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May 2, 2018

TAKE BACK THE NIGHT

Annual event “Take Back the Night” aims to end sexual violence on campus The event includes a march across campus and time for victims of sexual violence to share their stories EVAN OCHSNER

Staff Writer

Clad in T-shirts that said “shatter the silence” and “end the violence,” and carrying handmade poster board signs, between 100 and 200 students and activists marched on Thursday from Traditions Plaza, across campus and back, as part of the annual event Take Back the Night.

The event, which was organized by Stronger Together Against Relationship and Sexual Violence, and has been put on annually since 2015.

Students gathered at Traditions Plaza, where the shirts were passed out

Around 150 activists marched around campus to protest sexual violence. PHOTO BY MADI WINFIELD | SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR

and resources from the Relationship and Sexual

Violence Prevention Center were available. The group

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before crossing Lowry Mall, circling passed the Student Center and returning to Traditions.

The group chanted slogans while they marched, including “Blame the system, not the victim,” and “Mizzou unite!

Take Back the Night.” Upon their return to Traditions, each of the marchers was given a candle for a vigil and time for testimony. During this time, survivors of sexual violence were given the chance to share their stories.

Media was asked not to cover the testimonial part of the event so survivors could have a more private space to share.

Senior Hannah Brandenburg, who was attending the event for the first time, described the survivors stories as “eye opening.”

The name of the demonstration, “Take Back

then marched across Conley Avenue towards Jesse Hall,

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UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI

New UM system initiative to Missouri legislators propose changes to Bright Flight program, create loan program connect MU faculty with local Missouri House Rep. Scott Fitzpatrick said that the goal of this bill is to retain hightalent students in Missouri after they graduate so they can contribute to the Missouri economy and workforce.

LAUREN BISHOP

Staff Writer

A Missouri House representative has proposed changes to the Missouri Higher Education Academic Scholarship Program, commonly known as Bright Flight, that would require

students to reside in the state after graduation.

The current Bright Flight scholarship is “a merit-based program that encourages top-ranked high school seniors to attend approved Missouri postsecondary schools,” according to the Missouri Department of Higher Education website.

Missouri House Rep. Scott Fitzpatrick helped author and introduced House Bill 2408, which replaces the Bright Flight scholarship with the Bright Flight Promise Program. Fitzpatrick said the intent of the bill is to keep high-achieving students in Missouri for post-secondary education and beyond so they can contribute to Missouri’s economy.

“The goal of the bill is... to invest more in our top students in the state so that we can retain that talent and to create an incentive in the program to remain in the state after you graduate so that we can have [students] available for employers in the state who want to give [them] a job,” Fitzpatrick said.

The Bright Flight Promise Program offers students up to the full cost of tuition and mandatory fees each year the student is enrolled fulltime. However, the student would need to complete loan counseling and a promissory note to receive the aid, which

Missouri communities

“The plan is to have faculty who are already good at communicating with the public to be out there, but not just in local areas across the entire state,” Angela Speck, professor and director at the MU Department of Physics and Astronomy, said.

ALLISON CHO

On Feb. 28, the UM system introduced its first class of Presidential Engagement Fellows on Twitter. Vice Chancellor Marshall Stewart of MU Extension and Engagement led the program, which seeks to encourage engagement and instill pride within local communities through sharing UM system research and achievements.

“This is the first time [the Presidential Engagement Fellows program] has been done,” said Angela Speck, professor and director at the MU Department of Physics and Astronomy. “The plan is to have faculty who are

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ECONOMICS

Economic study finds MU impacts on state economy, individual lives

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Consulting firm Tripp Umbach found that the Columbia campus had a $3.9 billion impact on the state in fiscal 2017.

CHRISTINA LONG

Reporter

The impact of the UM system on the state of Missouri goes beyond educating students, according to an economic impact study conducted by consulting firm Tripp Umbach.

The report, presented to lawmakers on April 17, found that the UM system had a $5.4 billion impact on the state in fiscal year 2017. The Columbia campus accounted for $3.9 billion of that total.

The UM system hired Tripp Umbach in November 2017.

The firm examined all four UM campuses, MU Extension and MU Healthcare.

The study “evaluated the economic, employment, government revenue and community benefit derived from the University,” according to the report.

This includes capital and operational expenditures, number of employees and students, payroll and benefits, conferences hosted

and taxes paid to local and state governments.

The amount of state and local revenue taxes collected because of MU’s Columbia campus totals over $117 million, a number that includes taxes collected on food, sales, gas and lodging.

The system as a whole receives about $400 million in appropriations from the state, meaning that taxpayers receive a return on investment of 13.5 to one, according to UM system vice president of Research and Economic Development Mark McIntosh.

Tripp Umbach also found that more than 46,800 people have jobs directly or indirectly through MU alone. For Johnston Hall coordinator Liz Ainsworth, being employed at MU has meant more than just a paycheck.

“The things that I enjoy the most about it are being in a role that works with students constantly throughout the day,” Ainsworth said.

“It’s really motivating and exciting, and there’s nothing like working on a college campus.”

Her job as a hall coordinator also provides Ainsworth and her husband a place to live with an apartment in Johnston Hall.

Ainsworth feels that the real benefits, however, come from her work with students.

“I tell people all the time that I’m so lucky because I really look forward to going to work,” Ainsworth said. “I don’t want to live on campus forever - I want a house and a dog. But for now, I’m happy where I am.”

UM system President Mun Choi indicated the importance of the data presented in the report, saying it shows the impact of higher education beyond the lives of students.

“We are dedicated to the welfare and success of the citizens of Missouri,” Choi said in a briefing from the MU News Bureau. “Our original mission was to educate the future leaders of the state and provide new knowledge that would open new opportunities and significantly alter the economic prosperity of the state for the better. This study proves that the University of Missouri system continues to be a powerful driving force for the future of the state.”

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NEWS

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SPEAKER

MU welcomes two-time Pulitzer winner Larry Price to speak Price presented photographs of children in Africa and Asia as they engaged in labor for nearly non-existent pay and exposed themselves to hazardous working conditions.

