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Tuesday • Feb. 21, 2012 • Vol. 105 Issue 20 • the-standard.org

Briefs Governor announces Jenkins will be MSU student governor

Gov. Jay Nixon announced last week that MSU’s next student governor is Paige Jenkins. Jenkins will be confirmed by Missouri Legislators on Feb. 22. Jenkins, who is currently the Chief Sustainability Commissioner for SGA, will serve a twoyear term as student governor in which she will attend all meetings with the Board of Governors and serve as a non-voting representative of student interests. Jenkins is a junior majoring in agronomy with a minor in Chinese.

Photo provided by Association of Student Physical Therapists

MSU physical therapy students attended a conference in Chicago Feb. 8-11.

Physical therapy students travel to national conference

A group of 12 students from the MSU Doctor of Physical Therapy program traveled to Chicago to attend the American Physical Therapy Association’s Combined Section’s Meetings from Feb. 8 to 11.

The CSM is a national gathering of physical therapists where current research pertaining to physical therapy is presented and discussed.

The students will be presenting information they learned from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on March 7 in McQueary Family Health Sciences Hall 202.

All students are welcome to attend.

Calendar February 21 to February 27

Tuesday

Résumé Madness, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Glass Hall 103 Student Government Association meeting, 5:30 to 7 p.m. at PSU 313 Languages for Fun: Chinese, Spanish, French and Portuguese, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Siceluff 222 and 224 SAC Presents: Ann Wright, 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Carrington Theater

Wednesday

Résumé Madness, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Glass hall 103 Study Abroad with Arcadia Information Session, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. at Glass Hall 347 Life After Missouri State, 4 to 8 p.m. at PSU Theater Monday Evening Classes Meet/Wednesday Evening Classes Do Not Meet, 4 to 10 p.m. at Classes Administered by Springfield Campus

Thursday

Students for a Sustainable Future general meeting, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Temple Hall Pit Speed Networking Event, 4:30 to 8 p.m. at PSU Ballroom, registration required at http://www.missouristate.edu/dos /LAMS.htm

Friday

Lent begins, all day

Monday

Free Screenings for Eating Disorders Awareness Week, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 311 Carrington Hall Missouri London Program Informational Session, 4 to 5 p.m. at Glass hall 226

Lawsuit eases budget concerns MSU sends

By Michael Gulledge The Standard The addition of $40 million in state funds has reduced Missouri State’s budget shortfall to $11.7 million, leaving a tuition increase to 3.1 percent or lower for the 2012-2013 academic year, Interim President Clif Smart said at the Board of Governors meeting Friday.

“We will not be seeking a waiver from the commissioner from higher education,” Smart said. “I would not be telling you the truth if I told you this was an easy, painless process.”

The $40 million comes from a mortgage lawsuit settlement between state

and federal governments.

Gov. Jay Nixon recommended the funds go into higher education to reduce the appropriations cut to 7.8 percent from his original 12.5 percent cut.

Members of the Executive Budget Committee all agreed on the primary framework, which called for reducing expenses and increasing revenue, Smart said. One revenue increase will be through tuition.

Smart said in his Feb. 14 version of “Clif’s Notes” that the tuition increase to undergraduate resident students would be 3.1 percent or less. This is at or under the consumer price index’s change for this year, which eliminates the need for a waiver from

national survey to students

By Dayle Duggins The Standard

Graphic by Michael Gulledge/THE STANDARD

the commissioner of higher education for the state.

CPI is a measure of the cost of goods and is the highest amount that a university can increase tuition without a waiver under

Missouri state law.

SGA President Scott Turk said that he was excited that the governor was able to provide the See BUDGET page 8

The dangers of Facebook Inappropriate content can hinder students’ chances of being hired

Photo illustration by Steph Anderson/THE STANDARD

Some employers may search applicants’ Facebook profiles during the hiring process.

By Kris Collins The Standard Over the past few years the popularity of social networking websites has increased exponentially.

Facebook alone had 845 million monthly users in December 2011. Its monumental success can be attributed to individuals as well as companies and organizations that have pages.

Since Facebook and other networking sites have become so successful and have so many users, it’s not an uncommon practice for employers to search for background information on employees or potential employees.

Addye Buckley-Burnell, career resources specialist at the Career Center,

said that not all employers do these types of background checks, but the probability varies depending on the job.

“It really depends on the work load of the human resources,” Buckley-Burnell said. “Some employers don’t use it at all and others say they do it for every person they interview.”

The Career Center tries to warn students who may be unaware of such searches about the dangers of putting offensive or inappropriate material on their Facebook accounts.

Peace Ndem, a senior marketing research major, said she doesn’t have very strict privacy settings.

“I don’t have much security,” Ndem said. “It’s smart for employers to do that because theoretically

you wouldn’t bring your private life to work.”

During Public Affairs Week last semester, the Career Center incorporated a session about Facebook and protecting yourself online.

“It’s a chance for us to get the information out, and we try to help students set up their profiles and set professional ones as well,” Buckley-Burnell said.

Buckley-Burnell suggested that Facebook users create two accounts—one personal account and one professional account. By increasing the privacy settings on your personal account and leaving them open on your professional account, you can ensure that any potential employers will find your professional account.

“We can meet with students to help them figure out how exactly to do that,” Buckley-Burnell said. “I’ve sat there with students to help them through that process.”

According to BuckleyBurnell, liking certain professional pages on Facebook, such as the pages of companies you’re applying to and other professional organizations, can be beneficial if companies are in fact doing such searches.

Using that professional account proactively is a good way to show employers that you exude professionalism and are involved without compromising your personal account.

Buckley-Burnell said that third-party firms exist See FACEBOOK page 2

Mediacom helps students go digital

By Anna Thomas The Standard Mediacom provides cable television to homes all over Springfield including the residence halls at Missouri State University, meaning that its change to digital cable starting on March 6, has an impact on students as well.

Phyllis Peters, communications director for Mediacom, explained that there are two kinds of signals in cable — analog and digital — and Mediacom is making the transition to solely digital because it is more efficient.

“Analog has been around since the first days of television, but its a road-hog and takes up too much space,” Peters said.

Where can students pick up digital converter boxes?

Blair-Shannon House: 3 to 7 p.m., Feb. 28 Hammons House: 3 to 7 p.m., Feb. 29

“For every analog channel removed we can replace it with three HD channels or ten standard channels.”

This not only brings clients the up-to-date television experience they want, Peters said, but it also allows for other elements, such as their Internet, to have a higher capacity and therefore have better speed.

Marina Londo, a freshman pre-nursing major,

said she likes the idea of digital cable but is not sure how many students even know the switch is happening.

“It’s good because everything is becoming advanced anyway,” Londo said. “I bet a lot of students won’t know what it is though.”

Televisions manufactured after March 2007 were required by law to have a digital toner as an internal component so it could process either analog or digital signals.

However, televisions made earlier only process analog and will need a small external adapter, including students’ televisions on campus.

Mediacom is giving these adaptors to clients

for free and are making them available at sites on campus. Students with older televisions can head to the Blair-Shannon Grand Lounge from 3 to 7 p.m. on Feb. 28 or from 3 to 7 p.m. in the Hammons House lobby on Feb. 29 to pick one up.

Deborah Christensen, a freshman theatre design major, said she thinks that Mediacom is handling the transition very well.

“I have an older TV and wouldn’t know how to go about making it adaptable to the digital television,” she said. “The locations to pick up the adaptor are great and accessible to me.”

However, Peters See MEDIACOM page 2

Ever delete an email from Missouri State without reading it? Missouri State staff, faculty and administrators are hoping students will rethink that instinct for the National Survey of Student Engagement.

