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Stop the Violence event held at MSU CARISSA ALFORD Staff Reporter @carissabalford Missouri State held the sixth annual Stop the Violence Conference in the Plaster Student Union on Feb. 28.

Research by the Springfield Police Department’s Crime Analysis Unit found in 2012, 70 percent of all aggravated assaults in Springfield were domestic related.

The Family Violence Task Force formed this conference in 2013 after noticing the increase in domestic assaults in Springfield. Their goal was to educate the community on the issues of family violence.

The task force is an organization made up of many institutions across the Ozarks, such as the Greene County Prosecutor’s Office, Victim Center, Harmony House, CoxHealth and the Missouri Department of Social Services.

Sponsored by multiple organizations around Springfield, the conference was free for anyone to attend and focused on domestic abuse.

The conference included two keynote speakers — Jackson Katz, the co-founder of Mentors in Violence Prevention, and Chan Hellman, a professor at the University of Oklahoma and the founding director of The Hope Research Center.

In addition to keynote speakers, there were panel discussions on all aspects of domestic abuse, like gender roles in domestic violence, technology safety, the power of hope and how to prevent assaults.

One of the panels was titled, “Domestic Violence Through a Child’s Eye.” The panel included Lt. Jenn Charleston from the Springfield Police Department, CoxHealth pediatrician Kelly Wright, and representatives from Isabel’s House and Harmony House, Holly Beadle and Sunni Nutt, respectively.

The discussion was centered around what authorities do with a child who has witnessed domestic abuse and how it affects children.

Wright said kids who have been physically abused show the same amount of trauma as a kid who was verbally abused.

Beadle and Nutt told the audience about the different ways they keep children and victims safe, but as comfortable as possible.

Other panel and breakout session topics included “Domestic Violence and Gender: Understanding Victims and Perpetrators,” “The Science and Power of Hope” and “Preventing Domestic Violence.”

According to their website, the Stop the Violence Conference is a community call to action to stop intimate partner violence.

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Sophomore Emma Manning sits on her bed in Wells House. Manning reapplied for campus housing to be a Residence Hall Association engagement coordinator, which requires her to live on campus.

Reapplication numbers for campus housing grow AFTON HARPER Staff Reporter @affie888 Over the past three years, the number of students re-applying for housing on campus has increased, assistant director for residence life-business services at MSU Angela Strider, said.

Most students are required to live on the Missouri State University campus their first year. Some choose to continue living on campus while others prefer to find their own housing.

Strider said MSU tracks the number of students who re-apply for housing year to year. The reporting tool they use, Argos, allows them to pull data from the MSU website and compares the numbers from the same point in the previous year.

“Although we have seen a third year of increased students re-applying, it’s not surprising,” Strider said.

The number of current residents that re-applied to live on campus for the 201920 school year has gone up 28 percent since last year, according to the Feb. 22 MSU

Board of Governors agenda.

Strider said many choose to live on campus for convenience.

“When it’s cold or rainy outside,” Strider said, “you can still roll out of bed and make it to class on time without worrying about fighting traffic to get here.”

Strider also said students who have scholarships often choose to live on campus so they only have one bill and all their financial aid and scholarships are applied to it.

Statistically, students who live on campus outperform their peers academically with higher GPAs, Strider said.

Amanda Schilling, freshman graphic design and illustration major, said she likes the convenience of living on campus. She said it makes it easier to get to her classes and she doesn’t have to worry about finding a place to park.

This year, Schilling lives in Wells House. She said she applied to live in Woods House next year due to its recent renovations that make it less “outdated” than Wells.

“I would rather just move to Woods to not deal with something breaking every

week,” Schilling said.

Sophomore digital film and television production major Emma Manning decided to live in Wells House for two years because she was interested in becoming the RHA Engagement Coordinator. In order for Manning to hold this position, she has to live on campus.

In order to accommodate the increase in on-campus living, Strider said Residence Life might allocate a few more floors for returning students in the housing system.

She said these allocations are made on an annual, if needed, basis.

MSU is also building Holland House, a new residence hall on Holland Street and Madison Street, to allow for more student housing. Construction is planned to be completed by summer 2020.

Holland House will be a seven-story building that will accommodate 400 students, Vice President for Administrative Services Matt Morris said at the Board of Governors meeting on Feb. 22.

The first floor will also have a dining hall and retail store. The first three floors of Holland House will hold 300 parking spots.

MSU named best college recovery program in state JESSICA FLANIGAN Staff Reporter @jessicaf161 The college campus, a scene typically prone to high substance use, can present an unstable environment for students devoted to recovery.

As a community dedicated to encouraging students overcoming substance abuse, Bears in Recovery is the collegiate recovery program at Missouri State.

Practical Recovery, an organization dedicated to drug rehab and alcohol treatment, researched the best collegiate recovery programs state by state. Bears in Recovery was highlighted as the best on-campus program in Missouri.

Tom Horvath, the president of Practical

Recovery, said they highlighted Missouri State for the resources and value it gives to involved students.

“What made us highlight Missouri State over other schools is how it goes above and beyond with an online Facebook community to share information, and by hosting educational summits to raise awareness for issues affecting the campus, such as the Opioid Summit last August,” Horvath said.

Bears in Recovery provides various services to students to ease them through the strenuous recovery process. Weekly support group meetings, community service events and alcohol and drug free social gatherings are some of the varied offerings.

In addition, as a way to surround the students with supportive and understanding peers, they

provide recovery roommate matching in the residence halls on campus.

Justin Johns, co-director of the Collegiate Recovery Program, works toward providing students with a good recovery outlet.

“One of the number one predictors of sustained recovery is having connections with others who have similar lived experience in recovery, so we try to offer students opportunities to engage with peers who can support one another,” Johns said.

While the CRP offers mainly recovery support, they can provide further resources for treatment options.

“For those in need of treatment, we can make referrals either on campus — through Counseling Center, Magers Health and Wellness or in the community,” Johns said.

According to Practical Recovery, some predominant elements of collegiate recovery programs include a dedicated university staff personnel, a physical space on campus for meetings and events, embracing abstinence-based recovery and an active community of students in recovery to offer peer support to each other.

Nearly one and a half years ago, Carrington Hall held a lounge dedicated to students in the CRP, which is no longer available.

“We’d love to have another recovery lounge, as it offered students in recovery a space to conduct meetings, socialize and feel supported,” Johns said.

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Taking on the role of Scar One of the stars of Broadway’s ‘The Lion King’ talks touring, stage preparation CARISSA ALFORD Staff Reporter @carissabalford It is no secret that the Broadway production of “The Lion King” has been in Springfield since Feb. 27. However, what a Broadway performer does before and after the show is not widely known.

Spencer Plachy plays the iconic evil uncle Scar in “The Lion King.” He has played this part since October 2018.

Plachy went to college in Huntsville, Texas, at Sam Houston State University, where he began performing about 17 years ago. His acting career started with amusement park performances over summers.

After college, he did a few “buff and truck tours,” traveling across the country.

“I’ve done a couple of understudy jobs on Broadway with one little off-Broadway contract,” Plachy said.

Once, Plachy landed a job on the big screen, starring opposite Jennifer Lopez on “Shades of Blue,” where he had one line.

“I hope I get to do more of that,” Plachy said. “It was very fun to be on set.”

Plachy has performed in two Broadway shows — the most recent revival of “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” and “Romeo and Juliet.”

“I was in the ensemble for both of these, so I understudied Jasper and Neville (for ‘Edwin Drood’) and for ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ I played the apothecary, which is a one scene part,” Plachy said. “I understudied Mercutio.”

Now, Plachy gets to be the villain in a Disney classic. His agent in New York City reached out to him when they found out the national tour of “The Lion King” was going to need a replacement Scar.

