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Back in business: Pizza Tree returns LEAH THOMAS Reporter The goal of a successful Kickstarter campaign has been met, and no, I’m not talking about that potato salad guy. I’m talking about Pizza Tree.

Yes, folks, the local favorite is back.

What started as an idea to sell pizza at Mojo’s spawned a crowdfunding effort to build a new restaurant where people can get their beloved slices.

Owner John Gilbreth is excited about the support the restaurant has gotten from the community throughout the process and says that “is why we used Kickstarter in the first place.”

Gilbreth says he closed shop with every intention of reopening, but wasn’t able to run Pizza Tree and look

for a new space.

At the new location at 909 Cherry St., he says he hopes to “take good care of the local economy, products, employees, and customers,” while serving amazing pizza.

So what makes Pizza Tree stand out among the rest? Ingredients.

They “make the dough today and use it tomorrow,” says Gilbreth, so the foundation of the pizza is guaranteed fresh.

They also stretch their own mozzarella cheese and make their sausage and ham with meat from Columbia’s Patchwork Family Farms. Their pepperoni is from Ezzo, a source in Columbus, Ohio, that Gilbreth says has some of the best pepperoni he has ever tasted.

The focus on ingredients may have you worried about prices, but Gilbreth

says, “there’s a local focus, but we’re not trying to be ‘gourmet’… we just want pizza made how it should be.”

With slices of cheese for $2.25 and pepperoni or sausage for $2.50, Gilbreth is keeping up with that promise.

You can also count on good extras, with four draft beers and plenty of nonalcoholic beverage options. The pizzeria makes its own condiments, including a hot sauce that starts with carrot juice and is aptly named “Kill Da Wabbit” after the Bugs Bunny cartoon.

With the local focus, finding a great new location was key, and stepping into the restaurant, it’s clear everyone has put their best into the place.

Executive chef Jay Westcott says he “love(s) the new spot,” and that the shop “outgrew Mojo’s so soon.”

Gilbreth says he prefers the smaller

location so he doesn’t have to worry about filling a space and can focus on serving the best product possible.

Gilbreth is also excited to bring his own vibe to the block and says he loves the neighborhood.

If all of that hasn’t enticed you to head over to Pizza Tree yet, then the overall feel of the restaurant will.

Pizza Tree is tucked into a corner behind Harpo’s, but once you step inside, large windows make it feel much bigger. The walls are decked out with pizza-themed art and you can watch (and smell) employees putting fresh pizzas in to bake behind the counter And for those of you who simply can’t bear to leave your room, Pizza Tree delivers from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week.

The best pizza in downtown Columbia MATT HORN There is nothing else like it. It is late at night and you get hit with the craving.

After spending hours on homework, you deserve it. So you pick up your iPhone and start scrolling Urbanspoon for the one thing that will fill your nighttime craving: pizza.

But where do you go? Before you find yourself calling up Papa John’s, or — gasp — Domino’s — here is what Columbia really has to offer.

However, despite local fame, I give Shakespeare’s taste a 3 out of 5. While I would not dare venture to say the quality is bad, I’m not convinced that the pizza itself is worth all the hype.

A 12-inch cheese pizza starts at $9.25 but if you’re new to Shakespeare’s, you have to try The Masterpiece.

This mound of critically-acclaimed pizza is topped with pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Italian sausage, ground beef, mushrooms, onions, green peppers and black olives. It may be the most supreme pizza that Columbia has to offer.

Shakespeare’s

Gumby’s Pizza on Broadway

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Pizza

on Ninth and Elm streets is easily one of the most popular places in all of Columbia. What isn’t to love? With a great atmosphere, a bar, and pizza by the slice during lunch on weekdays, it seems like everyone and their mom can’t get enough Shakespeare’s.

is an on-campus favorite for delivery.

Featuring some of the more unusual specialty pizzas I’ve ever seen, Gumby’s provides a great opportunity to break away from the typical pepperoni pie.

Perhaps the oddest of them all is The Stoner Pie, topped with pepperoni,

bacon, mozzarella sticks, French fries and cheddar cheese. To anyone brave enough to dive in to such a monster, I hope you enjoy it — a heart attack inevitably follows.

Gumby’s gets a 4 out of 5 on taste, and because of the wide variety, it’s hard to find a pizza that won’t hit the spot. A one-topping 12-inch pie starts at $7.99, but if you’re feeling dangerously hungry, see how many slices of the 20-inch Massive pizza you can finish.

Wise Guys Pizza on Sixth

Street doesn’t have the popularity that Shakespeare’s or Gumby’s does. But it should.

While it’s nothing out of the ordinary, it’s very good pizza, especially for the price. A 12-inch one-topping pizza costs only $8.49.

Wise Guys does not feature many specialty pizzas, but you can build your

own for a low price and expect a good pizza. Chicago-style deep dish or stuffed pizzas are definitely recommended, especially for heavy eaters. Wise Guys easily merits a 4 out of 5 on taste.

Pickleman’s Gourmet Cafe may come as a surprise to

many, but if you haven’t tried the pizza here, you’re missing out. If you’re a fan of thin crust, well-seasoned pizza, then you have to check it out.

Sitting on Broadway right off of Hitt Street, Pickleman’s accommodates carryout, dine-in and delivery. I give the taste an impressive 4.5 out of 5. A 12-inch cheese pizza will run you $8, but despite their rather limited selection, the Asiago Chicken and Buffalo Chicken pizzas are definitely worth a try.

So please, don’t confine yourself to commercial chain pizza. You deserve better, MOVErs.

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Mexican food CHRISTINA ARREOLA Reporter In the mood for Mexican, but not sure where to go? Never fear, MOVE is here. We ranked CoMo’s Mexican restaurants from muy delicioso to así así.

Las Margaritas 10 Southampton Dr Here, you can sit outside on a patio that extends over a lake if you’re dining during nice weather.

Las Margaritas’ stocked bar is also worth the visit: Try one of its margaritas, be it a regular, jumbo, monster or pitcher size. The dinner menu consists of a large variety of Mexican foods at reasonable prices. For your next visit, order the tacos al pastor — four tacos filled with pork marinated in salsa made from ancho chiles and topped with cilantro and onions. It’s served with lime and grilled pineapple on top and frijoles charros soup, a traditional soup of beans and bacon. All of that for $8.99, not including tax.

Rating: 5/5.

RENEE SCHILB Staff Writer For Asian food lovers, Columbia is a gold mine of options ranging from Chinese takeout to sushi to Thai food and beyond. No matter what the whim, Columbia has it.

Thai Bangkok Gardens Bangkok Gardens is one of the best places to go in Columbia for a great Asian cuisine experience. The sit-down Thai restaurant features an amazing variety of delicious options at reasonable prices. Bangkok Gardens is also vegetarian-friendly, with the option to replace any meat with tofu at no additional charge.

The only way it really falters is the cramped space. It is almost a little too easy to overhear neighbors’ conversations or get a whiff of their drunken noodles.

Thip Thai Thip Thai presents itself as a more approachable and slightly fancier option than Bangkok Gardens, great for dates or business meetings. Thip Thai has a similar wide range of options on its menu at a reasonable price but doesn’t offer the same vegetarian option to replace meat with tofu.

Thai Express Like most takeout restaurants, the food is slightly subpar to sit-down restaurants, but at an unbeatable price. Thai Express is no different in that manner. It’s the best you can get for the price you pay and for the speed you’ll get it at. It makes for a great alternative to Chinese takeout when you want

to be a little more adventurous and try something new.

BEN KOTHEChinese // GRAPHICS MANAGER New Jingo’s

Sushi Geisha Sushi Bar This sushi bar in downtown Columbia offers up a very highbrow, Americanized atmosphere combined with Japanese flair.

Nothing about Geisha will make you feel like you’re in Japan, but the food is well-made and contains great flavors. It differentiates itself from other sushi places with its wide variety of drinks and the constant display of popular Asian music videos on the big screen TV. This wouldn’t be the spot to take a date, but it makes for a great happy hour or party spot for you and your best friends.

Kampai Nestled sweetly in Alley A, Kampai features fantastic, authentic sushi, as well as several non-seafood options. Its flaws lie in the atmosphere — its relatively ordinary appearance can’t be covered up by horribly dim lighting or loud music, and it isn’t the easiest place to find if you’re new to Columbia.

Sake Japanese Bistro and Bar Sake stands at the top of the Columbia sushi restaurants list in both coolness and flavor. Every bit of décor inside Sake preaches its modern take on classic Japanese style. The extensive menu features the widest range of rolls and seafood options, as well as an incredibly thorough selection of drinks and drink specials. Anything from a happy hour or party to a date would be well-suited inside this Japanese bistro.

Almost any college student on campus can tell you about Jingo’s, as it is the go-to for quick and easy Chinese on a low budget. It’s nothing fancy, and you won’t find yourself raving about the unique and culturally-accurate flavors of the food, but you also won’t be disappointed with its decent-sized portions for basic takeout options.

The biggest fault for this particular spot is its long wait times when the kitchen gets busy on weekends.

China Star This lesser-known Chinese take out spot on West Broadway features a good range of dishes and an excellent variety of dinner combos.

Other than those two aspects, though, you shouldn’t expect any sort of five-star food or exceptional customer service. China Star is subpar in most categories and as Americanized as take-out gets, but it manages to make up for that with decent delivery times.

Formosa Although it’s not quite as popular as the other two, Formosa makes up for that in its authenticity and flavor. The food is fantastic for the price, and the lunch and dinner specials ensure you won’t feel hungry again for hours to come.

After a recent remodel, Formosa has shed its sketchy reputation of the past and now appears brighter and much more inviting. It has a separate menu for specialized diets, including vegetarian options. Formosa is one of the few take-out places worth sitting in, as it overlooks Broadway from its second-story location.

Los Cuates 2908 Paris Rd Just outside of Columbia, this place is the area’s best-kept secret. It’s a hole-in-the-wall restaurant, and there isn’t much when it comes to decor. What Los Cuates lacks in decoration, it makes up for in flavor. Its tacos are delicious and its tamales are probably the most authentic of Columbia. Los Cuates has an array of meats, including tongue, and provides nice options in chiles. Grab a dish with mole poblano, a Mexican sauce made from a variety of chili peppers and chocolate. Los Cuates offers a nice variation of Jarritos Mexican soda, with flavors like mango and pineapple. If you want to try to make these dishes at home, you can head to the basement of the restaurant and visit its store. You can get fresh produce, meats and Mexican cheeses. It also has an entire aisle dedicated to Mexican candies and it carries conchas, or Mexican sweet breads.

Rating: 4/5.

Mi Tierra 2513 Old Hwy 63 Another restaurant with a patio, Mi Tierra offers great á la carte Mexican street foods. Its tacos de carne asada, or steak tacos, are cooked in cilantro, onions and lime. Buy only one or as many as you want for $1.99 each. If you’re thinking seafood, the coctel de camaron, or shrimp cocktail, is decent and inexpensive. The shrimp comes with avocado, pico de gallo and cocktail sauce. The rest of the menu is a little more expensive and the variety is slim. However, you can always check out Mi Terra for its nightlife.

Rating: 3/5.

El Rancho 1014 E Broadway (Don’t laugh). MOVE’s suggestions? One, go during the day to beat the crowd (yes, it is open before 2 a.m.) Two, order a torta, a Mexican sandwich and one thing that El Rancho successfully does. I ordered mine with steak and it came with jalapeños, guacamole, tomatoes and onions. It was filling, delicious, and inexpensive. The next thing on El Rancho’s menu that deserves recognition are its tacos. Get a cup of horchata with your meal, and you’re set. But get there early. You could end up standing in line for 15 to 30 minutes if you’re stuck with the late-night crowd.

Rating: 3/5.

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Food for thought

MOVE’s Best Bars DELIA CAI Senior Staff Writer Best bar for… happy hour The Heidelberg 410 S. Ninth St. It isn’t by coincidence that The Heidelberg is a serious CoMo institution. Happy Hour at the ‘Berg lasts from 3:30 to 7 p.m. weekdays and from 10 p.m. to midnight Mondays through Saturdays.

That’s when you need to take advantage of drink specials on everything from draft beer to house drinks, and the Berg’s legendary appetizers, which are buy one, get one free. Repeat after us: deluxe club potato skins. And that’s just the beginning. But, if you don’t feel like accidentally running into your J-School professors here, head to Campus Bar and Grill for similar buy-one-get-one apps and cheap pitchers galore.

Best bar to… dance your pants off: Quinton’s/Tonic Nightclub 124 S. Ninth St. After drinking in Quinton’s rather choice rooftop views, take the catwalk over to Tonic, where the dance floor awaits. Unlike Roxy’s, the music at Tonic is generally a lot less of the pounding-migraine-bass type and just generally more accessible and dancey. Just two weeks ago for Tonic’s Halloween bash, the nightclub was so packed, there was a legitimate cause to fear we’d all melt into one giant amoeba that bopped along in time to Meghan Trainor. Typical weekends aren’t nearly as jammed, but a crowd here is always fun because everyone knows — or at least thinks they know — how to get down.

not sure what to order? try one of these classic cocktails.

Best bar for… the clique Penguin Piano Bar 1025 E Broadway Take your besties to celebrate their b-days at Piano, because it just doesn’t get classier than live, dueling piano players — or $2 champagne. There’s usually a small line and cover at the door, but if

you get a big group out together, it’s worth it. The music and layout of the bar, which includes a second-floor balcony and stage, make Piano much less crowded-barnyard than other popular favorites like Harpo’s or Bengals. If you still don't want to swing cover, try to get in around midnight, about an hour before last call. You can usually skip paying that extra $5 and still get in on some Journey action.

Best bar for… a night without judgment Eastside Tavern 1016 E Broadway Regardless of whether you’re into Eastside’s weekly Dirty Disco hipsterthons/dance parties or not, you need to go to Eastside on Thursday nights. Thursday is karaoke night. Cheap drinks, a free water cooler in the corner, the value of which you will know not of until you’ve spent an hour screeching along to someone’s take on Whitney Houston, and a crowd that knows just as many weird ‘90s songs as you do. Almost every night here ends with strangers linking arms and belting out Train. It's magical. Do we even need to mention that it’s right next door to El Rancho?

Best bar, period.

Shakespeare’s Pizza 225 S Ninth St. How do we love Shakespeare’s? Let us count the ways. There’s the easy access to the best pizza in America you’ll ever have the pleasure of lining your stomach with. There’s the homey wooden booths, the gently weathered bar and the enormous patio and tent out back. There’s the perfect mix of all kinds of students, with a healthy sprinkle of townies and families to keep things down to earth. There’s the $6 Long Islands. If that doesn’t float your boat, there’s the $4 triple wells, where, as you watch a vodka cranberry get poured out for you in front of your eyes, you and the bartender share an implicit understanding that this is not a vodka cranberry. It is a glass of vodka, with a suggestive splash of cranberry juice. Stay thirsty, MOVErs. As always, remember to drink responsibly. Or, at the very least, bring your own damn hair tie.

NOT SURE WHAT TO ORDER? TRY ONE OF THESE CLASSIC COCKTAILS.

BEST: Cheap food on Ninth

You deserve better than McDonald’s.

MICA SOELLNER Reporter

Growing tired of the dining halls? Exhausted of eating TV dinners every night? Try going downtown for a delicious and affordable meal for a chance to spice things up.

You don’t have to rely on chains like Subway or

Chipotle for cheap food. Check out some of Ninth

at under $5, The International Café is definitely a

inexpensive meal. Ingredient provides an array of

Street’s eateries that offer great food at a great

college-friendly restaurant.

choices from fresh-made burgers to healthy, crisp

price.

If Mexican food is more your taste, head to La Siesta at 33 N. Ninth St. Appetizers start

feast, The International Café on 26

at $2.99 and most dinners can be purchased at

College can be costly, but that doesn’t mean

S. Ninth St. is the place to go. Offering a wide

around $10 or less. La Siesta is not just limited to

that you have to give up a great night eating out

variety of options including gyros, kabobs and

Mexican food and serves all-American favorites

with friends. So many dining places are available

a range of vegetarian choices, The International

like burgers and fries.

right in your backyard. With all these locations

Café is a delectable and affordable place to dine.

Who says eating healthy has to be costly? Stop

With gyros for under $7 and appetizers starting

by Ingredient on 304 S. Ninth St. for a fresh,

martini

salads. Most options on Ingredient’s menu are

If you are looking to dive into a Mediterranean

under $9, with appetizers under $6.

within walking distance, it’s easy to grab a quick meal after class or a nice dinner to end the day.

bloody mary

(bond girl optional) (it has fruits and vegetables: it’s healthy) 2 parts dry vermouth 12 parts gin 1 part lemon juice an olive, for garnish 6 parts tomato juice 3 parts vodka

long island

(you do you) 1 part gin 1 part rum 1 part tequila 1 part triple sec 1 1/2 parts sour mix splash of cola

never again (shh, shhh—it’s okay.) sports drink ibuprofen

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Where to: satisfy your sweet tooth MICKI WAGNER reporter

From cookies and cakes to ice cream and pastries, Columbia is full of dessert offerings sure to be the perfect nightcap to game day, snack in between classes or reward for getting through a stressful test.