The survey is intended to improve the collegiate experience of undergrads, according to the NSSE website. The study takes about 15 minutes to complete and consists of questions surrounding curriculum, campus life and the college experience. Schools usually target their first-year and senior students, giving them the ability to compare college expectations with college realities. If college was a class, this would be its end of semester evaluation.

Kelly Cara has been working to distribute, market and coordinate all efforts of the largest survey given across campus. As the assessment research coordinator for Missouri State, Cara said she considers the evaluation to be one of the most important surveys given to students, as it has the potential to improve nearly every aspect of the college experience.

“Having been a student here I know sometimes it’s frustrating because you feel like there are other things you want to give feedback about that those course evaluations don’t touch on,” Cara said. “This survey touches on a lot more areas than just one individual course. So really it’s an opportunity for students to provide their feedback to the university. The university is only as good as its members, so staff need to be giving constant feedback, faculty need to be giving constant feedback, but we really need to hear from students.”

This year will be Cara’s first year working with the NSSE. She was not the assessment research coordinator when the last survey was given in 2009.

Although Cara does not know of any specific changes that were made with past findings, she said she hopes the school will take full advantage of the results.

The survey could drastically improve SOAR for incoming students by giving them solid expectations and information built on firsthand experiences. Cara said the information could be used to better reach students and be utilized as a tool to reach out to parents.

Director of Student Engagement Jeremy Schenk said he expects to see more engagement on MSU’s campus than others after the results are compiled and distributed.

“The data is used to show how students are engaged both on and off campus,” he said. “And so far, for our office in particular, that’s key data for us to be able to see. Getting students really engaged in their community and in global issues is an important aspect that we really push for and Schenk strive for.”

Schenk said the results of the survey could help improve what the Office of Student Engagement offers students. By looking at the results of peer institutions, the office has the ability to mimic successful programs.

“I think being engaged sets the tone to make sure you are still an active citizen when you get out of college,” Schenk said. “Our hope is that we are instilling some values, beliefs and desires in students now and that fire only grows as they move forward in their life.”

Students have until early May to complete the evaluation, Cara said.

In August, the results will be distributed around campus to be utilized in a variety of ways.

To share your individual college experience at MSU, look for the subject line labeled “Missouri State University wants your feedback.”

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MSU architects look for feedback from students

By Damien M. DiPlacido The Standard

In this fast-paced, quick-fix world, satisfaction is often taken on the run and in small increments. But for some, feelings of satisfaction sit at the end of a long road that can take years to travel.

“We work on these projects for years before they’re actually open for use by the students,” said Doug Sampson, director of Missouri State’s Planning, Design and Construction Department. “To go in and watch the students and faculty interact with that building brings a lot of satisfaction to us.”

The Office of Planning, Design and Construction is the driving force behind the development of the campus’ physical environment.

Many of the buildings, classrooms and meeting areas students frequent on a daily basis are the brainchil-

dren of Sampson and his awardwinning team of 13 managers and specialists.

Sampson, a registered architect and graduate of the University of Nebraska, began working at Missouri State in 1990.

“It’s a tangible thing that we do.

Bricks and mortar are pretty visible,” Sampson said. “We want to reinforce that campus feeling so 10 or 20 years after people graduate, they think of all the good times they had here as well as the good education they got.”

Aside from the construction of the Foster Recreation Center and several other current projects, Sampson said the Kings Street Quarter is going to be a campuschanging development. Construction on Kings Street is projected to be complete at the end of this summer.

“Kings Street is the last exposed

old brick street on our campus,” Sampson said. “It has really high curbs so it’s not very pedestrian friendly or disabled friendly. We’ve also got some storm water issues.”

The Kings Street Quarter cuts a path between the Forsythe Athletic Center and McDonald Arena and continues past the mall between Carrington and the fountain, Sampson said. The old brick will be taken up in order to be reused and some of the original brick will be retained to keep the look of the historic street.

“Once we get the walkways and bike ways in, we’re going to start putting some landscaping in and enhancing that,” Sampson said.

“One of the things I think this campus is missing is outdoor spaces that are great for gathering. We’re looking at how to improve that.”

One key aspect to the relevance of a department like planning, design and construction is student

feedback, Sampson said. Knowing exactly how students feel about the buildings they have to interact with would provide invaluable assistance in the planning of future projects.

“I never hear any feedback from the students,” Sampson said. “If they hate something about a building, I want to hear it. But if they enjoy it, I want to hear that, too. We like to make places the students are enjoying. We don’t want them to fall asleep as soon as they walk into the room.”

One example of student feedback that could be beneficial for Sampson and his team comes from global Studies graduate student Mark Nichols, who spends a great deal of time in Glass Hall. He said he is unsure about the feeling that a building like Glass Hall can project on a person.

“Architecturally, it’s an interest-

ing and unique-looking building,” Nichols said. “But it tends to be really dim on the inside. It kind of makes you feel isolated from the rest of the world.”

Sampson said he wants students to always be thinking about what areas of campus could use improvement.

“Students should be thinking of what more could be done on campus,” Sampson said. “People should think about all the other universities they’ve visited and what stands out in their minds. Do we have that here?”

Doug Sampson and the Department of Planning, Design and Construction want student feedback.

Contact them at DesignandConstruction@missouristate.edu, or call 417-836-5101. To check out their website, go to http://www.design.missouristate.ed u.

National Ave. construction approved Mediacom

By Lindsey Howard The Standard

The intersection of National Avenue and Monroe Street is well on its way to becoming the official entryway onto Missouri State University’s campus after the university’s proposal to install a traffic light and make other improvements was passed.

The Board of Governors approved the proposal, a joint effort by the university and the city of Springfield, at their meeting Friday. The proposal includes plans to widen Monroe Street to provide for adding a southbound right turn lane and dual left turn lanes as well as extension of the existing barrier median and installation of a new decorative fence and pedestrian crosswalk along with the traffic light.

Douglas Sampson, university architect and director of campus planning, says the improvements will help with traffic flow as well as create an official entrance onto campus for vehicles.

“The university has been interested in creating a vehicular entrance to campus for some time,” Sampson said. “Our address is 901 S. National, but if you are a visitor coming into campus from the south, you cannot turn into Lot 1 or the official address to campus.”

Improvements and additions to the

intersection has been considered since 2007, when a traffic, parking and pedestrian study conducted by a consultant for both the city and the university concluded that traffic volume was expected to increase in the area and installation of a traffic signal would help with potential problems. In 2008, the city and Missouri State reached an agreement on the proposal.

Jason Haynes, a traffic engineer with the city of Springfield’s public works department, feels the improvements will benefit both the university and the city and cites heavy traffic from events held at JQH Arena as a main factor for both groups in their decision to complete the construction.

“The need is due to major volumes before and after JQH Arena events including normal daily traffic volumes,” Haynes said. “Given the additional traffic that will be at this location in future years, the signal becomes increasingly important and needed.”

According to the proposal and Haynes, the university will be responsible for construction costs west of the intersection. These improvements, which are estimated to cost $100,000 include curbs and gutters, sidewalks, driveways and any other road infrastructure that is required.

At the Board’s meeting, Ken McClure, vice president of administrative and information services, said the

funds will come from his department’s budget.

The city will pay for the rest of the project as the agreed upon proposal caps the university’s contribution at $100,000. The total cost for the project, according to Haynes, is expected to be approximately $300,000, making the city’s contribution around $200,000.

Missouri State senior Alexandra Kaatz, an antiquities major, thinks the project is good for the university, particularly students who frequently cross National.

“I think the proposal’s a good idea because it benefits our campus and will increase safety,” Kaatz said. “I don’t know how many times my friends and I have crossed National to get to Potter’s House and there are plenty of other businesses and houses over there too. All in all, $100,000 is quite a reasonable price for this to happen.”