“I talked it over with my wife and we decided it’s a job worth pursuing at this stage,” Plachy said. “It all worked out.”

Plachy draws inspiration for his character from the actor who voices scar in the 1994 movie, as well as the actor who played Scar when the musical first went to Broadway in 1997.

“I also learned a lot from the Scar who I replaced,” Plachy said. “He is an actor who I’ve known for many years so I learned a lot from him.”

On top of preparing a character, Plachy had to learn the technical aspects as well. He said the costume alone weighs about 38 pounds.

Scar also uses a mechanical mask that operates throughout the show, according to Plachy.

“That takes a lot of getting used to,” Plachy said. “To figure out how to make it a part of your body, so to speak.”

Generally, Plachy said, the people who join the tour the way he did get approximately four to five weeks to practice with the heavy costumes and animal body movements.

“That’s one week of rehearsal in New York before I came out on the road and four more weeks of rehearsal before I ac-

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Spencer Plachy, who plays Scar in the North American tour of “The Lion King,” has been in the role since October 2018. tually started performing,” Plachy said.

The Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts has had to undergo a few changes to fit the set of “The Lion King,” such as temporarily removing seats and parts of the ceiling.

As much as Juanita K. does to prepare for the show, Plachy said the associate creators who have been with the show for years will come in and assess what parts of the show need to be altered to fit the space. But, it’s not just Springfield — this happens at every venue.

“For the most part, the adjustments are pretty minor, considering the whole production,” Plachy said. “Most of it remains intact, but there are minor adjustments that need to be made.”

The venues are not the only things seeing revisions. The cast and crew will also have to play the alteration game to help the show run smoothly.

“Sometimes there are entrances that need to be made in the house and depending on the space, those will have to be switched around,” Plachy said. “There’s an adjustment every venue.”

The actors do not have much time to practice in the new venues either. The actors in “The Lion King” arrived in Springfield on Feb. 25, even though the show opened on Feb. 27.

Plachy said usually a show will close on a Sunday in each city and everyone will travel the next day.

“Tuesday is really a day for the crew to get the technical aspects loaded in,” Plachy said. “Then we, the cast, will convene that Wednesday morning. That morning, we will have a meeting, we will get oriented to the venue.”

Plachy said that afternoon, everyone goes through a “techrun” of the show to benefit the local crew.

After the tech-run, Plachy said they will perform in front of an audience that night.

“The first Wednesday in each city is a long day,” Plachy said.

In regards to the stage musical compared to the movie, Plachy said there have been slight changes, starting with the amount of music.

“The music has been beautifully expanded for the Broadway show version,” Plachy said. “There’s so much more music in this version than in the movie.”

To Plachy, the musical aspect is the biggest change that jumps out at him. He said there are very small dialogue changes that most audiences would not even notice.

“For example, in both versions there is a day where Simba gets to spend the day looking at the kingdom with his father,” Plachy said. “But in the movie, Simba comes to wake his father up, and he’s all excited about it. In this version, it seems to imply that Mufasa had to wake Simba up and get him going for the day. Little things like that.”

Plachy said while getting to go to cities he has never been to has been wonderful, he wants others to know that his job is not easy. But even though it is physically demanding, Plachy said it is filled with “plenty” of reward.

“It’s one of the few lines of work where at the end of your day, a thousand people stand up and clap and cheer for you,” Plachy said. “That doesn’t happen very often in most professions.”

Missouri legislators push to narrow access to government information ANDREW UNVERFERTH Staff Reporter @unverferthandr1 Citizens and news organizations throughout Missouri could lose access to a number of government records due to proposed changes to one of the state’s largest government transparency laws.

Missouri’s Sunshine Law makes a wide range of government information available to any citizen. According to Amos Bridges, content coach for the Springfield News-Leader, it makes government meetings generally available to the public and a variety of government records available upon request.

“It is one of our newspaper’s greatest tools, just like it’s one of the public’s greatest tools for holding government accountable,” Bridges said.

The Sunshine Law largely applies to practically every level of government, keeping both state records from Jefferson City available, along with school board meetings in Springfield.

One major area it didn’t apply to until recently was in the correspondence of state legislators with their constituents. Missourians voted to change that in the Nov. 6, 2018, election with the passing of the Clean Missouri Act, which aimed to further improve government transparency.

Despite the apparent support for the act, many Missouri legislators seem against it, as both houses have recently intro-

duced bills that would significantly change certain parts of the Sunshine Law. Senate Bill 132, introduced by Republican Sen. Ed Emery, would only affect the general assembly and, among other things, would close off records with information on proposed legislation, as well as records related to constituents.

The bill’s details note that legislative records presented in official general assembly or committee meetings are still available as per the Sunshine Law and that the term “constituent” does not include lobbyists.

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Inequality

Can you still ‘Feel the Bern’?

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JORDAN PHILLIPS Columnist @jrdnphillips

Inequity

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Should we be fighting inequality?

ISAAC DEMOTTA Columnist @isaacdemotta The world is full of inequalities.

I dare say I cannot think of a single human endeavor that has ever been equal by any important measurement. Yet, we are told by politicians and school administrators that inequality is bad and something to be fought. But is this really logical? And what kind of equality is important?

Before I answer these questions, let me elaborate on what those who strive for equality of outcome want.

Many people, when they see that men earn more than women on average, or that different racial categories make more or less than another, are enamored at how unfair it all seems. Disparities such as these must be the result of nefarious activity, be it racism, sexism or some other form of discrimination. Things would be equal and just if it were not for the greedy villains of this world taking advantage of the victims.

As a goal, advocates for equality of outcome seek to minimize differences among groups, specifically economic differences. For their efforts they are praised and for their intentions we call them noble. Efforts such as transferring wealth from the haves to the have-nots. Intentions that are formed from their compassion and understanding for the downtrodden among us.

I think this praise is unearned; it is unearned because the problem of inequality is made up.

Here is an example of what someone advocating for equality of outcome would see as problematic: women, on average, make 80.5 cents for every dollar that a man makes.

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kind of wicked discrimination. It is largely assumed that any difference in male and female income must be the result of discrimination. But why?

Discrimination could of course be a factor, but there is no reason to assume that it is the leading factor, let alone the only one. In Thomas Sowell’s book “Wealth, Poverty and Politics,” he emphasizes the importance of distinguishing between “moral principles” and “causal principles.”

Sowell explains that while a factor –– sexism –– might be the most morally outrageous cause, it does not necessarily follow that that same factor is also the most significant contributor to the disparity.

Time in the work force, hours worked, marital status, education and job experience are vital factors that will affect income. Studies that control for these dynamics find that the supposed wage gap virtually vanished. The American Enterprise Institute notes that the Labor Department commissioned over 50 peer-reviewed studies and “found that the so-called wage gap is mostly, if not entirely, an artifact of the different choices men and women make.”

Breaking news — men and women are different and make different decisions.

Different desires and decisions are all factors that will change how much money a person makes. Decisions like what career to go into are one of the ways in which men and women differ. The Washington Post notes a survey done by Georgetown University that shows nine of the 10 highest paying majors were majority men, while nine of the 10 lowest paying majors were majority women.

Countless studies have confirmed this: Men are more likely to go into higher paying fields than women.

And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Let us rejoice that we

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Moreover, the pay gap essentially vanishes when important factors –– like those listed earlier –– are controlled. Sometimes, women will actually out-earn men. Time magazine reported in 2010 that “according to a new analysis of 2,000 communities by a market research company, in 147 out of 150 of the biggest cities in the U.S., the median full-time salaries of young women are eight percent higher than those of the guys in their peer group.”