TASHFIA PARVEZ

Staff Writer

The MU School of Journalism welcomed Larry C. Price, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, to talk about his work on “The Human Toll of Toxic Pollution” on April 26 in Neff Hall.

Price is also a documentary photographer. In his recent project, he documented how the mining and textile industries cause negative health effects for people living in the developing countries in Africa and Asia.

He began with a presentation of a photo series called the “Dark Side of Gold,” which was part of his global pollution project, depicting several photographs of child labor in the mining industry to extract gold in the Philippines.

“Around 170 million children under the age of 16 are involved in child labor in the world, and out of them about 20 million work in the gold mining industry surrounded by

hazardous working conditions,” Price said.

Price revealed that some of these children, especially older teenagers, were involved in underwater mining, exposing themselves to high levels of mercury poisoning.

Price then shifted the discussion to a different photo series called “Tanning & Textiles: The Death of Asian Rivers.” This presentation talked about pollution caused by several textile companies in countries like Indonesia, India and Bangladesh.

Some of the images presented the toxic tanneries in a neighborhood called Hazaribagh in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which contains nearly 200 leather tanneries.

Price ended the discussion with a short documentary film featuring Kabwe, Zambia, which has been named as the world’s most toxic town.

The film showed a series of photos and videos of Kabwe natives exposing themselves to huge amounts of toxic lead from metal mining and smelting.

Price earned his first Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography for his coverage of the 1980 coup d’état in Liberia in West Africa and his second one for his photography in El Salvador and Angola in 1985.

Price’s visit to MU was part of the Smith/Patterson Science Journalism Fellowship and Lecture Series, a joint initiative of the Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium and the Missouri School of Journalism, according to a

Two-time Pulitzer Prize award winner Larry Price talked to Mizzou students about his most recent photojournalism work. PHOTO COURTESY OF MISSOURI SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM

news release by the Journalism School.

The Pulitzer Center is a journalism and education non-profit NGO based in Washington D.C that was established in 2006. Its main goal is to provide funds to journalists so they can travel around the globe and report on underrepresented stories to the American audience, Peters said.

The Journalism School established this partnership with the Pulitzer Center in 2017 to enhance the school’s emphasis on science, health and environmental journalism.

The event also recognized the winner of this year’s Smith/Patterson

Pulitzer student fellowship, Margaret Vatterott.

Vatterott, who is currently a graduate student studying visual editing, also completed her undergraduate degree at MU in documentary journalism, said Sara Hiles, assistant professor at the Journalism School.

Hiles said she will soon be going to Mexico City to create a documentary film about how the water crisis affects the people of the nearby indigenous community there.

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MSA

MSA president hopes to connect with as many students as possible Julia Wopata plans on using her love for people to govern as student body president.

MAWA IQBAL

Staff Writer If someone told her freshman year that she was going to be the Missouri Students Association president, she would have called them crazy. She was brand new to a campus that had over 30,000 people enrolled.

President Julia Wopata had a general idea of what her college plan was going to look like: get to school, do well, get her degree and leave. She soon realized that it wasn’t going to be as cut and dry as she planned.

In high school, Wopata was involved in student council, show choir, volleyball and enrolled in a leadership class. Her identity was formed around her involvement.

“I had to redefine who I was,” Wopata said. “I had done so many things in high school, but then I came to school and nobody knew who I was.”

It didn’t take long for Wopata to change that. Naturally extroverted, Wopata joined campus ministry Veritas and Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, where she was connected with people

Then-MSA presidential candidate Julia Wopata talked about all of the support she had throughout college. PHOTO BY MADI WINFIELD | SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR

who encouraged her to grow into the person she is today.

“I had so many awesome people around me that by the end of freshman year, I was so secure in who I was and what I want to pursue,” Wopata said.

Now, three years later, Wopata is using her love of people to form

connections with student organizations in hopes of improving the student experience at MU. From emailing student representatives to simply walking people to class, Wopata hopes to incorporate people’s personal experiences in her leadership style.

“Through my time at MU I learned that I love people and that’s what gives me energy,” Wopata said. “I worked my tail off to make sure I met with people and learned about what organizations needed from all these different parts of campus.”

If Wopata hadn’t made this extra effort, she may not have even been in this position in the first place.

“I almost didn’t run the second time around, for the second election,” Wopata said. “But after meeting all these people and learning their stories, I was very moved. These people are so great and they really deserve to be represented so well.”

In reaching out to these people, Wopata also learned that finding similarities rather than focusing on differences is the best way to come to agreements.

“So many people have already reached out to me asking for support,” Wopata said. “I listen to them and maybe I don’t agree with them on the whole thing, but it’s about being honest about what you agree/disagree

with and giving them my support.”

Wopata likes to compare networking with these groups to the data tree structures she would encounter in her computer science courses. There’s a single node on the top of the tree that permeates throughout all the other nodes beneath it.

“You can have one person who tells two people something and those two people tell two more people and it just spreads,” Wopata said. “It’s going to be an army of people working together towards this common goal.”

Wopata and her army hope to make sure each student feels heard. After running under the slogan “More to Roar,” Wopata has found that she truly loves making people feel valued, just like how her Theta sisters made her feel three years ago.

“I firmly believe that we are the sum of all our influences,” Wopata said. “There are so many people who have touched us along the way in our lives that has shaped us into the people we are today.”

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the Night,” is meant as a literal reclamation of campus, with the aim of making it a safer place for everyone.

“We want to create a space for survivors to feel heard as well as reclaim our campus -- taking back the night, taking back our campus,” President of STARS Mavis Coffman said. Coffman joined the organization during her freshman year.

Coffman attended STARS’ fall event, Rock Against Rape, with her freshman year roommate, junior Sophia Faiella, who is now the vice president and event planner for STARS. Coffman attended a STARS meeting after the event, and then

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is typical of federal loans.