Now that the Board has approved the project, Haynes said the next step is to begin taking bids on the project before construction begins.

“If everything goes as planned, we hope to have the project under contract in mid-May and construct throughout the summer with completion very near the beginning of the fall 2012 semester,” Haynes said. “Any delay would push the completion into the fall semester.”

Continued from page 1 emphasized that the adaptors are not for the students to keep. They are designed to be for one specific customer to one specific address and another one can be received next semester if needed.

However, the plan is to transition until there are fewer adaptors needed. It has yet to be decided whether students will leave the adaptor in their rooms or if there will be a collection date with Mediacom.

Facebook Continued from page 1 that collect information on employees and potential employees for background checks.

“They can get pictures from up to 10 years ago,” she said.

Although such firms do exist and some companies will perform such background checks, BuckleyBurnell says that most aren’t doing so.

A good rule of thumb is to use common sense when you’re posting online, she said.

“Anything you put on there is permanent so edit yourself a little

“The transition is set up to be easy, but I have a feeling students might miss the dates to pick up adaptors, if they even notice they cannot receive digital,” Londo said.

If students do miss the pick-up dates, they can always go to the distribution center at Mediacom Ice Park from noon to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday. For those who simply like analog better, channels 22 and lower will remain available in analog.

“We want our business and the transition to be accessible, easy and the best it can be for our customers,” Peters said.

more for that,” Buckley-Burnell said. “Keep it appropriate. If you wouldn’t show it to your grandmother, it probably shouldn’t be on there.”

Buckley-Burnell said that employers don’t expect their employees or potential employees to be perfect, but they do want you to represent the company professionally. Being proactive on your professional account shows your personality as well as your professionalism.

“A lot of people get freaked out and change their picture and names immediately, but you do need some sort of presence,” Buckley-Burnell said. “If they don’t see any kind of account, they’re going to be a little suspicious.”

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Feb. 21, 2012

Letters to the Editor University’s public affairs mission is troubling

Correction: The letter to the editor titled “Ann Coulter lacks cultural competency” was accidently published in last week’s issue of The Standard as written by senior Jim Hackney. The real author is senior Zach Durham. This is Hackney’s response to the letter that Durham wrote:

The author mentions MSU’s public affairs mission. I have always been troubled by this “mission.” The way I see it, the public affairs mission of all educational institutions is to produce educated citizens who go on to lead responsible and productive lives. Nothing more, nothing less. If they do this then they have successfully completed their public affairs mission. Anything else is pushing an agenda. I completely and utterly reject the university’s so-called public affairs mission, which is nothing less than a political agenda meant to preach the touchy-feely politically correct issue of the moment and a mantra of “government can solve all problems and

you should be a part of it.” The government needs no help in increasing its ranks, its cost and its interference in our lives, thank you very much.

As for Ann Coulter, I am a Ron Paul Republican and veteran who despises her because she is a war-mongering, police state-loving neoconservative Republican whose allegiance lies with Israel. Ms. Coulter preaches small government out of one side of her mouth while demanding perpetual war out of the other side. She is either unable to see the cognitive dissonance of her position, which makes her a joke who shouldn’t be taken seriously, or she does see it but doesn’t care because it serves her purpose, which

makes her a despicable person who has no morals and does not value the lives of her fellow Americans serving in our military.

Having said that, I welcome her to the university. Unlike the person who did write the letter that has my name attached to it, I believe in free speech and understand that there are people on this campus and in this town who are Ann Coulter fans. I would never presume to think that because I disagree with her positions or comments that she should not be invited to speak.

Jim Hackney Senior Technology management major

Ann Coulter caters to some students’ ideals

SAC’s response to Zach Durham’s letter to the editor in last week’s issue of The Standard regarding Ann Coulter’s upcoming visit to campus:

We appreciate your concern for the upcoming Ann Coulter speaking engagement and its congruence with the public affairs mission.

This program passed through our All Council composed of your peers, which believes that this program, while challenging some students’ beliefs, will cater to the ideals of others. We make it a point to represent the diverse beliefs of our student body in our pro-

gramming.

But for those who disagree with Ms. Coulter, sometimes a challenge to our belief system serves to strengthen our resolve. As college students, we’re not only learning the rhetoric we’re taught in class, but honing our ability to think for ourselves, to define our moral code, to decide what is worth believing in.

Even for students who disagree with Ms. Coulter, we expect that they

could still find educational and entertainment value in the program. We welcome all students to voice their opinions in determining our programming by attending our All Council meetings Tuesdays at 4 p.m. in PSU room 313.

Courtney Current Student Activities Council President

Be responsible by staying home when ill

It’s the middle of the night and you’ve just woken up with a fever and are practically hacking your lungs up. You get out of bed, take some medicine and then weigh your two options for when morning comes: go to class or stay home.

Take it from someone who’s just spent the past week lying on the sofa watching “Mad Men” and living on a diet of Popsicles and chicken noodle soup—staying home is the best and really only option.

Sure you could go to class and sit there, blowing your nose every five seconds, feeling awful, not focusing on what your professor is saying and spreading your germs to everyone in the room to keep your perfect attendance record for the semester. But who wins in this scenario?

You’re still sick and odds are you just infected, or at least distracted, half of your classmates.

Not cool.

What you should do is call Taylor Health and Wellness at 417-836-4000 and make an appointment to see a doctor. If you’re sick and calling in to see someone, they’ll make an effort to get you in as soon as possible and your consultation as a student is entirely free.

Once you’ve met with someone and they’ve made suggestions about how to get better (medicines to take, beverages to drink, etc.) go invest in your “I’m sick and my mom isn’t here to take care of me” kit. It should include things like soup, orange juice, Vicks VapoRub, a thermometer, cough drops, crackers and Popsicles.

Then go home. Email your professors and tell them you’re running a fever and taking the day off to get better. Chances are they’ll be entirely supportive of your decision to not expose them, or anyone else in their class, to whatever you’ve come down with and will work with you on getting caught up on missed material.

After that, rest. Spend the whole day in bed self-medicating and watching your favorite TV show, dozing in and out of consciousness. Be responsible about being sick and take care of yourself so you get better sooner, without needlessly exposing anyone else.

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Common sense with Facebook is a must Using the ‘Rule of Grandma’can help or hurt

Once upon a time, my dad requested me on Facebook. My profile picture at the time, I believe, was from an epic Halloween party. I knew it was probably a bad idea, but I begrudgingly accepted his request.

At the time, I wasn’t only his daughter but also a contracted employee. He had hired me as a “consultant” to produce newsletters about the end of the world – aka international news reports about nuclear weapons – to be sent to political and military officials.

My father and I were friends for about a week before I unfriended him. I knew it was going to happen. He sent me a message warning me that future employers would look at my profile one day and pass judgments, and perhaps I wanted to “reconsider” some of my photos.

I don’t even have any scandalous photos uploaded. In fact, in comparison to much of what I’ve seen, I’d even dare to say that I’m conservative when it comes to my Facebook photos and postings.

The Standard

Kandice McKee Columnist In today’s story about Facebook and job hunting, Kris Collins writes that Addye Buckley-Burnell, career resources specialist at the Career Center, recommends using the “Rule of Grandma” when it comes to Facebook activity – “Keep it appropriate. If you wouldn’t show it to your grandmother it probably shouldn’t be on there,” she’s quoted as saying.

Well, I’m friends with my grandma on Facebook, and I don’t think she has been horrified by anything on my page. Nonetheless, my father didn’t approve, and our Facebook friendship remains deactivated.

