher Jay Zagorsky quelled the notorious freshman 15 concept.

The study found on average during freshman year, women gain 2.4 pounds and men gain 3.4 pounds.

The data was collected from 7,000 teenagers in 1997, and their weights were reported each year. The study also found that students gain weight over time throughout college; on average, women put on 6.5 pounds and men gained 12.1 pounds.

Dietetics professor Patricia Brevard and health sciences professor Melissa Rittenhouse conducted a study on weight gain in 2010 that surveyed 365 students, 140 of which reported an average weight gain of 9.4 pounds with a variation of plus or minus 4.1 pounds.

Lack of exercise and a poor diet are a few contributors to this weight increase, Brevard said. She suggests that staying physically fit, eating healthy and sticking to food low in fat all help keep the extra weight away.

Brevard’s study used a different method to get the same result.

“We used medical scales to check each student’s weight for precision,” Brevard said. “The Ohio State University study was based upon the students selfreporting their weight changes.”

— The Breeze

By Kelsey Beckett

Obama’s 2012 campaign kicks off on campus UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - While Republican candidates are still fighting for their party’s nomination in the 2012 presidential election, President Barack Obama’s campaign for re-election has turned its attention to the Twin Cities.

Obama’s campaign, Organizing for America, launched its first Minnesota office Monday. After a tough year in office and sinking approval ratings, the campaign is looking to recapture the student vote that helped elect him in 2008.

Among the more than 100 supporters who showed up at the campaign office were local, state and national politicians.

But just 10 percent or so of the supporters were students.

“Support has declined sharply among young Americans,” Larry Jacobs, professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs said. “However, (students have) more support for the president than any other age group.”

Jacobs said many factors have contributed to Obama’s decreases in approval ratings.

“The economy has tanked and it has really hurt young people,” Jacobs said. “Congressional approval is at an all-time low, and members of Congress and the president are facing a big backlash.”

Obama carried Minnesota and its 10 electoral votes in the 2008 election. No Republican nominee has won Minnesota in a presidential election since Richard Nixon in 1972.

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CPRB denies former police officer’s termination appeal KELSEY MAFFETT Senior Staff Writer Former Columbia police officer Rob Sanders will not have his day in front of the Citizens Police Review Board after all.

The board decided at its Wednesday meeting it didn’t have the authority to review his termination from the Columbia Police Department. Sanders was fired in September after an August incident involving excessive force in a holding cell.

Sanders’ attorney Scott Jansen said he filed an appeal to the review board following Sanders’ termination. He also said he filed the appeal with the city’s Personnel Advisory Board.

“When I first raised the notion of going to the CPRB because I believed and believe that’s the proper procedure, I was told this doesn’t qualify because it’s not a complaint,” Jansen said. “This clearly was a complaint.”

Assistant City Counselor Rose Wibbenmeyer advised the board it had no authority to act and the appeal should go before the Personnel Advisory Board.

According to city ordinances, the Personnel Advisory Board is made up of local residents and is responsible for hearing appeals from disciplinary actions against city employees that result in demotion, suspension or dismissal.

Wibbenmeyer said the ordinances state the board must review a case unless the complaint is withdrawn or the officer is no longer employed by the city.

Jansen said he didn’t understand why

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Citizens Police Review Board member Steve Sheltmire speaks at the board’s meeting Wednesday at City Hall. The board denied the termination appeal of former police officer Rob Sanders, who was fired in September.

the review board was unable to review the harshest form of officer discipline, when its charge is to review disciplinary actions.

“What I don’t understand is why the city so vehemently wants to avoid you talking about this case,” Jansen said. “I didn’t make this system. I didn’t dream it up. But I think this is the proper procedure to be followed and I believe that if you don’t take the appeal, you’re violating the law.”

Jansen said he felt the ordinance allowed Sanders to complete a review board appeal

and then appeal his discharge to the Personnel Advisory Board afterward, but Wibbenmeyer said the board doesn’t have the authority to hear Sanders’ case because he had already been fired.

“What the review board is to do is to explore the underlying issues and how then they can provide some civilian oversight of what’s going on with regard to complaints,” she said. “The board doesn’t make a determination whether or not someone should be fired or not.”

wouldn’t be enough to do those new things,” he said.

About 121 voters were eligible to vote on the proposed tax because they are registered at addresses within the boundaries of the downtown Community Improvement District. The district’s boundaries cover most of the downtown shopping area, but runs north of the MU campus and many student residences, meaning many students were not eligible to vote on the issue.

The fact that the vote was limited to such a small number of people was one reason it drew criticism from Keep Columbia Free, a local civil liberties group.

In a letter posted to the group’s website, group members Eapen Thampy and Mitch Richards said taxes in the downtown area should be lowered and that the proposed improvements are unnecessary.

“We’re in a major economic recession,” Richards, the group’s treasurer, said in an interview Wednesday. “It doesn’t seem right to be taking money out of the community at this time.”

Walther said the increase brings sales tax downtown to the same level that it is in other commercial areas around Columbia, some of which have their own sales taxes in addition to city and state taxes.

But Richards said the tax increase still isn’t justified.

“That’s the same thing that they said when they raised the parking fees downtown, that ‘other municipalities did it, so why shouldn’t we?’” he said. “I fail to see that as a reasonable justification.”

In their letter, Thampy and Richards suggested that if the tax were implemented, the revenue it generates should instead be used to add more police and fire protection for the district.

CID Executive Director Carrie Gartner said the city, not the district, decides how many firefighters or police officers will serve parts of Columbia.

“All this is over and above what the city provides,” Gartner said, referring to the CID’s proposed improvements.

Richards also said members of Keep Columbia Free might attend CID meetings to advocate for ways the tax revenue should be spent.

Gartner said those meetings would be open to the public and that the district’s board wants to hear input from residents, property owners and businesspeople.

Downtown voters approve new sales tax WES DUPLANTIER Senior Staff Writer Students shopping downtown might see a slight bump in the amount they spend next semester after a small number of Columbia voters approved an additional one-half percent sales tax for downtown earlier this week.

Voters supported the proposed tax 25-15 in an election conducted by mail over the last two weeks, according to results posted Tuesday night to the Boone County Clerk’s website.

The new tax is slated to take effect April 1 and would bring sales tax in the downtown area to about 7.85 percent.

The tax revenue would be used to pay for improvements such as free WiFi service and sidewalk snow removal during winter months, according to a sample ballot on the Community Improvement District’s website.

Columbia attorney Skip Walther, the chair of the CID’s board of directors, said the district has been surveying downtown business owners and residents for several years to understand what improvements the area needs to be competitive with other local shopping districts.

“We concluded that there were a number of services that could be enhanced and things that could be improved,” he said.

“What we learned was that we couldn’t do those things without additional revenue.”

The CID was previously known as the Special Business District. Under state law, a Special Business District can levy property taxes and business license fees on area businesses. A Community Improvement District also has the authority to levy a sales tax if area voters approve.

Walther said the Special Business District had to change to a new type of entity to generate the income for the improvements businesses desired.

“Those revenue sources provided a relatively static level of income, but it

SALES TAX MAIL VOTE People who live in the Community Improvement District in downtown Columbia will be voting on a new sales tax by mail over the next two weeks.

Boone County Clerk Wendy Noren said that about 150 people are registered to vote at addresses within the district's boundaries.

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Communities still feeling impact from levee breach The explosion caused damages to farms, roads and infrastructures.

ABIGAIL GEIGER Senior Staff Writer Southeastern Missouri is still feeling the effects of the United States Army Corps of Engineers’ controversial breach of the Birds Point-New Madrid levee six months ago.

Late last spring, the Army Corps chose to blow up the levee in three sections to contain the flow of the swollen Mississippi River as well as to prevent a levee breakdown in nearby Cairo, Ill. Farmers and local communities were fearful and critical of the levee breach, due to the potential impact on farming and the communities in general.

“It’s had a huge impact on us,” East Prairie Mayor Kevin Mainord said, reflecting on the levee blow-up. “You’ve got to realize, they flooded, purposefully flooded, this area. It’s wiped out the entire community of Pinkhook.”

According to a Mississippi River Commission document, in 1928, in response to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the Army Corps enacted the Flood Control Act, an act that sought to prevent destructive flooding while retaining efficiency in the Mississippi and Sacramento rivers.

This act, in turn, authorized the Mississippi River and Tributaries Act. Levees, like the one in southeastern Missouri,

were installed as a part of the act.

Explosions at the north side and south side of the floodway, a 13,000-acre piece of land that spans from New Madrid to Birds Point were part of the Corps’ plan to control the Mississippi’s water flow.