At the beginning of this column I asked whether it was logical to see any kind of inequality as wrong. I used the pay gap as means of answering this question. What was shown was that of the long list of factors that could cause women to earn less than men on average, discrimination is but one of them. It was shown that it is foolish to assume the discrimination factor to be of greater value than all the others; the mistake being the result of confusing the “causal principle” with the “moral principle.” Lastly, it was explained that the difference in the national income average between men and women can be attributed to the different decisions made by individual men and women across the country. It is thus not logical to view inequalities as de facto proof of injustices.

It is not logical to see inequalities and to equate those to discrimination, bigotry or any other evil motive.

Using again Thomas Sowell’s book “Wealth, Poverty and Politics,” he notes that there is a grossly unequal distribution of Professional Golfer

Association tournament wins. Most PGA golfers have never even won one tournament. Of those that have won, most have only won one, two or three. But Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods have won dozens between them and over 200 collectively.

According to the supporters of equality of outcome, this is a grave injustice. How unfair that these three golfers have so many wins, while most other golfers have none. But no one seriously thinks this. No one thinks this because although there is inequality of outcome, there is equality of opportunity –– that is, everyone is judged and rewarded by the same standards.

Equality of opportunity is the second kind of equality and stands in direct contrast to equality of outcome. Does equality of opportunity mean everyone has the exact same odds of winning a PGA tour in their life? Of course not. The six-foot-tall golfer will have a great advantage over the one that is five-foot-tall. A boy who is taught from a young age how to golf will have an advantage over the man who picks up golfing at 40. But to try and correct for any of these things in the name of equality of outcome would be an impossible and ridiculous task.

The best we can possibly do is hold everyone to the same standard.

So that is what golf does, as well as every other sport. Likewise, this is what America is supposed to do –– be the land of opportunity. Equal opportunity does not mean everyone will end up equal. In fact, that would defy the odds. Rather, the goal of equality of opportunity is to allow everyone to flourish to the best of their abilities, without being held back in the name of equality of outcome by those who are just “trying

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On Feb. 19, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, announced his bid to run for the presidency in 2020 on the Democratic ticket.

This year he faces a particularly crowded field of Democrats wanting to go up against President Donald Trump, but just from his fundraising numbers alone, Sanders is by far the most popular candidate.

Within 24 hours of launching his bid for the presidency, CNN reported that his campaign raised almost $6 million and the average donation had been calculated to be about $27. This goes to show that he is far from being the underdog he was during the 2016 campaign season.

The reason for his popularity is honestly quite simple: His politics are simply more popular with Americans. In October of 2018, Gallup conducted a poll that found 53 percent of Americans held a positive view of the progressive Vermont senator and only 9 percent of people had never heard of him — this is compared to the Gallup poll conducted shortly before he announced his bid in 2016, where 76 percent of Americans had never heard of him or had an opinion of him.

His ideas, which include a Medicare-for-All system and closing tax loopholes on the wealthy, have become even more popular after 2016 and has influenced such people as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York.

If you think about it, Sanders is the complete antithesis of Trump, and yet they are similar. They were both born in New York City and are both loud, brash and unabashedly themselves when it comes to the realm of politics, which made them stand out from the other candidates in 2016 and makes them stand out now.

When I remember the 2016 election, I remember my dad — who has not voted for a Democrat since 2008 — telling me that if it had come down to Bernie Sanders versus Donald Trump, he would have voted for Bernie.

I think that example speaks for a lot of Americans who just want something different than the average polished and stage-managed politician we are so used to seeing.

But unlike Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders’ policies are focused on helping regular people and not on enriching himself. While some people would try to make his ideas seem evil by comparing them to communist ideas, he is a self-described democratic socialist, who define themselves as believing “that working people should run both the economy and society democratically to meet human needs, not to make profits for a few,” according to the Democratic Socialists of America’s homepage.

While Bernie Sanders was an underdog during his 2016 campaign, he got people more fired up about politics than any previous politician I have ever seen because a lot of his ideas resonated with people on both a practical and emotional level.

He got young people — including myself — to believe that if you fight hard enough, you can make a change. His ideas should not be controversial in this day and age, but they are. That just means we just have to keep working toward a better society for ourselves and future generations. If you have not felt “the Bern” yet, you might soon.

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Lauren Hustead founded Craftive Co. last August as a way to create and sell wholesome products.

Young entrepreneur crafts handmade scrunchies, lanyards, headbands Co., was born more out of spontaneous demand than meticulous planning.

“I never really planned to start it — it started faster than I even realized,” Hustead said.

The business took off unexpectedly this summer when she bought a $20 sewing machine from Walmart and learned how to make simple projects — for instance, scrunchies. Hustead put ZOE BROWN her work on social media and people Staff Reporter asked to buy them.

“My peers had a problem, and the @zoe_zoebrown problem was that they wanted affordauren Hustead started selling able and wholesome products from scrunchies to her friends and someone they know,” Hustead said.

Instagram followers through her personal account last summer. Today, she has her own small business selling scrunchies, lanyards and headbands around the 417 area.

Hustead is a freshman entrepreneurship major at Missouri State University from Branson. Both of her parents are business owners.

“All of my life I was around a ‘Go, work for yourself, do what you want to do, not work for someone’ kind of attitude, and I think that’s why I was so driven in the first place,” Hustead said.

Before arriving at MSU or starting Craftive Co., Hustead was a part of a program called Greater Ozarks Centers for Advanced Professional Studies in high school. This program is designed to help students develop skills such as entrepreneurship, innovation, marketing, leadership, teamwork and commuWhen selling her products via her nication. personal social media accounts became Hustead said being a part of this too much, Hustead started an Instagram program was the best decision she’d profile dedicated to her business. ever made and it’s why she’s excelled Hustead keeps up with her target market through social media interaction. as a small business owner.

Sarah Clayton was a teacher and She uses Instagram polls to gauge trends mentor to Hustead. She describes Hu- and interact with buyers. stead as persevering, self-directed and “I’m always getting their feedback, enthusiastic. which is the best thing about my busi“Through her time in GO CAPS, ness,” Hustead said.

Lauren took the initiative speak to enTaylor Bullis, freshman business trepreneurs, which essentially led to major, is a customer of Craftive Co. building her network and learning from “I’m so drawn to everything because successful business people in our com- of how the products are marketed,” munity,” Clayton said.

Bullis said. “Craftive Co. is constantly Though Hustead was involved in creating new patterns, products and is entrepreneurship in the past, Craftive always looking to broaden their market.

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The company is so fun, and the way Craftive Co. is marketing their products shows that wholeheartedly.”

Hustead initially started the Instagram on Aug. 4 and has since launched a website to more efficiently sort and place orders.

“She was getting so many orders (that) it was becoming overwhelming, so a website helps organize and control that,” said Noah Briley, freelance graphic and web designer and Hustead’s boyfriend.

He helps Hustead with graphics for business cards, the website and coupons and does photography for the business.

He helped her build and launch the website.

Recently, the pair started a sister company called Sticket. Briley deals mainly with Sticket while Hustead deals with Craftive Co., but both are involved with each branch of the business.

Briley said they make a good team because Hustead comes up with ideas and he handles the logistics.

The duo said they initially wanted to create stickers for Craftive Co. but then began to think it would be a good idea to make stickers for anyone, which is how Sticket came about.

“I would love to do custom stickers for people as well as just make really cool unique stickers that people will buy,” Briley said. “I just kind of want to promote a fun, happy vibe to anyone and everyone through stickers that people put everywhere.”

The pair said they would like to collaborate with local artists in the future.

“He wants to have a local artisan every month to create five or six designs for stickers which would be added to the collection,” Hustead said.

In order to further continue the growth of the company, Craftive Co. intends to have more pop-up shops around the area.

On Feb. 13, Hustead had a pop-up shop at Crave Cookie Dough in partnership with Craftimatis, a sustainable clothing brand based out of St. Louis. In the future, Hustead will have a pop-up

Writer-director David Lynch’s “Inland Empire” is the best movie I’ll probably never watch again, or at the very least, not for a long time so the slow passing of time will later reveal new things in the fragmentary blur that Lynch produced here.