Eating sweet treats has actually been found to decrease stress, which clearly means we should all be eating more dessert. MOVE

found some tasty prospects (you’re welcome).

U Knead Sweets Bakery is inviting from the start with its rows of macarons, mini cheesecakes, cannolis, cupcakes and other pastries visible from the windows of the bakery. Inside, there are other delicacies like the peanut butter dome, a peanut butter mousse on top of a thin layer of chocolate cake and coated in a decadent chocolate shell. Even more surprising? It’s not cloyingly sweet, but rather sweet with a little bit of saltiness from the peanut butter.

U Knead Sweets has mastered the sweet/salty combo, also evident

in its salted caramel macaron. The bakery seems to be one of the only places in Columbia that serves the classic French macaron.

It has quite the variety including red velvet, mint chocolate chip, strawberry, chocolate, tira Mizzou (a Tiger-themed take on tiramisu) and vanilla Hello Kitty-shaped macarons. Its desserts were a little on the expensive side with macarons at about $1.75 per cookie and the miniature desserts about $5 each. However, they were well worth a little splurging.

Students flock to Hot Box Cookies to get their cookie fix.

It is are perfect for late night cravings, as it’s are open until 2:00 a.m.

On top of that, Hot Box offers specialty cookies such as red velvet and cookies ‘n crème as well as cookie favorites like chocolate chip, M&M, oatmeal raisin and snickerdoodle. Hot Box’s cookies are rich, warm, creamy and gooey — an ideal snack or late night treat.

While the cookies themselves are rich, their prices are cheap at $1 for classic cookie flavors and $1.25 for specialty cookie flavors.

For a spot with a lot of variety and fun holiday-themed desserts, look no further than The Upper Crust. It have a wide

array of options ranging from miniature cakes and biscotti to last month’s Halloween-themed treats like eyeball cake pops and mummy pumpkin-chocolate chip squares.

The miniature cakes come in every flavor under the sun, from apple spice to all-American chocolate. Holiday-themed treats, like eyeball cake pops made from moist red velvet cake, offer a fun take on a delicious classic. It’s also very affordable, as most of the desserts cost between $1 and $3.

Treat yo’ self, MOVErs.

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November 12, 2014

How The Maneater got its name Editors’ note: Joel Gold, who named The Maneater and served as its first editor-inchief after taking over the former Missouri Student paper, wrote this column for the publication’s 30th anniversary. It originally appeared in the Feb. 19, 1985, edition of The Maneater. Gold died Oct. 14 in Lawrence, Kansas. He was 82.

JOEL J. GOLD Founder of The Maneater I knew it would happen. It always does. Thirty years of walking the straight and narrow. Thirty years of respectability and reputation. Gone. My cover blown in one phone call.

There I was sitting in my office in the English Department at the University of Kansas, a typical, almost archetypal English professor — frayed tweed jacket, beard flecked with distinguished grey streaks, an unfinished article on 18th-century shorthand books in the typewriter.

The young man on the line wants to know if this is "Joe Gold." I want to say "No" and hang up quickly. For 30 years I had passed as "Joel J." But I guess you never escape your past. He says he is from The Maneater, something about a 30th anniversary — February 1955 to February 1985. For a while I keep him off balance by insisting that The Maneater began in 1954, not 1955. He is beginning to worry about the elaborate arrangements already set in motion for what I almost have him convinced is the 31st anniversary. But he won't hang up. These WATS lines, I think, are a real curse. In the old days we could hardly afford to call Jeff City. Here he is, Columbia to Lawrence, Kansas, in the middle of the afternoon — peak rates.

He is describing the forthcoming celebration — a dinner, maybe a dance, a week's vacation for two on South Padre Island. He is too quick, I think, to let me know that they have no plans for the original editor and his wife to be the lucky couple. No, he wants to know the circulation of The Maneater back in 1955. I do not even know what my own circulation is — something like 160 over 65, maybe.

Then he asks about the staff in the "old" days. Were we in Read Hall then? Yes. Did we have graffiti on the walls? No. We were too poor to afford graffiti.

Now, he tells me about plans for some kind of outside advisory board — past editors, perhaps. I am puzzled, but he explains that such "contacts" would be helpful to students who are now on The Maneater staff. I reflect on the mixed bag

MILITARY APPRECIATION

Veterans Week honors MU’s bravest GRACE ROGERS Staff Writer Taps rang out across campus Tuesday as student trumpeters capped off a full

NEWS

Dan Jenski came back to MU to shoot a film, and graduated along the way.

slate of Veterans Week events on campus.

Beginning Saturday, MU’s ROTC chapters stood guard with a 24-hour Veterans Day Vigil, where cadets and midshipmen marched outside Boone

County Courthouse.

The event was headed by senior and Cadet Capt. Laura Walker. She said the

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GREEK LIFE

IFC develops sexual assault prevention course RACHEL PIERRET

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Staff Writer Beginning next fall, the Interfraternity Council will begin educating members to become peer educators in sexual assault prevention, masculinity, gender roles and other issues challenging young men in modern society.

IFC President Alex Dyer said the program is in response to “a growing trend, not just in our community here at the University of Missouri, but across the country in general. We decided it was important for the Interfraternity Council to be proactive and take a strong stance against sexual assault.”

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Representatives from the Missouri Student Veterans Association and MU Navy ROTC place a wreath under the arch at Memorial Union on Tuesday. Placing a wreath at Memorial Union is a tradition to commemorate students and alumni who have died in service.

MOVE One-man band Keller Williams will rock The Blue Note on Saturday.

SPORTS

Men’s basketball coach Kim Anderson pieces together his new strategy.

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AARON REISS | ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Kye Allums, the first Division 1 openly transgender athlete in the NCAA, speaks Tuesday in Leadership Auditorium. Allum talked about his transition from female to male.

student housing

Manor House’s future remains uncertain

The decision over the building’s use reflects larger student housing problems.

JESSICA KARINS Staff Writer As MU considers plans to renovate Manor House, university officials are still debating whether the building should be remodeled into a new residence hall or remain as an apartment format.

Currently, the complex provides housing for graduate students and students who are older than 21 or have families.

“Demand for student housing is always in excess of capacity,” Director of Residential Life Frankie Minor said about the dilemma.

Lack of housing has been an especially relevant problem for graduate students since the University Village apartments closed after a walkway collapsed, killing a firefighter.

University Village and other university-run apartment complexes — University Heights, Tara Apartments and Manor House — cater to three groups of students: graduate students, undergraduate students older than 21 and students who live with spouses or children.

Eric Hucker, vice president of the Graduate and Professional Council, said there are more students who seek housing with options like daycare and transportation to and from campus than the university can currently provide.

Minor said with undergraduate enrollment quickly rising, MU can’t prioritize graduate and family housing when there may not be enough

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LGBT issues

NCAA transgender athlete visits Mizzou DANIEL WITT Staff Writer It was 2009 and his sophomore year at George Washington University when Kye Allums knew he had to either stop playing basketball or tell his female teammates he was transgender.

“I couldn’t continue playing on a team where my teammates and my coaches didn’t know how I identified (myself),” said Allums, who played three years as a guard on George Washington’s women’s basketball team. “I couldn’t continue playing

hearing them call me ‘she’ or ‘her.’”

Allums said hearing teammates call him female pronouns “didn’t sit well.”

“It’s like Justin Bieber,” Allums said. “I don’t want to hear it.”

Allums, born female and raised in Minnesota, became the first openly transgender athlete in NCAA Division I collegiate sports on Nov. 1, 2010. One year later, concussions ended Allums’ collegiate basketball career.

He has spent the past two and a half years traveling the country sharing his experiences

as a transgender athlete, and the transition from a black woman to, now, a black man. He spoke to the MU community Tuesday night as part of Trans Awareness Week.

“I’m just trying to create visibility,” Allums said. “I know what it feels like to feel like you’re the only person who feels the way that you do. There was a time where I thought I was the only gay person in the world. That’s not true at all.”

MU LGBTQ Resource Center Coordinator Struby Struble said she

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public Safety

Police, fire scramble after voters reject increase RUTH SERVEN Staff Writer Despite recent complaints about public safety in Columbia, voters rejected a property tax increase that would have funded additional jobs in the understaffed Columbia fire and police departments.

The City Council introduced Proposition One, championed by Mayor Bob McDavid, in July. The measure would have increased the property tax by 30 cents per $100 of assessed value, phased in over five years. It would have been the first property tax increase in Columbia

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firefighter fatigue Due to the recent failure of Proposition One, certain public safety departments such as the police or fire departments will have to come up with different ways to fund hiring additional officers.

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MU graduate Dan Jenski supervises filming on campus during a reshoot Sunday at Stankowski Field. Jenski is the creator and director of the indie feature film, “ADDicted.”

Jenski finishes MU degree, first feature film He left MU in 2005 to pursue a career in the film industry.

STEVIE MYERS Staff Writer Only three credit hours short of graduating, Dan Jenski decided to drop out of MU. Instead of finishing his degree, he did the last thing that was expected of him: He moved to Hollywood to pursue an acting career.

Despite his plans to go into law, Jenski’s interest in theatre had been slowly building over the years.

“I took this class called ‘Acting for Non-Majors,’ and I thought that was pretty cool,” Jenski said. “As soon as I started taking that class, that seed was planted where I said, ‘Every semester I want to take some kind of theater class.’”

Jenski’s interest in theatre grew so much that the only option was to pursue that as a career. He moved to Los Angeles in 2005, keeping his goal of acting a secret from a lot of his friends and family members.

“It’s just not one of those careers that your parents want to hear you be like, ‘Okay, I’m gonna go pursue acting in L.A., mom!’” Jenski said.

“So I told her I was going out there to set up residency for law school, and she actually had thought I’d graduated from MU, too. She didn’t

know I didn’t graduate until last April.”

After taking several acting classes in Los Angeles, Jenski turned his attention to writing and then to producing.

“I hit a wall or I hit a ceiling, I should say, with the acting thing because I kept getting everything I was auditioning for, but it was kind of a catch-22,” Jenski said. “You can’t get the TV shows and the movie parts unless you have an agent or a manager, but you can’t get an agent or a manager unless you show that you’ve been doing the movies and TV shows.”

Tired of being turned down by agents and not getting larger roles, Jenski decided to start writing his own content. Last fall, Jenski moved back to Columbia to direct his first feature film, “ADDicted”.

“ADDicted,” which was shot on campus (including a brief scene in The Maneater office) and at several well-known places around Columbia, tells the story of a college football player who struggles to balance academics, relationships and sports, while dealing with a growing dependency to Adderall, something he’s been using for half his life.

“It’s a look at society’s obsession and dependency issues of ADD/ ADHD meds, mainly Adderall,” Jenski said. “It also shows how much pressure we put on ourselves to be perfect and to just overload

ourselves with more than we “I never was put on anything, but can really humanly do without I had friends that (were), and I know losing sleep and stressing out and that whole feeling of just being bored and hyperactive as a kid and ultimately breaking down.”

“ADDicted,” originally debuted just always ending up in detention,” as a short film, but Jenski raised Jenski said. “But I also am from the money on Kickstarter to turn the college generation when Adderall exploded on story into a fullto the scene.” length feature.

Lauren Morgan I HIT A WALL — OR Sweetser, Roberts, who I HIT A CEILING, whose past also acted in the work includes short version of I SHOULD SAY, WITH films like the film, said THE ACTING THING “ W i n t e r ’s he received BECAUSE I KEPT Bone,” plays script updates, lo c at ion GETTING EVERYTHING the main c h a r a c t e r ’s c h a n g e s I WAS AUDITIONING love interest and added in the movie.

FOR, BUT IT WAS KIND characters She said nearly every OF A CATCH-22.” she enjoyed day leading up how Jenski to shooting. allowed them “This film DAN JENSKI to add in their is Dan’s baby,” MU Graduate own ideas Roberts said. about their “He might as well be taking selfies with the script and posting to characters.

“A lot of times with directors Facebook. It’s nice working with someone who knows their material they’ll be very vocal about exactly this well because it’s easy for them to what they want,” Sweetser said. “But communicate what they’re looking (Dan) would allow us to try different things, and if we ever had an idea for for to the actors.”

Jenski said the idea behind the something, he’d let us do it.”

Aaron Bickes is the co-producer film came from his own experiences. for “ADDicted.” He met Jenski After his parents divorced when he about five years ago when they was in third grade, he started acting were waiting tables together at a out in school. He started seeing psychiatrists, who he said wanted to restaurant in Los Angeles.

“Being two young, ambitious put him on Ritalin.

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filmmakers, we saw it as an advantage to work together and put all of our ideas on the table,” Bickes said. “And when trying to find good, reliable people within Los Angeles, it almost was a match made to be.”

Bickes said he quickly accepted Jenski’s decision to film on MU’s campus.

“The film does take place in the Midwest and during the fall, so it seemed very logical,” Bickes said.

“Having always been a dream of his, I easily could see the attraction to Mizzou. Not (only was) the architecture and landscaping a key element, but there was just an energy permeating from campus and I was easily sold.”

When Jenski came back to Columbia to film “ADDicted,” he decided to finish the last three credit hours he had remaining. Nine years after he left MU, Jenski received his bachelor’s degree in political science last fall.

“For me, to be able to come back and finish just this one last class that I needed as well as set up to shoot and film, and we did it,” Jenski said.

“It was quite spectacular, actually, with the way everything worked out.”

Jenski said he plans to premiere “ADDicted” at the Missouri Theatre in early 2015.

“It’s been a journey, but it’s kind of cool to go full circle and come back to Columbia to film,” Jenski said.

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LBC Homecoming king and queen mentor next generation of Tigers WENDY HAYWORTH Staff Writer Legion of Black Collegians Homecoming queen Maiya Stevenson can be found on KOMU every Thursday discussing the weather.

Stevenson, a senior, studies atmospheric science.

"I want to be a weatherwoman on TV," Stevenson said. "I’ve had internships in Atlanta, Fox 5 and WSBTV. Hopefully this next summer, I’ll be at the Weather Channel in Atlanta. It’s looking pretty good."

Stevenson came to MU to become a journalist. During her initial college search, Stevenson found three random schools. One day, she was talking with her dad, who told her to look at the top-10 journalism schools. At the top of the list was MU. "It was kind of like a no-brainer,” Stevenson said. “It would cost me more to go to school in-state in Georgia than come out here to go to school. I eventually changed my major, but it’s still really great for what I’m trying to do. It’s top-10 for meteorology here."

Stevenson said she also “mentors atmospheric science majors who primarily want to be met meorologists on TV.” Her first mentee told her that she wanted to report the weather like Stevenson did. "(The mentee) just came out with me one day, and now she's on TV doing the same internship that I'm doing," Stevenson said. "She's going to have an internship this summer at a TV station in Kansas City."

Stevenson also works for Think Outside the Box, a student organization on campus aimed at helping students think creatively when it comes to their future careers.

Currently, the group visits Belton Elementary School every Monday.

"Every week we have a new presentation with an organization on campus that's kind of out of the norm," Stevenson said. "We want to get kids out of that (saying), 'Hey, I want to just be a football player.'

Let's have some kids saying, 'Hey, I want to be a meteorologist,' or, 'I want to study plants.'"

Additionally, Stevenson is the president of a organization that called the Ivy League Innovators.

"Basically, we're just going to do workshops to help people with networking,” Stevenson said.

“We're going to go out to middle schools and high schools to help them out with college searching.”

Stevenson is also involved in her free time.

"I always say I want to be a meteorologist, but one of my real passions is exploring nature," Stevenson said. "I guess my dream job would be to work for The Weather Channel and be a meteorologist, and have my own Legion of Black Collegians Homecoming king and queen show where I explore different Tuesday on the Francis Quadrangle. nature areas and tell people about different environmental issues."

Starting small, Stevenson works a blog titled "Nature November," on which she photgraphs her weekly adventures to local nature spots.

"It’s going to be a visual kind of pictorial of my journey of my day in nature, just so I can get more people exposed to that,” Stevenson said. “I feel like a lot of people of color don’t get out in nature enough.”

Never one to think too small, Stevenson is also creating a documentary.

"I’ve been working on it for about a year, and essentially it is going to advocate for more diversity in nature and for awareness on different types of environmental issues," Stevenson said.