The main effect the breach had on the actual crops was a push-back in the period of time that farmers could plant and harvest their crops, said Samuel Atwell, MU Extension agronomy specialist and county program director in New Madrid county.

Atwell said farmers could start planting in July, rather than in the normal months of May or June. Despite this delay, he said the loss of this season’s crops have been between 10 and 15 percent, a number not far from normal season loss.

Atwell said, in fact, extra moisture in the soil could be good for crops. He said the natural flow of flooding has never been a problem and has become a part of the process of farming in this area.

Sikeston farmer Milus Wallace said his crops did surprisingly well this season. He said he harvested somewhere from 15 to 20 bushels of beans.

Roy Presson, a farmer in Charleston also said his crops grew well. He said this was relatively the same across the board with other farmers he had spoken to.

Presson said he is used to managing different water levels throughout the year.

Despite the impact on crops themselves, one of the biggest consequences of the levee breach

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A house stands partially submerged April 28 on North Second Street in Poplar Bluff. The Army Corps chose to blow up the levee in three sections to contain the flow of the swollen Mississippi River as well as prevent a levee breakdown in nearby Cairo, Ill.

was the destruction of the area’s infrastructures. Buildings and bridges were undermined and some roads were reduced to rubble.

Mainord said the federal agencies like the Federal Emergency Management Agency have been scant in their assistance to the area affected by the flooding. He said farmers and communities alike have not been reimbursed for damages.

“There are bridges they can’t cross now,” Atwell said. “It’s a big area, and it’s like any community where, when you take out the bridges and roads, people start asking, ‘What do you

Columbia Imagined enters second phase KATIE YAEGER Staff Writer The City of Columbia will hold ward-based public meetings during the next two months to help make ideas outlined in Columbia Imagined, the city’s new comprehensive plan, become realities.

These meetings, which are part of the public engagement series associated with the development of Columbia Imagined, are intended to provide the government the opportunity to obtain citizen input about Columbia’s existing conditions, Pat Zenner, City of Columbia Development Services manager, said in an email.

Designed to replace the current comprehensive plan Metro 2020, which was completed in 2001, Columbia Imagined will help the city prepare for future growth and development.

“The document is intended to provide guidance to elected and appointed officials, to guide the city for roughly 20 or so years in decision making,” Zenner said.

Columbia’s Planning and Zoning Commission began preparing to create a new comprehensive plan in 2009 at the request of City Council and to fulfill one of the recommendations of the Imagine Columbia’s Future visioning efforts, Zenner said.

“We had not done a comprehensive update of Metro 2020 since its initial adoption,” Zenner said. “We believed we needed to reevaluate policies and recommendations.”

City Council established the Comprehensive Plan Task Force in

2009 to assist the Planning and Zoning Commission with the public outreach portion of the new plan. The task force began its work with the commission in April 2010. Members were first familiarized with the existing plans and policies of the city before they began establishing the proposed framework and strategy for completing the new plan.

The Comprehensive Plan Task Force and the Planning and Zoning Commission have chosen to focus on seven elements in Columbia Imagined, which will be completed in six phases. Zenner said he expects for the plan to be finalized and action to begin by the end of 2012.

The city will host public forums for each of the six phases to encourage feedback from the community.

“The success or failure of a plan has a lot to do with the role of the public in its crafting,” Zenner said. “It’s why we do public planning. (The citizens) allow us to be aware of issues we may not have otherwise thought about.”

Phase One, “What Is the Plan?,” was introduced in May at a public meeting. The meeting informed citizens of the new comprehensive plan being prepared and allowed citizens to give feedback on the proposed topics and structure.

Meetings for Phase Two, “Who Are We?,” will present existing conditions and create a community identity. Meetings will be held in each of the six city wards.

“We thought that it would be a good way to reach out to the general public,” Sixth Ward Council Representative Barbara Hoppe said.

“By holding the meetings in each ward, we make it convenient for people to participate.”

Thornhill said meeting by ward also helps the city become aware of neighborhood problems.

“It’s a conduit for citizenry to feel their voices are heard by the government,” he said. “We can get right into the neighborhood and listen. They’ll tell us what works, what doesn’t and what needs to be improved.”

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do?’ It’s a very serious and tough problem.”

Presson said he witnessed the infrastructure damage first-hand. He, his brother and other family members lost their homes. He also said he knew of a neighbor who had to move out of the area due to damage to her property.

“I’d like them to come drive the roads in this spillway,” Presson said about the Missouri Department of Transportation.

“There are roads that people avoid and take gravel roads instead because they’re in better shape.”

Presson said the big issue

with local communities is the push to rebuild the levee. The Army Corps, however, will not rebuild it until there is more funding.

Mainord said the main goal now is to get the levee rebuilt, as is required by the Flood Control Act. He said they have been working with representatives to quicken the flow of funds from the state.

“The levee’s been built back to a certain point but not to the point before,” Atwell said.

“If we have a rise in the river before they get the crop out, it’ll flood again. Hopefully it won’t happen again.”

Police make arrest in hair product theft Robert Johnson was arrested on suspicion of his connection to the three burglaries.

DANI KASS STAFF WRITER A Columbia resident was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of stealing musical equipment, money and hair products from three businesses.

Robert Johnson, 26, was pulled over travelling eastbound on I-70 when officers discovered stolen items in plain view in the vehicle, according to a Columbia Police Department news release.

The car was connected to the burglaries when an eye witness saw the second robbery and called it into CPD. CPD was able to give a vehicle description and license plate number.

The first robbery took place at 9:10 p.m. at Music Go Round, located at 2609 E. Broadway.

Musical equipment was stolen from the business.

Through video surveillance, CPD determined the suspect had been in the store earlier that day.

The second was at 9:18 p.m. at Play It Again Sports, located at 1206 W. Business Loop 70. The suspect entered the business using a tire tool and stole an undisclosed amount of money.

The witness, who was staying in a nearby hotel, was able to obtain a vehicle description and registration on a Chevrolet Impala while the suspect was in the store.

At 10:25 p.m. hair products were stolen from Great Clips hair salon at 2703 E. Broadway.

CPD spokeswoman Latisha Stroer said none of the businesses were open during the burglaries.

Stroer said there is evidence Johnson committed all three burglaries. “(We have) the video surveillance from Music Go Round where they have a good suspect description,” she said. “They also had the video surveillance from earlier that day and also he had the stolen items in his vehicle.”

In addition to the three counts of second degree burglary, Stroer said Johnson was also charged with one count of possession of a controlled substance misdemeanor.

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City Hall art project in final stages City Hall will accept artist applications until Nov. 18 to complete the ‘Percent for Art’ project LIZZIE JOHNSON Staff Writer The public art project initiated

by Columbia City Hall in 2007 is nearing an end, as two artists will be selected toward the end of the year.

They will be commissioned to design pieces of artwork for the fourth and fifth floors of the building.

The two floors currently house offices for Columbia Water and Light, the finance department and community development.

“We hire the artist first and then they propose a design concept, which gets approved by a committee of citizens, Commission on Cultural Affairs and the City Council,” said Sarah Skaggs, program specialist of the Office of Cultural Affairs. “We are quite a ways away at this point from knowing who the artist is and what the artwork will be.”

To qualify, applicants must reside and be eligible to work in Boone County.

Applications for the position require a resume, references, an

overview of past projects and a statement of interest, and will be accepted by the Standing Committee on Public Art until Nov. 18.

“If students have residency here, they are considered a local artist and are eligible to apply,” Skaggs said. “We look at qualifications. These projects require contracting with the city and require a certain amount of general liability insurance. It’s public process, so it’s very involved.”

The City Hall project is a component of Percent for Art, a citywide program initiated in May 1997.

The program allows one percent of the cost of renovation projects or new city construction to be spent on site-specific art.

The first project was completed in 1999 at the Eighth and Cherry Parking Garage and the Oakland Family Aquatic Center.

Public artwork has been placed in over 10 public buildings since its start.

“Artwork, as part of the interior design, are an integral and indispensable part of the building construction,” said Lampo Leong, second-floor artist and MU art professor. “Without them, the space or building is not complete.

They not only beautify the spaces, providing a finishing touch to the construction, but offer the citizens artistic nourishment in their living environments.”

Highway Patrol sweeps Governor’s Awards AMANDA SVOBODA Staff Writer The Missouri State Highway Patrol won two awards in Efficiency/ Process Improvement and Technology in Government categories of the 2011 Governor’s Awards for Quality and Production.

Two initiative projects, the Missouri Automated Criminal History Site and the Missouri Criminal Justice Modernization Project, were major advancements that contributed to the success of the highway patrol in the Oct. 19 ceremony for the state government, according to a news release.