Named after the metropolitan region in Southern California, “Inland Empire” tells the story of a Hollywood production crew remaking a Polish film that was never completed under rumors that the two leads were murdered on set.

Echoing the superstition of the Macbethian curse (don’t say the name of the play whilst in a theatre lest the production be cursed) and maneuvering between themes of infidelity and psychosexuality, Lynch implements a befuddling cinematic concoction of reality vs. dreams, suggesting that the curse may, in fact, be real but he welcomingly never confirms its legitimacy either.

Lynch returns to the creeping themes he explored in “Mulholland Drive” and “Twin Peaks,” chiefly his apparent disdain for Hollywood and how it chews up and spits out every artist that has the misfortune of wishing to survive in the underbelly of Los Angeles’ film scene.

Lynch’s regular cast member actress Laura Dern plays one such character wrestling with Hollywood anxiety. Dern plays as Nikki Grace, an already successful — yet clearly troubled and disenchanted — actress who has been offered the lead role in the supposedly cursed film. Yet, as the production of the film moves along, Dern’s character slowly descends into madness, leaving the audience, like her character, not fully knowing what is going on.

Oddly enough, the film presents itself as a series of short films that accentuate the central feature film with Dern’s protagonist as the prevailing subject.

These little side dishes to the main entree are at once baffling and seemingly detached from everything else, and the film carries on as if a visualized stream of consciousness.

Monotone, anthropomorphic rabbits perform to a laugh track as if in a twisted sitcom, while Polish-speaking characters tied to human trafficking and a group of prostitutes gossip and dance about. The film is a proper hodgepodge of the bizarre.

Lynch has assembled a large cast of players here, the supporting players including Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux and Harry Dean Stanton. Naomi Watts, William H. Macy and Terry Crews make surprise appearances as well. I name them here as I’m mostly just baffled that so many actors signed on for this amorphic, deliberately oblique story; however, many are regulars for Lynch’s work.

Despite the hallucinatory brilliance here, my leading objection to “Inland Empire” is that it simply looks visually unappealing. The film has some unsightly framing, and the hideous low-resolution digital video camera that Lynch chose to work with does not at all help the fuzzy composition.

Some have argued the low-fi look of the film strengthens Lynch’s tone and anti-narrative, and in some respects, I can agree to that, but I’d be fooling myself if I were trying to convince myself that this is a film pleasing to the eye.

On the other end of the spectrum, my leading commendation comes in through Lynch’s orchestration of the dream logic matched with the truly disturbing. One of my favorite shots is a spotlighted Dern slowly walking toward the camera with a terrifying expression on her face. These disturbing sequences are supported with a droning score, making for an absolutely unnerving viewing experience — I noticed my heart drumming loudly in my chest on more than one occasion.

The film is so continually perplexing and discombobulating

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Student organization builds friendships for those with disabilities Best Buddies program hopes to grow, provide more companions CARISSA ALFORD Staff Reporter @carissabalford In college, it can be hard keeping up with friends. But one student organization is working to build lasting friendships for people with intellectual disabilities.

Best Buddies is dedicated to creating friendships between students and those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

In 1989, Best Buddies was born.

The now international organization started at the college level and has included high school and middle school chapters.

Cindy McMeley, faculty advisor

of Best Buddies, said the organization came to Missouri five years ago.

“There are chapters in all 50 states now,” McMeley said. “And in 50 countries.”

There are different pillars to the organization: one-on-one friendships, integrated employment, leadership development and inclusive living. McMeley said Missouri State’s chapter only does one-onone friendships.

Sheri Ball’s daughter, Katie, has a disability. This is their third year with Best Buddies.

“It’s great for her to have a peer to go do things with,” Ball said.

Katie and her buddy go shopping, go out for coffee, bake cookies and are constantly texting or calling each other.

“It’s really good for Katie to get away from the old parents and out doing things in the world,” Ball said.

Ball said Best Buddies has given her daughter more confidence and independence that wasn’t there before.

Katie has always been active,

being a cheerleader, but Ball said her peers never interacted with her outside of the group.

“Some would try, but their lives got busy,” Ball said. “It just wasn’t quite the same.”

Before Best Buddies, Ball said Katie was more introverted — now she gets out of the house more and wants to be around others.

“It’s just been really great getting to see her blossoming into an adult,” Ball said.

Ball talks with her daughter’s buddy often as well and said they have a great relationship.

Ball said she is brought to tears sometimes when she sees her daughter playing games or decorating cookies with her buddy.

“It just warms my heart to see her interacting with a peer,” Ball said.

Natalie Olson, freshman special education major, is the vice president of Best Buddies. She talks with her buddy, Chance, on the phone every week.

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Katie (right) bakes gingerbread cookies with her buddy, junior cell and molecular biology major Bridgette Macander.

uated, Olson said at first he was Olson said Best Buddies is difanxious that she would leave him, ferent from other programs because too. But over time, Olson was able it builds genuine friendships. to gain his trust by being there for him and being willing to listen. u See BUDDIES, page 5

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Best New Pop Artist nominee performs at MSU Students turn out for Max Schneider concert at the Plaster Student Union Theater REESE RADMACHER Staff Reporter @Reese_Radmacher Missouri State students buzzed around the Plaster Student Union Theater on Saturday night in anticipation for pop singer-songwriter MAX to take center stage.

MAX delivered a high-energy performance with quick, expressive dance moves and a flashy ensemble. He highly encouraged crowd participation, even allowing a girl in the front row to spontaneously rap a verse.

Ryan Siegel, better known by his stage name RyanEXOE, accompanied MAX on stage, spending equal time in the front performing and in the back controlling beats on his laptop.

Aside from being a solo artist, MAX and RyanEXOE formed a separate group named Party Pupils.

MAX collaborates frequently with a wide variety of artists including Galantis, Joey Bada$$ and Noah Cyrus.

The 26-year-old gained attention worldwide in 2018 when he hit No. 1 on Billboards Emerging Artists Chart for his song “Lights Down Low” featuring gnash on his album “Hell’s Kitchen Angel.”

The album name was inspired by his hometown of Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan.

Artists Lil Uzi Vert, Sirah and Hoodie Allen are featured on the album.

MAX was recently nominated Best New Pop Artist

for the iHeartRadio Music Awards that will premiere on March 14.

He will perform in upcoming festivals including Pot of Gold, The Anthem, Sunfest and Firefly. Party Pupils has two upcoming shows in San Jose, California, San Francisco and Denver.

Arts Fishing Club, a fivepiece band from Nashville, opened the show.

“Indie folk rock is how I like to describe it,” Christopher Kessenich, the lead singer, said in reflection of their overall sound. “We draw from ‘90s alternative and kind of mix it with more modern folk rock like The Head and the Heart and Bon Iver.”

The group played everything from a feel-good love song to an emotional song based on the character Walter White from the hit television show “Breaking Bad” titled “Born for Greatness.”

Kessenich said they have performed at other universities before, but this was among one of the best shows they’ve ever done.

Last October and November, the group recorded a fulllength album and released the first half as an EP titled “Human - I.” The second half will be released as singles, with a new one released each month.

Kessenich said they recently recorded another EP. For more information about MAX, Party Pupils or Arts Fishing Club visit www. maxhellskitchen.com or www.artsfishingclub.com.

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Max Schneider, known as MAX, encourages the audience to wave their arms back and forth during his concert on March 2. The concert, sponsored by the Student Activities Council, started at 8 p.m. in the PSU Theater.

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“Having someone to go run errands with or hang out with that’s not in his family or someone who does not have to be with him, it makes it a real friendship,” Olson said.