What really drove me crazy, though, is that my father has ingrained in me the need for Internet security, and I try to keep my profile as private as possible without totally removing my name from searches because of this passed-on value. None of my photos are accessible unless I’m friends with a person. I guess, except, photos that my friends without

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tight privacy settings have tagged me in, which happens rarely, if at all. Or if Facebook changed their damn privacy settings again and I’ve yet to update my own.

However, during my own days of professional job hunting a few years ago, I never ran across anything that indicated I was being Facebook stalked prior to an interview. Then again, while newspapers are in the business of investigating, I think the time to meander Facebook profiles of prospective employees is usually informally left up to prospective co-workers.

I imagine the scene may be different in a suit-and-tie operation. Or perhaps even for graduate or doctorate programs. I’ve heard some of the highly competitive programs doing the same kind of online research about probable students that some employers do.

Despite my father’s warning about my online presence, my three-month job search ended in success with no mention of my Facebook page.

Whether you’re thinking professionally or personally, half-naked profile pictures aren’t as cool as you may think. Or the one of you passed out with a drink in your hand, or cigarette (or whatever that is) in your mouth.

And status updates about partying are just annoying. You’re not the first one to get obliterated by (insert substance choice(s) here).

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1. You will not provide any false personal information on Facebook.

2. You will not create more than one personal profile.

3. You will not use Facebook to do anything unlawful, misleading, malicious or discriminatory.

Source: Information gathered from Facebookʼs Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.

And your advertisement of bodily abuse is sickening, not just to your liver, but to my eyes and mind.

Even if you have a separate personal and professional Facebook profile, as BuckleyBurnell recommends in today’s story, I’d also recommend using some common sense when it comes to both – especially since there have been instances of people being fired for what they post on Facebook about their jobs/employers.

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Feb. 21, 2012

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‘How I Learned to Drive’ harbors heavy social controversies, discusses incest

February 21 to February 27

Tuesday

Quantum Groove 9 p.m. at Lindbergs, free Tuesday’s Stew 10 p.m. at the Outland Ballroom, free for ladies 18+ and gents 21+

By Kelsey Berry The Standard

Open Mic Night 9 p.m. at the Outland, free

Missouri State University’s Theatre and Dance Department will present “How I Learned to Drive,” a drama written by Paula Vogel, Feb. 23 through March 6.

Directed by Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance Kurt Heinlein, this theatrical production is anything but what an audience would expect from the title in itself.

“How I Learned to Drive” is a drama narrated by a woman who tells the story of her own life experience of growing up in the 1960s while being confronted with an inappropriate, incestuous relationship brought on by her uncle. Her story, instead of moving forward in a linear way, is told through a series of memories, jumping back and forth through time.

Heinlein described how the play carries some very difficult social issues, yet at the same time is laced with comedic characteristics.

“As a child she had a bizarre relationship that sort of evolved into molestation,” he said. “But the play is not really about incest, it’s really about her as an adult, finding a way to move forward.

“The play looks back at her past in order for her to move forward,” he continued. “But the thing about the play is, it’s hysterical. It’s really well written and it’s funny. I wouldn’t define it as a pure comedy, because it’s balanced with a lot of difficult issues, but she writes about them in a way that is very human and funny, believe it or not.”

Heinlein said the message of the play as a whole can be summed up by the question, “How do we take something negative that has helped define us and then use it to redefine ourselves in a way that

Let's #@%! 9 p.m. at Jekyll & Hyde’s, free for 21+ and $5 for 18+ (only 100 minors allowed at a time) Missouri Jazz Orchestra (MOJO) 8 to 10 p.m. at Marty’s Sports Bar, free Lydia Loveless 8 p.m. at Lindbergs, $8

Wednesday

Dug & the SOULar Panels 7 to 10 p.m. at Patton Alley Pub, free The Endless Summer CD Release: Abandon Kansas, Cloud City, and We Are Voices 7:30 p.m. at the Outland Ballroom, $6

Thursday

Think ‘n’ Trivia 7 p.m. at Patton Alley Pub, free 20 Acres from Pavement and Quantum Groove 9 p.m. at the Outland Ballroom, cover charge The Ben Miller Band 9 p.m. at Patton Alley Pub, cover charge Laughingstock presents: Merr's Live Album Recording 9:30 p.m. at the Blue Room in Billiard’s, $10

Friday

Jazz Trio 8 to 10 p.m. at the Outland, $3 The Detectives Rock ‘n’ Soul 10:30 p.m. at the Outland, $5 for 21+ and $7 for 18+ The Gimps Rock ‘n’ Soul 11 p.m. at Dean Z’s Club 57, $5 Doyle Hargraves Construction: A Tribute to Dwight Yoakam and Mustache 9 p.m. at the Outland Ballroom, cover charge The Revenge 9 p.m. at Cartoon’s Oyster Bar & Grill, $5 Spinrad 9 p.m. at Patton Alley Pub, cover charge Gas Pump Talent, Big Damn Heroes, and Black Bonnet Ballyhoo 9 p.m. at Lindbergs, cover charge

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Hula hoop lessons begin Sunday, March 4 at 6 p.m. The class is $30 for a five-week session of hourlong lessons. Sign up by March 1 on the Campus Recreation website to guarantee your spot.

Hooptastic mom Hula hoop lessons to be offered at Missouri State

By Lauren Healey The Standard

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or giving birth little more than two weeks ago, Amanda Frealy looks surprisingly svelte when she walks into our interview, carrying what must be at least 10

hula hoops.

Frealy, who has been hooping for three years, gave birth to her first child, PennyLane Marie Henry, on Saturday, Jan. 28.

“It’s really cool being a mom,” she said. “People can’t explain it to you. You just have to wait until you

see your baby and then you understand and you love them so much.

The being-up-all-night thing is kind of tiring, but it’s worth it. She’s pretty chill, so we got lucky. She only cries when she’s hungry or dirty. Otherwise, she’s just hanging out, being our little buddy.”

Frealy said being pregnant and hooping was a challenge and a journey of learning how to move differently.

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Saturday

Mo Poetry shows competitive love

Sunday

Local comedians compete for spot in National Poetry Slam

Q102 Homegrown Presents: Far From It, Funkee Noosa, State of Mizzery 9 p.m. at the Outland, $5

Members of Speakeasy 8 p.m. at Ebbets Field Downtown, free

Monday

Open Mic Night 7 to 11 p.m. at Harlow’s, free Mascara Metal Monday 10 p.m. at the Outland, free

Briefs Peter Frampton to perform at Gillioz

Classic rock legend Peter Frampton will perform at the Gillioz Theatre at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27.

This three hour show will feature the entirety of the Frampton Comes Alive 35 Tour.

Tickets range from $46 to $95, depending on your choice of seat.

You can purchase tickets by calling 417-863-9491 or by visiting gillioz.ticketforce.com.

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Missouri State accapella group to host competition

A Cub Bella, Missouri State University's only all-female acappella group, is hosting a quarterfinal for the International Competition of Collegiate A Cappella in Springfield, Mo. The event will be held downtown at the Gillioz Theatre at 8 p.m. on Feb. 25

By Kaycie Surrell The Standard MO Poetry Slam Springfield held its “Show Your Love” poetry event last Thursday featuring a group of competing slam poets, encouraged to bring poems inspired by love. Guest poet and spoken-word artist Amoja “MoMan” Sumler of Little Rock, Ark., also performed.

The event began with MoMan’s performance. His poetry covered a wide range of emotions and topics from the lighthearted to the remorseful, each commanding attention. He has performed at Nathan P. Murphy’s several times before and makes it a point to make a stop in Springfield during every tour.

“I know and love all these guys,” MoMan said.

“Every venue is a lot different so it’s always tricky to figure out the pieces that are going to connect and have emotional resonance.”

As a child, MoMan had little interest in writing, but an influential teacher and the support of his parents helped him develop a love of the craft.