MACHS is an automated criminal history site established in February by a group of 19 patrol team members to allow the public to request criminal history checks online in a timely manner rather than through outdated methods, Director of the patrol’s Public Information Division Tim Hull said.

In the past, background checks had to be mailed to the patrol or requested in person in Jefferson City, sometimes taking up to several weeks, he said.

“What MACHS has done is allow more timely response to background checks, reduced postage for sending those back and eased the process for the public and allowed Patrol employees and staff who were previously required to oversee manual background checks to perform other duties,” Hull said.

Hull said in the first three months of implementing MACHS, the highway patrol processed 121,500 criminal checks — 90 percent of which were completed and returned to the requester within seconds. MACHS

won the patrol the Efficiency/Process Improvement award.

“Modernizing technology and improving the service to Missourians is something we strive to do every day,” he said. “We try to make the government as accessible and easy to use by the citizens so there’s less frustration and less manpower hours on our end.”

The MCJMP was chosen for the Technology in Government category, a project that reduced the amount of paperwork and data entry for patrollers, according to the news release.

Computer-assisted dispatching and a system for entering data into a computer rather than paperwork are important in allowing patrol officers to devote more time to law-enforcement related activities, Department of Public Safety Communications Director Mike O’Connell said.

“The Department of Public Safety thinks it is very important and wants to continue to use technology so that troopers and other personnel have to spend less time on paper work and clerical type issues and can devote as much time as possible to patrolling the highways, protecting the public and making the state of Missouri safer,” he said.

O’Connell said it is important for the highway patrol to make information as accessible as possible to the public through technology so they can get assistance quickly.

“The Missouri State Highway Patrol is respected as one of the nation’s outstanding law enforcement agencies, and they continue to be because they embrace not only their traditions of excellence but continue to move forward with technology and the latest law enforcement strategies that are going to advance public safety in the state of Missouri,” O’Connell said.

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A wall on the fourth floor of City Hall is a blank canvas for the Percent for Art Project. Artists interested in the project must fill out an application by Nov. 18.

The budget for each floor, including artist fees, fabrication, materials and installation, rests at $11,000.

The first piece, Keys to the City, was installed outside City Hall in 2009.

Each piece of artwork is encouraged to reflect the community.

“I walked around and took pic-

tures of the community,” Keys to the City designer Howard Meehan said. “Some pictures were donated. I incorporated those into the glass. I really wanted it to become an icon. I wanted people to see that as the place distinguishable as City Hall.”

Other artwork includes a series of bronze sculptures on the third floor and a series of paintings,

including Chinese calligraphy,

by Leong on the second floor.

Constraints will not be placed on the new artists.

“Each artist is different,” Skaggs said. “We have a different style and a different approach on each floor … I think that’s a great idea and a great way to show the public the different ways to approach the art.”

MU has seen a 17 percent increase in first-time enrollment of international students.

national students from fall 2010 to fall 2011.

“International students add to the overall diversity of the student body,” Grus said. “They offer our domestic students a greater world perspective. As a whole, international students are very qualified academically and play a major role in teaching and research on campus.

They also add to the City of Columbia’s diversity and are significant contributors to the local economy.”

Shraddha Sankhe, an international graduate student from Mumbai, India, echoed some of those sentiments.

“It’s a good thing to have more international graduate students,” Sankhe said via email. “It keeps the U.S. economy afloat (a bit) and makes the student experience cultures of not just U.S. but even other nations.”

Sankhe said being an international graduate student made her parents proud and gave her some culture shock and plenty of Facebook photos.

She said all jokes aside, the experience has been “a real bubble-burster” with the crazy schedules, assignments and adjustments, such as independence that might not be as easily found in China or India.

Camille Maestracci, a French graduate student from the Sciences Po School of Journalism in Paris, said in an email that she doesn’t meet up with too many international graduate students and would like to do so. She said people

in Columbia are friendly to her and always interested when she says she is from France.

Maestracci said she didn’t face any cultural barriers upon coming to the U.S. “It is different,” Maestracci said. “The campus, the Rec Center — I mean, damn, the Ryec Center is awesome. Maybe it is hard to get used to the food, it’s good but very bad at the same time! Otherwise you just discover new things and understand that there is actually a gap between America and Europe as far as culture, on a daily basis. But there are no ‘barriers.’”

Maestracci cited her journalism major as a main reason for her enrollment at MU. “(I chose MU) because I’m studying journalism and it’s one of the best schools in the country,” Maestracci said. “Also because I’ve been wanting to go to the U.S. for so long, and I figured it was the only chance for me to experience the ‘American college student life’, on-campus, since I’ll be done with school in about six months.”

Also a journalism major, Sankhe is in the same situation.

“I’m from Mumbai,” Sankhe said. “Mizzou’s campus setting was one thing universities in (my) hometown lack.

Also, Mizzou’s rank in journalism is awesome. There can be a million reasons why one would not study journalism elsewhere.”

International graduate enrollment increases at MU, nationwide

DANIEL SHAPIRO Staff Writer The nation has seen a rise in international graduate students attending American university graduate programs, according to a report by the Council of Graduate Schools.

The report stated that of all graduate students in the United States, 14.2 percent are international students, who have had a 9 percent increase in offers of admission since last year.

According to Terrence Grus, director of graduate admissions and records, MU took part in the survey and its results were similar to the rest of the survey’s findings.

“We experienced a 6.8 percent increase in international student overall enrollment and a 17 percent increase in firsttime enrollment for international students from fall 2010 to fall 2011,” Grus said in an email.

The largest proportion of first-time enrollment graduate students is enrolled in the engineering and life sciences majors, Grus said. Both the business and life sciences programs saw the largest increases at MU in first-time enrollment for inter-

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Breaks are high time FOR CRIME ON CAMPUS Columbia Crime

The following happened in Columbia between Aug. 21 and Sept. 21.

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According to City-Data.com, the Columbia crime rate is lower than the average United States city. But crime does occur.

From Columbia Police Department and MU Police Department crime reports, this is a comprehensive crime map of MU and the city of Columbia.

All listed crimes listed took place between Aug. 21 and Sept. 21.

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eginning Nov. 19, many MU students will be heading home for Thanksgiving break, leaving behind their offcampus apartments and houses.

During the break, items inside those homes are in danger.

“Burglaries are always a concern,” Columbia Police Department spokeswoman Latisha Stroer said. “The main times for these crimes are Christmas break, spring break, whenever people are not going to be home for a long period of time.”

According to the Missouri Uniform Crime Reporting Program, in 2010, $985,634 worth of goods were stolen in 552 burglaries in the city of

Columbia.

There were also 3,129 larcenies and thefts worth $1,915,626.

Cars are not necessarily safe, either. Last year, there were 135 motor vehicle thefts, or grand theft auto, totaling $848,858.

“By far, the most common crime (in Columbia) is larceny,” MU Police Department Capt.

Brian Weimer said. “The best way to reduce that is to not leave your stuff lying around, lock your bikes, your doors, your cars and just in general secure your property.”

Residents can also take a few extra precautions if they think locks will not be enough to protect their valuables and they are unable to take them home.

Stroer said students should also write down serial numbers for their belongings. There are additional steps to keeping their belongings safe.

“Get to know your neighbors and have them watch over your place,” Stroer said. “You can call the police and have them do a watch-in-passing, where they’ll drive by and check things out for you. Stop your mail so it doesn’t pile up outside.”

Students looking at off-campus housing should look out for higher crime areas, Stroer said.

“I wouldn’t recommend Quail or Whitegate to students,” she said. “They are just high crime areas. They have assaults, robberies, drug abuse and shootings

in those areas. If I were a parent and I had a child going to school (at MU), I wouldn’t want them living in those areas.”

For students living in the residence halls, it can be much easier to stay safe on campus.

Residential Life has many systems in place to protect students from anything ranging from robberies to potential shootings.

“Our biggest thing is education about several things,” Schurz Hall Peer Advisor Evan Arnold said. “For our Mocktails, our floors had a preventing sexual violence theme. We’ll bring in RSVP Center people to educate them.”

In spite of the protections in the halls and around MU, crime

still happens. On campus last year, there were 308 thefts worth a total of $213,801 and at least three cars were stolen.

“We encourage people to make sure their doors are locked,” Arnold said. “We have had issues where people wandered in. We really can’t prevent that, because it’s a choice by the residents. If residents do choose to use magnets or prop their doors open, they may damage them and pay for them later in the year.”

MUPD offers several crime prevention classes, including defense classes that are free for females. Students can also register their laptops and bicycles with MUPD.