McMeley said even though the program as a whole isn’t new, it is new for the state of Missouri. Even though the program wants to grow as an organization, they don’t want to bite off more than they can chew.

“We currently have 11 members at Missouri State,” McMeley said. “One thing we were cautious about initially was growing

too quickly. We wanted to be sure we could manage all of it.”

At least once a month, Best Buddies will plan an activity for the whole chapter to be a part of.

Those monthly chapter activities range from bowling to picnics.

Olson said individuals with disabilities in this organization are excited to have someone they can count on. “(Chance is) so happy just to hang out and have someone to talk to,” Olson said.

Ball said Best Buddies was a life-changing experience for Katie.

“It’s a great interaction for both sides and the families as well if they get involved,” Ball said.

She said students get to see people with

disabilities in a whole new light and hopes others will broaden their perspective. “(People with disabilities) are not scary, they are really amazing and they are just so non-fake,” Ball said. “They love you for who you are.”

Olson said Best Buddies does come with a “minor time commitment,” but she said it would be the exact same as if she took time out of her day to see her other friends.

“I don’t see him every day because he is not on campus, so there is that extra effort,” Olson said.

While Olson admits there are additional challenges, she said it is not any different than a normal college friendship.

McMeley said if a student is reluctant to join Best Buddies because of time constraints,

there are other ways to contribute and be a part of the organization. The two different “paths” for membership are peer buddy and associate member.

A peer buddy is paired one-on-one with a person with disabilities to foster a friendship.

An associate member does all of the activities with the chapter, but is not paired one-to-one.

Olson urged students to get involved and said Best Buddies is fun to be a part of.

Students are not required to have a background in helping people with intellectual or developmental disabilities because it isn’t a teaching position.

The end of the year party will be held Sunday, April 24, from 2-4 p.m. in Phelps Grove Park. It is open for anyone to attend.

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The seniors walked out on the court, arm-in-arm with their parents.

Josh Webster, the transfer from St. Louis gets a round of applause for his impressive play in his single season as a Bear.

But the two four-year Bears Ryan Kreklow and Jarred Dixon earned more than a round of applause. They earned cheers and standing ovations from those in the crowd.

The senior day festivities were extra special for Kreklow and Dixon; the two have been playing basketball together since before high school.

“Ryan and Jarred, and a few other kids, would go to the summer camps,” Wayne Kreklow, Ryan’s dad, said.

They attended the same camps and knew each other because their older brothers, Rick and Michael, played basketball together at Mizzou.

They also eventually played on the same AAU team, the KC Run GMC, previously known as Pump N Run. Basketball ran in both of their families. Ryan’s brother played at California and Creighton, as well as Mizzou, and his dad was on the Boston Celtics team that made an NBA Championship run in 1981.

Jarred’s brother played at Mizzou before heading overseas to play throughout Europe professionally and his dad, Mike Sr., played basketball in college.

Michael, a citizen of both Georgia and the United States, missed his brother’s senior day game but was supportive from more than 5,200 miles away.

“I feel like I raised him in a lot of ways, so it’s a very mixed feeling,” Michael said. “I’m just happy that he made it to this point and hope he has a lot more basketball left to play.”

Jarred said Michael is trying to convince him to travel to see his brother and maybe try to play basketball professionally there.

Jarred said he looks up to his brother.

Ryan’s family, on the other hand, is all athletics, all the time.

Not only did his dad and brother play basketball, his sister Ali played volleyball at Mizzou under their parents as coaches. Susan and Wayne have been coaching at MU for almost 20 years, Wayne as head coach and Susan as the director of operations. “(Sports are) pretty much what we’ve done all our lives,” Wayne said. “Our kids were always around it; they didn’t really have much of a choice.”

For Ryan and Jarred, this meant more to them. Playing in what was most likely their final game as a Bear in JQH Arena, the seniors were set to play Drake, Missouri State’s conference rival.

Ryan said each game he has taken a moment to take in the atmosphere of JQH before the team runs out on the court for warm ups.

It’s officially March Madness now that the regular season is over. Not only is it time for Arch Madness in St. Louis, Missouri, but it is the time the Missouri State Bears proved everyone wrong. The Bears were predicted to seed eighth in the preseason.

Under a new coach, few returners and a rough previous season, there were not a lot of high hopes for an outstanding nonconference schedule — or conference schedule for that matter.

And the season started that way.

The men’s basketball team started the season winning at home and losing on the road. Things weren’t going the way the Bears wanted, but it’s the first year under Dana Ford and growing pains were expected.

When Missouri Valley Conference play started in January, the team became visibly more frustrated with the situation. The Bears lost to Valparaiso and Evansville, teams that are at the very bottom of the league.

Then, a loss to Drake on Jan. 20 changed everything.

Ford said the team met after the 74-63 loss in Des Moines, Iowa, and had an open and honest discussion.

The Bears put a game plan into motion.

Three days later, the Bears played MVC defending champs Loyola and dominated the game. The Bears held Loyola to 35 points while scoring 70. The league took notice of the win. In the very next game, Missouri State held Bradley to 37 points. The Bears became only the second team in the MVC to hold consecutive opponents to 37 points or less.

Other teams saw what Missouri State was doing and within two games, other MVC teams had figured out what the Bears were doing. Northern Iowa defeated MSU twice by knowing how to handle their slow offense and medium-level pressure.

Missouri State lost three of its last four games, and the final game of the regular season was the toughest loss of all. The Bears lost to Drake again, this time 73-62.

It was senior day, a day to celebrate Josh Webster, Ryan Kreklow and Jarred Dixon. After the loss, the seniors walked into the postgame press conference and seemed more ready for the MVC Tournament than anything else.

“We still can win St. Louis. I believe, these guys believe we can do it,” Dixon said. “It’s not over yet.”

Ford’s postgame conference was less upbeat. The head coach walked in somberly. His talk was slow and less energetic than we’ve seen.

“I’m just disappointed that I couldn’t do a better job to help those seniors get a conference championship when they were knocking on the door with four games left, three at home,” Ford said.

Ford said he would take Sunday to “lick his wounds” and get ready for the tournament.

The Valley released the bracket for the Arch Madness tournament on Sunday, March 3. Missouri State is officially the No. 4 seed and will face Bradley on Friday, March 8, at 2:30 p.m.

The Bears defeated the Braves 69-64 on Jan. 12, before they changed their playing style, and again on Jan. 26 when they held them to 37 points. The Braves are 17-14 overall, compared to Missouri State’s 16-15.

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Ryan Kreklow and Jarred Dixon walk off the JQH Arena court for the final time.

“I find myself before every game just looking around and just taking it all in because there’s only a couple left,” Ryan said. “You gotta make the best of it.”

The Bears lost to Drake 73-62 on March 2. The loss was a tough one for the seniors to swallow, but it seemed to affect head coach Dana Ford more than anyone else. He was somber when walking into the postgame press conference.

“I’m just disappointed that I couldn’t do a better job to help those seniors get a conference championship when they were knocking on the door with four games left, three at home,” Ford said.

The seniors, on the other hand,

knew the season wasn’t over. The regular season ended, but a new season started Sunday, March 3: the postseason.

The Bears earned a No. 4 seed in the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament. They will play Bradley, the No. 5 seed, a team they have already beat twice this season.

“It’s back against the wall, who’s not going to back down,” Ryan said. “I like Arch Madness because it’s just two teams in the middle of the ring, just going at it.

It’s the highest stakes. It’s all on the line out there.”

Ryan and Jarred haven’t been to a conference championship game in their first three years at MSU. Ford said these seniors de-

serve a championship after all they have been through. They have been through a coaching change, teammates quitting and team injuries.

“The value of knowing each other shows in the last two seasons — the team was just snakebit with injuries and freak things were going on — they got off to great starts and everybody’s excited and then the bottom falls out during the second half of conference play,” Wayne said.