Stevenson hopes to receive the National Geographic Young Explorers Grant, which would give her $5,000 to use toward her documentary.

“I’ve been through National Geographic’s process for Young Explorers grants twice, and this last time I made it to the last 10 applications,” Stevenson said. “I’m in the process of getting my proposal done so I can apply again, and I think the third time is going to be the charm.”

Stevenson said that returning home this summer sparked her into action this school year.

“One thing is my sister and, actually, like the whole homecoming thing, I really did that for her,” Stevenson said. “She really wanted me to win. She recently got diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, ... so it’s just kind of motivated me to really get things done and stop playing around with school.”

Stevenson admits to being a competitive person, stating that when she was told she made the Homecoming court, she was ready to go all out to win.

“It’s better exposure and for what I’m trying to do,” Stevenson said. “I couldn’t believe, like, ‘Wow, I actually won something.’ I love everyone who voted for me. I didn’t make it happen. The other people made it happen for me.”

Julian Love did not expect to be named the title of Legion of Black Collegians Homecoming king at this year's ball.

"I'm just at the ball, just hanging out and having fun,” said Love, a senior studying nutritional sciences. "I'm just, like, you know, whatever happens, happens. I am literally turned to the side, and she says my name. I was excited. I didn't expect it."

Love found MU almost by accident. Many of his friends were talking about MU recruiting in Chicago, so Love looked into it and could not turn down the numerous scholarship opportunities.

"I liked the big campus feel, and it's very social here, so that's what attracted me to it," Love said.

After college, Love aims to enter dental school.

"I'm doing a lot of nutrition classes, a lot of science, and science and more science," Love said. "So basically everything that I need for nutrition and also for the dental exam that I will have to take to get into dentistry school."

Love said that he has a different approach to teeth than most.

"I think that teeth are a big deal; teeth make a big difference," Love said. "You know when you think about what you look at first when you see people? I look at a nice smile."

As a child visiting the dentist or orthodontist, Love never feared going. In fact, he loved it.

"I loved going to the dentist or the orthodontist,” Love said. “I always have, and I’m very close with my dentist, and we’ve talked about it (becoming a dentist) a lot.

I love that you don’t have to have a specific major to be a dentist, as long as you have the required classes. That’s why I also chose nutrition."

Love recently began to realize the importance of networking on a college campus. Determined to bridge outward, he became heavily involved on campus and set a few goals, including running for Homecoming king.

"I went to the Homecoming Ball last year, and I didn't participate because I hadn't been that social," Love said.

"I told myself last year, 'I'm running for Homecoming king next year, and I want to win, and I want to be involved. And that's what I did."

Love has been busy since he stepped foot on campus in August. As a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, he ZACH BAKER | SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER felt obligated to network, as Julian Love and Maiya Stevenson pose for a portrait socialization is integral in his fraternity.

"We do service events, we have Kappa Week every year, we have parties — you know stuff like that, just to represent ourselves on campus," Love said. "We're also part of the National PanHellenic Council, we work with our (Gaines/Oldham) Black Culture Center and do different events with them. We co-program with anybody willing to co-program on campus."

Additionally, Love is a member of the United Ambassadors Minority Student Recruitment program, which travels to cities such as St. Louis, Kansas City and Chicago to minority students.

"We do black and gold days on Fridays, so people come to visit, we talk to their parents, we do panels," Love said. "Basically, it's being a base that works along with admissions for the university by giving students a more direct approach, where they can speak to us instead of adults."

United Ambassadors also offers a program called Clue N2 where students from Kansas City and St. Louis can come to the university and shadow the members.

"I'm learning now to be more involved on campus with things, not only with my fraternity, but also with other people," Love said. "I'm around more, like in the (MU) Student Center talking to people, especially freshmen since I'm a United Ambassador. We work together to get them here, but I want to speak to them and keep them here, be a familiar face, be a friend."

Love attributes his motivation to his parents. They had put his older sister of six years through college already.

"It was like, I’m the last one, so I really just want to do this for them,” Love said.

“You know, it’s more so about the sacrifice and all the money that they spend for me to do this."

Love said his ultimate goal, however, is not simply about becoming a dentist.

"I want to be successful for my parents because I want to be able to give back that money," Love said. "I just want to take all of that off their shoulders."

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Continued from page 1 of nonconformists, malcontents and the one or two competent journalists who actually knew how to put out a newspaper. What would we have known about "contacts"?

We were too busy fending off angry deans or retracting stories we had published the week before.

The caller wants to know about the name Maneater. I describe the old dull Missouri Student, replaced that February morning so many years ago by the new, fiercesounding name and the purpleprose "statement of purpose" characterizing our new, rake-hell policy. (I do hope my writing students here at KU never get to see that paragraph.) It does occur to me, however, that five years ago, the last time my checkered past had

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vigil was similar to the guard posted outside the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

“We’re just honoring our fallen veterans by guarding this memorial for 24 hours,” Walker said.

Sunday, the vigil came to an end with the Mizzou Joint ROTC 29th Annual Veterans Day Parade and Closing Ceremony. The parade featured a variety of local groups, starting on MU’s campus and

THE MANEATER | NEWS | NOVEMBER 12, 2014 caught up with me, the reporter for the 25th-anniversary Maneater had gotten the story wrong. (I rather liked the half dozen mistakes in that issue — they reminded me of the first Maneaters.) The reporter had opened his story with a snappy lead, based somewhat loosely on what I had told him: A tiger becomes a Maneater when it is too weak to hunt for tougher prey.

That was the reasoning The Maneater's first editor, Joe Gold, used when he renamed UMC's campus newspaper.

Reasoning? Certainly not. I didn't plan it that way. But what did a lad from the suburbs of New York City know about tigers? I thought Maneater sounded dangerous — bold, fearsome, watch-your-step-inmy-jungle tough. Oh, I was really proud of that name.

About a week into the spring semester, though, I learned the truth. Painfully. Too much extra-

curricular work, too little sleep, and too many drafts in Read Hall had sent me over to the University Health Clinic with a mild case of pneumonia. It was a place I usually tried to avoid — for all the reasons students do well to steer clear of university health services and for a special one of my own. The previous year I had been editor of Showme, the notorious, and later banned, campus humor magazine.

In one memorable issue (a number of them had been memorable enough to have me on the brink of expulsion) we had immortalized Dr. George X. Trimble, director of the University Clinic, as "Tiny Trimble" in our parody of Dickens' "Christmas Carol." As I recall it 31 years later, we had Tiny Trimble being eaten up by a terminal case of athlete's foot. The last panel in our cartoon strip showed Tiny Trimble only a severed head on the mantelpiece, saying, "God bless us,

every one." Well, you can see why I had my personal reasons to stay out of the clinic if I possibly could.

But walking pneumonia overcame even a nervous editor's reluctance. I checked into the clinic, and the next thing I knew Dr. Trimble stood poised with a long, sharp-needled syringe of penicillin above my bared bottom.

That was the moment he chose to ask me about the newly renamed newspaper. "Why Maneater?" I explained all about fierce and bold, watch-your-step-in-my-jungle, and all that neat stuff. This, mind you, over my shoulder to a man with a legitimate grudge and a sharp needle ready to plunge in.

"Do you know," he asked, expressing the last drop of air from the syringe, "when a tiger becomes a maneater?" I did not, and, frankly, with the cool breeze wafting across my buttocks, I didn't care all that much. But Tiny

Trimble was in his element.

"It becomes a maneater," he said, about to take the plunge, "when it is too old and too feeble to catch its regular prey. There!" And then he stuck the other needle in.

Well, you can be sure I did not pass that bit of jungle lore on to my new and eager staffers. No, they were content to go on, week after week, ferociously pursuing those stories. The years went on, staffs changed, respectability came.

Awards for excellence, outside advisory boards, WATS lines.

And who, thirty years on, will have the nerve to change the fabled name slapped on by some dumb New Yorker who couldn't tell one cat from another?

I know I'll never escape my past. The one favor I ask: If this confession gets into print, please don't send any copies to Lawrence, Kansas. I'm too old to still be issuing retractions.

proceeding down Ninth Street to end with a ceremony outside the Boone County Courthouse.

During the closing ceremony, former JAG officer Lt. Gen. Richard Harding addressed the crowd.

“There’s a spark inside each young man and each young woman who volunteers to serve the cause of freedom that tells them to make a difference in their lives, to find purpose in their brief time on this planet, and they are, indeed, wise beyond their years,” Harding said.

The Veterans Week Blood Drive was held Monday. Freshman Allison Rapp was one of the students who

donated during the blood drive.

“I actually am weirdly passionate about donating blood,” Rapp said.

“I feel like it’s one of the greatest things people can do.”

On Tuesday, Veterans Day and the 95th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I, students came together to celebrate a cherished MU tradition, the Wreath Laying Ceremony, with the addition of the Blue Star Memorial dedication. A crowd gathered around Memorial Union despite the cold weather.

Ted Zeiter, veteran and American Red Cross volunteer, said

that Veterans Day is not about him.

“It’s remembering those who came before me that kind of paved the way,” Zeiter said. “Those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for this country.”

Graduate student Lauren Trimble said she likes getting involved in the Mizzou Student Veteran’s Association events because her husband is serving abroad in Japan.

“On the surface, (Veterans Day) means giving thanks to anyone who has served both past and present,” Trimble said. “For me, personally, it also means giving thanks to

everyone who has also supported veterans in their journey.”

Tuesday’s ceremony featured an emotional speech from Rich Grant, who started the Mizzou Military Veterans Alumni Association.

Grant read a 1919 letter from a friend of his great-uncle, who was killed on Armistice Day, 95 years ago.

“Most would tell you, ‘I was just doing my job’ and might seem a little embarrassed by the attention,” Grant said. “But every one of them deserves to hear, ‘Thank you for your service.’ Not just on Veterans Day, but every day.”

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Continued from page 1 fraternity chapters in September, said Creighton Hayes, outgoing IFC vice president of risk management. Nineteen interested members applied; they represent 10 of the IFC member fraternity chapters.

“Ultimately, we would like to see at least one member from every member chapter of the Interfraternity Council become an IFC Peer Educator,” Dyer said.

Hesitation from other chapters could be because of the newness of the program, Hayes said. However, he said he is still pleased with it. “(IFC is) very adamant and very positive the program is going to work, so we are pretty excited to have those 19 guys help us with it,” he said.

The 19 men will be eligible to participate in the program after grade and conduct checks, which Hayes said should be passed easily, but that everyone who applied ultimately had the intentions they were looking for.

Danica Wolf, coordinator of the Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention Center, is working with Dyer and Hayes to develop the course curriculum. Members will take a course similar to the one offered at the RSVP Center.

RSVP Center graduate assistant Timothy Maness said the center offers a three-hour course that anyone can take either for or for not credit.

The course focuses on presentation skills, Maness said, to educate students on how to speak with sensitivity on the topics of domestic violence and sexual assault.

RSVP peer educators are then able to go out and give “multiple presentations that have already been written, and they’ll tailor those presentations to whatever demographics they are trying to serve,” Maness said.

IFC peer educators will learn the skills necessary to present and have open dialogue with chapters, pledge classes, executive boards

or whatever subsectors of the IFC community want those presentations, Hayes said.

Wolf will meet with the participants in two meetings this semester, Hayes said. She will have final say in who can participate and will be directly involved with what they participants want to cover in the program.

“The overall goal of this program is put an end to the threat of sexual violence and assault in our community,” Dyer said.

The program will emphasize the importance of bystander intervention, illustrate the role of alcohol, drugs and consent and educate the men on masculinity and gender roles.

“We hope to educate these young men on what sexual assault is and what it looks like from as many perspectives as possible,” Dyer said.

The program will help participants see these issues as a men’s issue over a woman’s issue, and make men more accountable for their actions and promote self-awareness, Hayes said.

This new program is IFC’s most expensive, Hayes said, with a budget of $22,000. Numbers for the program were not as high as expected, however, so all of the budgeted allocations will likely not be used.

The course is a credit-hour course, just like any other course at the university. Therefore, IFC will use the budgeted money to pay for the class in order to “alleviate that financial burden, if that would have been a barrier to someone participating.” Hayes said.

IFC plans for this program to continue, and peer-educators will be able to train others to take the same job, Hayes said.

The program will be passed into the hands of the new IFC president, Jason Blincow and vice president of risk management, Trace Murray.

“Although we are not the only community afflicted by this issue, we, as the representatives of the Interfraternity Council believe that it is our duty to work towards making our community as safe for everyone as possible,” Dyer said.

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MU searching for Title IX administrator Tim Evans said an advisory committee will likely provide feedback and oversight for the new administrator.

HAILEY STOLZE Staff Writer President Richard Nixon signed Title IX into federal law on June 23, 1972, with hopes of finally eliminating “discrimination based on sex in federally funded education programs or activities,” according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

More than 40 years later, officials are still working to carry out this policy.

Recently, MU announced the creation of the Title IX administrator position.

MU spokesman Christian Basi said the new administrator would replace Interim Title IX Coordinator Linda Bennett. The administrator will ensure that all aspects of the policy are observed by the university and that complaints of sexual misconduct will be investigated.

Bennett has held her current post

since June and is the university’s first President Deborah Noble-Triplett; full-time Title IX coordinator. Basi said Deborah Pasch, chief nurse executive Bennett is not applying for the new for MU Health Care; Student Conduct position. coordinator Donell Young; and Karen A search committee consisting of Touzeau, associate vice chancellor of various campus administrators, faculty human resource services. and staff will work with Daniel Sinton, a Out of all the committee members, managing partner for only Evans was the National Center available for comment.

THIS IS A POSITION for Higher Education He said the THAT’S GOING Risk Management, to committee primarily find a candidate who seeks candidates who TO BE UNDER they believe would have already dealt A GREAT DEAL OF best fit the position. with personnel issues, The committee whether they have SCRUTINY, AND A has eight members: already been a Title LOT (IS) GOING INTO Vice C hancellor IX administrator for DEVELOPING OUR for O p erations another university, Gary Ward as the have been involved in TITLE IX PROGRAM.” committee chairman; human resources or Mar y Austin, counseling or served executive associate as an attorney either TIM EVANS athletics director of as a prosecutor or a associate professor and compliance; DeAngela public defender.

Faculty Council member Burns-Wallace, “Obviously, we’re assistant vice provost looking for the for undergraduate studies; associate absolute best person with experience professor and Faculty Councilman and abilities to be able to effectively Tim Evans; UM System Assistant Vice administer our Title IX program here at

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One World Trade Center opens for business in New York City The One World Trade Center, nicknamed the “Freedom Tower,” opened for employees Nov. 3.

observation deck on the 101st and 102nd floors

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Towers stood. This new attraction is projected

Reporter Nov. 3 marked a day of restoration for New York City and for the nation, particularly those who survived or were affected by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

One World Trade Center, nicknamed the Freedom Tower, opened for business on the first Monday morning of November. Almost 200 tenants employed by companies such as Cónde Nast moved in to start the work week.

Although the tower is newly occupied, the past calls itself to many survivors of the fall of the Twin Towers who have reflected about what this means to them and the city of New York.

Leeky Behrman, an author and speaker, was in 2001 a tenant on the 61st floor. Behrman said she was especially inspired during the workday by the view of the city that surrounded her.

“I loved working up in the clouds,” Behrman said. “I’m excited for the new tenants. I would love to work there again.”

Behrman, who now resides in St. Louis, doesn’t let the traumatic events ruin her love for the city and the World Trade Center site. She said she has a positive attitude about its transformation.

“It’s great to see the progress that’s been made,” Behrman said. “Not just the building, but the museum and the new tower.”

Gary Smiley, a retired member of the New York City Fire Department, said he is ambivalent about the tower.

“I don’t know how comfortable I would be (working there),” Smiley said.

Mizzou,” Evans said.

Evans said there will be an opportunity for various university groups to meet the finalists. Through this process, he said, the committee hopes to receive further input on the candidates.

Evans said the new administrator will likely have an advisory committee that will provide feedback and make sure the administrator fulfills all of his or her duties.

“This is a position that’s going to be under a great deal of scrutiny, and a lot (is) going into developing our Title IX program,” he said. “It’s going to be pretty visible how they’re doing.”

Basi said members of the search committee are taking on their roles at no additional cost to the university.

However, there will be other expenses associated with the search.

The search itself has a flexible budget that could change. Basi also said the salary of the Title IX administrator will be negotiated and is unknown at this time.

The committee hopes to begin interviewing potential candidates in December.

However, Smiley does plan on visiting the of the tower once it becomes available. It is located at the same height at which the Twin to show tourists and New Yorkers the pastembracing beauty of the building.