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Columbia, we’re watching Columbia’s Community Improvement District’s proposal to raise sales tax in the downtown area to about 7.85 percent passed.

And to us, that’s all fine and dandy. In the grand scheme of things, we don’t mind paying an extra five cents per $10 spent. It’s basically nothing, and it ultimately will benefit the downtown area as a whole.

What we don’t understand, however, are the principles behind the proposal. Obviously, the issue affects more than just the downtown area, but the decision was only left to the residents of that area. Basically, the city attempted to sweep the issue under the rug, hoping we as students wouldn’t notice.

But — ring the alarm — we did!

Only the select small number of people who live in the downtown district were allowed to vote on the measure, and only 40 of them actually took the time to follow through on the opportunity.

The issue came down to a 25-15 vote, and judging by the close results, it’s an issue people would have cared to debate. Heck, we would have liked to be involved in the decision.

But seriously, 40 votes on a measure that will affect tens of thousands?

Come on. Let’s be a bit more transparent, Columbia.

MU, Columbia College and Stephens College all influence the downtown area. We don’t think it’s too out of line to say that without us college students, the downtown area would fail. For this reason, we believe Boone County should have taken some stance to inform those who would ultimately be affected by the raise (also known as us), even though it couldn’t really do anything.

We’re aware that we’re not permanent residents of Columbia, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have some say in what goes down. The vast majority of us lives here for at least four years, so we think it’s safe to say that our voices should hold some credence.

Don’t pretend like we’re not here. MU is the largest employer of Columbia, and it has been here since 1839. We’re nothing new.

If you can walk to the District, you’re a part of it. Consequently, you should also have some say in it. We’re not the ignorant party animals us college students are often made out to be in the movies.

We notice. Don’t pretend like we don’t.

Rivalry’s death a fault of kU Missouri’s decision to leave for the Southeastern Conference was one born out of a desire for long-term stability and growth for both the athletics department and the university as a whole. But while the school left 15 years of history with the Big 12 Conference behind, administration made it clear they did not intend to abandon Missouri’s intensely meaningful rivalry with Kansas altogether.

Instead, it seems kU is the one turning a cold shoulder on more than 100 years of history, and the ramifications for Kansas could be harsher than they realize.

Throughout this process, the two schools have had strikingly different attitudes about how to best handle the rivalry if and when Missouri left the conference. In early October, Missouri’s Board of Curators instructed athletics director Mike Alden to explore the possibility of playing an annual basketball and football game in Kansas City with a “traditional, regional rival” if conference realignment became a reality. It didn’t take much effort to realize which rival the school was referring to. (Hint: Not Iowa State.)

Yet when the move was officially made, the attitude across the border seemed much more hostile and uncooperative. KU Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little said in a statement the school was sorry to see the rivalry end, and kU basketball coach Bill Self was quoted as saying, “The majority of Kansas fans don’t give a flip about playing Missouri.”

Both statements give off a defeatist attitude and indicate the kU administration is out of touch with the reality of rivalries in college athletics. There is no rule, written or unwritten, that mandates a rivalry can only be sustained if both schools are in the same conference. A quick look around the college sports landscape will prove this. Rivalries like Florida-Florida State, Kentucky-Louisville and Georgia-Georgia Tech. are as strong as ever simply because both administrations took the time and effort to keep traditions alive despite conference boundaries.

Self and football coach Turner Gill have both indicated they don’t plan on scheduling Missouri as nonconference opponents. This is an example of emotion getting in the way of logic. By not playing Missouri, Kansas misses a chance to strengthen its schedule in both sports. Not only will it punish those fans that’ve enjoyed the rivalry, but it will punish the Jayhawks themselves.

Surrounded by press and excited Missouri fans in the MU Student Center on Sunday, Alden said MU will pursue the “opportunity to continue to play against KU for many years to come.” And then a strange thing happened. The crowd applauded its agreement.

Excited as they are for a new beginning, Missouri fans respect the rivalry and value the tradition the two schools have shared for over a century. They don’t want to abandon the Jayhawks. It’s time Kansas felt the same way.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR We can’t wait: Helping manage student loan debt Over the last few weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to get out of Washington and talk with folks across the country about how we can create jobs and get our economy growing faster.

This is a tough time for a lot of Americans — especially young people. You’ve come of age at a time of profound change. The world has gotten more connected, but it’s also gotten more competitive. And for decades, too many of our institutions — from Washington to Wall Street — failed to adapt, culminating in the worst financial crisis and recession since the Great Depression.

The truth is, the economic problems we face today didn’t happen overnight, and they won’t be solved overnight. But the fact that you’re investing in your education right now tells me that you believe in the future of America. You want to be a part of it. And you know that there are steps we can take right now to put Americans back to work and give our economy a boost.

The problem is, there are some in Washington who just don’t share that sense of urgency. That’s why it’s been so disappointing to see Republicans in Congress block jobs bills from going forward — bills that independent economists say could create millions of jobs through the kinds of proposals supported by Democrats and Republicans in the past.

Now, the best way to attack our economic challenges and put hundreds of thousands of people back to work is through bold action in Congress. That’s why I’m going to keep demanding that members of Congress vote on common-sense, paid-for jobs proposals. And I hope you’ll send them a message to do the right thing for your future, and the future of our country.

But we can’t wait for Congress to do its job. So where they won’t act, I will. That’s why I’ve announced a new policy that will help families whose home values have fallen to refinance their mortgages and save thousands of dollars. We made it easier for veterans to get jobs putting their skills to work in hospitals and community health centers.

And at the University of Colorado at Denver, I announced steps we’re taking to make college more affordable and to make it even easier for students like you to get out of debt faster.

Michelle and I know what it feels like to leave school with a mountain of debt. We didn’t come from wealthy families. By the time we both graduated from law school, we had about $120,000 worth of debt between us.

And even though we were lucky enough to land good jobs with steady incomes, it still took us almost 10 years to finally pay it all off. It wasn’t easy.

Living with that much debt forces you to make some tough choices. And when a big chunk of every paycheck goes toward student loans, it isn’t just painful for you — it’s painful to our economy and harmful to our recovery.

That’s why we’re making changes that will give about 1.6 million students the ability to cap their loan payments at 10 percent of their income starting next year. We’re also going to take steps to help you consolidate your loans so that instead of making multiple payments to multiple lenders every month, you only have to make one payment a month at a better interest rate. And we want to start giving students a simple fact sheet called “Know Before You Owe” so you can have all the information you need to make your own decision about paying for college. That’s something Michelle and I wish we had.

These changes will make a real difference for millions of Americans. We’ll help more young people figure out how to afford college. We’ll put more money into your pocket after you graduate. We’ll make it easier to buy a house or save for retirement. And we’ll give our economy a boost at a time when it desperately needs it.

That’s not just important for our country right now — it’s important for our future. Michelle and I are where we are today because our college education gave us a chance. Our parents and their generation worked and sacrificed to hand down the dream of opportunity to us.

Now it’s our turn. That dream of opportunity is what I want for my daughters, and for all of you. And even in these tough times, we are going to make that dream real once again.

In the weeks ahead, I’m going to keep doing everything in my power to make a difference for the American people — including young people like you. Because here in America, when we find a problem, we fix it. When we face a challenge, we meet it. We don’t wait. And I hope you’ll join me.

—Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States

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LIFE

Money: The root of all evil, or a measure of worth?

Alex Basak We’ve all seen LeBron coming in hot on the big screen, but as of late, NBA players are getting hot in another area.

Like the NFL was, the NBA is currently in a lockout among players and owners of the teams.

The fourth in its history, this most recent lockout started July 1, and is still in the process of negotiation, with no end in near sight.

There are many issues surrounding the lockout, but with revenue sharing and salary caps at its core, the end game of the whole thing is clear: Everybody wants more money.

But this isn’t new. We all remember how uncertain the future looked for NFL teams and fans as the season approached this past year. ESPN’s audience grew nervous and tired of watching the same deliberations between owners and players in between the usual play re-hashing.

For 18 weeks and 4 days, diehard fans, players and owners alike worried that the season would be postponed, or even worse cancelled.

All of this — the television coverage, the games, the endorsements and the deep emotional ties that communities feel to their teams — was at risk. And at the bottom of it all was the demand for more money.

Who else is asking for money? Controversy over financial bailouts issued by the United States Treasury rose in 2008. To date, Fannie Mae has asked for (and received) bailouts on five separate occasions, each occasion separately amounting to a minimum of $10 billion, usually much more.

Insurance company AIG has asked for and received four bailouts since 2008, all inclusively adding up to $180 billion. The auto bailout, which gave second chances to GM and Chrysler, has cost the nation $79.23 billion all together.