Jarred and Ryan both know this Arch Madness could be the greatest of their career.

“We still can win St. Louis. I believe, these guys believe we can do it,” Dixon said. “It’s not over yet.”

Lady Bears focused on final two games DEREK SHORE Sports Reporter @D_Shore23 Drake, ranked No. 23, took sole possession of first place in the Missouri Valley Conference thanks to its 70-61 win over Missouri State on Sunday afternoon. The loss puts the Lady Bears one game behind the Bulldogs in the Missouri Valley with two games left remaining.

“This is probably the biggest regular season game we have played since I have been here,” head coach Kellie Harper said. “It is the one that has meant the most. There has been a lot of talk about it. There was a lot of emotions surrounding the game. You have both teams playing their hearts out.

“It is good for our program to be in these type of games.”

Missouri State will at least be a No. 2 seed in the MVC tournament on March 14-17 in Moline, Illinois, if they don’t win their first regular-season conference title. The Lady Bears finish off the season at Evansville on March 7 and Indiana State on March 9.

Drake finishes its season at home against Illinois State and Bradley on March 7 and March 9 as well. If Drake were to lose one and Missouri State wins out, the Lady Bears would lock up a share of the conference.

The Lady Bears started off the weekend by defeating Northern Iowa 58-48 on March 1.

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Freshman Jasmine Franklin blows past her Northern Iowa opponent on March 1. The Lady Bears split the weekend after defeating UNI and losing to No. 23 Drake on March 3.

Missouri State controlled the game from the start, jumping out to a 14-9 lead at the end of the first quarter. The Lady Bears went into the locker rooms, leading 27-19.

The defense stepped up their game in the second half, and Jasmine Franklin led the way. She ended the game with 10 rebounds, seven of which were

defensive, three blocks and six steals.

“She was absolutely terrific,” Harper said after Friday night’s game.

“When she plays with a lot of high energy, she is very, very good.”

By the end of the game, Missouri State forced 31 turnovers and snagged 16 steals to secure the win.

The Lady Bears struggled to carry

that momentum over into Sunday’s matchup against Drake, who exploded in the first quarter for an 11-point lead.

The Bulldogs shot 48 percent from the field in the first half.

“I think you saw in the first half how good they can be,” Harper said.

The Lady Bears made a run in the latter part of the game, but the damage

from the first two quarters lingered.

Even after Missouri State outscored Drake 38-29 in the second half, the Bulldogs pulled away with a ninepoint win.

Senior Danielle Gitzen continues to lead the Lady Bears offensively, averaging a team-high 12.4 points per game on the season. Junior Alexa Willard is right behind, averaging 11.7 points per game.

One of the big key areas for Missouri State to focus on going forward is first half defense. The Lady Bears are at their best in the first half, allowing an average of 26.1 points in the opening 20 minutes of Valley games going into Sunday’s matchup.

Drake posted 22 points alone in the first quarter and had a 41-23 lead going into halftime.

In their nine losses this season, Missouri State has allowed an average of 35 points per game in the first half.

Over their 18 wins, the Lady Bears have given up just an average of 26 points per game in the first half. Shutting down teams early will help determine Missouri State’s postseason fate and potentially how far they go in the conference tournament.

Harper is just focused on the final two games, though.

“Right now, I think we need to finish our practices well,” Harper said. “We need to play well in our last two games and try to get some momentum going up into Moline.”

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the weekend series with UC Irvine.

Due to approaching inclement weather, the series was changed to a doubleheader on Friday afternoon, where both games were seven innings. The UC Irvine Anteaters were the No. 30 team in the nation and had a record of 5-3.

Coming off the offensive explosion just earlier in the week, the Bears only managed to plate three runs in the two games against the Anteaters. One highlight from the Bears side of the plate was senior outfielder Brooks Zimmerman hitting his first home run of the season and collecting his first and second runs batted in.

The pitchers for MSU kept the team in the game only allowing seven total runs in the two games. Junior Logan Wiley pitched just over five innings, gave up two hits, struck out seven and walked none in the second game of the doubleheader.

The Bears dropped the first game of the doubleheader 3-2, losing in 11 innings 4-1. For the Bears to find traction going forward, they will need to get the bats rolling and play strong defense behind their pitchers.

Freshman shortstop Mason Hull had five errors in the four games and made other mistakes to go along with them.

Missouri State’s game against Oral Roberts on Tuesday was canceled due to weather. The Bears will start a three-game series at Arkansas State on Friday, March 8.

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(Above) Junior Logan Wiley pitches to the University of Californa Irvine batter at Hammons Field. The right hander pitched 5.2 innings and struck out seven batters. He had zero walks in 20 batters faced.

(Left) Junior John Privitera swings as the ball nears home plate. Privitera’s batting average is .350 as the leadoff batter for Missouri State.

The Bears lost to No. 30 UC Irvine at Hammons Field 3-2 in the first game and 4-1 in the 11th inning of the second game off a three-run home run.

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The Missouri State baseball team made their debut at Hammons Field after playing their first six games of the season on the road. The season has not started the way that many predicted — returning home with a record of 1-5 was less than ideal.

The first two games of the Bears home stand were against the Central Arkansas Bears.

Those two games would be a showcase for freshman pitchers Forrest Barnes and Logan Thomazin. Both had pitched in a couple of the team’s first games of the season, but hadn’t seen more than just a couple of innings on the mound each.

Barnes in his first start at Hammons pitched 4 1/3 innings while striking out three and allowing two runs. He was not eligible for the win, as he did not make it out of the fifth inning.

“He did a nice job,” head coach Keith Guttin said. “He didn’t walk anyone … he’s around the plate. He keeps his poise and he keeps us in the game. I thought he did a nice job for us.”

The club was looking to generate some offense while at home, only mustering 16 runs in their first six games. They put up nine runs in Tuesday’s game scoring six of them in the bottom of the sixth.

Freshman Anthony Herron Jr. hit the first Bears home run of the season in the second inning of the game.

“It felt great,” Herron said. “I just went up to the plate with the same approach, wanting to put a charge in the team.”

The UCA Bears rallied for four runs in the top of the seventh, but the Bears bullpen shut them down to hold on the victory.

Thomazin had a superb outing in his first start of the 2019 season. The freshman had a no-hitter through the game’s first five innings. Surrendering a two-out single in the sixth, he lost his chance for history. His final line was impressive, going seven innings, striking out 11, walking four, and only allowing the one hit.

The bats finally came alive at the end of the game, as the Bears scored seven runs in the bottom of the eighth. Four of the runs came off the bat of freshman Javier Ramos, a pitcher and infielder for the Bears.

While pinch-hitting for junior John Privitera, Ramos — in his first at-bat of the season — hit a grand slam.

“It felt good off the bat, I was just hoping it got down somewhere, and it went over the fence,” Ramos said.

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Ice Bears finish season strong SAM GRUS Sports Reporter @SCGRUS_6 The Missouri State Ice Bears closed the book on the regular season this weekend against the University of Oklahoma. The last time these two teams met, the Ice Bears scored their first regulation victories at home versus the Sooners on Feb. 1-2.

Coming into the weekend series, MSU was the No. 13 team in the American Collegiate Hockey Association. The club had been coming off a tough road trip to North Dakota where they lost all three games against the University of Jamestown and Minot State University, the Ice Bears were looking to head into the national tournament on a high note.

The biggest question for the past few months for Missouri State has been who head coach Jeremy Law is going to start on a given night. Law started Brendan Shuck on Friday night, who has gotten the least amount of playing time of the Ice Bears’ three goalies.

In the 2018-19 season, Shuck has played in 10 games, with a record of 8-1-0-0, a goals against average of 2.41 and a save percentage of .906.

Shuck stopped 27-30 of shots faced.

One of the Sooners goals came on the power play.