The bill says that after graduation, to maintain the scholarship as a grant and not a loan, a student must reside in Missouri within 12 months after graduation and maintain “qualified employment” within the calendar year after graduation, along with at least four consecutive years thereafter.

“Qualifying employment” is defined as an adjusted gross income of at least $10,000.

2017 and 2018 test-takers were required to receive a 31 American College Test score or a Scholastic Aptitude Test score of at least an 800 in both critical reading andath.

Qualifying students are eligible to receive up to $3,000 per year under the current Bright Flight scholarship.

No application is necessary, and approval letters are automatically sent to qualifying students.

Currently, students who are Missouri residents and U.S. citizens that achieve in the top three percent of scores for the ACT or SAT in Missouri qualify for the Bright Flight scholarship. The Bright Flight Promise Program would expand the number of students who are

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already good at communicating with the public to be out there, but not just in local areas across the entire state. Between all of the engagement fellows, we’ll cover every county in the state.”

Speck is one of six MU faculty members chosen as fellows for the upcoming academic year, though there are 15 fellows in total from the entire UM system. She said this program will address the divide between Missourians and the university.

“The goal is to improve the relationship the university and the state,” she said. “We’re a land grant university. It’s our job to serve the state, and a lot of times people don’t know about all the things the university does.”

James Cook, another MU engagement fellow, expressed similar

brought Faiella to the next one.

Both have become active in the organization since that time.

“There are a lot of people who know about our events, are educated about anti-violence, and for those people and survivors and victims we want to be able to provide this space, which is explicitly anti violent. It opens up a space for people to yell, to share their stories,” Faiella said.

“And also we want this event to raise awareness for those people who maybe aren’t familiar with this.

The whole event is saying this is our space, we deserve to feel safe here and we’re going to make you listen to us and what we have to say.”

STARS meets Thursdays at 5 p.m. in the RSVP Center.

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Students gathered at Traditions Plaza and received signs to march with throughout campus.

PHOTO BY MADI WINFIELD | SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR

eligible to receive the grant to the top 5 percent.

For the 2016-2017 fiscal year, 1,998 undergraduate students at MU received Bright Flight aid, totaling $5,703,161 in grants. Students can choose to receive a lesser amount of the grant than offered. Bright Flight is the largest program funded by state resources at MU that is merit-based.

Nick Prewett, executive director of Student Financial Aid at MU since 2012, said he has heard feedback from students regarding the bill, and some say that the promise to stay in Missouri can be a cause for concern.

“The feedback that we’ve had from some of our students is it’s tough to turn down free money but the commitment on the backend gives them cause for concern,” Prewett said.

Students who wish to keep aid from the Bright Flight Promise Program as a grant instead of a loan will be required to submit proof of residency and qualified employment on or before the first Monday of the second May after the student’s graduation, along with each year after.

If these qualifications are not met, the grant is turned into a loan at the beginning of the student’s 12 month grace period. It will become a Direct Subsidized Undergraduate Loan, which means the federal government pays the

interest on this loan during said grace period.

Moving from Missouri at any point in the approximately five years after graduation will not necessitate a full payment from the student. For each period of 12 month residency, the loan amount will be reduced by one-fourth.

Fitzpatrick said he does not know the specific motivations of students that oppose the bill, but that students should be appreciative of the funds they are receiving from the state.

“Your state wants to provide you more money but we also want you to participate in our economy after you graduate,” Fitzpatrick said. “Things aren’t usually free so I would encourage them to be grateful for the funds that we’re willing to invest in their education.”

Freshman Madeline Layne received the Bright Flight scholarship for the 2017-2018 school year. Layne said she would have had to take out more students loans for her education without the aid of the current Bright Flight scholarship. She also said, though the new promise program would fund full tuition for qualifying students, she does not encourage the change.

“I still don’t really support it because if you’re going to give someone something based on their ACT score which is something that they’ve earned

they should be able to keep it [and] do what they want with it with their education, rather than forcing them to stay in the state,” Layne said.

Missouri taxes will continue to fund this program and the funds will be allocated through the state treasury.

HB 2408 also creates the Bright Flight Promise Program Fund in the Missouri State Treasury Office.

Prewett expressed concern for regarding the administrative aspect of the Bright Flight Promise Program.

There are no provisions in the bill regarding how students will be notified that their grant has turned into a loan, and no reminders of what paperwork to turn in to receive grant benefits.

“We’re never gonna turn down free money or opportunities for aid for students, but at the same time we want to make sure the students are welleducated to make the best choices that are out there,” Prewett said.

HB 2408 was introduced on Feb. 7 and has gone through the second reading, was referred to a committee for higher education, and has completed a public hearing. It is not on the Missouri House of Representatives calendar as of April 30.

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sentiments.

“We need everyone in the state to be proud of and be engaged in the University of Missouri system,” Cook said. “Obviously, [the Presidential Engagement Fellows program] is not just here in Columbia. It’s for the whole system. This is a system-wide vision and a system-wide approach, and I think that’s critical.”

Cook is director of the MU Thompson Laboratory for Regenerative Orthopaedics and Mizzou BioJoint Center. When UM system President Mun Choi reached out to him in February about the initiative, he simply couldn’t refuse.

“It was so easy to say yes to his invitation because President Choi’s vision is big, which is great. It’s what we need,” Cook said. “It involves engaging people. We’re not an ivory tower of academia. [The university] depend[s] on everyone in the state to make the university as great as it can be.”

All fellows are required to attend a five-hour training session and an orientation. They also have regular

meetings to discuss engagement and communication strategies, as well as to learn more about each other’s research.

“The other cool part was to get to meet the other presidential fellows.

It gives you a lot of pride in MU,” Cook said. “When we go out and talk about what we’re doing at MU, we can also wave the entire banner and talk about what amazing things are going on in all these other areas that are included in this mission.”

The focus may be on connecting faculty with local communities, but involving students in university research and engagement has aided in the program’s establishment.

“What I’ve learned is that students are the engine for all of this,” Cook said. “All of the presidential fellows have a passion for students. I think involving students is what truly makes it possible, and I know all the presidential fellows will highlight what the students are doing. I certainly will.”