What is it that these technically failing businesses did?

They asked for more money.

On the anti-business front, Occupy Wall Street protesters are asking for another kind of bailout. On Tuesday, occupy protesters successfully repealed a bill in Ohio that banned collective bargaining by public employees. But this is just a small battle in a greater war.

The protesters are pushing for a total re-distribution of wealth, which they want to trickle from the “1 percent” of the nation controlling “99 percent” of the wealth to the “99 percent” who control whatever is left, which would be 1 percent. Regardless of how you say it or how they say it, the protesters are asking for more money.

Even the Chicago city government, which is notorious for being corrupt, is asking for more money. Citing “concerns for alcohol abuse,” Cook County seeks to raise taxes on alcohol by 50 percent, claiming that young adults will drink less due to the price incline, according to WBEZ. But seeing as Chicago already has the highest taxes on hard liquor in the nation, and looking at the $315 million deficit, this tax seems like an almost blatant attempt to cushion the debt. In simpler and less specific terms, Chicago is asking for more money.

It’s been deemed the root of all evil by Timothy 1 in the New Testament (yes, that’s where that came from). To go back to the NBA example, Michael Jordan, who has changed roles from player to owner, is dissatisfied with proposed deals to end the lockout. As a player he asked for more money, and now he’s doing the same as an owner.

When I zoom out and look at what’s happening right now in the nation, I have to wonder what it is that money has done to us.

Money, at its core, is a measure of worth. It arose as an end to the barter systems of old, or a medium of exchange e.g. that chicken is worth $3, or that popcorn is worth $2.

So what’s so wrong with asking for money? Nothing, if the money is a direct result of ambition, or a need to prove worth. But it’s when money is asked for out of greed that it becomes an evil, or a motivator of evil at least.

So, what I’m saying is let them ask, but be sure you know why they’re asking.

STUDENT ISSUES

MU could learn lesson from Penn State scandal Sheela Lal I’m sure there are many of you dear readers who want me to discuss MU’s move from the Big 12 to the SEC. That is a valid campus issue, but alas, the only things I know about this move are: we moved. Now when people assume Missouri is in the South, they have sports to justify it. The announcement divided the student body and alumni.

Seriously. That’s all I understand about the move.

I grew up with a football-loving family, so I have been exposed to college athletics. When I was younger, Thanksgiving consisted of my grandma’s tasty vegetarian Indian food, Penn State football (my grandfather, uncle and aunt attended the university) and old black-and-white Bollywood movies.

Well, now that I’ve brought up Penn State...

Now I think I have confused the readers — why is she going to write about another school’s football team when she doesn’t grasp MU’s athletic politics?

Well, it’s because I could give zero fucks about any school’s athletics department’s politics, but I do care about sexual abuse.

For those who aren’t aware of

what’s transpiring at Penn State, here’s a quick summary.

Jerry Sandusky, former assistant coach of PSU’s football program, was indicted Nov. 4 on 40 counts of sex crimes against young boys. There have been reports of Sandusky’s sexual abuse of young men since 2002.

PSU’s athletics director Tim Curley and Gary Schultz, Senior Vice President of PSU, have both been charged with failing to report the incident to police and lying to a grand jury regarding what they knew about the incident. Curley has been placed on administrative leave and Schultz was asked to go back into retirement. Along the same vein, the Penn State Board of Trustees formally removed Joe Paterno, the coach of the PSU football team, and PSU’s President Graham Spanier from their positions. They cannot escape scrutiny as this case unfolds.

It has come out that Paterno did not go to police about an incident reported to him.

I am explaining and writing this because I want to encourage everyone associated with the University of Missouri to not be afraid of speaking up. If you see, hear or are told of something that you know is not OK, it is your moral responsibility to do something about it.

For many of us, it can be overwhelming to know whom or what department to talk to. I would suggest talking to RSVP, the Women’s

Center, a professor, an adviser, MU Police Department, MU Counseling Center or one of the many other resources available on campus.

The most extreme cases of speaking up can obviously lead to icons leaving their positions “in shame,” but in all cases, there are victims: people who never “asked for it” or wanted to be assaulted.

No one wants to be a victim.

There is one last lesson I want to extract from the PSU sexual assault case. Wednesday night, Paterno was removed from his position.

This prompted, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 10,000 students to protest his removal.

Some time into the protest, participants turned a news van on its side, changing the nature of the demonstration from a protest to a riot. Keep in mind — these students were mad about his being fired, not the victims.

The victims, whose pain PSU tried so hard to cover up as to not break down the football program, did not receive unified outrage, did they?

As the protest-turned-riot was breaking on Twitter last night, I saw a lot of responses from MU students revealing their disgust with the situation, but it’s really easy to comment from far away.

The real test of a university and its students is how it reacts to events like this. If this happened at MU, would you have joined the protests?

POLITICS

Foreign relations: Policy vs. politics Josh Hinton Another financial crisis is potentially months away if American and European leaders aren’t able to take significant steps to address national debts. Most people don’t pay attention to the European Union, but its decisions in the next few weeks could spill over and affect the rest of the world. Some economists and leaders have gone so far as to predict global depression, a breakup of the EU and revolutions in southern Europe.

The problems Europe is facing today can be traced all the way back to World War I. After the Allies defeated Germany, they forced Germans to pay extremely high reparations to the rest of Europe. The cost to Germany was so high, they had to reduce the amount demanded several times because it was causing huge economic problems. The German government had to print money to fund these payments, resulting in hyperinflation. Needless to say, this pissed Germans off. Then the Great Depression hit, and Adolf Hitler, who was involved with the German government for years, began to rise to power with a

nationalistic message, feeding off German distrust for outsiders and frustration with the economy. We all know what happened next.

After World War II, European and American leaders decided it was probably a good idea to avoid this type of thing again, so they pushed for European integration as a means for swift economic recovery, to avoid more conflict and to balance out the growing threat from the Soviet Union.

Slowly but surely, European countries joined into organizations that would later become the European Union.

The EU has succeeded in eliminating conflict in its region for the longest period in history. Never before has that part of Europe been peaceful for so long. It also succeeded in sustaining decent economic growth for a long time, especially in countries that were poor 50 years ago. However, the EU was probably too ambitious and linked too many economies together. Italy, Spain, Portugal and especially Greece have problems with debt, and if any of these countries defaults on debt payments, it could cause a domino effect throughout Europe and America’s financial systems.

The United States cannot afford another financial crisis at this point. The last one caused budget deficits to triple, and now the government only has options

that will shift economic problems onto a different part of the economy. The government has used the method of buying assets with real money and money essentially from nowhere. While this gives banks more flexibility, it also can lead to inflation. Not to mention we have our own debt problems.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have pressured Europe to act on its debt problems. European leaders have called on Congress to make significant budget cuts over the next decade. Meanwhile, European leaders met Wednesday, agreeing to a $1.4 trillion fund to bail out several European governments. The “super committee” in Congress is looking less and less likely to make the cuts needed to keep the United States fiscally afloat. These governments must fix their overspending and debt problems, because they can only continue to prop each other up for a certain amount of time before crises like these become more severe. There is some optimism for the EU deal now, but pay attention to the next several months, and don’t be surprised if the world economy slips into another recession in the next year.

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SPORTS NATED AND RATED

Nate Atkins

Myth-busting MU’s move to the SEC As Missouri officials hung up a newly crafted, 14-team Southeastern Conference logo Sunday, they covered a century’s worth of athletic history with a sign of progressive expansion. Many fans refuse to see it this way, each proud to share his or her reason as to why the SEC doesn’t make sense for Missouri. Too many of these are actually myths. Here are the top five: MYTH NO. 1: Missouri should have just gone to the Big Ten. I would love to move in with Kim Kardashian. But no matter how many times I say that, it isn’t going to happen until she says yes. For the record, the Big Ten’s answer hasn’t changed either.

MYTH NO. 2: Missouri’s academics will take a hit.

Everyone knows the SEC isn’t known for its academics. Not nearly as many people realize the Big 12 isn’t either.

According to the U.S. News and World Reports college rankings, the soon-to-be 10-team Big 12 has an average school ranking of 112. The new 14-team SEC has an average ranking of 95. The number of Association of American Universities members is four for each conference. It’s a lateral move at worst.

MYTH NO. 3: Missouri’s recruiting will suffer with the loss of the Texas pipeline.

So, Missouri might lose the football-rich grounds of Texas. Texas is a large state, but it doesn’t constitute the entire South in either land mass or football talent. There’s also this state of Florida that happens to have some pretty solid athletes.