The One World Trade Center will stand at 104 stories, which towers over 1,700 feet. It will be deemed the tallest building in New York and the entire Western Hemisphere, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Robert Ryan, a survivor native to New Jersey, said he admires the thought and detail put into the construction. The staircases were designed to be in the same spot as they were in 2001, which Ryan said was an “eerie tribute” to survivors.

Ryan said the rebuilding of the One World Trade Center has allowed him to reflect upon how his own life has progressed in the 13 years since the attack.

The final product stands as a firm sense of accomplishment for survivors nationwide.

Each survivor’s thoughts about the new World Trade Center site differ from one another, but nonetheless, the tower brings them together.

Memorials and museums surround the site for tourists and survivors to visit and they can’t avoid catching a glimpse of, as Ryan referred to the One World Trade Center, the “bright new beacon of hope.”

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MSA slates discuss budgetary process GEORGE ROBERSON, JACK WADDELL AND WAVERLY COLVILLE of The Maneater staff

The Myles Artis/Mary Cate O’Brien slate said it would like to make the budget process smoother through transparency and continuous open communication with MSA/GPC auxiliaries and organizations that are allocated money through MSA. They will meet individually with each auxiliary to see exactly what their needs are and where money is used, and said they hope to use surveys and go to meetings to stay update on the different groups.

Before they submit the budget to MSA Senate, they said they want to submit proposals back to the organizations to make sure they’re up-to-date. A rough draft would be approved by the organizations first to make sure everyone is informed.

“We want this to be a collaborative effort and make sure everyone has their hand in the budget,” Artis said. “If that’s the case, we’ll make sure everyone’s voices are heard and the process will go smoothly.”

In the case of a budget cut, Artis/O’Brien

The Missouri Students Association presidential and vice presidential candidates opened up on how they would like to tackle the budget next semester. Each slate addressed how it would approach potential budget cuts and how it would like to increase transparency through the entire budgeting process.

said they hope to meet with each group to see where the money should be prioritized.

“We’re never going to say we’re cutting this or that, point-blank,” O’Brien said.

“There will always be conversation, and we’ll do a lot of negotiating to make sure everyone is happy at the end of the day.”

Throughout the year, Artis/O’Brien will continue to meet with the auxiliaries on budgetary issues to make sure it is efficient and feasible. They said they will continually evaluate how each auxiliary is using its money, what is working or not working and how they’re doing with their budget.

Artis/O’Brien will also keep an updated version on the website and make sure students know what they’re paying for. “(We want) everyone on the same page and understanding about how the budget is,” O’Brien said. “We want to be as transparent with the different organizations as possible.”

Head/Smith-Lezama

Sophomores Jordan McFarland and T.J. Hinch said they intend to make the process of creating a budget more transparent for organizations.

“We should go to every organization and ask what they need, then work with that,” McFarland said. “You can cut it down, then go back to that organization, ask, say, ‘Am I going to kill you with these numbers?’

Boom. They’re involved in the budget.”

Hinch, who will be handling the budget if elected, pointed to efficiency as the most important part of a discussion about the budget.

“We feel that MSA is lethargic, so we’re going to cut down on unnecessary spending and increase communication,” Hinch said.

“I’m personally wanting to get everyone at the table.”

Hinch said that under the assumption that MSA’s budget would be cut next year, he and McFarland would ask the Associated Students at the University of Missouri to lobby at the state level to increase funding for the university before making reductions to organizations’ budgets.

“We don’t want to make any enemies,”

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MSA presidential slate Payton Head/ Brenda Smith-Lezama has set out plans to better deal with the budget if elected.

Instead of cutting from different parts of the budget, they said they want to look into other avenues for funding. Head said this topic comes up every year during election season when talking with Student Life. “(Cutting from the auxiliaries’ budget) is not necessarily something we want to look at just exclusively,” Head said. “One thing we want to do is explore the possibility of getting outside funding and encourage the auxiliaries to be self-sustainable.”

Another big part of the slate’s stance on the budget is getting more involved with-the-auxiliaries and having more conversations.

“I think, in the past, (the vice president) has had maybe one or two meetings a semester with auxiliaries and kind of left it at that,” Smith-Lezama said. “I think it’s really important if we’re selected (for presidency) to make sure that we’re

Hinch said. “We’re going to try to keep cuts as minimal as possible. MUTV and KCOU 88.1 FM are vital educational instruments.

They’re not being cut. STRIPES is our primary safety auxiliary, so they’re not getting cut.”

Hinch said his slate would only increase spending for student safety initiatives like STRIPES. “Self-sustaining auxiliaries are very important,” Hinch said. “If they can sustain themselves, we can pay more attention to the ones that can’t. It’s kind of like Legos. You can’t make a castle without each individual block. If we stabilize each individual block, we can build that castle.”

At the MSA presidential debate hosted by the Residence Halls Association and the Board of Elections Commissioners on Oct. 27, Hinch promised to donate his entire $5,000 salary to MSA should he be elected to help compensate for budget cuts.

“That still stands,” Hinch said. “We are free falling right now. I want to help the situation. I want to help stabilize the current situation and stop us from free falling.”

utilizing these auxiliaries, visiting their meetings, and making sure that not only do we have open lines of communication, but that were using them.”

The last thing the slate really emphasized was working with senate on the budget and communicating more with both the MSA Budget committee and the Student Fee Review Committee.

“It’s been a problem in the past, and that’s one of the reasons why MSA passed legislation that specifically says the vice president needs to work with the budget chair of the Budget Committee when drafting the budget,” Head said.

Overall, the slate has a lot it wants to do with the budget, but will not make any drastic changes, Smith-Lezama said.

“I wouldn’t necessarily say anything drastic (needs to change),” she said.

“However, I think that the process that goes into making the budget is probably what I would want to change the most.”

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Amendments generate controversy JENNIFER PROHOV Staff Writer The Missouri Constitution will look different after the Nov. 4 midterm elections.

Amendments 3 and 6 did not pass, while Amendments 2 and 10 did.

Amendment 3, the Missouri Teacher Performance Evaluation Amendment, did not pass. It was highly-controversial, and members of the Columbia Public School System said they were relieved to hear it had not been approved.

The Columbia Public Schools Board of Education had even created a resolution against it.

“In our September work session we voted unanimously on a resolution in opposition to Amendment 3,” Board of Education President Christine King said. “We did not support it and were happy that it did not pass.”

Jan Mees, a member of the Board of Education and the Chair of Columbia Public Schools Student Performance Committee, explained why the board did not support the amendment.

“I think that if the amendment had passed, it would have put an unrealistic

pressure on teachers, perhaps even affecting which schools or types of classes — AP versus basic classes — they would want to teach in, “ Mees said.

“There could have been more pressure on students, too, to always ‘beware’ of the test, creating a lot more anxiety.”

Mees also felt that the amendment would have led to an increase in teachers “teaching to the test.”

“Teachers do have to always have their students ready to take any kind of test, be it a local district assessment or a national achievement test,” Mees said. “There are always benchmarks that teachers want their students to achieve. But, this high-stakes testing might have narrowed a teacher's focus to ensure that those test items were more thoroughly covered at the expense of neglecting other equally important aspects of a particular subject.”

Mees said she also felt that the amendment was not an appropriate way to improve teachers and students, as it was too constraining.

“There is a great need for accountability on both the part of teachers and students,” Mees said. “Making one test be the bellwether for the teacher's performance rating was

unrealistic and narrow-minded.

This particular amendment was not the ideal way to try to raise achievement and/or judge teachers.”

MU students felt the same way. MU sophomore Marleigh Anderson said she was more eager to vote because the amendment was included on the ballot.

“I did not want it to pass,” Anderson said. “My mom is a teacher, and I already think that standardized testing is regulated way too much. I think it’s already too numbers-based, and so I would be really hesitant for it to go more that way.”

Mike Sickels, doctoral candidate in sociology, said he found fault with the details of the amendment as well, which would have limited union representation in the evaluation process.

The other amendments that were included on the ballot were Amendment 2, or the Missouri Evidence in Sexual Crimes Against Minors Amendment; Amendment 6, the Missouri Early Voting Period Amendment; and Amendment 10, The Missouri Gubernatorial Budgetary Recommendations Amendment.

Amendment 2, which passed, was also a controversial

amendment, as the wording on the ballot had been very vague. The ballot stated, “Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended so that it will be permissible to allow relevant evidence of prior criminal acts to be admissible in prosecutions for crimes of a sexual nature involving a victim under 18 years of age?”

Freshman Zach Tallevast said he is worried about the potential to allow evidence of past crimes in which a defendant had been accused but found innocent. The amendment did not require evidence of a past conviction, only a past crime and that distinction was key for dissidents. His concern was that someone could be effectively tried for the same crime twice.

“I personally do not support it because it could set a precedent for the future for other cases that don’t involve sexual crimes,” Tallevast said.

“Even though you were found innocent in a previous case, that case can be brought back up.”

Amendment 10, which passed, limits the power of the governor in regard to recommendations for the budget.

Sickels said he was wary of the potentially lurking motives

of the amendment.

“I voted against it, not because I don’t think that the Governor should have a check in place to make sure that he is spending money appropriately, but that I think that it was written specifically by a Republican congress to be able to limit the power of a Democratic governor,” Sickels said. “I think it had more of a political motive than an actual governance motive.”

Amendment 6 was defeated, which would have created an early voting period of six business days in an effort to encourage higher voter turnout.

Voters such as Anderson said they felt that this type of early voting period would not have accomplished its goals of bringing voters out to the polls.

“Based on what I gathered beforehand, I’m not convinced that it actually would have increased voter participation,” Anderson said. “I think that’s a very good example of one (law) that you don’t need to amend a constitution for. I’m glad it didn’t pass. I don’t think it would have been effective.”

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thought Allums’ honesty made him an effective speaker.

“Often, the most powerful stories come from honesty,” she said.

Allums said his visit has been in the works since last spring. It was his first visit to Columbia, where last February, All-American football player Michael Sam came out as gay to the public.

“When Michael Sam came out, I was nothing but proud of him,” Allums said. “It’s not easy to come out publicly, especially on the platform that he is on;

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going from being here to in the NFL is amazing. Any time I see athletes come out, it’s a great thing.”

Just five days after Sam’s announcement, Westboro Baptist Church came to Columbia picket and denounce Sam, but was met by thousands of students as “Stand With Sam” supporters lined up in a human wall along South Providence Road.

“To have your whole school, your fans, still rocking with you after you come out as being a gay football player — that just shows where your school climate is,” Allums said.

“I heard nothing but positive things (about MU’s reaction to

Sam),” Allums added. “From outside looking in, it seemed like he was in a great place.”

Struble said MU has much acceptance of the LGBT community in some areas, but a long way to go in other areas.

“I think there’s still a lot of lack of awareness in our student body,” Struble said. “We don’t understand what it means to be transgender or how someone can live transgender or that it’s not scary for someone to be transgender. I think there is just a lot of misunderstanding about those identities.”

However, Struble said this is something not specific to MU and events like Allums’ speech helps make this campus safer.

“They help to promote a climate of acceptance and understanding,” Struble said.

Allums said that messages from children and other members of the LGBT community that propelled him into speaking publicly about himself.

He said he received an outpouring of support on Facebook after he came out as trans.

“Any time that I get a message from someone saying that I’m inspiring or that I helped them overcome this obstacle, or help them become closer to who they are — that is what fuels me,” he said.

Allums’ next and last stop

will be at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. He plans on taking a break from public speaking after that and said he hopes to attend grad school next fall to get a degree in women’s studies.

When asked for his advice for queer athletes, Allums said to not be shy and explore themselves outside of athletics, something that he did not do.

He said that people don’t “have to have everything figured out this second.”

“My only hope is to show people that it’s possible to be who you are,” Allums said, “and to love yourself while you’re doing it.”

population is growing, the size of its public safety force remains stagnant.

“As the community continues to grow we see an increase of about 10 percent in calls to emergency services,” said Brad Frazier, Columbia’s battalion chief and fire marshal. “But our personnel levels have remained the same, so there’s been a steady increase in the length of time it takes us to respond to calls.”

In 2013, the fire department’s average response time to a call for service was 7.17 minutes, up 14 seconds from 2009. At the same time, Engine Two was operational less than half the time, and fully staffing it

would require six additional firefighters.

Frazier said the department may pursue other funding options to supplement the city’s public safety budget, like applying for grants. The department may also test cheaper methods of training, like distance learning, but Frazier’s primary goal is to reduce the length of response times.

“We’ll continue to explore new and creative ways to reduce our response times using our existing staff and resources,” Frazier said.

Proposition One would also have added almost 40 police officers to the Columbia Police

Department. Now the police department, like the fire department, will have to make do with existing staff.

“CPD will continue to provide the highest level of police services possible, in a professional manner, with the resources available to us,” CPD spokesman Latisha Stroer said. “We are always and will continue looking for safe ways to improve efficiency as we provide these services.”

Though McDavid made statements emphasizing the amount of time the department spends at “status zero,” where all officers are responding to 911 calls, other reports have questioned whether or not

adding officers would increase efficiency.

Though Taylor’s campaign with Yes for Public Safety has finished, she is also a member of Keep Columbia Safe, a local organization that supports local law enforcement and public safety. Even though Proposition One was defeated, Taylor said she will keep encouraging the community to support public safety.

“So maybe we need to look at other options than a property tax,” Taylor said. “But whatever improvements we make, they’ll be done in small increments and at the grassroots level.”

family housing since the closing of University Village.

“We care very deeply about the issue,” he said.

Hucker said the GPC would like to see Manor House remain open to graduate students so that fewer graduate students would have to move off campus.

Minor said one of the main causes for the scarcity in graduate housing is MU’s use of public-private partnerships with housing developers. The companies have more interest in working on undergraduate housing projects because they cost less to build and are more profitable.

“I’ve always suggested that

developing affordable family and graduate student housing is something I would encourage them to consider,” Minor said.

Hucker agreed that the involvement of private contractors is a major cause of the problem.

Minor also said that Residential Life has been conducting ongoing maintenance work on Manor House, a relatively old building that needs to be modernized.

He also said that issues with the elevators and fire alarm system have already been addressed.

The concerns left to address include replacing the plumbing

and windows, which have not been replaced since the building opened, and making the building accessible to students who use wheelchairs.

Residential Life also plans to increase Manor House’s electrical capacity to accommodate the increasing number of electrical devices that students use.

Minor said that though Manor House may ultimately become a residence hall, it will remain open to its current clientele through at least fall 2015 and likely into 2016 so that current residents will have at least a year’s notice if they have to leave.

Hucker said the GPC will “take every opportunity” to make its viewpoint clear as the debate continues and that they have a “good working relationship” with Residential Life.

Although Residential Life can provide advice, the decision over what will happen to Manor House is up to those who Minor called MU’s “senior decisionmakers,” including those in the chancellor’s office.

Vice Chancellor for Operations Gary Ward was unavailable for comment.

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since 1997.

But 60 percent of voters rejected the measure on Nov. 4’s ballot. Karen Taylor, a representative for Yes for Public Safety, which advocated for the tax increase, attributed the votes to Columbians’ weariness of tax increases.

“I think there is voter fatigue with taxes,” Taylor said. “I don’t believe for a minute that the public doesn’t support public safety.”

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space for future freshmen to live on campus.

According to the University Registrar Office’s fall 2014 re p o r t , u n d e r g ra d u ate enrollment has increased 2.6 percent since 2013, while graduate student enrollment has fallen by 0.9 percent in the same period. This trend is generally reflected across the past four years.

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A salute to MU Veterans

Col. John Haseman fosters Brigadier Gen. Mark Spindler reflects on ‘always active’ military police work friendships throughout career MARILYN HAIGH Staff Writer

COURTESY OF STEVIE MYERS

Then-Capt. Haseman being decorated with the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry by Colonel Kim, Province Chief of the Kien Hoa Province, in May 1972.

Haseman was also inducted into the Defense Attaché System Hall of Fame.

STEVIE MYERS Staff Writer When Col. John Haseman left active duty after his first assignment in Vietnam in 1968, he had no intention of rejoining the Army.

“When I came home (from my first deployment), I was very disillusioned,” Haseman said. “I just didn’t understand how it could be so lousy, and I didn’t want to be any part of it. I was going to be a city manager, but I didn’t find it as exciting and as fulfilling as being in the military service.”

Since the war was still raging on, Haseman decided to return to the military and served nearly 30 years in Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and Burma.

After serving in the 9th Infantry Division and as a district-level advisor in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War, Haseman also served as the U.S. Defense and Army Attaché in Burma.

“Although I was not planning to be a career military officer, that evolved, and I made that decision very early on in my career,” Haseman said. “I was enjoying my service. I felt that I was getting a lot out of it, and I thought I was making a good contribution. It was a good lifestyle and I enjoyed all of that.”