Speck said that although this program emphasizes faculty

engagement, it could further community engagement programs for students as well. If students are interested in outreach initiatives, Presidential Engagement Fellows could help highlight such opportunities.

“I personally have a lot of students involved in outreach events, so if students want to be involved I think that that's something we can do,” she said. “There are programs out there that already exist for students to be involved with reaching out to the public. Maybe [the Presidential Engagement Fellows program] will raise the profile of some of those.”

Those interested in requesting a talk from an engagement fellow may submit a Presidential Engagement Fellows Speaking Request Form on the UM system website. These talks are fiscally covered by the program itself, so they come at no cost to the community.

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SPORTS

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Online this week: The full feature on Karissa Schweizer, Plassmeyer emerges as Missouri’s ace and more.

BASEBALL

Cream of the Crop

Down eight, Missouri rallies, prevails 17-16 in five-hour classic at Iowa Tigers fell behind 8-0 before clawing back into the game.

JERRY DUGGAN AND BENNETT DURANDO

Staff Writer and Sports Editor Missouri’s 11-10 series finale loss at Kentucky on Sunday had everything.

The Tigers had their apparent gamewinning grand slam wiped out by, well, a game-winning grand slam that erased their late three-run lead.

Surely nothing could top it.

Enter Iowa, stretching and proclaiming: “Hold my drink.”

In a game that wasn’t even on its schedule two weeks ago, Missouri — down 8-0 after three innings, 13-6 after six, 14-13 after eight — found a way to topple the RPI top-50 Iowa Hawkeyes on the road, 17-16, in a five-hour, 11-inning marathon Tuesday night.

Shortstop Chris Cornelius ripped a tie-breaking RBI single in the top of the 11th to break a 15-15 tie and give Missouri the lead back for good, just its second advantage of the game. The Tigers briefly led in the ninth on a two-run rally after they entered the frame trailing, but that disappeared in the bottom half of the inning on one of Iowa’s seven home runs in the game.

The Tigers fight through a five-hour game to come out on top against the Hawkeyes. PHOTO COURTESY OF MIZZOU ATHLETICS

Junior outfielder Zach Hanna added an RBI single in the 11th to double Missouri’s lead. The gamewinning rally started on a leadoff

single from Brian Sharp. It was one of his season-high four hits after he entered the game in the fourth inning … as a pitcher.

Among other pitcher-behindthe-plate oddities in this 33-run

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Schweizer to leave Missouri as most-decorated runner in school history Schweizer has laid claim to eight All-American honors, six school records and five national championships (and counting).

ANDY KIMBALL

Staff Writer

On one of the first balmy Friday nights of spring, Karissa Schweizer sped down the straightaway of the track at Audrey J. Walton Stadium.

A flock of fans had crept onto the track and was cheering along lanes four through eight, shaking their cowbells and watching the Missouri senior Schweizer glide by with suspense. Others looked on from the stands, while some watched all the way from Taylor Stadium, taking a break from their evening of Missouri baseball to see Schweizer sprint down the home stretch in her final home meet as a Missouri Tiger.

As she left the rest of the field in her wake, the results yielded by that final home meet became clear: Schweizer finished with a school

record of 4:12.83 in the 1,500-meter run.

For most athletes, a school record near the end of their senior season would be a high point, a climax to culminate all their years of hard work.

For Schweizer, this was just another night.

Only three weeks earlier, Schweizer recorded another school record, and the NCAA’s ninth-fastest time ever, in her collegiate debut in the 10,000-meter run at the Stanford Invitational.

And six days after recording her school record in Columbia, she finished off a dominant month by recording the fourth-fastest time in the world and the fastest time in the NCAA in the 5,000-meter run. She triumphed over the field by more than a full minute.

The two school records this month bring her total to six, the most of any Missouri athlete ever. They occurred after a dominant indoor track season that ended with two national titles, giving her an incredible five for her career. She also tallied eight AllAmerican honors.

Schweizer’s accolades warrant

a case for her being the greatest University of Missouri athlete of all time.

But Schweizer isn’t too keen on the honor. Posed with the question, her eyes grew wide as she gazed down at her orange Nikes.

“Uh, I don’t know,” she said, nervously laughing. “That’s not really something I think about. I know that there have been some really good athletes here.”

She referenced three-time wrestling national champ J’den Cox and his 2016 Olympic bronze medal.

“Even being compared to some of those people is an honor in itself.”

At first glance, calling Schweizer a world-class athlete could seem like an unusual claim. She wasn’t a nationally known recruit coming out of high school, and her 5-foot-4 frame isn’t intimidating.

After all, it took a chance encounter at a Subway in Iowa just to set in motion the chain of events that led to Schweizer becoming a Tiger.

Fate a foot long Schweizer was a senior at Dowling Catholic High School in Urbandale, Iowa, and on her way home after

an eighth-place finish at the Roy Griak Invitational in 2013. She was stopped at a Subway when her father bumped into someone. He struck up a conversation with track coach Brett Halter.

“We were coming back from the race, and my dad is very talkative,” Schweizer said. “So of course he goes up to them and asks them how they did, and we realized it was another school that I could check out. And they kind of told us a little bit about the program, so I went for a visit.”

Schweizer wasn’t even considering Missouri before the conversation, instead focusing on Midwest powers Iowa State, Kansas and Illinois State. But she agreed to visit after recognizing how close campus was to her home in Urbandale.

“We recognized the school and realized it was close to home,” she said, “which was important because I wanted to stay in the Midwest.”

Schweizer visited MU’s campus soon after and was taken in by the atmosphere, so much so that she decided not to take anymore visits.

“I … just loved it right away,” Schweizer said. “It felt like home to me, and it was a place that I would

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extravaganza were Missouri’s Andy Toelken recording a hit and the Tigers’ use of pitcher Cody Siebenberger as a pinch hitter.

Luke Anderson was tapped to put an end to the madness in the bottom of the 11th with a two- run lead to protect, and he did just that, but not before making things interesting.