“I thought (Shuck) was great,” Law said. “Can’t fault him on the goals, one was a bad bounce off our own player. The others were two-onones with no back-checks.”

The Ice Bears were shut out on home ice for the second time this season, the other time coming back on Jan. 11 against Iowa State University. The offense struggled to gain momentum in the offensive zone all night. Special teams were ineffective as well, with the Ice Bears power play unit going 0-4 and giving up a short-handed goal late in the first period.

“We can’t win a game if we aren’t going to score on the other end,” Law said after the game.

One of the strengths for MSU this season has been the penalty kill; the club is killing nearly 85 percent of penalties this season. Two of the biggest keys to the success of the PK unit are defensemen Chris Brown and Brennan Anderson. The two have a

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Nikita Salnikov skates toward the action. The Ice Bears split their last home series of the regular season 1-1. combined +/- of +13 and while Anderson finds himself in the penalty box more than Brown, the defensive pairing has been a key to the Ice Bears’ success this season.

On Saturday night, Law started Bailey Stephens between the pipes.

Stephens has not been the goalie that he was in 2017-18, where in 22 games he had a 2.54 goals against average and .925 save percentage. He was shaky in his final regular season start, giving up four goals on just 23 shots.

He was pulled after just two periods for Brady Griffin.

“I didn’t think he was having a great game,” Law said. “I wanted to

spark up the boys; we had to change something.”

Griffin has been the better of the three MSU goalies down the final stretch. In conference play, Griffin had a 1.96 goals against average and a .933 save percentage.

The start of the third period was where the Ice Bears’ game changed.

Coming into the period, they were down 4-2 and struggling to get anything going offensively.

Just 24 seconds in the final period, forward Matt Matyi cut the lead to one goal with his eighth of the season. The momentum then swung into MSU’s favor as they controlled the game from

that point on.

With just under five minutes to play in the game, the team’s leading scorer Nikita Salnikov found the back of the net to tie the game at 4-4. After a questionable penalty to Anderson with 3:15 left in the game, forward Alex Turin collected a turnover in the neutral zone and scored a short-handed goal to give the Ice Bears their first lead of the game.

“Obviously, your backs are against the wall,” Law said. “So when we scored early, that kind of fueled our momentum. Getting that tying goal was huge … that short-handed goal from Alex was unbelievable.”

The Ice Bears’ offense looked like it had in earlier in the season, with the line of Jordan Bratton, Travis Barrett and Zane O’Bryan clicking Saturday night, Bratton scoring twice and Barrett picking up two assists.

The defense has been chipping in as well, with guys like Brown, Derek Smith and Sam Hiserodt picking up primary assists on three of MSU’s goals.

For the Ice Bears to take the success from this game into the national tournament, the power play is going to need to work out its kinks and Law is going to need to settle on a No. 1 goalie.

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“I recognize that voters WANT increased transparency and especially access to communications between lobbyists and legislators,” Emery wrote.

“This bill does not close records of the communications between lobbyists and legislators. It allows the closure of a very narrow portion of records to protect the legislative drafting process and our constituents.”

House Bill 445 is similar. It would allow government officials to withhold personal information of individuals such as phone numbers, documents prepared by government officials concerning decision-making opinions and records of constituent case files.

Proposed by Rep. Shamed Dogan, R-Ballwin, the bill would apply to all government officials rather than just legislators. That component of the bill has left journalists like Bridges uneasy.

“Clean Missouri made legislators’ emails and files subject to the Sunshine Law,” Bridges said.

“The Senate bill that’s been proposed would allow legislators to withhold most of those records, but only for themselves. … The House version would apply to every governmental agency, not just legislators, and have much more far-reaching effects.”

Another group concerned about these changes to the Sunshine Law is the Missouri Press Association. According to Jean Maneke, an attorney at the MPA, the organization has already voiced its concerns to legislators.

Maneke said the main reason for these bills seems to be keeping constituent emails private.

“We understand legislators’ needs to be very responsive to their voters,” Maneke said in an email. “We understand that sometimes people talk to their legislator about very private matters that they don’t intend to be made public. But we also realize the public interest in ensuring transparency in government.”

With the Senate having not yet voted on either bill, it’s unclear whether the Sunshine Law changes will actually pass in the end.

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that it is almost impossible not to be — for its colossal three-hour runtime — incessantly entranced by what is going on in the anti-narrative, dream logic construct that only Lynch could compose.

Conversely, I can see how absolutely irritating this film could be to others, and I would imagine that I may have found this film utterly reprehensible and aloof had I found myself on a particularly indifferent day.

“Inland Empire” is a one-of-a-kind film that makes “Twin Peaks” look like child’s play in comparison. It’s a film that will certainly not work for some, but as a chimeric descent into nightmarish territory, I cannot think of a film that does it better. 8.6/10

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The main character, Boss Baby, is voiced by Alec Baldwin in the 2017 animated film “Boss Baby.” The motion picture also features Jimmy Kimmel and Lisa Kudrow as the voices of Dad and Mom, respectively.

‘Boss Baby’ defies expectations, brings laughs through writing, humorous visuals COLE TRUMBLE Critic @Cole_Tr Even as I type the title of this review, my hands are shaking. Is it the horror of what I’ve done? Is it the disbelief at what I’ve had to do? Is it the fact that I haven’t eaten enough and I can’t keep my hands still? Jokes on me, it’s all of the above.

Welcome to the review of “Boss Baby.”

Lord help me.

So why am I reviewing this film? Well, it has been a long time since it was released, but the reason it is on my radar is a simple one. I have always hated “Boss Baby,” ever since I first saw baby Alec Baldwin’s cocky, animated smirk, I knew this movie was an affront to humankind. But last week, a few friends of mine brought it up and told me that it was really good and was on Netflix, so I thought, “What the hell,” and gave it a watch.

“Boss Baby” begins with an interesting credits sequence. Babies are produced in some kind of Dr. Seuss-inspired factory and sorted into family or management.

Those in management get a baby bottle and a briefcase and get pushed into a little cubicle to work towards the biggest goals of Baby Corp.

Boss Baby is dispatched to the home of Tim, an imaginative child who is just fine being an only child. Tim discovers that Boss Baby is plotting something and becomes

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ACROSS 1 Final bio 5 Enervate 8 Venomous vipers 12 Hawaii’s capital 14 Onetime head of Iran 15 “What Not to Wear” specialty 16 Greek vowel 17 “-- the season to be jolly” 18 Improvised musically 20 Pacific or Atlantic 23 Presidential “no” 24 Drink all at once 25 Time between connecting flights 28 Pitch 29 Lively dance 30 Spot on a domino 32 Hollow pastry 34 Grown-up nits 35 Rewrite, maybe 36 Luxury boat 37 Forcible restraint 40 A billion years 41 Acknowledge 42 Morning-after ailment 47 Viral video, e.g.

48 Imagine in detail 49 Scruff 50 24 hours 51 Grandson of Eve DOWN 1 Resistance unit 2 Squeezy snake 3 Pen pal?

4 ID on “CSI,” maybe

5 Yukon and Tahoe, for ex.

6 Beer cousin 7 Seller of food, often 8 “I, Robot” author 9 Buy stuff 10 -- de foie gras 11 Roe provider 13 Pork cut 19 On 20 Tenth mo.

21 Fellow 22 Franc replacement 23 Man’s man 25 Bestowed profusely 26 Grand tale 27 Opulent 29 Pantheon group 31 Favorite 33 Paul Reubens’ character Herman 34 Woolly

36 Boo-Boo’s buddy 37 Rhett’s shocking word 38 Eye layer 39 Cavort 40 A deadly sin

43 Literary collection 44 Moving truck 45 Id counterpart 46 Notes between dos and mis

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determined to find out what, and stop it.