But beyond simple pipelines, Missouri’s status as a geographical outlier to the rest of the SEC renders it a recruiting hybrid between southern recruits and those in the Midwest. It’s true that Missouri will have its hands full battling programs like Alabama, Florida and LSU, both on and off the gridiron. But as a school, Missouri can appeal to a wider range of athletes with its engrossment in the Midwest, especially as the landmark university in its own populous state.

MYTH NO. 4: Missouri shouldn’t go to a conference where it’s more difficult to win.

Hold those southern horses. It’s mystifying that the predominant argument against an SEC move is based on the power of the conference.

That’s exactly why the move is so great. It’s a step up in competition, in revenue, in spotlight, in everything. It’s a gut-check for a program that wants to take that next step.

Think about this: Boise State isn’t moving to the Big East because it currently loses too many conference games. Schools don’t apply for FBS or Division I status because they want an easier road.

Planning to fail and wanting the easiest road isn’t the mindset for anyone looking to bolster an athletics program. Advancement is about investing in a quality program and matching a higher level of competition.

MYTH NO. 5: **Missouri will get crushed in the SEC. This myth is perhaps most frustrating.

Missouri hasn’t been able to match the top of the Big 12 anyway. It’s moving to a division where one of six schools has more wins during the past five years, and suddenly the Tigers are doomed?

The SEC plans to maintain its eight-game schedule, which means each team will play two games against non-divisional teams per year. Missouri can’t play any more than two of Alabama, Auburn, LSU and Arkansas in a given season, while those schools rotate with Texas A&M and the Mississippi schools.

The SEC is not a perfect league, but at least it is a league with more stability than the Big 12.

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Move to the SEC means big changes for Missouri wrestling The Tigers will be the only SEC school with a wrestling program.

MATTHEW FAIRBURN Reporter The Missouri Tigers wrestling program faces major changes after the university announced its decision Sunday to leave the Big 12 Conference for the SEC, which is not currently a home to a single Division-I wrestling program.

Although the wrestling program, ranked No. 9 in preseason polls, will not be a casualty of conference realignment, where the Tigers will wrestle is still up in the air.

Their decision is one that could set forth a series of major changes in the landscape of collegiate wrestling.

“Our wrestling community has a demonstrated history of adapting to change and this situation will be no different,” said Mike Moyer, National Wresting Coaches Association executive director. “The NWCA is currently developing and evaluating several promising conference and regional models that will position our sport to enjoy unprecedented success that would not otherwise be possible without realignment.”

MU could continue to wrestle against teams in the Big 12, which will add West Virginia to the mix next season.

The Western Wrestling Conference and Southern Conference are also options being considered by the NWCA. “The National Wrestling Coaches Association has been preparing for these changes in regards to how they will impact both Mizzou and the remaining Big 12 Conference programs,” coach Brian Smith said. “We know that Missouri is going to end up in a great situation. I am extremely confident in Chancellor Deaton’s decision.”

Wrestling is a non-revenue sport for

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Freshman Alan Waters wrestles Nebraska sophomore David Klingsheim on Jan. 30 in the Hearnes Center. The wrestling program will face major changes joining the Southeastern Conference because the league does not currently have a single school with a wrestling program.

MU, but that hasn’t caused a lack of support from the athletic department, Smith said. The university has invested close to $400,000 in the facilities since Smith took over the program in 1998, turning the complex into a regional Olympic training center. The result has been more exposure for the wrestling team.

“Our fan base has grown a lot through the university,” redshirt freshman heavyweight Devin Mellon said. “I think it will continue to grow as the wrestling gets more competitive. This team could bring in a lot of attention.”

Despite some uncertainty surrounding the program’s future, the Tigers remain excited for the change and what it could mean for the program.

“We have a top 10 program, and we’re

still growing,” sophomore Alan Waters said.

“I think as long as we keep improving, we should be able to go with any team out there, regardless of the conference. We’ve done it before and we’ll keep doing so.”

Smith has built the Missouri wrestling program to withstand any amount of change. The program has produced 26 All-Americans, an Olympic qualifier and a junior freestyle world champion in the past 10 seasons alone.

“We’re still just going to wrestle,” Mellon said. “The only thing that’s going to change is who we’re wrestling before the national tournament. We’re going to be fine.”

For now, the Missouri Tigers are focused on Sunday’s season opener at home against the Purdue Boilermakers. Everything else is a waiting game.

Brock finished with 29 points, 14 rebounds and six blocks on the night. All three numbers were new career highs for the senior from San Antonio.

“She is one of our most improved players,” Pingeton said. “She has a great work ethic, and she has invested a lot of time in the offseason. This is what we need from her.”

Brock attributed her offensive success to better chemistry with her teammates.

“It’s due to everybody working together and getting more comfortable with each other,” Brock said.

Brock said though the stat line looked nice, she wasn’t satisfied because she knows she and the team have a lot of room for improvement.

Brock’s dominant inside presence enabled the Tigers to cope with the absence of their leading scorer, center Christine Flores.

Flores and fellow starter and guard Sydney Crafton were unexpectedly absent from the court. Pingeton would not comment on the exact reasoning for their absences and said the matter would be handled internally.

“We are laying a foundation, and there are certain expectations and standards that we are going to run our program by,” Pingeton said. “We are not going to waver.”

She said the two starters would rejoin the team this weekend in Missouri’s next game against Texas–San Antonio.

The Tigers got off to a sluggish start and quickly saw themselves down eight with just more than six minutes gone by in the first half.

WARMING UP

Niemann spurs Tigers to victory in final exhibition The Tigers prevailed with starters Christine Flores and Sydney Crafton on the bench.

SAM ROURKE Staff Writer Tuesday’s final exhibition tune-up for the Missouri women’s basketball team against UM-St. Louis didn’t go quite as scripted for much of the night. The Tigers were able to eventually prevail by a score of 62-48, but it wasn’t until late in the second half the Tigers were able to build a comfortable lead.

“We still have a lot of work to do … but that’s what you have the exhibition games for,” coach Robin Pingeton said.

The game remained close throughout the night until the Tigers went on an 11-0 run to take a 58-44 lead with 3:23 remaining in the game. Sophomore Tori Niemann spurred the run with back-to-back three pointers for six of her 14 points.

Pingeton said she was pleased to see Niemann be successful with the dedication she brings daily to practice.

“She is a kid that is a tireless worker,” Pingeton said. “She has worked hard to be more consistent from that three-point line.”

Niemann’s outside shooting was a welcome change of pace for the Tigers after they relied on senior forward Breanna Brock’s inside scoring for most of the night.

Three Missouri women's basketball players are hitting their stride heading into the season opener Friday.

BREE FOWLER | guard Averaged 9 ppg Shot 46.2% from the field

BREANNA BROCK | forward 19.0 ppg 11.0 rebounds per game

TORI NIEMANN | guard Went 5-for-5 from the field, Made four 3-pointers Tuesday

Source: MUTigers.com ABBY SPUDICH | GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Turnovers were a major issue early and remained one throughout the night as the Tigers committed 24 turnovers in total.

The Tigers ramped up their defensive intensity in the closing stages of the first half and found some offensive success to go on a 19-6 run to close the half.

Their five-point halftime lead wavered only slightly until the 11-0 run to break the game open in the latter stages of the second half.

The Tigers’ next home date is Nov. 20 when they take on North Florida at Mizzou Arena.

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Learning to fall One play gone wrong sent Elvis Fisher on a long walk from disaster to recovery.

NATE ATKINS Associate Editor At the sound of a whistle, a stampede of Missouri football players takes off down the field, around the goalpost and into lines for the daily stretch.

In the distance limps a straggler. Clad in street clothes, senior captain Elvis Fisher hobbles like a surly veteran, swinging his braced left knee and smiling as he meets his teammates following their run.

Fisher used to run this route daily. Those days are behind him. They snapped along with his knee days before the season started.

But in the moment’s walk through practice, all seems well.

The All-Big 12 left tackle meanders calmly through the lines of players like a farmer appreciating his crops. He smiles, laughs and shares jokes with teammates bearing the pads he recently gave his own set of grass stains.

“I don’t really like to talk too serious about stuff,” he said. “I try to keep it up-beat. My injury has nothing to do with how they play on the field.”

One play, one story There was a time when Fisher helped lead the same jog and stretched the same ligaments prior to running the same drills.

He did so each week prior to 40 consecutive starts at offensive tackle from 2008 to 2010.

But on one play Aug. 15, the routine caught up with Missouri’s blindside protector.

“I was just doing a kick slide like I’ve done probably a million times since I’ve been here at the university,” he said. “I just took two or three kick slides. I went to brace up to try to stop the rush. I heard my knee pop, and I just went down.”