He gave up a solo home run — the last of those seven dingers — to cut the lead in half. He held on for the save after issuing back to back two-out walks to get the tying run in scoring position. In the process, Missouri coach Steve Bieser took issue with the strike zone and was ejected.

“The guys laid it all on the line today,” Bieser said after the game in a press release. “You talk about some resilience and just battling all the way through and never gave in. There were lots of ups and downs, but they just kept trusting one another.”

Going into this thrillride, Konnor Ash had not started a game for the Tigers since opening day, working exclusively out of the bullpen since then.

His rust showed.

The righty was tagged for three runs and failed to complete the second inning.

Coach Steve Bieser wasted no time going to his bullpen, turning to Cameron Pferrer to try to limit the damage. He was unable to do so, and after just three innings, the Tigers found themselves in an 8-0 hole.

In the top of the fourth inning, the Tigers started to chip away. Four consecutive walks included a bases loaded one to Cornelius, allowing Missouri to get on the board in unusual fashion.

In the next inning, Sharp, fresh into the game,

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added a run-scoring single. Next, pinch hitter Tony Ortiz delivered a two-run double to cut further into the deficit. Cornelius added an RBI groundout to cut it to 8-5 after five innings of play.

Brett Bond, filling in at first base as slugger Kameron Misner remains sidelined, came through in the sixth with an RBI double that sliced the score to 8-6.

But just as quickly as the Tigers got back in the game, they got themselves out of it by giving up five runs to Iowa in the bottom of the sixth to reopen a seven-run hole. Turns out, the fun was just getting started.

In part of a five-run eighth, Cornelius closed the gap with a three-run triple. Still down 13-11, Hanna corked a shocking two-run shot to tie the affair at 13 apiece.

Iowa went ahead in the bottom of the eighth, but a sacrifice fly by Ortiz tied it yet again in the ninth. Connor Brumfield added an RBI double to put the Tigers ahead 15-14 before another solo shot by the Hawkeyes sent the game to extras tied at 15, setting up Missouri’s 11th inning heroics and an improbable win.

Just two weeks ago, Missouri included Iowa as a mid-season add. The Tigers had already dropped three games due to inclement weather this season, all in the nonconference portion of its schedule.

NCAA rules permit teams to play a maximum of 56 regular season games, and even with the Iowa addition, the Tigers are only set at 55 — not including the SEC tournament and potential NCAA Regional play thereafter.

Looking ahead, the Tigers have another crucial weekend series at home against the Georgia Bulldogs starting Thursday with first pitch scheduled for 6 p.m.

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want to be even if I wasn’t running.”

Halter had entered Subway for a sandwich. He left with the beginnings of a career of an eventual five-time national champion.

Unheralded and unheard of In her first college season, Schweizer won SEC Freshman of the Year in an opening campaign that saw her shoot up to the No. 2 spot on the team behind Kaitlyn Fischer.

After running roughly 30 miles a week in high school, Schweizer built up to running 75 miles a week in college. According to a study from Bucknell University, the average American college student walks 26.95 miles per week.

Schweizer slowly closed the gap with Fischer in workouts, and then had a breakout race in the NCAA Midwest Regional, capping her attention-grabbing season with a spot in the national championships.

She finished that season with All-Midwest honors and went on to finish 155th at the national championships in Terre Haute, Indiana — on the same course where she would win her cross-country national title two years later.

But Schweizer failed to reach the national championships in indoor and outdoor track later that year.

Those outcomes marked a wake-up call.

“I kind of got lucky and made it to nationals my freshman year of crosscountry,” she said. “It just kind of hit me that it wasn’t always easy like that in track.

It was a realization for me that I needed to kind of step up my work ethic. I needed to put more hours into school and into running.”

That work translated to a personal record and secondteam All-SEC finish in her sophomore cross-country season. But one thing was missing: She failed to return to the national championships.

Even after improvement in her track seasons, she failed to qualify for NCAAs. The national breakthrough Though her career seemed stuck in neutral, Schweizer was recording faster times in more intense workouts.

Burns was maintaining his confidence in her, even when her own confidence faded.

“Burns kept telling me, ‘You’re having great workouts, [so] just believe in yourself. If you make it to nationals, something amazing is going to happen,’” Schweizer said. “He kept telling me that, and there were times that I didn’t even

believe him.”

But Schweizer finally earned her chance at the national championships and finished third there.

“That was really my breakthrough moment,” Schweizer said. “Right away [Burns] was like, ‘OK, time to get that national title,’” she said. “And I’m just like, ‘Aw coach, I got third; that’s good enough.’”

Schweizer kick-started her junior season with victories in four of her first five races, including SEC and NCAA Midwest Regional titles.

But entering the National Championships in Terre Haute, no experts expected her to be a contender.

FloTrack projected her to finish sixth. Even Schweizer hadn’t seriously considered the possibility of winning it all. She had just a top-five finish on her mind. And after the starting gun fired, she was playing from behind.

“I was going through the race and I thought, ‘Heck, you could win this thing,’” Schweizer said. “Once that thought even crossed my mind, I was so determined to just catch the next person, catch the next person. Once I was in third, I knew I didn’t want second.”

Schweizer found her kick in the last 1,000 meters. Suddenly all alone, she raised both arms in awestruck celebration as she crossed the finish line. A relative unknown coming into the meet, Schweizer had shocked everyone in Terre Haute to win the national championship.

“It definitely did not process through my mind,” she said. “I crossed the finish line and I was just in shock, immediately thinking that I was in a dream or something.

It was crazy.”

It was her first national title. It wasn’t her last.

A bump in the road In the whirlwind that followed her first national title, Schweizer mounted a winning streak of 10 in finals across cross-country and track. She ran her way to an indoor national championship in the 5,000-meter run, then brought her dominance back outdoors, winning her third national title and completing the distance triple crown.

Ready for her senior year, Schweizer triumphed in four of her five races in her quest to defend the title, including a 20-second thrashing the field in the 2017 NCAA Midwest Regional Championships.