When Haseman attended MU from 19591963, all male students were required to take two years of ROTC. In order to enter the service as an officer instead of a draftee, Haseman joined the four-year program. On Nov. 1, Haseman and eight other program graduates were inducted into the MU Army ROTC Hall of Fame.

Haseman has written more than 250 articles, mainly on Indonesia, to be published in journals and magazines or to be contributed as chapters in someone else’s books. He has also authored or co-authored four books.

Don McFetridge met Haseman in 1982 when he was an American student at the Indonesian Army Command and Staff College in London while Haseman was serving as the Assistant Army Attaché.

“It helped that he was an experienced attaché who knew a lot of the enemy’s funks, and that’s a very difficult assignment for people who are not particularly familiar with the demands of the job,” McFetridge said.

McFetridge also said he admired Haseman

for several roles he played while serving in Burma.

“He was there when the democracy movement had its first flourishing and then was so brutally suppressed by (the) Burmese army,” McFetridge said. “At one point, he was putting wounded students in his car and driving them through the army lines to get them to medical care and attention. A pretty gutsy thing to do, but I’d say he definitely probably saved some lives there.”

Although his days of service are over, Haseman still stays in contact with and frequently visits the friends he made overseas.

He said it is the experiences they share together that keep them so close.

“I think that when you are in a situation where there is either danger, as in combat, or you are working in a high-level government within your own embassy in a foreign country, the friends you make in those difficult times are going to be the ones you keep for life,” Haseman said.

Tim Werling, who was assigned to the same advisory team as Haseman in Vietnam, said that Haseman’s ability to get along with the Vietnamese army is what made him such “a valuable asset to the mission and the army itself.”

“He respected his counterparts in the Vietnamese army, so then they returned that respect to him,” Werling said. “I think a lot of the people that he met during that time period and afterwards in other foreign countries had come away with not only a very good opinion of John, but also a very good opinion of Americans in general.”

Haseman said that though it was easy to become frightened in time of combat, his response to events was automatic. He said that many times he felt safer because of the loyalty expressed by the troops surrounding him.

“You knew who was on your left and who was on your right at all times,” Haseman said.

“Sometimes if you had to drop down suddenly and cover, you couldn’t always see them, but you knew that they were there.”

However, Haseman said that although he was experienced enough to handle those type of situations, fear was still a primary emotion during his years of service.

“I think that if you ask anybody who has ever been in combat, whether that be in Vietnam or Iraq or Afghanistan, they’ll tell you that if you’re not scared, you’re crazy,” he said.

Brigadier General Mark Spindler, a 1982 graduate of MU, was inducted to the ROTC Hall of Fame in a ceremony Nov. 1. The program was what began his military career.

“The Army is the greatest team sport in the world,” said Spindler as he accepted his induction to the MU ROTC Hall of Fame.

“There are none better than the team that I have right here with me.”

However, on many of those teams, Spindler has been the one in charge.

After commanding at every level in multiple countries, Spindler returned to his home state last year to serve as Commandant to the 47th Military Police Academy at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. The St. Louis native credits MU as the force behind his success.

“This was the start of my professional career and personal life,” Spindler said.

He met his wife, Ellen, as a sophomore, he studied sociology while she pursued nursing.

“When we were dating, it really wasn’t cool to be an ROTC cadet,” Ellen Spindler said. “It was actually nerdy. So when he was here on Thursdays, when he wore his uniform, I didn’t want to walk with him. After 30 years, of course my view has changed. I’m just so proud

of him.”

Mark Spindler joined the MU ROTC on a three-year scholarship.

After graduating from the ROTC program, Spindler was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Military Police Corps. He only planned to spend three to four years in the military.

“I wish I could tell you it was a deliberate plan for me as a career, but that would be giving me far too much credit,” Spindler said. “(It was) more of an accidental thing, and now I don’t regret anything.”

As a sociology major with an emphasis in criminal justice, Spindler found that the Military Police offered an opportunity to use his educations in an engaging sector of the military.

“You’re always active in the military police world,” Spindler said. “Either you’re overseas in combat policing, or you’re policing the force.”

His position as Commandant of the Military Police Academy at Fort Leonard Wood gives him the opportunity to shape young cadets.

Through his experience, Spindler has learned the most effective style of leadership.

“Regardless of whatever discipline you go in … if you’re going to be a leader in that organization, you have to be a visionary,” Spindler said. “You have to know your organization.”

Part of the responsibility of leading an organization, he says, is being able to predict and react to a changing environment.

“We try to build an army or an organization and ask, ‘What will tomorrow’s challenges be?’”

Spindler said.

Throughout his time at Fort Leonard Wood, Spindler has worked to restructure the mentality of military policing to be preventative instead of reactionary.

“We want to prevent the army from hurting itself,” Spindler said. “I use the analogy that I really don’t want our military police to have to catch the DUI. I want to prevent the DUI.” Spindler said a 15-month tour in Iraq in 2007 was “the most significant event” of his career.

He commanded all of the military police forces in Iraq at the time and led a brigade of 4,800 men and women.

During his deployment, Spindler balanced the different sides of a conflict. He worked with everyone from soldiers in combat to policy-makers in Washington, D.C. Col. Brian Bisacre deployed to Iraq with Spindler and now serves as the Assistant Commandant at Fort Leonard Wood. “(Spindler) relates well with the younger soldiers all the way up to the most senior officers in the army,” Bisacre said. “He has a very unique leadership style that connects with

almost everyone he comes across.”

Although his leadership has stayed constant, his method of understanding and anticipating the problem changed for Spindler as he served abroad. Working with U.S. allies on multiple deployments into the Balkans, Syria, Kosovo and Iraq challenged his worldview.

“The responsibility of deploying … with our allies gives you a different perspective of how to see the world,” Spindler said. “Good or bad maybe isn’t seen that way by other people.

“Certainly you have to learn the military can be much more than about guns and tanks and soldiers. A lot has to do with interpersonal relationships.”

Inductees, ROTC cadets and friends and family squeezed into Crowder Hall for the Hall of Fame ceremony.

When Spindler accepted his award, he addressed and thanked the audience.

“This is all a bit surreal,” Spindler said. “It’s great to be back home.”

Along with honoring the veteran inductees, the ceremony is also meant to inspire the young cadets who are going through the ROTC program today.

“It’s kind of connecting yesterday to today and to the future,” Spindler said.

COURTESY GAYLE PORTERFIELD.

Brigadier General Mark S. Spindler graduated from the MU ROTC program in 1982. Spindler is currently serving as Commandant to the 47th Military Police Academy at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri.

Col. David Smith leads U.S. in Pakistan affairs Capt. Darrell Eichhoff recalls heroic missions

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Colonel David O. Smith poses in the desert in Pakistan with Major General Ehsan Hayat. Smith served in the military for 31 years.

EMMA DILTZ Staff Writer Applause thundered through Memorial Stadium.

During halftime of the Missouri vs.

Kentucky football game Nov. 1, veterans marched on to the field. The group was made up of newly-inducted members of the MU Army ROTC Hall of Fame.

Among them was Col. David O. Smith, a 1969 graduate of MU who served in the military for 31 years.

After Smith retired from the Army, he became a civilian employee of the Department of Defense, serving as the senior director for Pakistan in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and later as the senior Defense Intelligence Analyst for Pakistan in the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Smith’s military career began at MU. As an undergraduate, he studied political science and received his master’s in international relations in 1974.

Through this time, he became close to several faculty members. He still keeps in contact with many today, such as professor emeritus of political science Paul Wallace.

“He came here as a grad student, and I got to know him relatively quickly,” Wallace said.

“He was very active in the Army ROTC here and was a cadet commander and became a military attaché.”

Robin Remington, also a professor emeritus of political science, met Smith through their involvement with the ROTC program.

When Smith graduated college, the Vietnam War was in full swing. He assumed he would end up serving in the war eventually, so he decided to join the military early on.

Smith ultimately took his first assignment in Europe, rather than Asia.

“There was a program in Fort Benning, Georgia, that allowed you to finish the last two years there, so you could choose where you wanted to go,” Smith said. “Since, at that point, we all thought Vietnam would last forever, I decided for my first assignment I would like to spend 12 months in Europe.”

Wallace said he believes it takes a special type of person to achieve what Smith has.

“He’s always been quiet and reflective and never rushed into things,” Wallace said.

“Considering he was in the military and then worked for the government, that’s a good thing.”

Remington saw, and still sees, certain qualities within Smith that not only made him an excellent military officer, but also the person he is today.

“He’s a very persistent and dedicated person with a great deal of integrity,” Remington said.

Smith said that if he had any claim to fame it wouldn’t be from his service in the

army itself, but when he was working with Pakistan after he left the military. He was preparing intelligence in Pakistan during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11.

“I personally believe that I was in the right place at the right time with the right experience and right background to take the right action at that time,” Smith said regarding the terrorist attack in 2001.

Though officially retired from the military, Smith is still involved in foreign affairs. He still works on many Pakistanrelated projects and travels overseas four or five times a year.

“He’s the leading specialist on Pakistan in the U.S. military,” Wallace said. “I’ve seen him develop and mature his knowledge of Pakistan.”

Because of his prestigious service, Smith was one of the veterans inducted into the MU Army ROTC Hall of Fame on Nov. 1 in Crowder Hall.

“I’m deeply humbled to be honored with men such as Rich Kinder and Karl Teepe,” Smith said. “I never expected it, and I don’t necessarily think I deserve it, but I’m very grateful.”

Wallace said he was very pleased when he found out about Smith’s honor.

“He hasn’t had headlines or made national or international news, but he’s made a major contribution to policy in this country and with Pakistan,” Wallace said.

After Smith was initiated into the Hall of Fame, he thanked Wallace and Remington.

He said he felt everything he had achieved in his professional career was because of what he learned at MU from his former professors.

In an email from Wallace and Remington to Smith, they wrote, “Remember, today is the first day of the rest of your life. Being inducted into the Hall of Fame isn’t an end, it’s the beginning.”

Smith was able to teach others importance along the way.

“David had a really successful career in the military and essence and government and policy towards government,” Wallace said. “We’ve had people like David, who are solid and are really good at making friends.

Once you get to know him, the friendship gets deeper, and those are the types of friendships you want. He represents a category of students who go to the university and go through the building blocks and are very active and remarkable.”

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holes, but he managed to return safely.

His most memorable mission, he said, involved losing an engine. The crew had to drop the bombs out of its Capt. Darrell Eichhoff has never turned down a plane because they only had one engine. It flew almost two hours back to its base and asked for an emergency challenge.

As a 1943 MU Army ROTC graduate and veteran of landing. However, another plane pulled onto the runway World War II, he always puts his best foot forward and without being cleared first. said he does not take “no” for an answer. On Nov. 1, “The operator screamed at me to go around; otherwise, Eichhoff was inducted into the MU ROTC Hall of Fame, I would hit the plane,” Eichhoff said. “And I went around. along with nine other veterans.

The amazing part about that was they didn’t think you As a young child, Eichhoff dreamed of being a pilot. could go around on one engine. Some way or another, we “From the time I was about nine years of age, I wanted made it.” to be a pilot,” Eichhoff said. “We had a small airport about After Germany surrendered, getting all the U.S. a half a mile from our farm, and every time a plane would service members home was no easy land down there, I’d run down task. A point system based on each there.” individual’s service was devised to When he graduated high decide when service members were school, he decided to attend sent home. Luckily for Eichhoff, he MU. had earned enough points to return “I knew I wanted to go to to the U.S. relatively quickly and college from the time I was turned down the offer of a promotion about 8, 9 or 10,” Eichhoff to major should he stay abroad longer. said. “There wasn’t a doubt in my mind. It was just a matter Eichhoff came back with around of raising the money for it.” $17,000 which was a lot at the time.

Eichhoff graduated from He won the money in poker games MU at 19 years old. He his unit played, and used it to get originally planned to attend married, go on a six-week honeymoon law school after graduation, and buy a car. In addition, the money but the Pearl Harbor attacks meant he and Corinne did not have to altered his path. buy anything on credit.

After the bombing of Pearl Now retired and living in Harbor, Eichhoff decided to California, Eichhoff ’s life revolves enlist in the Air Force and around Corinne.

They celebrated serve in WWII. Due to an their 69th wedding anniversary Oct. influx of volunteers and very COURTESY OF KIM EICHHOFF BELGARDE 27. few aviation schools in the Darrell Eichhoff graduated from MU in 1943 at age Corinne has had Alzheimer’s Midwest, active duty was 19. He served in World War II as a pilot. disease for the past 10 years and was often delayed for service recently moved into assisted living. members.

However, due to an Because he is so dedicated to excellent performance, Eichhoff was able to leave for caring for his wife, Eichhoff decided not to attend his Hall Michigan State University’s aviation school after only five of Fame induction ceremony. weeks, instead of waiting up to five months.

"I haven't left her for 10 years, so I can't leave her for Living out his childhood dream of being a pilot on the this,” Eichhoff said. “If she didn't have Alzheimer's, I dark backdrop of war, Eichhoff quickly rose to the top of would probably (attend)." his flight class. The instructor who administered his final Although Eichhoff is proud of his accomplishments flight exam told Eichhoff it was the best test flight he had during WWII, they are only one piece of life. seen so far. Eichhoff asked the instructor to recommend “To be honest, he did not talk about it much when I him for B-26 bomber training, which his instructor gladly was a child,” Belgarde said. “It was only when (we) were did. older and expressed some interest that he began to tell During his service, Eichhoff became a Captain in the Air Force and flew nearly 40 missions and received us stories.”

Eichhoff believes the two most important decisions seven Air Medals, the Distinguished Flying Cross and a people make in their lives are their career path and their Presidential Citation for his service.

Eichhoff had several close calls during his service in the significant other. Looking back on his life, Eichhoff said Air Force. During one flight, his plane suffered 104 bullet he wouldn’t change either.

Staff Writer

FORUM LGBTQIA+ Issues

Abolishing old ideals LILY CUSACK

“Homosexuality” has long been synonymous with “sin” in the Catholic Church. It was clear that previous papacies and their administrations did not support the LGBT community in any way. The Catholic Church, however, seems to be turning over a new leaf under the more progressive Pope Francis.

Pope Francis demoted American Cardinal Raymond Burke, who is now a former Archbishop of St. Louis. Pink News reports he now has a more ceremonial job as the patron of the Order of the Knights of Malta. He was known as one of the most extreme anti-gay advocates in the Catholic Church.

Bustle stated that Burke recently called for parents to protect their children from gay relatives. He has also made several verbal attacks on Pope Francis’ papacy.

Although the cardinal was most likely removed from his position solely because he was attacking the Pope, this is still a progressive step for the Church. It is finally taking some action against the very vocally, and sometimes violently, homophobic figureheads they have in administration. Hopefully, this demotion will serve as an example to other members of the Church, the clergy and the laity, concerning their hatred of the LGBT movement. The Church is becoming more concerned with spreading love and compassion than with announcing sinful acts.

Pope Francis has been a positive influence on this more-accepting Church. The Christian Post reported that in his first in-depth interview in September, he called on the Church to show “respect, compassion and sensitivity” to homosexual members of the Church. However, this does not mean that he fully accepts the LGBT community or homosexuality, as he reinforced his support of the views of the Church, which currently denounces same-sex marriage.

Nevertheless, the Pope has opened up discussion on the subject that has long been avoided or steadfastly opposed within the Catholic community.

According to The Advocate, Pope Francis invited leading American evangelical preachers to the Vatican later this month to discuss their opinions on marriage equality.

In addition, the “Relation post disceptationem,” a document that the Synod of Bishops released in September, solidifies that though marriage in the Catholic Church is still defined as a union between a man and woman, the Church should begin to accept homosexual individuals into worship.

Never before has this subject been discussed in such a positive light within the Catholic community.

Pope Francis and his administration are certainly creating a more liberal and open Catholic Church.

There are still issues with the Church’s stances on LGBT issues, however. Pink News reported that, though Burke has been demoted, he is being replaced

by French Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, who is still very conservative and anti-gay but less extreme in his viewpoints.

The Catholic Church has made some headway into becoming a more compassionate and open-minded church in recent years. It still has a long road to travel to ensure complete justice, but it is moving in the right direction.

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Graduate students deserve better housing One month ago, we discussed why undergraduate students deserve affordable, close-to-campus housing, but we did not mention that graduate students deserve the same opportunity for housing.

University officials are still debating whether to remodel Manor House as a new residence hall or to maintain it as an apartment complex geared toward graduate students, as it is currently. If officials renovate Manor House as a residence hall, it would try to attract third and fourthyear undergraduates and graduate students.

