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ISU hopes to raise awareness, funds with food from around world CHANCE SWAIM

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The smell of foods from around the world will drift from the Neff Hall courtyard across the main campus Tuesday at Wichita State.

International students will prepare hometown favorites — including bulgogi hot dogs, donar kebabs and kunafa — for $1 to $3 a dish to raise funds for student organizations

through InterFest.

“InterFest” is the name given to the International Student Union’s (ISU) food festival, which takes place in the fall and in the spring of each school year. In 2014, InterFest won the Student Involvement’s Outstanding Cultural Awareness Program award.

“The festival provides a platform for intercultural sharing where the WSU community and visitors can try

out diverse cuisine, and learn about the origins and cultural significance of a particular dish,” said Dilanki Terrenska in a news release. Terrenska is the InterFest Committee head and president of the International Student Union.

“It also serves as a fundraiser for WSU international student associations, although small groups of students from countries without an association may also participate in

order to have as many diverse dishes as possible,” he said.

WSU’s International Student Union represents more than 1,600 students from 103 countries.

Besides bringing diverse food to campus, InterFest also raises cultural awareness and fosters understanding and cooperation among different cultures on campus.

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« IF YOU GO: InterFest

When: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday

Where: Neff Hall courtyard $1 to $3 a dish

Students express mixed feelings about WSU dining ANDREW LINNABARY

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File Photo by Manny De Los Santos

Shocker Sound performs Feb. 27 at Charles Koch Arena. The future of the 35-member pep band is in question after Student Government Association voted last week to pass Shocker Sound’s funding over to the Athletic Department.

Shocker Sound tuned out of student fees budget EVAN PFLUGRADT

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Inside Charles Koch Arena, slam-dunks, fadeaway three-pointers and driving layups leading to double-digit advantages put pressure on opposing coaches to call timeouts to try and settle the roaring cheer of 10,506 fans dressed in black and yellow.

Each moment serves as a cue for the 25 brass instruments seated behind row 15 in section 117 of the arena to raise together, sounding off in the bolstering tunes “Light em’ up,” “Go Shocks Go,” “War” and a list of more than 40 songs.

Shocker Sound, a 35-person student-run pep band, is part of the traditional game-day experience for men’s and women’s basketball games. But based on a recommendation from the Student Government Association, Shocker Sound may have sounded off for the final time this season.

“The idea has been kicked around that there may not be a band. That’s where we’re at,” athletic band director Jordan Northerns said.

On Wednesday, the Student Government Association passed a student fees budget with a recommendation of completely defunding Shocker Sound. The budget will now go to University President John Bardo for approval.

According to Student Body President Joseph Shepard, the student fees committee faced a shortfall of $320,000 for the 2016 year.

“However we shifted the money, we were going to be put in a situation where someone was not going to be funded,” Shepard said.

Northerns, a graduate assistant in his second year of directing Shocker Sound, said the group has functioned on an annual budget of nearly $90,000. The fees supported an income of a little more than $10,000 for each of the two graduate assistants, and a budget to support instrument fees, uniforms and an honorarium — payment to each player — of $30 for each game, and also $20 for practices, which Northerns said are held an average of four times each semester. Northerns added

that Shocker Sound does not “The idea has been have a reserve fund. kicked around The honorariums total an that there may not average cost of more than be a band. That’s $40,000 each year and can where we’re at.” cost up to $50,000 each year.

Northerns said Shocker JORDAN NORTHERNS Sound decreased all honorari- Athletic band director ums by $5 in order to preserve funds.

In an initial proposal from the student fees committee that was rejected by Student Senate, Shocker Sound had been proposed a budget reduction of $30,000. Shepard said in the first proposal, the committee determined the most it could support the band with was an estimated total of $55,000.

“Upon conversation with [Shocker Sound], that would not have been enough to allow them to sustain,” Shepard said. “It was a lose-lose situation for us.”

Northerns agreed, stating there was no option other than to reject the proposal.

“The answer was no,” he said. “It was far too big of a cut.”

Freshman Haley Ensz, a fine arts senator, said the original proposal was for Shocker Sound to request funding from the Athletics Department, and that the student fees committee would slowly phase Shocker Sound out of their budget.

“Because we didn’t have the money, the committee thought this was the best time to make the transition,” Ensz said.

The committee decided to cut the funding completely, stating Shocker Sound would have better financial resources compared to other groups competing for funding.

“We decided it was the responsibility of the Athletics Department to fund the band,” Shepard said. “We believe Shocker Sound has resources through the Athletics Department, but also individuals in the community that will support that band full-force.”

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HOLI Fest a colorful celebration

Photos by Manny De Los Santos

Students play in a game of chase with buckets of water and colorful powders during the annual HOLI Festival of Colors on Saturday afternoon in front of Hubbard Hall. Hosted by Wichita State’s Association of Hindu Students of America, the two-day Hindu festival is a celebration of love.