“My parents sat me down and gave me a little talk and whipped out all these male poets, so I opened myself to the experience and I’ve been writing ever since,” MoMan said.

Following MoMan’s performance, the competing slam poets got ready to take the stage. Only 12 poets can compete at a time, but 16 signed up, so the remaining four competed in a haiku challenge for the last two spots.

“The first 10 people that sign up are automatically in,

so the next four had to battle it out,” poet Seth White said. “It’s our regular slam, so they’re competing for first place which gets a gift certificate to Brown Egg and $25. The top placing poets get points toward being on our team that goes to nationals in August.”

Poets compete in a poetry slam following rules and receiving scores from judges to win points toward competition in the National Poetry Slam. The competition has been taking place since 1990 and allows poets from across the United States, Canada and France to perform slam on a large scale.

Anyone can compete, and when it comes to subject matter, the sky is the limit, though competing poets are expected to pay the door cover and follow the rules, such as not using props, costumes or musical accompaniment, and the poems must be original and up to three minutes in length.

Twelve brave poets took the stage reciting their original work—some meek and timid, their first time on the stage—and others bolder.

Poet Ginny Law is fairly new to slam and started performing just a few months ago.

“The haiku slam in December was my first time,” Law said. “I hadn’t written a haiku poem since middle school and I got cut after the first round but I continued to come back and write because I love it.”

Slam poetry is a fairly new art form that, while exhibiting many of the same characteristics of traditional poetry, is still considered less literary than more traditional forms.

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MO Poetry Slam Springfield had its “Show Your Love” Valentine’s Day poetry slam at Nathan P. Murphy’s (218 S. Campbell Ave.) last Thursday evening.

“You’re going to find the same exact devices being used; you’ll find repetition, allusion, alliteration, all of these concepts exist, it’s just allowing it to exist for more than publication,” MoMan said. “You’re out there being an active agent in the dissemination of the pieces.”

Three poets made it to the final round but only one could take home the prize.

New to the Nathan P. Murphy’s stage but not to poetry, writer and member of the band, Listener, Dan Smith

proved to be the crowd favorite.

Listener is a spokenword band that is often described as “talk music,” a style that is neither screamed nor spoken but a slam-style poetic rant. Dan Smith is both vocalist and lyricist for the band.

“I just write a bunch of words,” Smith said. “Our music is a bunch of yelling and poetry anyway and rock and roll so that’s all the things that I know how to do are my songs that I write for Listener.”

MO Poetry runs a monthly poetry slam on the third Thursday of the month at Nathan P. Murphy’s starting at 7 p.m. They also offer classes for both teen and adult poets at The Creamery Arts Center.

Show Me Youth Poetry classes are for poets ages 13 to 19 and are held from 4 to 6 p.m. on the first Thursday of the month at The Creamery. Adult classes are every Thursday except for the monthly show at Nathan P. Murphy’s from 7 to 9 p.m. at The Creamery.

Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012

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Andy Frasco Band visits from Los Angeles

By Nick Simpson The Standard

rate and New Found Glory and one day I was like, ‘I can’t do this anymore.’ I started listening to the blues Springfield has been called home when I went on the road. I was listenby a ripening society of musicians for ing to Buddy Guy, BB King, Muddy years, but there are many acts that Waters. I fell in love with the blues come our way each week from all and knew I had to do that.”

Frasco had a late start to the wide over the country, bringing with them a new collection of influences and world of music, not having picked up experiences to an audience wide the keyboards until college, but said he was always in love with the art awake at night.

One such group is the Andy Fras- form.

“I used to manage bands when I co Band from Los Angeles. Taking its namesake from frontman, key- was 13,” he said. “I didn’t start playboardist and songwriter Andy Frasco, ing music until about five years ago the band has found notoriety in their when I was 19. I had an epiphany explosive live performances and Fras- when I was in college. I saw a conco’s onstage antics. The band shook cert—Damien Rice. I quit school. I up a packed house at Patton Alley Pub was majoring in philosophy, going to (313 South Patton Ave.) on Thursday, be a third grade teacher. And I started packing my bags and said, ‘Screw it, Feb. 16.

Frasco classifies their sound as I’m going to buy a van and learn an “party blues” but said it took a while instrument.’”

Andy Frasco Band’s lineup has for him to settle into this, finding their beginnings rooted in the pop-punk changed constantly throughout the years, with saxophonist Ernie Chang stirrings in Los Angeles.

“I grew up my whole life there,” having spent the most time with Andy—about he said. “Ever three years. Frassince I was a wee co said that the lad, still living in I just love those past year has the same house. soulful ‘70s brought with it a It’s kind of crazy. I songwriters like whirlwind of suchad to get out of Buddy Guy, cess for the band, LA to write music.

Clapton, Bob and saw them I didn’t want to be Dylan—guys playing the music known as a ‘pop’ that just sing they love all over guy and follow from the heart. the world. the rabbit tail. I “We’re going -Andy Frasco, wanted to play to St. Louis for real music and frontman Mardi Gras,” he play for people said. “Then New who will actually appreciate it, not just because it’s Orleans—we’re doing South by Southwest (SXSW), Idaho—we’re good at the moment.”

It was when Frasco got out of the doing the whole country and then city that he finally found comfort in hopefully opening for Fishbone in the blues, and decided that was the San Francisco in March.

“We’re going to the Netherlands, music he needed to be making.

“I developed my sound on the Paris and Switzerland. We just did a road,” he said. “I was doing pop- film festival in Europe—it was awepunk, listening to Something Corpo- some. This year has been like the cra-

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The Andy Frasco Band, which performs “party blues,” packed Patton Alley Pub last Thursday. ziest year of my life, opening for Leon Russell, Jacob Dylan, Jackie Greene, Galactic. It’s been a crazy time.”

Frasco said he just completed work on his latest record, and his entire catalogue can be found online.

“This is going to be my third album,” he said. “It’s a CD/DVD called Road Life Revival. I’m really proud of it. I’m on iTunes or on my website at http://andyfrasco.com. You can go to the music section and hear the whole album.”

Frasco said that in finding his style involved a look into the past, particularly the ‘70s.

“I love Van Morrison, The Band,

Drive Continued from page 4 makes us better people?”

This drama brings to light several issues that may hit close to home for many audience members and also speaks to the community as a whole in Southwest Missouri.

all those guys are super good,” he said. “I just love those soulful ‘70s songwriters like Buddy Guy, Clapton, Bob Dylan—guys that just sing from their heart.”

The little pub in which they played Thursday evening has hardly seen crowds that momentous, and the night was filled with energy and fervor difficult to describe, even by those in full attendance such as MSU senior Justin Windsor, a wildlife biology major.

“I thought it was really great, from what I remember,” Windsor said. “I liked the horn section a lot with Andy Frasco. That whole night is kind of a blur to me. I was even in a crappy mood that night but I was still tapping

“Greene County, Missouri, has one of the highest rates of child abuse in the country,” Heinlein said. “A lot of people don’t know that, and it’s very unspoken of. There’s just this unspoken of fact that nobody talks about, and this play explores that issue. Why don’t we talk about these things?

Why don’t we work to change them?”

my toe.”

Frasco said while they find themselves in Springfield two or three times a year, they won’t be returning until April 18, when they will play at the Gillioz Theatre (325 Park Central East). He said that Springfield has revealed a very significant fan base for the group.

“Slowly but surely it’s hopefully coming soon,” he said. “We’re still living out of the van, still living on peanut butter and jelly, but we love what we do, so it’s cool. We just want to build an experience. Every night is so different—it’s cool. One thing can just turn you on and make the show of your life.”

This production allows the audience to share in an intimate and powerful life-changing story, brought to life by the Theatre and Dance Department.