Manor House is one of the three remaining universty-run apartment complexes that currently cater to graduate students, along with University Heights and Tara Apartments. After a balcony collapsed at University Village and killed a fireman in February, the apartment complex, along with the adjacent Student Parent Center, was torn down. If the university decides to make Manor House a residence hall, graduate students will be left with even fewer housing options than they currently have.

We believe that MU must keep Manor House as an apartment complex tailored toward graduate students. While there is also a great demand for undergraduate housing,

the university should not attempt to address this issue at the expense of our graduate students and their housing needs.

It is not realistic for graduate and undergraduate students to live under the same roof when the two student groups have different housing demands. Many graduate students have family and children, and they require quiet spaces to focus on their research and studies.

Turning Manor House into a residential hall also does not make much sense for undergraduate students who would live there. Manor House is not located near any dining halls, which could be problematic for tenants with university meal plans.

The university itself stands to benefit from taking better care of its graduate students’ needs. Attracting more graduate students would be beneficial for the university, since many of these students are assets to MU’s research missions. But lack of proper housing can be an inhibitor for prospective graduate and professional students. Having plenty of affordable housing close to campus could be a selling point the university could tout when recruiting and retaining these students.

We believe that the business model for the Department of Residential Life could be at odds

with its goal of providing affordable student housing. The department funds itself and must constantly balance generating enough revenue to maintain its facilities and keeping its prices affordable for students.

The university should reconsider this aspect of the department to make affordable housing a bigger priority.

However, this task cannot be accomplished without more support from the state. As we stated in our editorial on state funding two weeks ago, when the state grants necessary funding to the university, we increase the amount of immediate, localized stimulus to the Missouri economy.

As the state’s flagship institution, we shouldn’t have to struggle to fund housing for our students.

Graduate students are already in a difficult situation trying to find affordable housing near campus. If Manor House is converted into a residence hall, these students will be put in an increasingly worse situation.

As a university, we cannot ignore the graduate student population as did during the University Village incident. Now is the time to show our graduate students that they are valuable members to our university by giving them the housing that they need.

It’s Ben a While

Emoji 101: an introduction to meaning and usage BEN BROWN

I had a high school health teacher named Mr. Taylor, and he once told us, “You all don’t know how to talk to each other. All you know how to do is type.”

Unfortunately for Mr. Taylor, who taught his class with the help of an ancient overhead projector that he wheeled around the school, texting is here to stay, though I can understand his frustration. Texting does somewhat hinders interaction.

In what other form of communication is it normal to not get a response for five minutes?

Texts are hard enough to understand: Punctuation is ignored, letters are words and there are confusing abbreviations for everything (NOTTOMH = not off the top of my head).

Then came emoji.

I never used emoji. I thought, “Hey. I am articulate enough to express my feelings through words. I don’t need the help of a little yellow

face.” But, after the last iOS update, my keyboard had them.

I had no idea there were so many of them. The amount of power I now had at my fingertips was overwhelming. I had no idea what some of them meant or when to send them.

That’s why I’m writing this article.

I have made a list of some of the more confusing emoji, their meanings and when to use them.

Kissing Face with Closed Eyes: “I like you. I am putting myself out there, and I hope you feel the same way.” Use this when you are trying to share your feelings with someone.

Kissing Face with Disappointed Eyes: “I liked you. I put myself out there, and you didn’t feel the same way.” Use this when a person turns you down because you tried to tell them you liked them using an emoji.

Face with no mouth: “No comment.” This is for when you receive a text, and you don’t want to respond, but you need to respond because you have to show the other person that texted you that you read their text.

Face with straight-line mouth: 1. “I am constipated.” 2. “I can’t believe what someone just said.” Use for each individually or for both at the same

time.

Winking Face: Kind of a flirty face, slightly suggestive. If you are a guy, use it when you want to flirt with a girl. If you are a girl, use it when you want to confuse the hell out of a guy.

Winking Face with Huge Eye and Tongue Sticking Out: This is a more realistic rendering of what your wink probably looks like. Use it if you really want to get honest with the person you are texting.

Smirking Face that is Kind of Looking to the Side: “I made an inappropriate joke, or I understand your inappropriate joke.” Best used right after a double entendre or a penis joke.

Smiling Poop: This is the undisputed heavyweight champion of the emoji world. Use this emoji at any time, for any reason.

This only scratches the surface of the dozens of emoji out there. There are ones of faces, body parts, plants, animals and, for some reason, two women in black leotards dancing.

The most important thing in emoji use is your instinct. If you think it makes sense, then it probably does.

And if you’re ever in doubt, just remember: smiling poop.

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A beginner’s guide to sex etiquette 3. Sheath the teeth.

EDNA SMITH

— Kye Allums, the first openly transgender Division I athlete, on hearing teammates addresshim with female pronouns. Allums spoke in Leadership Auditorium on Tuesday. (story on page 3)

— reggae artist Shaggy on the aim of his music. Shaggy arrives at The Blue Note on Nov. 22. (story on page 16)

Imagine a world in which we all wear deodorant, brush our teeth and treat each others’ genitals with the love and respect (and the gentle grip) that they deserve. A world in which bedside faux pas are a thing of the past, and we can all have sweet, messy, awkward sex — sex without anyone giving anyone angry side eyes or trying to make erotic asphyxiation a thing. A world in which we all are practiced in the basic arts of having sex manners.

Can you see it? Will you join me on this quest to educate our fellow sexual beings?

Together, we can do it. We can create a world where every sexual encounter is a positive, wonderful experience. Here are 10 ways to get started. The rest is in your hands.

But it is polite. So do what you feel, but remember that sex is best when it’s a consensual give-and-take.

2. Respect the sex organs.

— graduate student Lauren Trimble, whose husband is serving abroad in Japan.

Veterans Week events stressed the weight of the sacrifices made by military members and their families. (story on page 1) BEN KOTHE // GRAPHICS MANAGER

4. If you’ve seen it done in porn, you should probably not do it, Imitating something you’ve seen from a RedTube video in between the sheets is like jumping off the Willis Tower because Batman does it in “The Dark Knight.” You are not Batman. This rule especially applies to spanking, hair-pulling, and calling someone by a term you wouldn’t use around your grandparents. If you have built rapport with your sex partner and really want to try something, bring it up verbally first.

“Is it okay if I __________?” works nicely.

8. Communicate what you want!

Tell your partner whether you’re liking or disliking what’s currently happening, and then pull a Spice Girls and tell ‘em what you want — what you really, really want. Mindreading has still not been invented by Apple, Google or Facebook, so constant feedback is the best way to get to a place where you’re both feeling good.

9. Be honest about birth control and STDs. Ideally, you should cover these topics before any zippers are approached. But whenever you broach the subject, tell the truth.

It’s in everyone’s best interest. The truth will come out, via genital warts if need be.

M 1. Reciprocation is not mandatory.

— MSA vice presidential candidate T.J. Hinch on self-sustaining auxiliaries. The elections close 5 p.m. on Wednesday. (story on page 8)

See #2. A little nipping is sometimes okay, but just remember, you are not a frisky wolf pup.

Let’s think of a situation where this is okay. Wait. Nope. There is no such situation.

Unless you know your partner well from experience, always start things off gently. It’s a lot more exciting to hear your partner ask for more than to get a smack across the face because you’re manhandling precious cargo. People make babies with those things! Be gentle. Bringing and using a condom goes with this.

It doesn’t get more respectful than wanting to protect each other from infections and rogue sperm.

5. Don’t be a head-pusherdowner.

Do not waterboard someone with your genitals. It is the rudest thing in the world. If you want to suggest a certain … rhythm, ask if you can show them how fast or slow you want to go.

6. Regarding hickies; Ask for permission, not forgiveness.

The obvious theme of the day: If you’re not sure, ask. Hickies are a pain in the ass to deal with. You don’t know if your partner could have an interview the next day, or a class presentation, or just an overarching desire to not wear an infinity scarf.

Be considerate, and also remember that cooking breakfast is an equally effective way to show you care.

7. Don’t talk about other/ former partners in bed.

10. Hygiene is king.

Sex gets messy, and that’s one of the fun parts. But try to keep things as spic ‘n’ span as you can.

There’s the obvious, like showering beforehand, indulging in deodorant and having fresh breath. But there’s also the not-so-obvious, like keeping your fingernails clean, freshening up the downstairs with baby wipes (especially after a sweaty Roxy’s night) and offering to clean each other up if you get bodily fluids on each other.

11. Bonus tip: don’t try to choke someone

Because, generally, when people start feeling a hand wrapped around their throat, their first instinct is to beat the hell out of you, not orgasm.

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The key to your entertainment

MOVE Meteorological normalcy in Missouri is a social construct.

Fastest Drop In Temperature Nov. 11, 1911 Fell 50° in 3 hours

hottest temperature

12 inches in 42 minutes

July 14, 1954 in warsaw, MO and union, MO

fastest rainfall June 22, 1947 in holt, MO source: climate.missouri.edu, weatherquestions.com

Think outside the boombox

most snowfall: 24”

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Weather

Songs for an How to survive CoMo weather autumn hike SHARON MAI Staff Writer

PATRICK MCKENNA

I am someone who believes an environment can mesh well with the music in between my ears. With summer days spent aimlessly longboarding empty streets flushed with sunshine, I would direct someone to the indierock, surf sounds of Real Estate or Californialovin’ Crosby, Stills and Nash. In the midst of a hailstorm on the highway, a more chaotic and lively Animal Collective cut would do.

But for the days of cardigans, the evenings of brutal breeze and hoping for another second of Missouri warmth, and the mornings of those darling leaves changing, I never know where to turn musically. The hybrid of summer heat and winter frigidness leads me to a hybrid of hearty rock, mellowed-out guitar strumming and sweet, melodic voices pouring passion into their songs.

Below is a list of my songs for the fall season, songs sure to please any guitar-loving biker relishing in the days before ice storms, or really anyone in love with a stroll through Columbia’s nature. Enjoy.

The White Stripes — “Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground” With one of the most gnarly guitar-only choruses, Jack and Meg White sweep away any summer regrets alongside those dead leaves and leave listeners wondering how so much power and beauty could come from a blues-rock

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If you’re a native of good ol’ CoMo, you have long been aware of the unpredictable weather. However, if you aren’t quite yet accustomed to the uncertainty of Columbia weather, we got your back. Read on for our advice on how you can be prepared.

1. Reliable weather apps come in at the top of our list.

These wonderful gifts sent by the smartphone gods are your new best friends. They will always be there for you as you put your weathercombatting outfit together. Before

you can face your enemy, you need to know your enemy. Make sure you have these weather apps downloaded on your smart device ASAP. Of course, iPhones come installed with the app that tells you the highs and lows of today and the week ahead.

Androids have a weather widget that lets you check the conditions you should expect for the day.

Many people don’t bother to find an app with anything besides the basics. However, simple weather apps don’t always tell you important details you need to know, such as chance of precipitation, humidity or wind speed. A popular choice, which works with both iPhones and

Androids, is the Weather Channel app.

We nominate GoMizzou, the official app for Mizzou, as one of the best apps created for students. Along with many other useful features, GoMizzou provides what you need to know about Columbia’s weather.

If you don’t already have it on your phone, be sure to check it out.

2. Now that you know what the weather will be, you have to decide what to wear.

As convenient and space-saving as it may be to only have one season’s worth of clothing in your closet at

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Music

One-man band takes over The Blue Note

CORIN CESARIC Reporter

Concertgoers and music lovers rejoice: One-man band Keller Williams will be making a stop in Columbia on Nov. 15, and he promises to bring his “acoustic dance music” with him. Touring solo, Williams is using an electronic looper to create the sound of a full band on stage.

“Nothing is pre-recorded,” Williams says. “Every sound I make is created live on stage.”

Williams knew from a very young age that he wanted to be a performer, and his passion for music has been affected greatly by legendary psychedelic rockers The Grateful Dead.

“There’s a record by The Grateful Dead called ‘Reckoning,’ and that is a live set of them pretty much sitting

on stools while playing acoustic guitars,” Williams says. “I think that’s what drew me to them.”

After attending The Dead’s show that year, he got even more hooked, not only on the music, but also on the entire atmosphere the band brought with them.

“I really got turned on by all the improvisation, and especially by the whole utopian unrealistic world that surrounded The Grateful Dead outside of the music,” he says.

Besides The Grateful Dead, Williams is inspired by Michael Hedges, an artist he describes as ahead inspires Williams of his time.

“He was a solo acoustic guitar singer, and he really opened my eyes to how one person with one instrument can command the attention of an audience,” Williams

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One-man band Keller Williams will play at The Blue Note on Saturday.

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Get ready: Shaggy is coming to CoMo “It Wasn’t Me” singer to play The Blue Note Nov. 22.

WAVERLY COLVILLE Staff Writer Reggae artist Shaggy has been in the music scene since his childhood in Jamaica and, at 46 years old, he’s still playing.

Shaggy, originally from Kingston, Jamaica, grew up surrounded by reggae and dance music. At 18 years old, he moved to the Flatbush area of Brooklyn, New York, where he was discovered singing on the street with some friends.

“Reggae music is part of my tradition and my blood,” Shaggy says. “I used to do sound systems, and that evolved for me to create a name for myself in the streets of Flatbush as a

dancehall artist.”

After Shaggy was discovered, he quickly became a hit in the reggae music scene and became mainstream. His first hit, “Oh Carolina,” became an international hit, reaching the top of the UK music charts in 1993.

When he moved to New York, Shaggy was exposed to different music styles that he incorporated into his reggae style.

“Jamaica is a very reggaeoriented place,” Shaggy says.

“I think coming to New York brought me into a melting pot, but all the different cultures in the Caribbean all have different styles that I incorporated into my music.”

Shaggy released the album “Hot Shot” in 2000, which was certified platinum six times in the US. The album hit number one on the Billboard 200 and

the UK albums chart. This album featured the singles “It Wasn’t Me” and “Angel.”

In total, Shaggy has released 12 albums. Since he’s been making music for decades, he says, he’s adapted to the changing times, yet stayed true to himself.

“Music itself has changed overall,” Shaggy says. “I figure out how to fit in today’s music but I’ve always gone against the grain.”

He won a Grammy for Best Reggae Album in 1996 for “Boombastic” and was nominated three more times for Best Reggae album for “Clothes Drop,” “Intoxication” and “Summer in Kingston.” He was also nominated three times for Favorite Artist in various categories at the American Music Awards in 2002.

However, awards aren’t what Shaggy is most proud

of. He believes the success of his albums is the main accomplishment in his career.

“It’s not very often in reggae music that someone sells over 10 million records, (and) the only two artists to ever do that are myself and Bob Marley,” Shaggy says. “That’s great company.”

For the last two years, Shaggy has been busy touring his latest reggae album released in 2013, “Out of Many, One Music.” His 2013 single “You Girl” featuring Ne-Yo is nominated for a Soul Train Music Award.

He is also currently working on a new pop record that will be released in early 2015. Shaggy hasn’t done a pop record since “Intoxication,” released in 2007.

“I do feel-good music,” Shaggy says. “If I could take all your stress away from you for the duration of when you’re

listening to my songs, or it makes your day, then we’re good.”

For fans attending his concert, Shaggy says he has some great songs planned, like his massive hits “Angel,” “It Wasn’t Me” and “Boombastic.”

He also says he’ll play lots of dancehall and reggae records.

“You’ll see a melting pot of people with a great energy,” Shaggy says. “Come with the intention to dance and wear something comfortable because you’ll be on your feet.”

He says he doesn’t know what to expect since he’s never been to Missouri before, but he says he hopes there are strong Shaggy fans and that he’s ready to “rock the house.”

If you’re ready to dance and “rock the house,” come to Shaggy’s concert at 9 p.m. on Nov. 22 at The Blue Note.

forever changed Trying to explain why I love Beyoncé is like trying to explain quantum mechanics to an English major; there’s too much for me to explain, and you’ll never fully understand it. She’s easily one of the most talented artists in the world, and everyone knows it. Even if you aren’t a Beyoncé fan, you can’t look me in the eye and tell me that she’s not talented because if you did, you would be lying on.

Just look at the way she performs live. She dances just as well as all of her backup dancers, interacts with her audience and gives people context and meaning behind her songs. In addition to all of this, she can still sing with her incredible range and beautiful vocal purity. She sings better live than most artists do on recordings. I don’t call her “Queen” for nothing.

On Nov. 4, it was announced that Beyoncé would be releasing a platinum edition of her self-titled album that dropped last year. The box set will include two brandnew tracks, four remixes and a live-performance DVD. When she dropped her self-titled album in December without announcing it, I died. When she released her remix to “Flawless” over the summer with Nicki Minaj, I was slain.