Missouri as a team missed out on a tiebreaker, but Schweizer’s teammates journeyed to watch her in Louisville, Kentucky.

“It really threw me off not having my team there [on the track],” Schweizer said.

“It’s not the same if you don’t have them at the starting line and dealing with all the

pressure and just having an off race.”

That showed during the race; Schweizer was alone running with a pack of 225 competitors, chilly temperatures and strong winds pushing against her.

“You start running and you realize you aren’t gonna win,” she said, “and when you realize you’re not gonna win it’s like, ‘oh, if you’re second, no one is gonna be happy with second.’”

Schweizer was disappointed to end her cross-country career without a championship, but she did receive her sixth AllAmerican honor with an 11th-place finish. She said it helped her realize that she performs better as an underdog.

“I just had one bad race,” Schweizer said. “I wanted to prove that I wasn’t done yet.”

Getting back on top Schweizer got back on her path to dominance during the 2017-18 track season, registering three school records and ending her year with a championship double.

She broke the NCAA indoor 3,000-meter record with an 8:41 race in February.

Schweizer won the 5,000meter and 3,000-meter races on consecutive days at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field

Karissa Schweizer’s final race leaves her as one of MU’s greatest athletes in history. PHOTO BY ANDY KIMBALL | STAFF WRITER

National Championships in College Station, Texas. Her fourth and fifth national titles single handedly led Missouri to a ninth-place finish, while Schweizer surpassed J’den Cox for most individual championships ever by a Missouri athlete. Now she’s ready to finish her career this outdoor track season.

“It’s been an awesome ride,” she said. “I’m going to miss [my team]. It’s kind of been like a family for me here and just like a home away from home.”

After the season is over, Schweizer will transition to professional running, with her eyes on the 2020 Olympics.

In Missouri, Burns said the impact is unmeasurable.

“Around town, at the NCAA level, at the world level, people know us because they know her, five-time NCAA champion,” Burns said.

“She’s the poster child for distance running in America up-and-coming. She’s the up-and-coming star.”

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MU community participates in the world’s largest student film festival

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mood is light and we all have one mindset.”

The participants also highlighted the positive impact that the time restraints had on the quality of their productions and how they learned from the challenge that Campus Movie Fest presented.

“It showed us that you can write a script, make it and edit it, get the whole thing done in a small amount of time and [with] very few resources,” Ryan Silver, who worked on the film “Bobby,” said. “Not only was it fun to collaborate together, but it was a very good learning experience that will apply to future projects. It made it more important to not really spend a lot of time trying to get that perfect shot. It was a worthwhile challenge.”

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award for best performance of the night for his acting in the short “In This Car.” “I do a lot of comedy writing, and he approached me with such a dark subject matter,” Hausman said about the director Kendrick Smith.

“I knew this was gonna be a challenge, but I also know that Kendrick is a fantastic director because we work together a lot.”

“In This Car” was also one of the top four films of the night. It had a team of six people, which was the average for the fest.

“It’s easy to do films like this and make quality work when you have a great group of people to work with,” Solomon Henderson, who also worked in the short “In This Car,” said. “The team made it super easy to show up on set, get together and do projects like this. The

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all representatives of MU. Thirty films were submitted, but only 16 could be chosen and screened on the night of the fest. The top four are going to the national competition, the Terminus Festival, in Atlanta, Georgia.

They can also apply to the Campus Movie Fest’s Cannes program, which takes 45 students every year to watch their movie screened at the Cannes Festival in France.

This year, the top 25 national movies will also be streamed on Amazon Prime.

The theater was mainly occupied by young filmmakers; they found out if their movie was chosen or not during the screenings.

In spite of the pressure and tight deadline, many of the students were really happy with their work and their teams. One of them was Alex Hausman, winner of the

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The Missouri Theater was home to MU’s first ever Campus Movie Fest on April 26. The festival challenged students to create a short film in one week. They provided all the equipment necessary with no cost, from cameras to laptops with editing software.

The participants had seven days to write, produce and edit a movie no longer than five minutes.

A meeting where the contest rules and schedule were presented was held on April 17, and the film needed

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MARIANA LABBATE

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to be turned in the following Tuesday, on April 24. During this week, the students needed to balance classes and filmmaking. The festival also had a video manager available at all times to help students with any equipment doubts or problems they might face.

“It didn’t feel like enough time and mind you, I didn’t waste any time,” sophomore Shelby Perry said. Perry wrote and directed the movie “Fatal Mistake.”

“The meeting was on Tuesday and we got the equipment on Wednesday; that night, I taught myself all the equipment because we began filming on Thursday and I had to know that camera backwards and forwards,” Perry said.

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The festival brought its filmmaking challenge to MU students in a busy week of producing, editing and learning.

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MU Tonight holds its last show for the semester

The cast of MU Tonight after their final show of the year in the MU Student Center. PHOTO COURTESY OF JACOB DOUGLAS

MU Tonight is a branch of MUTV that focuses on live interviews, Internet videos and news jokes.

EMMA VEIDT

Staff Writer At MU Tonight’s last show of the semester on April 27, host Daniel Litwin performed a monologue, interviewed Tori Schafer, MU It’s On Us director, and Zahria Moore, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival finalist, and the three of them played a game: “Is it a Skittles flavor or flavored lube?”

MU Tonight mimics the structure and tone of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

In his monologue, Litwin joked about the week in news and pop

culture, such as Google’s new feature that deletes confidential Gmail messages.

“This is perfect for hipster millennials who are tired of Snapchat updates, which are atrocious, and are looking to send nudes the old fashion way,” Litwin said.

After his monologue, he invited Schafer on stage. Litwin and Schafer are both graduating in May and told the crowd about their post-graduation plans. Also, Schafer discussed her role in It’s On Us, the nationwide organization that works to end sexual assault. She recently received the Biden Courage Award, which recognizes students who work to end sexual assault. She, along with college students across Missouri, drafted a bill that is currently going through Missouri’s House of Representatives

about teaching sexual violence and consent education in Missouri’s high schools.