Fisher had heard the adages of how one play can change everything. He was aware of the

risk of injury, the one part of the game that never fades away.

Those lessons were all he could think of when the walls of his career came crashing down.

“A couple hours after it happened, I was on my way to get the MRIs and stuff like that,” he said. “I just thought, ‘What’s wrong with this?’ I just wanted to know that.”

The answer was that Fisher’s patella tendon had ruptured. It was a unique injury that left him only one option: season-ending knee surgery.

“Our trainer, Casey (Hairston), looked at me and said, ‘It’s going to be a while,’” Fisher said. “Lots of emotions came out there.”

Like the state of the knee, those emotions weren’t appealing. Fisher quickly embraced the role of the forgotten athlete, bottling his story and lashing out at those who asked for it.

The reaction wasn’t what he wanted. But like the story, emotions were a subject Fisher would spend the coming weeks trying to figure out.

“I’ve been (at MU) forever it seems like,” he said. “I’ve been a starter here for three years. It’s kind of unfortunate because I had such high expectations for the team and for myself this season that I didn’t want this to happen.”

A steady climb Fisher points to his braced knee, shame not having been an issue for weeks. He pulls his foot backward before extending it out, covering almost a complete range of motion.

The progress is staggering compared to attempts of weeks’ past, back when pool workouts and patella massages gave the immovable ligament the only stress it could handle.

Fisher’s current regiment involves much more intense exercises, spanning from quad stretches to lunges to leg press-

es. The goal, he said, is to build the muscle around the tendon so that the ligament itself can progress back to normal.

Fisher’s off-thefield recovery has operated much the same way. Soon after enduring a state of frustration, he realized that the path to being happy again lied in strengthening the relationships with those who wished to help.

It started when offensive coordinator David Yost and co-offensive line coach Josh Henson asked Fisher to adopt a coaching role with his fellow offensive linemen. “(Fisher) could tell you what this guy, that guy, that guy was doing,” Henson said.

“We had a real comfort level for Elvis to come out there and help us.”

For the first time in weeks, Fisher was happy to take a request.

“You kind of see things from a difNATE ATKINS/ASSOCIATE EDITOR ferent perspective,” Missouri senior football captain Elvis Fisher converses with teammates during pracFisher said of coach- tice Oct. 4 at the Missouri practice fields. Fisher has adopted a coaching role for the ing. “You see the Tigers after a knee surgery ended his senior year days before the season began. entire practice. You see the big picture.” a really good friend,” Hoch said. ent, just a different group of The opportunity lit a path “It’s very unfortunate what hap- guys,” Fisher said of the possifor Fisher to reconnect with the pened, but he’s making the best bility, which will be determined teammates and friends that were of what he can, which is really after the conclusion of the seaforced to continue playing with- good to see.” son. “It’d just be getting used to out him. Senior guards Jayson The coaching role has also that again.”

Palmgren and Austin Wuebbels crafted a bond between Fisher Coaching has reinforced Fisher’s and senior tackle Dan Hoch all and his left tackle replacement, role on the team. It’s a sense of place started alongside Fisher for 12 sophomore Justin Britt. The two that never leaves any Missouri footgames in 2010 and have joined constantly dissect Britt’s indihim elsewhere for college activi- vidual plays, their conversation ball player, according to coach Gary ties like swimming and going to dominating the time between Pinkel.

Pinkel demonstrates the importhe movies. the snaps. tance of roles with a description of Fisher’s place as their friend As the living representaand fellow lineman was one role tion of the game Fisher has left the 36 scout team player of the week awards the coaches announce before that never changed. behind, Britt does his best to “It hurts to lose one of your reflect that one-on-one assis- a team-wide round of applause.

“The way we handle things really good players — a senior tance back to his mentor. around here is everyone is treated with a lot of experience and also “God has a plan for (Fisher),” Britt said. “His plan is where the same in this building, whether he is now. I feel for him, and you’re a walk-on or whether you’re I thank him every day I see (quarterback) James Franklin,” Pinkel said. him.”

Fisher’s obvious hope is to play again.

But as he takes his daily stroll A sense of place throughout practice, distant worries Coaching has become Fisher’s are not of the essence. Fisher instead escape from a harsher reality. It’s embellishes the rare luxury of time.

Time is what practice has become his link to a game he still loves, one he hopes the NCAA will for Elvis Fisher. It’s a time to watch, allow him to play as a redshirt a time to coach and a time to walk senior for one final year in 2012. — each day a little faster than the “I don’t think it’ll be differ- one before.

A NEW ROLE 2008 2009 MANEATER FILE PHOTO

Offensive Lineman Elvis Fisher talks with fellow teammates during practice Aug. 25 at Faurot Field. Fisher has spent this season in recovery after a knee injury brought his 40-start streak to an end in August.

2010

Prior to missing the entire 2011 season, senior captain and left tackle Elvis Fisher earned conference and national recognition while starting all 40 games from 2008-2010.

First-Team Freshman All-America Honorable Mention All-Big 12 Honorable Mention All-Big 12 CASEY PURCELLA | GRAPHICS ASSISTANT

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FEATURE

Admissions to EXPLORE

southeast AFTER

SEC move CAIT CAMPBELL Staff Writer

With MU’s admittance to the Southeastern Conference, many have raised questions about how the move will affect the university.

Officials said it is too early to definitively say what kind of implications this will have on the future, but there has been some speculation regarding admissions and athletics.

Senior Associate Director of Admissions Chuck May said the move to the SEC will not cause a noticeable increase in student enrollment from the southeast corridor of the United States. He said the move would most likely not change how students are recruited in the near future.

“We will certainly reassess potential new markets on an annual basis,” he said. “We will investigate to see if there could be the potential for more recruitment activities in that area. We may look at Louisville, Kentucky and Atlanta, Georgia for possible new markets to break into in the future, starting small with mailings and possibly using alumni to attend college fairs.”

May said he is not concerned about losing potential students from Texas, which supplied more than 700 new students to MU in 2008. Texas is home to four Big 12 Conference

MANEATER FILE PHOTO

Thousands of freshmen dash through the columns Aug. 20 on David R. Francis Quadrangle. Officials said it is too early to say what kind of implications the move to the SEC will have on future admissions.

mail to prospective students there.”

Athletics Department spokesman Chad Moller said in regards to athletics, the recruiting for each sport has its own dynamics. Moller said bringing in more student-athletes from the southeast portion of the U.S. is a strong possibility.

“Each coaching staff will be deal-

ing with the new landscape in their own ways,” he said. “We’re absolutely confident that our future association with the SEC will be a benefit to our coaches in a number of ways, and certainly recruiting is one of those key elements.”

Moller also said that the increase in student-athletes from the south-

east might potentially be a trend present throughout the student body.

“I think it also won’t be limited to student-athletes,” he said. “Remember that this is the entire University of Missouri that is expanding its reach here, so there’s a possibility that the general student population will have a greater pull from that region too.”

In announcing their decision to women, and our long-term goal were each able to come to an agreeleave the Big 12 Conference to join is to provide financial stability so ment on about half of what they the Southeastern Conference, MU 5,000 student-athletes can compete were originally obligated to pay. not only entered into a new era of and have that experience that we all Deaton said in a press conference athletic tradition and competition, value so much.”

Sunday that Missouri intends to take but it will undergo great changes in According to a confidential doc- full financial responsibility for this its athletic spending. ument obtained by the Associated fee with no help from their new On July 1, 2012, MU will become Press, Missouri could potentially conference. a fully instated member of the SEC, earn $19.25 million next year in a “We understand the bylaws of which means it will receive a full television deal from the SEC, which the conference and the expectations share of the conference’s distributed surpasses what it was expected to regarding some range of exit fees,” finances under the revenue-sharing receive from the Big 12 by little more Deaton said. “Let me simply say plan. than $2 million, according to an that the University of Missouri will This plan provides the long-term article on EPSN.com. bear those responsibilities. They are financial stability and equality among This document also indicated the not the Southeastern Conference’s schools that appealed to MU, accord- Big 12 would require MU to pay an responsibilities.” ing to Chancellor Brady Deaton.

As far as recruiting expenses exit fee of as much as $26 million.

Approximately $18.3 million was When Colorado and Nebraska are concerned, the United States given to each school in the SEC left the conference last year, they Department of Education weblast year, while MU site states MU spent received $10.3 milin the 2010-11 CONFERENCE SPENDING DIFFERENCES $861,859 lion in 2009-10 as school year. This number a member of the pales in comparison to Big 12, as stated in the majority of the SEC Texas $125,000,000 an article in The universities.