And then, this past week, there was a photo leaked online of a tracklisting for “Beyoncé Vol. 2.” I swear to you, dear reader, I actually cried. The thought of having an entirely new Beyoncé album merely one year after the surprise release of her greatest album created seemed too good to be true.

Unfortunately, it was.

It’s not that I’m not excited for new Beyoncé music because I am.

But I was under the assumption that I was going to be getting a whole new album from Queen Bey, and that she was going to release it within the next few weeks. I was expecting a repeat of the most ambitious, well-done album that I’ve ever listened to. I thought that I was getting eight brand-new songs with collaborations from Rihanna, Justin Timberlake and Minaj. When I saw that ‘leaked’ track listing, I was blown away. So when I heard that it would only be two new songs and a few remixes, I was a bit disappointed.

But honestly, new music from Beyoncé is still a blessing on all of our lives. Her sound has evolved over more than a decade of being in the music business. She has honed her sound and her talent into this extremely pure, perfectly-stylized musical experience. Her most

recent album was easily her greatest masterpiece to date, because she has learned exactly how to grab hold of an audience with her music and not let go until the last note of the album plays. When I first listened to the album, I was entranced and completely unable to turn it off.

Every song was composed and performed with absolute precision and perfection. The album’s flow was effortless and it never let up.

That’s why I know the platinum album’s new songs will be impeccable. Beyoncé knows how to please fans. She proved that with the songs from her last album, the videos and even at the VMAs. She knows what her fans are looking for, and she always provides for them.

I’ve doubted Beyoncé before, and I learned my lesson the hard way.

I now know that I can do all things through Beyoncé who gives

Our Beyoncé, who art in Houston, flawless be thy name Our and Beyoncé entusiast-in-residence teaches a lesson in bowing down to Queen Bey. STEPHEN DAW Associate Editor How do I love Bey? Let me count the ways…

When I first discovered Beyoncé in high school, I didn’t really know how I felt. I thought that she was talented, but I wasn’t sure if she was quite my cup of tea. Mind you, I was making my judgement solely based on the song “Single Ladies,” a complete misrepresentation of Beyoncé’s artistry. One day, I finally listened to the entirety of “I Am...

Sasha Fierce,” followed by all of “4.”

That was the day that my life was

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duo. Don’t freak out after that piercing guitar opening — it just goes up from there.

Neutral Milk Hotel — “Oh Comely” This brooding, lo-fi folk track comes from legends of independent music attitude, with Jeff Mangum heading the eight-minute tale of conjoined twins and alienation.

This track represents what I would consider the last day of comfortable ‘60s warmth, where all you want is to plead with mother nature to change her wicked ways, only to be unheard and forgotten.

Wilco — “Impossible Germany” If you’re still priding yourself on not professing your love for these Chicago rockers, it’s time to reconsider your musical life.

The tantalizing guitar solos off this “Sky Blue Sky” track were enough to change me into a Wilco lover, and something about the guitar work makes this my favorite “last day of windows down” song for tranquil drives in the fall.

Foxygen — “No Destruction” I can attest to the wonders drifting through a scenic hiking trail while taking in this retropop jam will bring. Songs that are this flowering may work into a summer playlist, but those melodies mean introspective strolls while avoiding any sort of academic work to me.

Mac Demarco — ”Let My Baby Stay” After becoming hailed as indie-rock’s ultimate goofball, Mac returned with a touching and gentle collection of sweet ballads with this year’s “Salad Days.” On this acoustic gem, Mac provides his most impressive vocal range as he begs that his Canadian girlfriend be allowed to stay in New York with him.

Weezer — ”Undone (The Sweater Song)” Break out the crewnecks and bob your head along to this ‘90s classic that helped Weezer transform into alternativerock’s biggest success stories.

If you’re not yelping along to Rivers Cuomo’s simple and boundless instruction to destroy his sweater, then I have nothing more to say.

Neil Young — “Harvest Moon” If I were located in a more nature-filled area, those harmonica lines that sound like they were pulled from a cowboy’s mouth would feel even more personal. Nonetheless, this is one of the most beautiful Neil Young songs, appropriate for bonfires with friends as the moon twinkles above.

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a time, Columbia weather is too unpredictable not to be prepared for anything. It’s important to have at least one summer alternative amongst your winter outfits and vice versa.

The best advice is to try

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says.

Many of Williams’s songs are covers of other musician’s songs, but he writes his own music as well. His writing process differs from song to song, and he gets inspiration from everywhere. Some come

to incorporate layering into every outfit, especially when the climate gets a little cooler.

With chilly mornings and warmer afternoons, strategic dressing will allow you to shed layers throughout the day as the temperature increases.

Accessories are life-saving.

Not only can they enhance a simple outfit, they are perfect for all of your layering needs. Scarves and beanies

are especially convenient and accessible. They can keep you warm in the cold and are also more affordable than a new closet of ensembles.

3.

What’s in your backpack?

Hopefully all of the weather essentials you will need for the seasons ahead. An umbrella or raincoat is vital. You might doubt the rainstorm on your weather app with the sunny

weather outside, but you never know. Despite the odds, CoMo weather just might surprise you.

If you’re trying to keep your backpack light, at least always carry sunglasses, sunscreen for sunny days.

Now that you’re prepared for the seasons ahead, what is there to stop you?

very quickly and others take more thought and time. Then there are some that are playful, like a fan favorite titled “Porta-Potty.”

“That’s kind of based on a true story,” Williams says. “I mean it’s definitely happened many times, just going to all those shows and just seeing many, many lines at port-apotties and people’s body language … I think that’s

why people like it so much because they can totally see that character.”

It’s been a busy summer for Williams, who has been playing festivals and shows, but he says he's excited about the upcoming show in Columbia.

Williams says that concertgoers can expect covers of familiar songs and “acoustic dance music.” He says he aims for his shows to achieve the

sense of community modeled like artists like The Grateful Dead.

“I want them to not think about the outside world,” Williams says. “I do not want them to think about politics, or their problems, or their bills, or their grades. I want them to come in and be absorbed into what’s happening and leave without having worry about reality.”

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Missouri Tigers safety Braylon Webb (9) in action Oct. 11 at Memorial Stadium.

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Depleted secondary to face Aggies JASON LOWENTHAL Staff Writer

PLAYERS TO WATCH Texas A&M #10 Kyle Allen Allen came on two weeks ago as the starter for the Aggies after the suspension of Kenny Hill. The true freshman has been inconsistent so far. After struggling in a narrow victory over Louisiana-Monroe, Allen led A&M to an upset win at No. 3 Auburn.

The Mizzou defense was already depleted. After being ejected for targeting in Mizzou’s victory over Kentucky two weeks ago, senior

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Soccer

Missouri looking past recent struggles

BRUNO VERNASCHI Assistant Sports Editor

Missouri Tigers #21 Ian Simon Following the indefinite suspension of sophomore cornerback Aarion Penton, Simon will be vital for Mizzou against one of the country’s most potent passing attacks (329.6 ypg, seventh nationally).

PREDICTION This will be a huge test for the Tigers, who will be playing on the road while trying to hold on to the Southeastern Conference Eastern East Division lead.

Sophomore quarterback Maty Mauk might have to play his best game of the season for the Tigers to keep up and have a chance in this one. Defensive ends Shane Ray and Markus Golden will continue to play well, but ultimately Penton’s suspension hurts too much, and the Mizzou secondary gets burned a few too many times.

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Missouri coach Gary Pinkel seems like he would have significant reason to worry about his team’s secondary.

Sophomore cornerback Aarion Penton was arrested at 1:40 a.m.

Friday on suspicion of marijuana possession. He was subsequently suspended indefinitely from the football program.

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The Missouri soccer team qualified for the NCAA Tournament on Monday. While the at-large bid signifies a good team, the Tigers haven’t played well recently.

Mizzou finished the regular season with an overall record of 11-63, 6-4-1 in Southeastern Conference play, beat four ranked opponents and reached the quarterfinals of the SEC Tournament on a bye.

After that bye, the Tigers fell to No. 11 South Carolina, eliminating the Gamecocks from the tournament early.

Missouri has only won one of the last five games played, tying another and losing three, including a 3-0 slaughter to lowly Tennessee.

Missouri coach Bryan Blitz said he doesn’t think anything of the last few games and doesn’t plan on

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ROUGH PATCH Although it had an impressive start to the season, the Missouri women’s soccer team has had a difficult last few games.

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The Tigers were undefeated in their first eight games of the regular season.

HANGIN’ IN THERE Mizzou has only won one of its last five games.

Earlier in the season, Missouri had a five-win streak (Sept. 7-26).

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Missouri scored six goals and let in 10 in its last five games, including a loss to No. 17 South Carolina in the quarterfinals of the Southeastern Conference Tournament.

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Anderson plans to use three-guard lineup situationally Staff Writer At the end of the first half of Missouri’s men’s basketball’s exhibition game against William Jewell on Oct. 29, Missouri coach Kim Anderson decided to play with his lineup.

He put three guards on the floor, and the Division II Cardinals scored eight straight points to end the half.

“It wasn’t good,” Anderson said.

He came back to his three-guard lineup later in the game and saw improvement.

He said he wants to come back to it more as the season progresses, using it as his “smaller lineup.”

“I like it because you get ball handlers into the game,” Anderson said. “Now, you give up size. The one question for this team is how well will we shoot the ball.

We have good shooters, but they’ve got to take good shots.”

In the second half, the Tigers made shots, increasing their 13-point halftime lead to a 72-31 blowout win. Fourteen Mizzou points in the win came from sophomore guard Wes Clark, who said he enjoys Anderson’s three-guard set.

“It makes things a lot easier for me knowing that I can play offense,” Clark said. “Keith Shamburger, Tramaine Isabell and some of the other guards can create for themselves, so it makes me into more of a jump-shooter or a scorer if needed.”

And Anderson likes to see his point guard being aggressive on offense, as long as he makes good decisions. Clark, who averaged 4.1 points per game last season as a freshman, paired his team-leading 14 points against William Jewell with 8 points in another exhibition against Missouri-St. Louis on Saturday.

“Wes being aggressive is important,” Anderson said. “We need to find scoring.

We need for guys to step up and be aggressive on the offensive end, which they should love to hear that.”

But the three-guard set does not just affect the guards. Senior forward Keanu Post said the lineup helps the offense

improve in general, and the big men, like himself. Redshirt senior guard Keith Shamburger is leading the Tigers with 10 assists through the first two exhibition games.

“It helps the bigs a lot because we have three perimeter guys on the outside feeding us the ball,” Post said. “More than likely we’ll have a mismatch with a big and a three-guard, but it’s beneficial (for the) team. I trust whatever coach wants to do.”

This play-to-the-post mentality has been a focus of Anderson’s offense this year. Last year the Tigers played lots of pick-and-roll and isolation plays, with guards Jordan Clarkson and Jabari Brown mainly dominating the ball.

“We’re going to throw the ball inside,” Anderson said. “I expect those (big men) to be an important part of our offense.

They have to do a good job of not only scoring themselves, but remembering just because we throw it in, that doesn’t mean they can’t throw it back out (to the guards).”

Clark said the increased emphasis on post play allows the offense to be more patient.

Anderson said the three-guard set relies on players making shots. The coaches take statistics of every shot taken every day, Anderson said.

“We’ve had days where we’ve shot the ball really well, and we’ve had days where we haven’t,” Anderson said. “The three guards together — all three of them are good shooters. If they want to be great shooters, then they’ve got to get to their spot and get a good shot.”

Anderson sees himself using the three-guard lineup situationally, such as against teams that will press on defense frequently.

Anderson said that, when using the three-guard lineup in practice, Clark has assumed point guard duties.

“I’ve got three guards, and I’m happy with all of them,” Anderson said. “I won’t hesitate to play all three of them at the same time.”

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Missouri Tigers sophomore guard Wes Clark (15) speaks to head coach Kim Anderson on Oct. 29 at Hearnes Center. Missouri beat William Jewell 72-31.

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Missouri coach Kim Anderson is still putting together his lineups. At times, he plans to use three guards at once.

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Mauk and Sasser look to match Aggies’ pace, momentum ANDREW MCCULLOCH Staff Writer

COURTESY OF KYLE ALLEN

Texas A&M Aggies quarterback Kyle Allen runs against LouisianaMonroe on Nov. 1 in College Station, Texas. Allen will make his third career start this week against Missouri.

In front of a raucous crowd of more than 87,000 in Auburn, Alabama, true freshman quarterback Kyle Allen led the Texas A&M Aggies to face the third ranked team in the nation and defending Southeastern Conference champion, the Auburn Tigers.

It was Allen’s first career SEC start, his second career start, and it came in one of the conference’s most challenging environments.

Four snaps into the contest, Allen lobbed his first touchdown of the game, a 60-yard pass to senior receiver Malcome Kennedy. Less than a minute later, he threw his second. Then he coolly tallied another two scores. Four touchdowns, 20 minutes.

“He did some really good things; no question about it,” Missouri coach Gary Pinkel said. “There’s an example of a freshman coming in a big environment and doing a great job. It was a great performance.”

With Missouri’s bye last weekend, it was hard for senior wide receiver Bud Sasser to ignore Texas A&M’s upset victory and impossible to miss

Allen’s breakout performance.

Sasser realized something while watching the Aggies at work: His offense is going to have to score early and often.

“When we get the chance on offense, we just need to put some points on the board,” Sasser said.

“They’ve got some guys over there that can go, but all we need to do is make sure we’re putting up points.”

Sasser has the right idea, but matching the Aggies could prove difficult. Under the guidance of Allen and sophomore quarterback Kenny Hill, the Aggies have amassed 3,296 passing yards this season, averaging 329.6 yards per game. That not only makes Texas A&M the top passing team in the SEC, but it also more than doubles Mizzou’s season total for passing yards.

After playing in College Station in four out of the past five seasons Pinkel said he knows what to expect from the Aggies’ high-powered offense, but that doesn’t mean he can stop it.

“Contain it? You try to contain it with your pass rush and coverage, but it’s difficult,” Pinkel said. “We played against it last year, and it was certainly a task, and it will be a task again this year.”

Pinkel said defending Texas A&M’s pass attack starts up front, namely with the defensive end duo of senior Markus Golden and junior Shane Ray. “We’ve just got to get out there and get after it like we always do,” Golden said. “We can control tempo through big plays, getting tackles for loss and sacking the quarterback.

As a defensive line, we know that’s our job, and we know we have to get takeaways to make it a easier for our offense to get out there and make plays.”

Offensively, Sasser said matching the Aggies will come down to execution.

“We just have to make plays,” Sasser said. “When the ball is thrown your way, you do whatever possible to come down with it.

Make sure we’re getting the right reads and everybody’s getting their assignments. Receivers have to get open and make sure they’re ready to go.”

This contest is important, as Mizzou controls its own destiny for a division championship.

“If we have to talk players into playing now, then we’re in trouble,” Pinkel said.

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THE MANEATER | SPORTS | NOVEMBER 12, 2014 The Wit of Schmidt

10 worst things about being a Rams fan

Finding Coach Anderson’s identity Said Anderson of his time with Bob Knight: “That’s a free clinic.”

DANIEL WITT Staff Writer

DANIEL SCHMIDT

It hurts.

Following another classic loss Sunday — my St. Louis Rams lost to the Arizona Cardinals, 31-14 — I felt it was time to publish this column. There are so many things that could go on this list. Things like “Keith Null was our quarterback at one point,” “we signed Al Harris when he was 36,” “we drafted Donnie Avery ahead of Desean Jackson” and “we lost a must-win game to Charlie Whitehurst.” Unfortunately I don't have the emotional capacity to list more than 10 of the worst things about being a fan of the St. Louis Rams.

1. We won a Super Bowl.

Whereas a Jacksonville Jaguars fan is used to constant unwatchable football, shortly after the Rams arrived in St. Louis, they won a Super Bowl. It was amazing and one of the best days of my life. But it set an unrealistic expectation for the organization moving forward. We've tasted winning. We know that feeling. Sadly, I fear my palate will never have another chance to savor a playoff victory, much less a Super Bowl win.

2. The owner doesn't care.

I really don't know what else to say about this. “Silent” Stan Kroenke simply doesn't care. He owns multiple professional sports teams as well as plenty of other businesses. He is a busy man. But good God almighty, man, you have to address the looming move to Los Angeles. Say something, anything! But no instead we just have to torture ourselves thinking about what Stan plans to do with the 60 acres of land he bought in L.A. 3. The Edward Jones Dome has red seats.

The Rams’ colors are blue, white and yellow. The seats in their stadium are red.