What amazed me most was how quickly it made me comfortable with the idea of “Boss Baby.” I was disgusted at the concept from the moment I first heard of it until I turned it on.

Then, suddenly, I was fine with it. The film knows exactly how ridiculous it is, and the movie makes you, as the viewer, feel more familiar with what’s going on.

With a film as silly as this, we ought to discuss something about kids’ movies. A lot of times, crappy kids’ movies will come out, and people will dismiss their low quality as just something that happens in kids’ movies. I, along with plenty of other critics, know that’s not true. Think of “The Iron Giant,” or “A Muppet Christmas Carol” — these are films made for kids that hold up into adulthood.

What that ultimately means is when a movie sucks, it sucks. It isn’t OK because the kids don’t notice that it sucks. And what that also means is that when a kids’ movie is good, it is good for all age groups. And when I say “Boss Baby” was good, I’m as appalled as I am sincere.

What makes a kids’ movie good? There is a line a film like this has to walk between goofiness and honesty. It can’t have lewd jokes and violence or gore, so how does it draw in the audience?

Animation style goes a long way, for one. The film needs to have a look that draws kids in and keeps their attention.

There is usually a lot going on in each shot to avoid any lulls in action that would cause a young’un to get bored. Naturally, the film should have good writing and directing.

An excellent feature in a movie like this is when the writing appeals to older viewers as well.

Let’s face it: A lot will go over a kid’s head, and they’ll laugh at a lot more stuff than most of us old folk. Writers know that kids don’t buy movie tickets, and they don’t pay for Netflix subscriptions. Their parents do, so when good writers work on a kids’ film, they make sure that what they write will be funny and touching to the parents, or the dudes watching movies in their dorm room.

“Boss Baby” has that, and I laughed pretty hard while I was watching it — I’m pretty sure I would have laughed even if I wasn’t sleep deprived. The jokes are good, the main plot is cute enough and does follow through nicely. Overall, the animation added to the visual humor and wasn’t campy or annoying.

“Boss Baby” has a bizarre concept that shouldn’t work, but, through masterful execution, achieves unlikely success. It is certainly one of the best children’s movies I have seen recently, and I’m glad that it was suggested to me.

If you haven’t seen it for the same reasons I didn’t, know that it is fairly pleasant.

And with that shining recommendation, I declare “Boss Baby” reviewed. 7/10

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shop at Crave Cookie Dough on March 8 and at Clothe Boutique on March 22.

Hustead said her business has grown quickly, and with that came a new set of challenges.

During the Christmas season, Hustead received large amounts of orders for scrunchies, lanyards and headbands. She needed to make and ship orders, study for finals and plan for break at the same time.

“And here I am with 70 orders that I haven’t done yet,” Hustead said.

At that point, she was working on an order-to-order basis, not in big quantities. This holiday rush forced her to restructure the way she does business.

“That’s when I stopped doing order-to-order basis and started doing really large quantities,” Hustead said.

“It was a turning point, definitely.”

Hustead’s advice to someone looking to start their own small business is to “put your head down” and start working.

“Don’t be afraid of something going wrong because there’s always going to be something that’s going wrong,” Hustead said. “You have to roll with the punches. If you’re solving someone’s problem then it’s worthwhile.”

Hustead’s solution to the need of her market serves as the mission statement for the business.

“Creating wholesome products for awesome people like you.”

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Lauren Hustead founded Craftive Co. last August as a way to create and sell wholesome products, which range from scrunchies and headbands to lanyards.

(Right) Hustead models a few of her scrunchie designs.

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monthly wellness workshops to be held in the lounge, which have not been picked up since the loss of the space.

Johns said when they had the lounge, they wanted to introduce wellness programs.

“The plan was to offer monthly seminar style classes from financial advice, career development, relapse prevention and various other topics to support students,” Johns said.

College students make up one of the largest groups of drug abusers nationwide, according to the Delphi Behavioral Health Group.

Despite the cultural expectation of substance experimentation on university campuses, choosing between recovery and education is a choice no student should have to make, according to Practical Recovery.

Participation in this program varies year to year.

“We’ve had semesters where we have eight students regularly participate, and semesters where only one to two students participate,” Johns said. “Right now we have a couple of students.”

With the alcohol and drug usage in higher education, a surprisingly low number of students participate in this program, a fluctuation between sufficient and scarce attendance.

to make the world a fairer place.”

In the first paragraph, I also asked a second question inquiring as to what kind of equality actually matters. It is, of course, equality of opportunity. This is because not only is it illogical to assume that inequality of outcome is evil, but there is also no way to ever possibly achieve equality of outcome. To try and do so will lead to the destruction of equal opportunity. Attempts at achieving equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity must inevitably result in the destruction of freedom. Because as long as people have the freedom to choose differently from one another, disparities will remain.

Alexis de Tocqueville said, “Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.” He observed this during the 19th century. Oh, imagine what he would say today.

Yes, the world is full of inequalities. It always has been and always will be. It is not logical to assume that all of these inequalities are bad, and it is foolish to try and fix them. Instead, we should endeavor to ensure that everyone is held to the same standard, regardless of race, class or gender. We can find this kind of equality only by striving for equal opportunity, not the elusive and unattainable equality of outcome.

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SeeYouSpaceCowboy is a metalcore band which formed in 2016 and has been steadily releasing bits of music since.

The band recently decided to combine those bits and pieces into an impressive debut album titled “Songs for the Firing Squad.”

On this album, SeeYouSpaceCowboy manages to channel typical metalcore aggression with some truly wacky and absurd lyrics. This creates an interesting juxtaposition which manages to keep the album fresh throughout. While this album is far from perfect, its quirkiness and charm still manage to shine.

The album starts on a strong note with the opening track “911 Call: “Help I’ve Overdosed on Philosophy!” This track sets the tone of the album with its loud, abrasive guitar riffs and zany content.

Do not expect the song titles to get any less weird either, as this album also has tracks called “Pep Talk from a Nihilist” and “You Don’t Understand the Liquor is Calling the Shots Now Randy Bobandy.” Fans of the television show “Trailer Park Boys” are sure to get a kick out of the latter. While the band’s humor is certain to attract attention, it is the loud, spastic instrumentation that is truly the backbone of the album.

Perhaps my favorite song on the entire album is the penultimate track “Fashion Statements of the Socially Aware.” The track shows that SeeYouSpaceCowboy is capable of diversifying their sound a bit, which makes me even more optimistic for their future work. This track beautifully fuses metalcore with mathcore, and I think “Songs for the Firing Squad” could have benefited a lot more from that blend.

In fact, my biggest gripe with this album is its lack of diversity. The aggression and over-the-top lyrics are fun, but they also left me pretty exhausted after one listen.

While I think the decision to keep the majority of the tracks around a minute and a half in length helps alleviate this problem, the album does start to wear on you down the stretch.

“Songs for the Firing Squad” could have further remedied this problem with more varied vocals and mathcore infusions throughout.

Overall, “Songs for the Firing Squad” makes for a solid debut album for SeeYouSpaceCowboy. It is an album that fits nicely enough in the established genre of metalcore, but it is also distinct enough for the band to stand out from the crowd. This album should pay off for the band down the road, but we’ll have to wait and see.

Rating: 6/10 Genre: Metalcore, grindcore, mathcore Album Length: 18:04 Best Tracks: “Stop Calling Us Screamo,” “You Don’t Understand the Liquor is Calling the Shots Now Randy Bobandy,” “You Can’t Get Goose Justice in Fox Court, Just Spit on the Judge,” “Jimmy Buffett Doesn’t Even Surf,” “Pep Talk From a Nihilist,” “Fashion Statements of the Socially Aware” Worst Tracks: “Atrocities from a Story Book Perspective,” “Soap Opera Stardom is a Single is A Single Tear Drop Away”