“How I Learned to Drive” will be performed for the first time on Missouri State University’s campus in the Balcony Theatre at Craig Hall, opening Thursday, Feb. 23 and also

showing on Feb. 24 and 27-29, March 1-2 and 5-6 at 7:30 p.m., and Feb. 26 and March 4 at 2:30 p.m.

MSU advance purchase ticket price is $8 and regular purchase prices are $12 and $14. Tickets may be purchased at any Missouri State box office or online at http://www.missouristatetix.co m.

Tuesday

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Scorebox Men’s Basketball Wednesday, Feb. 15 Wichita State 34 39 – 73 Missouri State 32 26 – 58 Saturday, Feb. 18 Old Dominion 30 43 – 73 Missouri State 27 40 – 67 Women’s Basketball Friday, Feb. 17 Evansville 32 30 – 62 Missouri State 33 43 – 76 Sunday, Feb. 19 Southern Illinois 28 33 – 61 Missouri State 44 37 – 81 Baseball Friday, Feb. 17 Tenn. Tech 01001100x–3 Mo. State 000000200–2 Friday, Feb. 17 Texas Tech 20000002x–4 Mo. State 000100000–1 Saturday, Feb. 18 Tenn. Tech 210300101–8 Mo. State 1 3 0 2 1 0 0 3 x – 10 Sunday, Feb. 19 Texas Tech 100000100–2 Mo. State 100000021–4 Softball Friday, Feb. 17 Sam Houston St. 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 – 2 Missouri State 2200003–7 North Texas 2210000–5 Missouri State 0000000–0 Sunday, Feb. 19 S.Dakota State 0000002–2 Missouri State 032110x–7 Ice Hockey Friday, Feb. 17 Illinois State 3 0 1-4 Missouri State 1 1 1-3 Swimming and Diving MVC Conference Championships – 1st Place

Handball national championships coming to Missouri State

By Ruben Carlos Alonzo For The Standard A 19-year-old rivalry will be reignited, as Missouri State will host the National Collegiate Handball Championships this week at Plaster Sports Complex.

The 60th United States Handball Association’s

National Collegiate Championships will be held on the Missouri State campus Wednesday through Sunday.

This will be the fifth time the university has held the USHA Championships. The last time was in 2008 when Missouri State swept the men’s, women’s and combined team titles.

According to Eric Hillgren, assistant coach for Missouri State, nearly 50 schools from around the world and close to 300 student-athletes will compete for the coveted title of national champion.

Matches will begin at 4 p.m. on Wednesday at Plaster Sports Complex and will continue until Sunday, Hill-

gren said. Matches will start around 8 a.m. on Thursday and Friday and could last until midnight.

There is no entry fee to watch matches, and all members of the Missouri State and Springfield community are invited to attend.

The championships will also renew the intense rivalry

By John Cook The Standard

February 21 to February 27

Tuesday

Men’s Golf, 8:30 a.m. away at Rice/Srixon Intercollegiate

Wednesday Men’s Basketball, 7:05 p.m. at home vs. Indiana State

Friday

Women’s Basketball, 6:05 p.m. away at Indiana State Baseball, 11 a.m. away at UT Arlington Invit.

Baseball, 6 p.m. away at UT Arlington Invit.

Softball, 10 a.m. away at Blues City Classic

Saturday

Men’s Basketball, 1:05 p.m. away at Evansville Baseball, 3 p.m. away at UT Arlington Invit.

Softball, 8 p.m. away at Blues City Classic Track and Field, 9 a.m.

State Farm MVC Indoor

Sunday

Women’s Basketball, 2:05 p.m. away at Illinois State Baseball, 11 a.m. away at UT Arlington Invit.

Softball, 11 a.m. away at Blues City Classic Softball, 1 p.m. away at Blues City Classic Track and Field, 9 a.m.

State Farm MVC Indoor

Monday

Men’s Golf, All Day WSU/Snowman Getaway

Briefs Baseball Bears take split in Lubbock

The Missouri State Bears baseball team opened the season by dropping the first two games of the Red Raider Classic to Tennessee Tech and Texas Tech, but would claim the last two games to move to 2-2. The Bears took the last two games 10-8 against Tennessee Tech and 4-2 against Texas Tech to round out the opening tournament.

Missouri State was led by infielder/outfielder Spiker Helms who had 16 plate appearances with five hits, and one home run with four runs batted in.

Softball team wins two during opener

The Missouri State softball team went 2-1 during their opening weekend at the Mean Green Classic. Sam Houston State was the first victim as the Bears won 7-2, lost the second game to North Texas 5-0, then won the final game against South Dakota State

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Monarchs’ 3-point onslaught stuns MSU

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Softball, 9 a.m. away at Blues City Classic

between Missouri State and Lake Forest College, a small private school based in the Chicago suburbs. Lake Forest and Missouri State have combined to win the last 19 national championships, with each school often placing second in the years they

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The Lady Bears wore pink uniforms for the “Play 4 Kay” game to raise breast cancer awareness.

Pink domination Lady Bears sweep home series and win pink game

By Harrison Keegan The Standard

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ometimes greatness is so consistent it becomes expected and we all take it for granted. But for two games this weekend, senior guard Casey Garrison gave a reminder of just how good she is by leading the Lady Bears to two conference wins, shooting exclusively lefthanded.

Garrison, who usually shoots right-handed but is naturally ambidextrous, decided to shoot with her left while she recovers from a sprained thumb on her right hand. She scored 20 points on 8-of-10 shooting, including 3-of-4 from beyond the arc in Friday’s 76-62 win against Evansville and poured in 17 points in Sunday’s 81-61 win against Southern Illinois.

“I didn’t know she was going to exclusively use it tonight but I guess I

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The Lady Bears beat Southern Illinois 81-61 on Sunday. won’t complain—8-for-10,” Lady Garrison, who is third on the allBears head coach Nyla Milleson said time Missouri Valley Conference after Garrison’s Friday performance. scoring list, said that she has always “She’s just…what can you say? Pret See LBEARS page 7 ty incredible, gutsy performance.”

After a bad shooting first half the Bears came out with a new sense of urgency in the second, but it wasn’t enough as Old Dominion handed Missouri State their second straight loss on Saturday, 7367.

The Bears are now 4-5 in the annual Sears BracketBusters game, and stand at 16-13 (9-7) for the season.

MSU fought to within three points in the final minute and had possession with a chance to score.

Senior Kyle Weems took a double team and passed it off to center Caleb Patterson, who took a hook shot from just a few feet away from the basket, but couldn’t knock it down.

ODU 18-11 (12-4) sealed the game from there, hitting 3-4 free throws to ice the Bears.

The Monarchs were on fire from beyond the arc the entire game, shooting 54.5 percent.

Senior Kent Bazemore killed the Bears with a career-high 28 points, and was 45 from downtown.

“He hit shots,” Lusk sophomore Keith Pickens said of Bazemore. “I put the effort out, but he hit a lot of tough shots. I put a lot of it on myself. I allowed him to get comfortable.”

The Bears weren’t ready for the ODU shooting outburst, as the Monarchs have just a .309 3-point percentage on the year.

“Percentage wise they’re not very good,” Weems said. “But we gave them some wide open looks and they knocked them down.”

Weems never found a rhythm against the Monarchs 3-2 zone defense, shooting 6-18 for 33.3 percent.

ODU played a combination of defenses that forced MSU to shoot more threes than they wanted, and when they weren’t going down, the Bears couldn’t catch up.

“We had good looks,” head coach Paul Lusk said. “I thought we did some good things at the end to get back in the game, but we could not get the stops that we needed.”

The Bears held the Monarchs to just six offensive rebounds, which coming in was a focal point for MSU, but gave up 12 threes, which proved to be overwhelming.