4. The Rams still don't have a successor for Kurt Warner.

Warner was the literal embodiment of what it means to be “God's gift.” Bringing a Super Bowl to St. Louis is the greatest accomplishment in the history of the city that doesn't have to do with Anheuser-Busch. Kurt hasn't taken a snap for the Rams since 2003. In that time period, 14 other “quarterbacks” have.

5. We watched Craig Dahl play safety for three seasons.

YouTube the Rams-Vikings game from two years ago and watch the terrible, terrible things Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson did to him.

6. We end every season in Seattle.

It is a guaranteed loss at the end of our schedule. We seriously have to play a 15-game schedule with one loss to be tacked on at the end of those 15 games. It’s supposed to be a rotating schedule, yet for the fourth season in a row, our last game is in that hellhole.

7. Brian Schottenheimer is our offensive coordinator.

We hired the guy who was quarterback Mark Sanchez's offensive coordinator in New York for the same role in St. Louis. What in the hell was the thought process there?

Prior to Sunday's game, Tavon Austin, the Rams receiver who was the No. 8 overall pick in the 2013 NFL Draft, had more carries than receptions. Tavon is 5-feet-8-inches, 174 pounds. The majority of those carries have been between the tackles. There are plenty of other examples of Schottenheimer being an idiot, but this is the one that gets me the most heated.

8. The Ram lose games in the most depressing ways.

For example, giving up 21 unanswered points in the fourth quarter against Arizona, 14 of them coming from a pick six and a scoop and score. Or blowing a 21-point lead like we did against the Dallas Cowboys. Or dropping a pass on fourth down when down by six with three minutes to go, like receiver Austin Pettis did against the Philadelphia Eagles. Sigh.

9. The Rams’ best player is usually the punter.

Seriously. Things have changed now with the emergence of defensive end Robert Quinn, but from Donnie Jones to Johnny Hekker (who is without question the best punter in the league and is also The Man), over the last decade St. Louis’ best player has generally been its punter.

10. They're moving.

Shit.

Kim Anderson didn’t have a playbook when he took over as head coach of the Central Missouri Mules.

“I really didn’t know what I wanted to do,” Anderson said. “I had ideas, but it’s not like I had this philosophy. I knew I wanted something that spread the floor a little bit. I knew I wanted something where we could throw the ball inside.”

Twelve years and one NCAA Division II Championship later, Anderson has that offensive style in place for his first year as Missouri’s head men’s basketball coach — pieced together through his travels around collegiate basketball.

What that playbook is made up of might upset some Tiger fans.

“We actually run (Kansas coach) Bill Self’s high-low offense,” Anderson said.

“That’s kind of what we do. I’ve taken stuff from coach Stewart. I’ve taken stuff from a

lot of different coaches.”

Anderson started his coaching career at Mizzou as an assistant under Norm Stewart from 1982 to 1985. After a sixyear stint as an assistant coach at Baylor, Anderson returned to Missouri as a coach on Stewart’s staff from 1991 to 1999.

Anderson said he took a few things from Gene Iba, the nephew of legendary Oklahoma State coach Hank Iba, while at Baylor. When Mizzou runs a 1-4 “high set,” Anderson said that comes from Kelvin Sampson, the 1995 Associated Press College Basketball Coach of the Year at Oklahoma.

When Bob Knight was the head coach at Texas Tech, he invited Anderson to watch video with him. Anderson said he got these opportunities from his connection with Stewart. Knight ranks third all-time in NCAA Division I basketball wins, has won three NCAA championships and is a four-time National Coach of the Year.

“Most people would have to pay for that,” Anderson said of his time with Knight. “That’s a free clinic. You just kind of sit there and listen.”

To add on, Anderson said Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams has been great to him in helping form his identity as a coach.

Eddie Sutton would sit in stands with Anderson when he would attend practices to watch Sutton’s Oklahoma State team run plays.

“You can’t buy that,” Anderson said.

Throughout Anderson’s tenure as the Big 12 conference assistant commissioner, he would travel, watching teams practice.

“He has his system, but he’s not afraid to take from anyone else,” junior forward Ryan Rosburg said. “He knows what he likes, but then he sees someone on TV, and the next day he tries to have us run it. We try so many things in practice to see what works. He builds on what he has and is adding new stuff every day.”

Anderson studies more than just collegiate basketball. Rosburg said that since the NBA season has begun, Anderson’s references to the professionals during practices have increased. Anderson is running a high-low offense at Mizzou, a change from the isolation-type offense run last year.

“The bigs get the ball more, so I’m pretty happy about that,” sophomore forward Johnathan Williams III said. “It’s a good system, and I think it’s going to work in the long run.”

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Continued from page 19 safety Braylon Webb was already suspended for the first half of the game against Texas A&M. Webb is the most experienced safety in the Southeastern Conference with 39 starts.

However, even with the Tigers preparing to face one of the nation’s most highpowered offenses in the Aggies, Pinkel supported the players’ replacements, junior safety Cortland Browning and sophomore cornerback John Gibson.

“There’s no choice,” Pinkel

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Earlier this season, Missouri won five straight games and was nationally ranked.

“I don’t think (the games) have been rough,” Blitz said.

“I think we’ve had some really good games, so I think we’ll prepare like we normally do.

The kids are excited. You’re in the NCAA Tournament, so why would you do anything

said. “You’ve got to expect your players to go out and play well.

People around (Browning and Gibson) playing really well can help those guys play well.”

Webb is banned from the sideline until the start of the second half, so he cannot act as a mentor to players starting in place of him.

“Bottom line is there’s no excuses,” Pinkel said. “We’ve got to go out and perform at a high level.”

Defensive coordinator Dave Steckel spoke highly of the two replacements. He said the defense will do “absolutely nothing different.”

Browning said he will treat his first start — in his home state of Texas — like any other game.

“It’s just football and that’s all it is,” Browning said.

Junior starting safety Ian Simon said he will embrace a leadership role in the secondary with Webb sidelined for the first half.

“This is what it’s going to be like next year,” Simon said. “I’m not going to have (Webb) to hold my hand. I don’t see any drop-off.”

Simon also spoke to the depth and experience that Mizzou has in the secondary.

“It’s business as usual,” Simon said. “We’ve got guys that can play across the board.

Just because you’re the starter doesn’t mean the guy behind you isn’t just as capable.”

Regardless of who is lining up at safety or corner for the Tigers,

they will face a significant challenge against either of the Aggies’ quarterbacks, Kyle Allen or Kenny Hill. With Hill returning from a two-game suspension, Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin has not named a starting quarterback for this week’s game.

Hill, a sophomore, had been behind center for the Aggies’ first eight games this season before he was suspended for violating team rules. Despite missing the past two games, Hill leads the conference in passing touchdowns, passing yards, and total offense. He is eligible to return for the game against Mizzou, however, after Texas A&M’s upset of then-No. 3 Auburn, the Aggies might stick with true freshman Kyle

differently?”

Sophomore midfielder Melanie Donaldson said that she attributes the team’s recent decline in performance to “end of the season jitters” and getting worn down, but explained that she sees they are starting to turn it around, something that has been visible in the last few practices.

“It’s going to be a rollercoaster for every team, especially in a good conference,” she said.

“That might have been our down point, but I know that now that we’re in this tournament, we’re going to hit our up point again.

I think everyone’s going to have

to dig deep, and it’s just going to have to come from within.”

Senior goalkeeper McKenzie Sauerwein said the team seems to have been focusing on less important things and the Tigers recently had a meeting to “discuss what Mizzou soccer is about.”

“We’re here for one reason: to play for each other,” said Sauerwein, a team captain. “(In the meeting) we talked about respect, focus and a bunch of other key points that we needed to make to bring us together to play how we did before the rough patch.”

The Tigers’ first game in

the tournament is at Kansas, a rivalry match with a great deal behind it.

Sauerwein was around during their last face-off in 2011, when Mizzou made a comeback to win 3-2, and said it was exciting to be a part of it.

“It means a lot that it’s KU,” Sauerwein said. “It’s really exciting … I think it’s going to be a big game for us to play together and be there for one another, and if we do that, I know we’re going to play well.”

Allen, who threw for 277 yards and four touchdowns against Auburn. He was also named the Walter Camp National Offensive Player of the Week for his effort.

“Both (Hill and Allen), I think, are very talented players,” Pinkel said. “What we try to do as a defensive staff is try and find out if they do certain things with one that they don’t do with the other.

Then, you adjust your calls by whoever is in the game.”

Coming off a bye week following three consecutive victories, Pinkel said his team is up for the challenge in spite of its depleted secondary.

“It was good to get away,” Pinkel said. “Now, let’s lock in and let’s get going.”

PICKING THE FIELD This season marks the debut of the new College Football Playoff, for which the nation’s top four teams will be selected. Maneater staff writer Jason Lowenthal gives his predictions for the field of four.

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9-0, 5-0 Southeastern Conference

Mississippi State essentially had an off week hosting Tennessee-Martin. The Bulldogs opened up a 38-3 lead in the second half and cruised to an easy victory. It was a well-timed “bye” for the Bulldogs with a vital SEC West matchup against Alabama looming next week.

Florida state seminoles

9-0, 6-0 Atlantic Coastal Conference

Another week, another relatively unimpressive victory for Florida State. An inferior ACC opponent once again challenged the Seminoles, and this time it was at home. Virginia (4-6, 2-4 ACC) hung around with the Seminoles until late in the fourth quarter and also became the latest team to expose Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston. Florida State is not the second-best team in college football, but wins are wins. Until the Seminoles slip up, they’ll be at No. 2.

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8-1, 5-1 Pac-12 Conference

I had put the Ducks on upset alert against Utah on the road, and was one play away from potentially proving myself. In the second quarter, Utes receiver Kaelin Clay was walking into the end zone for a long touchdown, but he dropped the ball one yard before crossing the goal line. Oregon’s Joe Walker picked up the loose ball and returned it 100 yards for a touchdown. The Ducks went on to score the next 21 points to build a 24-7 lead after they should have been trailing 14-0. Oregon moved up one spot after Auburn’s shocking loss to Texas A&M.

8-1, 5-1 Big 12 Conference

TCU or Alabama at No. 4: That’s the real debate in the College Football Playoff this week. I’m going with TCU simply based on reputation. The Horned Frogs played their fifth top 20 opponent in the last six weeks and obliterated a very good Kansas State Wildcats team 41-20 this past week. TCU quarterback Trevone Boykin has emerged as a potential Heisman finalist with TCU’s ascension to a playoff contender. TCU has not simply rolled through its difficult schedule thus far — but the Horned Frogs are making it look fairly easy.

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COMO’s best vegetarian food

AMANDA LUNDGREN Staff Writer While going out to eat is a pleasant experience for most people, it can be a little difficult for vegans and vegetarians.

Sometimes, the only meat– and dairy–free item on the menu is a measly, unsatisfying house salad. Though the risk of a disappointing meal stops many vegans and vegetarians from dining out, fear no more.

MOVE is here to help.

Main Squeeze Natural Foods Cafe 28 S. Ninth St.

Main Squeeze is considered the go-to restaurant for CoMo’s herbivores, and with good reason. Every item on the menu, which includes wraps, sandwiches, bowls, soups, salads, fresh smoothies, pressed juices and homemade desserts, is either vegan or vegetarian.

The restaurant was founded in 1997 by its current owner Leigh Lockhart. A vegetarian herself, Lockhart wanted to develop her business the right way.

“I (believe) that if I do the right thing, the money will follow,” she says. “For me, that meant offering a healthy, meat-free product. I think the universe and more importantly,

consumers, reward businesses that they have faith in and that make choices that make consumers feel good.”

Although the concept of Main Squeeze would assumedly attract mainly vegans and vegetarians, Lockhart claims the opposite is true. “ W hile vegans and vegetarians certainly seek us out for the comfort a meat-free environment provides, the vast majority of our customers just want clean, healthy, delicious food,” she says.

Chipotle

tofu braised with chipotle chiles, roasted poblanos and aromatic spices. The chain also changed the ingredients of its pinto beans to no longer include bacon.

Regardless of whether you are an herbivore or a carnivore, you can feel good about eating Chipotle.

Café Berlin 220 N Tenth St.

If you love breakfast food, Café Berlin is for you.

The restaurant offers an assortment of morning dishes that includes eggs, omelets, sandwiches, pancakes, oatmeal and more. Herbivores can order

veggie sausage, tofu or tempeh instead of meat, and vegans can substitute eggs with tofu scramble. The café also serves lunch until 2 p.m. with dinner starting at 6 p.m.

Whatever type of food you’re craving, Columbia has got you covered.

Where do you get your protein?

306 S. Ninth St. If the “Chipotle is muh lyfe” Vine describes you perfectly, you probably already know how great the burrito chain is for vegans and vegetarians.

However, if you’re new to the world of Chipotle, get excited.

Not only does Chipotle give huge portions, it also charges less for omitting meat. The tacos, bowls, burritos and salads are completely customizable, and all ingredients besides the meat, cheese and sour cream are vegan.

Unlike most fast food chains, Chipotle has paid special attention to its vegan and vegetarian customers. Last year, the company introduced sofritas, a vegan protein option consisting of shredded

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Broadway Diner 22 S. Fourth St.

Featuring typical diner decor straight out of the ‘50s, the Broadway Diner is small, with only eight tables and a counter with a few bar stools. All day it serves its breakfast menu, which consists of omelets, pancakes, French toast, doughnuts and hash browns.

For lunch and dinner, the diner offers soups, grilled pork loin, salads, sandwiches and burgers.

Broadway’s dessert menu features pie and ice cream, as the staff can even blend a piece of pie into ice cream to give you a milkshake of any of the diner’s pie flavors.

Average price for a meal: $4 to $9.

Hours: 4 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday; 24 hours a day Wednesdays through Sundays.

63 Diner

5801 N. Highway 763 Though it’s roughly a 10-minute drive from campus, 63 Diner is well worth the trip.

The walls are covered with memorabilia of Route 66, Lucille Ball, Elvis Presley, Betty Boop and Coca-Cola. Poodle skirtclad waitresses serve diners a

variety of choices, including typical breakfast favorites such as pancakes, French toast and omelets. Breakfast is only served from 6:30 to 10:45 on weekday mornings, but it is served all day Saturdays. Lunch and dinner options include hamburgers and sandwiches, salads and countr y fried steaks. Another highlight?

The diner’s 63 Brownie, a

chocolate cake-type brownie that can be á la mode.

Average meal price: $5 to $8.

Hours: 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Tuesdays through Fridays, 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturdays, 6:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Sundays; closed Mondays.

Ernie’s Cafe & Steakhouse 1005 E. Walnut St.

Located downtown in the North Village Arts District, Ernie’s feels like your local neighborhood dive. The servers know almost everyone who walks through the doors and make a point to get to know each of the new customers. Ernie’s is cozy, with about ten tables and a counter with bar stools. The menu offers a decent variety of options from the cafe’s

“World Famous Pyramid Clubs” to steaks. Ernie’s has several breakfast offerings, including (but not limited to) eggs, pancakes, French toast, ham, and hash browns. Breakfast is served during all operating hours.

Average meal price: $3 to $7.

Hours: 6:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Mondays through Sundays.

Make your first date ‘sparkle’ Sparky’s Homemade Ice Cream is the perfect spot for getting to know someone.

ALEASE LEE Staff Writer We’ve all been lectured, “don’t judge a book by its cover.” But let’s be real. We all do it. It’s the first thing we see.

The impression you make on your first date can either make or break your chances. You have to know where to go, what to wear and how not to talk too much about your insane fascination with the pink Power Ranger (not, uh, speaking from personal experience).

When you’re picking a place for your first date, take into consideration where you will both feel comfortable. Nothing is more awkward than sitting at

a table staring at each other and waiting for something awesome to happen. Be creative and do something unexpected.

MOVE’s suggestion? Try one

of the shops downtown. There is always something to see and talk about (goodbye, awkward silences).

Try Sparky’s Homemade Ice

Cream. Shannon Boyer, a happy and effervescent Sparky’s employee, calls this eatery charming and funky.

“People really enjoy the art,”

Boyer says. “There is a bunch of random paintings from eBay and other places on the internet. It gives the shop this quirky vibe.”

In years past, a lot of magic has happened here. Many people spend their first dates here, getting to know each other over homemade ice cream in exotic flavors that give Sparky’s an edge up on the competition. There are new flavors throughout the week: think cake batter, cinnamon or even Rice Krispy Treats.

It’s affordable, which is great, too. Get a single scoop for $3.25, double for $4.50 or go all in and get a pint for $5.50.

Back in June, David Morris proposed to his girlfriend Tricia LaRocca at Sparky’s, where they had their first date. Later, they even eloped at Sparky’s.

I guess you could say magic really does happen here. Go to Sparky’s to find out what really makes this place a stop for many potential love stories.