“The issue that we’re seeing on our college campus is that a lot of people, when they go through a Title IX contact hearing, say ‘I didn’t know what consent was’...”

Schafer said. “Educate them before they come to college. It’s an issue we should be talking about when you’re in kindergarten. You’re taught from a young age to keep your hands to yourself, so it’s just reinforcing that message.”

After a quick break, Litwin invited Moore on stage for her interview.

She wrote “Passion Play,” which was chosen as one of the best three plays in the region and was inspired by “The Passion of the Christ.” This play alludes to the Bible while addressing the Black Lives Matter movement, police brutality, gun control and suicide of black men.

“I flipped [The Passion of the Christ] basically instead of the resurrection of Jesus, to make it the resurrection of the black man,” Moore said.

At KCACTF, Moore watched professional actors perform her play for the first time; she performed the play herself at the regional conference. The inspiration for this play came from her own community.

“A teacher from my high school killed himself and it was very impactful in terms of the [DeKalb School of the Arts] community because we were all very close to him,” Moore said. “And last year, my grandfather got shot. I felt the need to write something that could give me some type of therapy and a chance to tackle these issues, while

watching the news and seeing this stuff happening all over the country, and seeing black men dying and just trying to make sense of it.”

After this interview, Schafer and MUTV member Natalie Sopyla joined them on stage for “Is it a Skittles flavor or flavored lube?” Sopyla carried tiny bottles of lube and one big bag of Skittles behind her back for the game, while Schafer and Moore stood in a huddle to determine whether dark berry or wild cherry were flavors of Skittles or lube. If they correctly matched the flavors, MU Tonight host Daniel Litwin got to eat a handful of Skittles. However, if they incorrectly matched the flavors, Litwin had to taste the lube.

Litwin invented this game during his sophomore year and has been trying to get it on the show ever since.

Sopyla led the game and was the alternate host for every show this year. Next year, she will take over as host of MU Tonight.

“I honestly never thought that I could have what it takes to be the host, but watching Daniel this past year has definitely helped me realize that I can just relax and have fun with this, and do everything I can to make it my own,” Sopyla said.

“That’s really what he’s done and why he’s been so great as a host this year.”

Although MU Tonight has monthly shows, many members within MUTV have their own online shows, like Sopyla’s “Nat n’ Zo Show.” MU Tonight will restart in fall 2018.

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RESIDENCY

Summer begins soon for students petitioning residency The summer months are supposed to be a time of relaxation, but for those petitioning residency, it can get stressful.

SADIE LEA

Reporter

As the spring semester wraps up, many out-of-state students are preparing to stay in Columbia over the summer to achieve residency.

The difference between out-of-state tuition and in-state tuition is huge.

Here are some things you will need as well as a few tips if you’re spending summer in Columbia: Your packet of residency information can be turned in on the first day of fall classes if you have reached the $2,000 income requirement. If you have not met that, you have until Sept. 15 to make the $2,000.

While in Columbia, even when you reach the $2,000 mark, you must continue working through the summer.

You will need to turn in copies of your lease or sublease, your driver’s licence, your voter registration card and your parents’ federal income tax form saying they do not claim you as a dependent. If your parents are divorced, they are both required to submit this form.

If you decide to leave Missouri for any of the 14 days that you are allotted to be out of the state, make sure you get documentation for that, so the university knows when you left Missouri and when you returned.

Being away from family for three months can be difficult, so you and your family can plan weekends in Missouri rather than heading home.

Branson is a huge tourist town in southern Missouri and could be a fun option for a family weekend. If you want to go somewhere bigger, try St. Louis or Kansas City, and if you want to be near the water, Osage Beach is the perfect vacation spot.

Every two to three days, if you’re not working, you will need to make a bank transaction. Some options for doing this without breaking the bank include splitting up your grocery

Branson, Osage Beach, St. Louis and Kansas City are just four out of the many places to visit while getting in-state residency. PHOTOS COURTESY OF WIKIPEDIA AND FLICKR

list, filling up your gas tank half way or treating yourself to a Sonic or Starbucks drink. As long as you can prove you were in Missouri on the days you were not working, you will be good to go.

Three months away from home may seem to drag on forever, but

it will save you $15,000 per year in tuition. These three months will change the rest of your time here at Mizzou for the better.

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STRESS RELIEF

How to be productive with the worst cases of procrastination Here are six ways to not regret wasting potential study time.

ALEXANDRA SHARP

MOVE Culture Editor

The days leading up to finals tend to be the most stressful and also contain the most procrastination.

Many students dread having to cram instead of actually studying for their big tests and papers.

Rather than pushing through the homework-induced anxiety, one way to cope is avoiding it altogether. If you are going to be academically unproductive, you might as well use your procrastination time wisely.

Re-energize the body Getting the blood flowing is a great way to de-stress and also get yourself ready for another chunk of studying. Especially if you are having writer’s block or are stuck on a particular problem, stepping away from the desk and clearing your mind helps you better focus later on. If you’ve got the time, do a few laps around the building instead. Go to MizzouRec for an hour or one of the many health-focused events held across campus, such as free yoga at Peace Park from 6-7 on Sundays.

Take a deep breath If physical exercise isn’t your cup of tea, try relaxing your mind through calming strategies rather than energizing ones. Meditation is a great way to clear your mind from all of finals stresses. Don’t worry about trying to fit your schedule around a meditation class; there are plenty of free meditation websites and apps, such as Simple Habit Meditation, that will lead you through the process.

Or if you are really sleep-deprived, just take a nap. Don’t fall asleep for hours; a 90-minute snooze is perfect for your REM cycle, leaving you refreshed and ready to start again when you wake up.

Be adventurous Although learning for class can be the cause of your procrastination, learning for fun could be the solution. Explore a new passion: go on Duolingo and start practicing a new language or get creative and try coding a video game. Learning because you want to learn is a great way to energize your mind for future studying and makes you a more wellrounded person in general.