“They’re one of the best rebounding teams in the country,” Lusk said. “We out-rebound them and get nine offensive rebounds, and they’re not a great 3-point shooting team, and yet they just flat torched us from three.”

A one-handed dunk by freshman Christian Kirk and a breakaway layup by junior Anthony Downing brought Bears fans to their feet at the beginning of the second half.

The Monarchs weren’t fazed by the MSU run however, as ODU freshman Richard Ross answered with a fast break jam of his own.

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Swimming and diving wins conference

By Colleen Hamilton The Standard For the fifth consecutive year the Missouri State women’s swimming and diving team has won the Missouri Valley Conference championship. This year the squad dominated the rest of the conference, defeating the second-place team by a margin of 252

points.

The MVC championship also marks the ninth time in the past 10 years that the Bears have won the title. On the way to continuing their dynasty, the Bears broke MSU varsity records in 10 different events.

“It was going to be really key for the girls to respond well in the first ses-

sion and score some big points and get out to a lead,” interim coach Dave Collins said. “Hopefully we can continue to extend that lead as we go. Now momentum’s really on our side, and it’s pretty exciting when you can get out to a good start.”

The Bears began the conference meet by building a 68-point lead after one

day of competition.

“Momentum is a really important part of the weekend,” Collins said. “Our goal going into the meet was to really try to get the momentum going, and traditionally that’s worked out well for us and we’re able to carry that through the last session on Saturday.”

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Downing scored 13 points.

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LBears Continued from page 6 had the left-handed shot in her repertoire, but once her right hand heals she will put that lefty jumper back in the vault.

“It’s something that I’ve worked on since high school and I’m fortunate that I’m able to use it now and that I have the option to use it,” Garrison said.

“And it just happened to go in tonight.”

The Lady Bears (18-6) ran their winning streak to eight in a row and kept pace with Wichita State for first place in the MVC at 11-3. These games, at home against the ninth and 10th place teams in the Valley, were must wins for a Lady Bears team vying for an NCAA Tournament spot.

In Friday’s game against Evansville however, the Lady Bears came out flat, shooting 35 percent in the first half and went into the break only up one.

Milleson said that rushed jump shots on offense and Evansville’s three-quarters court press defense combined to make an ugly first half for the Lady Bears. But they buckled down on the boards, shot

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47 percent and pulled away in the second half.

“We shot the ball better in the second half, I think was a big key,” Milleson said. “We stayed on the boards, 22 offensive rebounds, again was big tonight.”

Sophomore forward Bry Snow drew two more starts this weekend and grabbed seven rebounds Friday night.

She said the Lady Bears picked up their intensity across the board in their second half against Evansville.

“I think every loose ball has to be ours,” Snow said. “In the first half we didn’t really go after every loose ball. In the second half, we worked a little harder at it and I think that was probably something that helped us a lot.”

Sunday’s game against Southern Illinois was the Lady Bears’ annual pink game and the players wore pink uniforms in support of breast cancer awareness. The Lady Bears dominated from start to finish against SIU, forcing a seasonhigh 31 turnovers and getting 44 points from their bench players.

The Lady Bears’ next game Steph Anderson/THE STANDARD is against Indiana State at 6:05 p.m. on Friday in Terre Haute, By sweeping the weekend two-game series, the Lady Bears are now 18-6 overall, 11-3 in conference.

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Bball Continued from page 6 Just a five-point deficit for the Bears at the end of the first half increased to 10 points with 2:19 left in the game. A jumper by Patterson and 3-pointer by Downing gave MSU a chance to steal the game at the end, but they ran out of time.

With the Bears loss, it virtually guarantees that the only way MSU can make the NCAA Tournament is by winning the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament March 1-4.

Lusk said that once they’re there, anyone can win the MVC tournament.

“Our chances are like everyone else’s in St. Louis,” Lusk said. “We’re not going

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The Bears have a 16-13 record this season.

to get an at-large, so we’re going to have to win the conference tournament.”

The Bears play an Indiana State team that they lost to on Jan. 4 at 7:05 p.m. Wednesday at JQH Arena.

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Momentum was on the Bears’ side as they started off the meet winning the 200-yard freestyle relay for the third consecutive year. The relay team of sophomore Anna Ahlin, junior Andrea Uzcategui, sophomore Janke Engelbrecht and senior Ali Stauffer swam its fastest time of the season, finishing at 1:34.80.

“The 200-freestyle relay is a tough one because it’s so close and it’s a short relay with each swimmer just swimming two lengths of the pool,” Collins said. “You can’t make any mistakes in the 200-free relay and we had a great anchor leg by a senior, Ali Stauffer, that really closed that race.”

Stauffer said the race was really exciting because it was so close.

“I didn’t want to let my team down or my relay,” she said. “I just wanted to take it out hard and hopefully come through with the win, and we did. It was really exciting finishing off my senior year with that relay.”

To finish up the first day of swimming, the Bears set a new MSU varsity record, MVC record and pool record in the 400-yard medley relay with a time of 3:44.24.

“It was really fun to pretty

Handball Continued from page 6 did not win.

The Bears hold the advantage over the past 19 years, winning 10 USHA combined titles compared to nine for Lake Forest. However, the Foresters have won the past three titles.

“They are our No. 1 rival since the program started,” Hillgren said.

The rivalry extends off the court when it comes to recruiting players. Freshman Hector Facio started playing handball as a child and was recruited by both Missouri State and Lake Forest. He said it was a pretty easy decision to attend Missouri State because of the costs and said that he is ready to finally compete against Lake Forest.

“We really want to beat them,” Facio said.

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The women’s swimming and diving team won the Missouri Valley Conference. much destroy their record,” Ahlin said.

Stauffer said she did not immediately realize that the relay team had broken all three records.

“I just thought we set our varsity record,” she said. “I didn’t realize we set all three of them. When I found out, that was really exciting and I was glad I was a part of that relay that got us all those records.”

The Bears continued their winning tradition on day two of competition, increasing their lead to 176 points.

Missouri State beat out Southern Illinois University in the 200-yard medley relay, inching the Bears one step closer to their goal of winning

all five relays. The victory marks the ninth year in a row that an MSU team has won the relay.

Freshman Roni Balzam grabbed the first individual gold for the Bears in the 100yard butterfly. Sophomore Renata Sander placed first in the 100-yard breaststroke and broke her own MSU varsity record. Ahlin defended her title in the 100-yard backstroke and freshman Megan Holthoff finished second for the Bears.

“I’m just hoping that me and my class can continue the tradition that the seniors and the juniors have held up so far and hopefully keep on winning,” Ahlin said.

On the final day of compe-

tition senior Dimitra Drakopoulou grabbed another individual gold for the Bears in the 1650-yard freestyle, setting a new MSU record in the process. Sander and junior Melissa Oishi finished first and second respectively in the 200yard breaststroke. Sander’s time of 2:15.31 broke the MSU, MVC and pool records.

Throughout the championship meet the Bears racked up six individual gold medals and won three out of the five relays. Missouri State also had the most student-athletes represented on the All-MVC First Team with 11 swimmers. Nine Bears made the All-MVC honorable mention team.

While Facio will get his first taste of a collegiate national tournament, other MSU players will be playing in their last tournament representing the team.

Senior Jonathon Hingey will be playing in his final college tournament this week.

Hingey said playing his final tournament at home is a pretty big deal.

“It’s going to be really cool and it should give us a little home-field advantage,” Hingey said. “Having my friends come out and see me play is going to be pretty cool.”

Hingey grew up playing handball with many of the Lake Forest players since he was about 16 years old, but he understands the nature of the rivalry.

“It’s a pretty friendly rivalry, but it’s a pretty rough rivalry as well,” Hingey said.