Tennessee Kansas City Star.

Of the 12 current uniFlorida LSU $100,000,000 “We are stable, versities, only two, South Alabama Oklahoma and we have longCarolina and Mississippi Auburn Oklahoma St. Kentucky term contracts State, spent less money S. Carolina $75,000,000 Texas A&M Georgia Kansas that, I think, really than Missouri did on Arkansas Missouri Texas Tech show the long-term athletic recruiting in $50,000,000 financial stabil2010-11. Tennessee and Iowa St. Ole Miss Miss St. Kansas St. ity of our athletic Auburn topped the list, programs,” SEC spending more than $2 $25,000,000 Commissioner million each.

Mike Slive said. Not reported: Vanderbilt, Baylor Last year there was “We have 5,000 Source: USA Today discussion about MU CASEY PURCELLA | GRAPHICS ASSISTANT possibly joining the student-athletes in the SEC, men and Big Ten Conference,

in which the biggest spender on recruiting was Michigan, spending about $1.48 million.

Missouri would have been the third lowest spending school in terms of recruiting in the Big Ten. In the Pac-12 Conference, only four schools spent less on recruiting than MU, according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education.

“Definitely part of Mizzou fitting into the SEC is spending more money in recruiting and scholarships, but at the same time, so is maintaining our integrity academically and, also, making sure we get the best student athletes to come to Mizzou,” freshman Carson Cornelius said. “But that, of course, involves spending a little more money that we will have hopefully by joining the SEC, and that’s part of the purpose of going in the first place.”

MU will likely need to increase its scholarship funds in order to attract more athletes and keep up with its competitors in the SEC, athletics director Mike Alden indicated.

“We have heard back from our leadership team at Mizzou,” Alden said. “We have heard back from our donor base, from our fans, from our alums, from our Tiger Scholarship members and from our student-athletes, and I am very confident knowing that we have a commitment going forward to continuing that movement towards improvement in all areas of our athletic program.”

The U.S. Department of Education numbers show that last year MU spent about $7.5 million in athletic-related student aid, and the average amount spent last year among the 12 SEC schools was about $7.9 million.

Vanderbilt spent nearly $12 million and Ole Miss brought up the rear, only spending around $5.7 million.

As for the amount of revenue generated by men’s and women’s basketball teams, MU would rank sixth out of the current SEC schools.

In football, on the other hand, MU generated more revenue than 10 of the 12 schools, all but Mississippi State and Vanderbilt, in 2010-11.

Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Vanderbilt in the SEC all made less revenue from all sports combined than MU did in 2010-11, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

At the Nov. 6 press conference, Alden acknowledged MU would need to continue improving their facilities, increase recruiting budgets and improve and maintain a quality coaching staff.

“I would tell you that stepping into the SEC, it’s important that we recognize how important that is and that we may need to continue to turn that up even another notch,” Alden said. “This is a great conference in our country and it is important that we continue that commitment.

schools.

“There is a possibility that we could lose some market share in Texas,” he said. “However, we have an established presence in the state with a strong alumni base in Dallas and Houston. We plan to continue to heavily visit high schools in Texas, attend college fairs and send direct

SEC spending another world to Big 12

transfers

SEC

Big 12

— Linnea Hardin Reporter

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SEC move to impact Kansas rivalry BRANDON GRAMMER Staff Writer

MU’s impending switch to the Southeastern Conference is old news by now. The highly anticipated conference switch has been the focal point of many ESPN segments for months, and people are now anticipating the many benefits such a move will bring to the university.

But seemingly lost in all the commotion are the many school-wide traditions MU had in place with the Big 12 Conference. School officials have promised that most of MU’s traditions will not fall to the wayside due to the recent events.

Zach Parolin, Mizzou Alumni Association student board president, said the first one that comes to mind is the bitter rivalry between MU and Kansas.

“The move to the SEC only strengthens the Mizzou-Kansas rivalry,” he said. “It may temporarily take away the athletic competitions, but it’s clear from the reactions that the mutual hatred between the two schools is stronger than ever.”

Parolin said the MU-KU Border War is simply too storied a rivalry to let fade away.

“I think it’s inevitable that, at some point, the schools will find room in their non-conference schedules to include each other again,” he said.

“There is too much tradition and too much potential revenue to let it die for good.”

Kansas would seemingly disagree, tweeting, “@KUNews: Missouri forfeits a century-old rivalry. We win,” moments after the conference switch.

The SEC switch will spell the demise of many traditional athletic rivalries between MU and its former Big 12 opponents. Traditions such as the Telephone Trophy between MU and Iowa State and the Tiger-Sooner

Peace Pipe will likely die next year, Parolin said.

Students expressed dismay at such an idea but also realize that this gives them a unique chance to witness the formation of new school traditions that will carry on in the future.

“One of the biggest downfalls of all this, I think, is the fact that we are fine with just throwing away a lot of our rivalries with these other schools,” sophomore Jacob Simburger said.

“Hopefully, we’re given the chance be a part of creating new rivalries and traditions with some teams in the SEC.” Parolin said MU will almost assuredly be given the opportunity to develop new athletic traditions as time wears on.

“I’m sure the Mizzou Alumni Association and select student groups will be keeping an eye open for opportunities to develop new athletic-based traditions,” he said. “The switch brings new opportunities to capitalize on the excitement of these new relationships. I’m sure someone, or some group, will capitalize on that as time progresses.”

One such opportunity that could present itself resides in another former Big 12 team. Earlier this year, Texas A&M also decided to jump ship from the Big 12 to the SEC. “Mizzou and Texas A&M are essentially partners in crime – both schools escaped the Big 12 and can revel together in that fact,” Parolin said.

Parolin anticipates Texas A&M becoming an even larger rival than in previous years, yet he still sees the main school rivalry residing with the Jayhawks across the border.

“Texas A&M will become more of a rival, but not in the same form that Kansas is now,” he said. “A&M will be fun to play, but the rivalry will not come close to the intensity of the Mizzou-Kansas rivalry.”

Some students think the move has potential to strengthen the MU-Texas A&M rivalry.

TRADITIONS AT STAKE

With MU's move to the SEC, several Big 12 traditions might die.

Missouri - Nebraska Bell

Telephone Trophy

Indian War Drum

Tiger - Sooner Peace Pipe

• Issued to the winner of the Missouri-Nebraska football game • Originated in 1927. Laid aside in World War II years, and later resurrected in 1947 • Bell was originally stolen from a church in Seward, Neb., by two Nebraska fraternities (Phi Delta Theta and Delta Tau Delta) who shared the same house • When each fraternity moved to separate living quarters, they battled for possession of the bell each year in a specified contest athletic or academic • When in 1927, Missouri proposed a suitable trophy be established for the MU-Nebraska football rivalry, the bell was suggested and adopted engraved on one side with an "M" and on the other with an "N" • At Mizzou, the bell is cared for by the QEBH Society, while the Nebraska caretaker is the Innocents Society of Nebraska • Missouri won the first game, 7-6.

• Issued to the winner of the Missouri-Iowa State football game •Originated in 1959. The strangest of circumstances got this rivalry underway • Prior to the 1959 game in Ames, a Missouri assistant coach put on his headset in the press box and got a big surprise he could hear the Iowa State coaches chatting, since the wires were crossed and each side could hear the other • Northwestern Bell of Ames donated the trophy, made of Alexander Graham Bell's chief invention • Missouri won the first game, 14-0.

• Issued to the winner of the Missouri-Kansas football game • Originated in 1935.

Trophy was conceived as Indian in nature by a couple of Mizzou alumni, since Osage Indians roamed the plains of Kansas and Missouri long before the state universities were founded • Original intent was to stimulate new interest in longtime series that had dwindled during the Depression of the '30s and MU's all-time low in football victories • Supposedly authentic Indian drum was purchased in a Kansas City pawn shop, and new drum was acquired prior to 1986 game • Autographed originally on both drum heads by KU and MU alumni • Tradition was temporarily forgotton for a few years but resumed on an annual basis in 1947 • The first game ended in a scoreless tie.

• Ceremony of smoking the old pipe was inaugurated in 1929 by Chester M. Brewer, Mizzou's director of athletics, and by members of Mystical Seven, a University of Missouri honorary group • The peace pipe was donated by a Mr. R. L. Hill, an "M" man and former president of the Missouri student body • Ceremony takes place during halves, with Mystical Seven representing Missouri, and a similar organization representing Oklahoma • Missouri won the first game, 13-0.

Source: MUtigers.com

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Running though the columns is a tradition for incoming MU freshmen. School officials have promised that most of MU’s traditions will not fall to the wayside due to the recent move to the SEC.

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