Take advantage of MU Campus has numerous free activities for students to attend throughout the weeks leading up to finals. After spending all day in Ellis Library, watch the free Wednesday

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night film at Memorial Union or go to the farmers market at Lowry Mall on Thursday. A stroll down the MKT Nature and Fitness Trail or throwing a frisbee at the Quad is a great way to enjoy the fast-approaching summer weather.

Indulge yourself With finals week also comes the end of dining hall food if you have a meal plan. Be productive by using up any leftover meal swipes for Emporium Caf ingredients and cook something special for yourself. Having a healthy diet is as important for getting good

grades as studying and sleeping are.

Use your procrastination break to whip up a fruit or vegetable-heavy meal for yourself and your friends.

Make a plan If exam stress is starting to overwhelm you, try mapping out your situation. Make a schedule for what you need to do and when you can do it. Make sure you set your deadlines prior to the actual date so you have extra time to edit or more time to procrastinate.

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Student housing in Columbia is far from affordable for many For many students, the search for housing in Columbia is one filled with abnormal amounts of stress over what they can afford when it comes to living off campus.

MADI BAUGHMAN

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Madi Baughman is a freshman journalism and political science major who writes about political and civil rights issues for The Maneater.

It’s nearly the end of the school year, and that means it’s the time of year when students — freshmen especially — are scrambling to figure out their living situation for the summer and/or next school year.

During this time, students are already on edge about finals, and the added hardship of trying to locate and sign a lease on a place they can afford only adds to their overall stress level.

For many students, this means trying to juggle their grades with making enough money to find a place they may be able to afford.

This, however, is not as straightforward as it seems. It’s becoming harder and harder to find affordable living for a lot of students

in Columbia. However, it can’t just be attributed to changing times and inflation — finding affordable living for students is becoming more difficult than ever before, especially since most students work for lower wages and/or can only handle a parttime job while being a student full time. College is already a time when money is tight, and having to settle for a place where one loses most of their monthly paycheck is left without adequate savings can only add to factors like student debt.

There’s always the option of living on campus in the residence halls, and it is true that scholarship and loan money can go toward paying for campus living. However, not everyone has enough scholarships or loans to be able to afford living on campus for all of their college career, especially with how high tuition can be. For a double room in the cheapest residence hall at Mizzou, Hatch, the price tag $6,430. That alone comes out to $714 per month for the academic year, not counting the fees of other essential things such as dining plans or parking spots.

While that might not seem like a lot to some people, to many, it’s just not doable.

This is especially harmful to students coming to Mizzou from out of state, as they pretty much have to find somewhere to live for at least a year to gain residency if they don’t want to continue dealing with out-of-state tuition. There’s also the fact that students’ parents cannot always be guaranteed to help them

Living around MU is becoming more difficult with high-priced apartments and residence halls.

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out in college — a lot of students are navigating their way completely on their own. A lot of student living is aimed toward people who already live in state, or whose parents will be able to help them out with the rent should they ever need it, not toward the people who really need the expense break that living offcampus could give them.

For students who can afford residential living at Mizzou or higherrent apartments, this may not be a problem. The issue is that does not accurately portray what all students

can afford, and with increased amounts of “luxury living” complexes popping up all around campus, it looks like there will be even more unaffordable places for students to sort through in their housing search.

That’s the unfortunate reality of the situation: Housing in Columbia just isn’t affordable for a lot of students at its current price, and unless something happens soon to change that, students will continue to face huge obstacles to obtain affordable living arrangements.

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Unwanted casual flirting is still sexual harassment, and should not be brushed under the rug There is a time and a place for flirting, and the conference room isn’t it.

TATYANA MONNAY Opinion Columnist Tatyana Monnay is a freshman journalism major at MU. She is an opinions columnist who writes about politics for The Maneater.

The #MeToo movement has presented sexual assault and harassment survivors with a tellall platform, giving people the opportunity to understand what can count as sexual harassment and abuse.

For many victims of sexual harassment, the harassment they

faced took place in a professional setting. In 2016 the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission, a government agency that processes harassment complaints, released a comprehensive study about harassment in the workplace. The study reported that about 25 percent to 85 percent of women have been harassed in the workplace.

For many who have been educated on sexual harassment, they tend to picture violent acts and forceful sexual encounters as the most common form of harassment. But really, it could be as simple as your boss’s subtle way of flirting with you in the conference room. Nothing inappropriate is ever blatantly said, but your gut is telling you that they are being more mischievous than they are nice.

This is problematic for more than one reason. These types of encounters can quite literally make you crazy or at least make you feel crazy.

After you think that your boss or even fellow coworker is flirting with you, you will rethink and over-

analyze every conversation you have ever had with that person. Now, it is one thing if you want to be flirted with and I know it is a tricky situation to judge. However, too many people in authority positions have used their power to wield sexual encounters in their favor or have at least tried to do so.

These types of situations are scary to deal with, especially for women.

Although nothing physical has really happened, it makes the recipient of these inappropriate encounters feel weird and uncomfortable. There is nothing to report and nothing to really go on.

Another part of this process is second guessing yourself. There is no way they really meant it like that, right? It is so infuriating because there are times where they really did not mean it that way, and if you confront them, you look like a stuckup b----. So it can be easier to just stay quiet instead. According to the EEOC, approximately 75 percent of people who have been harrassed in some way at the workplace do not

report the incident.

Not only are these interactions making employees feel uncomfortable, they have the ability to hinder their career. If they are receiving unwanted flirtation, it can be scary to turn that person down for multiple reasons.

That person could be who they have to go to to discuss promotions, raises and other opportunities. They run the risk of losing opportunities to any of those. Now, their financial and job security are gone simply because they turned their boss down.

Many would argue that losing those potential opportunities is not worth it. The point is, this should not be an active dynamic in any workplace. If you are an authority figure at work, you should not flirt with your employees. In the majority of the cases, it comes off as creepy and is usually unwanted. People should not be afraid to interact with others at work in fear that they will say something inappropriate.

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