“We’re all in it to win. It puts a little pressure on us that

they’ve won it the past year. It makes us just want to come back and win it all this year.”

Handball is a sport very similar to racquetball, except it’s played with a smaller ball that is struck with the hand rather than a racket. Since handball is not sanctioned by the NCAA, the university handball team was created as a club sport by USHA Hall of Fame coach Tommy Burnett in 1987.

Burnett, who won a Super Bowl as a member of the New York Jets and a football national championship while attending Arkansas, says building a successful Missouri State program is on a different level than his other accomplishments because of the emotion involved.

“Handball has been much more emotional because I’m coaching these kids,” Burnett said. “They bought into what I wanted them to buy into, mostly with working hard. It’s

been wildly successful. I never dreamed it would be this much fun.”

Lake Forest is also coached by a USHA Hall of Fame coach in Mike Dau. He said Missouri State offers his school the biggest challenge and he believes the rivalry is healthy for the sport.

“The rivalry has been a healthy situation for college handball,” Dau said. “It provides other schools with an opportunity to emulate what Burnett and I have done.”

Both teams have said they have been preparing hard throughout the season for this tournament, which is the only tournament where schools face off in a team format.

“We’ve been training pretty hard, and we’re ready to go in and attack,” Hingey said.

The tournament can also be watched live on the Internet at http://www.race4eight.com for a small fee.

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the hoop moving the way (Frealy) could,” she said. “And I thought, ‘I’m too old to be able to do that.’

But Frealy said age didn’t matter Continued from page 4 because once you get handed a hula “You have to move so differently, hoop, we’re all kids again. And she especially around the waist, but was right. Before I knew it, I was around the legs, too,” she said. “I hoop dancing. My favorite part of think that strengthened me, though, the class is the hoop jam at the end, because I was kind of lazy and really when the music is cranked up and tired when I was pregnant. Hooping we get to show off what we’ve lifted my spirits through the emotion- learned and freestyle our own al bits of the pregnancy. I still felt like moves, too. It’s like a party.”

Frealy said the hardest trick is I was doing what I wanted to do. And it kept me in shape, which they say teaching someone to hoop around makes labor easier. I had an epidural his or her waist.

“If you don’t know how to hoop and everything was easy-peasy.”

Hooping is kind of like swim- around your waist, you probably ming—it uses every muscle, Frealy won’t be able to do much else, but once you get that, you’ve got it,” she said.

“Especially when you’re doing said. “People will see others doing hoop dance because you use every what seems like crazy hoop dance body part,” she said. “Your arms, and will think they could never do that, but I’ll legs, back, butt— tell them, ‘If everything. Hooping you can helps you gain balFrealy said age hoop around ance and hand-eye didn’t matter your waist, coordination, as because once you’re well.” you get handed halfway Learning different a hula hoop, there.’” tricks takes a lot of we’re all kids Frealy, practice and patience, again. who became Frealy said.

-Kristi Oetting, a licensed “Some tricks will hooping veteran HoopGirl just come to you natdance and urally—you might fitness see someone do a trick, try it and get it the first time,” instructor April 20, 2010, will begin she said. “Other tricks you might teaching her second round of hoop throw your hoop or hit yourself in classes—classes she taught last the face a few times and it can get semester, as well—at MSU on frustrating, but practice really does March 4.

“Hula hooping class is an hour of make perfect. Once you’ve learned one trick, you’re going to want to intense hooping designed to burn as many calories as an hour-long run learn them all.”

Kristi Oetting, the technical on a treadmill. Its benefits include trainer in computer services user coordination, strengthened torso support, said since she started work muscles, flexibility, meditative time, at MSU four and a half years ago, and it also massages your organs she has taken several of the Campus and body at your waist for overall Recreation fitness and wellness health,” according to the Campus classes and really enjoyed them, but Recreation website.

Since Oetting started hooping, that hooping is by far her favorite.

“At first, I didn’t think I could she said she has seen an improveever learn those tricks, or even keep ment in her posture and flexibility,

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extra funding.

“This will really help Missouri State in its budget analysis for this year,” Turk said. “My only concern is that it’s considered one-time funding. I am hoping that the past four years will not predict a trend of decreased funding every year to higher education.”

Smart said that he hopes that

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state revenues will increase next year.

“The hope is that over the course of the next year the economy of Missouri recovers,” Smart said.

Smart added that with greater employment numbers, taxes will increase, generating revenue.

“We are hopeful that increases in revenue will make up for this one-time money,” Smart said. “We also encourage the legislature to look for other sources of revenue.

For the long term, there are lots of

but also in her mood.

“It feels so good to be expressive and learn to appreciate my body and how it moves,” she said. “You get lost in it. Before you know it, an hour has gone by free from all the outside stress. I can go into class a tired, middle-aged woman and leave a vivacious, young hoopstress.”

It’s a lot quicker and easier to learn tricks when you have someone showing you step-by-step how to do a move, Frealy said.

“I tell my students, ‘When you can’t come to class, check out YouTube.’ It’s not as good as learning in person, but it works in a pinch,” she said. “Not only do they have tutorials, but you can see how many different people do the same trick differently. You’ll find a flow that inspires you and then you can base your hooping on that flow.”

Hooping is not only a good way to get in shape, but it opens you up to a new form of expression and dance, Frealy said.

“You don’t have to have a dance background, you just have to find your own way to move,” she said.

“It’s kind of enlightening. It makes you more confident in your body and the hoop teaches you how you move more than anything else can.”

Even some of Oetting’s skeptical friends signed up for hooping because they saw how much she enjoyed it, and the skeptics loved it, too, Oetting said.

“Even if you don’t know what hooping is, if you’re looking for something different to try, or want to add something new to your traditional exercise routine, or perhaps you are just curious, this is a great class to try out,” she said. “That’s what I did, and now I’m hooked.”

Hoop class is $30 for a five-week session and there will be classes from 6 to 7 p.m. on Sundays in the PSU Ballroom East. There will be a few Sundays without class, due to spring break and spring holiday, so be sure to check with Frealy before showing up each week.

You can sign up for hoop class at http://missouristate.edu/recreation/1 26176.htm. The registration deadline is March 1.

Frealy said there are supposed to be eight people allowed in the class, but she can allow as many as she feels comfortable with, which is up to 10 students.

“With some baby weight still to

lose, I’ll be losing the weight with the people in the class,” she said.

“So it’s going to be even more intense than my class last fall.”

You can buy custom hula hoops by contacting Frealy on the Hoop Frealy Facebook page at facebook.com/hoop.frealy. Prices range from $20-35, depending on the type of tape used and the size of the hoop.

programs that we’re not funding well.”

The current 7.8 percent cut in state appropriations has not been approved yet by the legislature.

Changes can still be made to the budget throughout the legislative session until it’s passed, including cutting funding.

Smart said that in talking with legislators he feels that there won’t be any further cuts to higher education.

“We think it’s very stable,” he said. “Every legislator we have

talked to wanted to look for ways to put money back into higher education.”

There is also a plan under consideration to increase revenue through fees for the College of Business Administration.

“It would cost about $750 per student, per year,” Smart said.

It’s expected to generate $1.25−$1.4 million in additional revenue, according to Smart.

“Eighty percent of that fee would be dedicated to the College of Business Administration for

improvements,” Smart said.

The improvements range from capital improvements, such as renovations, to providing scholarships and funding programs.

“The other 20 percent would go centrally for improvements to the university,” Smart said.

The plan was discussed Friday.

Details will be finalized and presented at the next Board of Governors meeting.

“We will have more discussions about it before it’s voted on at our March 30 meeting,” Smart said

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Amanda Frealy sells custom-made hoops primarily through her Facebook page, Hoop Frealy. Prices range from $20 to $35.