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For Shocker Hall resident Makenzie Hercules, dining in Shocker Hall is lacking most days.

“Usually it’s pretty much the same food over and over again,” said Hercules, a freshman studying theater design and technology.

Food service consulting firm Envision Strategies LLC met with students, faculty and staff last week to observe the dining operations at Wichita State. Its study will assess the demand and types of changes needed to improve services at WSU dining.

Jim Herrman, associate vice-president of Student Affairs and director of the Rhatigan Student Center, said Envision is working to gather and analyze dining data; there’s no specific reason for their on-campus research, he said. WSU’s contract with Sodexo, a food service company, expires in July 2017 and the university is considering new options, Herrman said.

“Envision is on a fact-finding mission, nothing more,” he said.

Representatives from Envision could not be reached for comment.

Hercules and other students gave their opinions about food served at Shocker Hall.

“There’s days where they’ll have good stuff, but the pizza, which they serve a lot, is not very good,” Hercules said. “It’s drowning in grease. They have salad, but I think they need more healthy options. They don’t even have soup, and the food’s expensive.”

A plan with 15 meals a week costs $2,114 a semester. Other plans with more or fewer meals are available.

“I usually eat at the RSC or off campus because the food can be so bad,” Hercules said.

Caleb Snyder, an economics sophomore and Shocker Hall resident, said he doesn’t just dislike the food — he has a food allergy.

“I have a peanut allergy and half the time they forget to put ‘contains peanuts,’” Snyder said.

“I’ve had four reactions because of food at Shocker Hall. Other people have complained and they’re not doing anything about it.”

Mary Eby, a criminal justice junior and Shocker Hall resident, said it comes down to which cooks are working.

“I think when certain chefs prepare food it’s OK. There’s certain chefs that, when I see them, I’m going to get whatever they’re cooking,” Eby said.

Eby said lunch is better than dinner, but overall the food is not good. She said the meals generally aren’t good sources of protein, something she tries to eat a lot of.

“Sometimes they don’t even have a meat option. There’s lot of salads and a bunch of carbs, like pasta and pizza. They also switch up the pizza crust all the time, which is weird,” Eby said.

Jordan Nichols, an electrical engineering sophomore and Shocker Hall resident, said he thinks Shocker Hall food isn’t bad.

“Some of it’s good, actually, really good,” Nichols said.

“Today we had mashed potatoes and corn, and I really liked it.”

Fairmount Hall resident Alyssa Marr, an international business senior, said she prefers the food offered at Fairmount than the food offered at Shocker Hall.

SEE DINING • PAGE 2

Photo by Joshua Duncan

A chef prepares lunch Saturday at Shocker Hall. Wichita State has contracted with a food service consulting firm to evaluate the dining needs of students, faculty and staff.

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BAND

FROM PAGE 1 Shepard discussed with interim athletic director Darron Boatright to work out a new proposal.

Wednesday morning, Boatright discussed the new proposal with representatives from the fine arts department and members of Shocker Sound, where he announced the contribution of $20,000 in annual funding.

Ensz said she wanted to draft a new proposal after learning about the support from the Athletics Department, but was limited in time, stating she first learned the amount at 5:30 p.m., two hours before the committee was set to vote on the proposal.

“Ideally, I would have liked to have had a counter-proposal,” she said.

In the voting session, the budget passed; Ensz the lone senate member to vote against the proposal.

“I didn’t vote in favor of it for the sake of sticking with my department,” she said. “Lots of other senators didn’t want them to be completely defunded.”

In the new proposal, the budget had dropped the funding for Shocker Sound from $60,000 to $0, and that money was distributed to fund OrgSync, Baja SAE and

Microcosmos, among other student fees-funded organizations.

Of Northerns’s concerns for the future of Shocker Sound, his top concern was whether the program would continue to support a graduate assistant to replace him as he prepares for graduation in May. “Right now, because our budget is in jeopardy, we cannot find graduate students to fill my position, which is something we’d be doing right now,” Northerns said. “It’s sort of in limbo, and it has put us in a hard place.”

Northerns returned to school two years ago, which he said has always been a life-long dream. He said other opportunities, such as online programs, would have allowed him to earn a similar degree, but financially didn’t know if things would work out, or if the online setting would benefit him.

“I wanted to be fully immersed in the position,” he said.

Ensz said the main disappointment in the decision was finding out they would no longer be financially supporting new graduate assistants to run the program. Ensz said she had conversations with the potential replacement for Northerns, and based on the conversation, she wasn’t sure whether or not he’d be able to continue his education.

“He was really concerned,” Ensz said. “Being a graduate assistant for

Shocker Sound is the only way he can attend graduate school next year, not having that position available means he won’t be able to attend the university.”

Northerns said he anxiously awaits the decision on whether the position will be funded or dissolved.

“They have to make plans,” he said. “They cannot wait forever.”

In the month preceding the student committee’s vote, Northerns met with Bardo while traveling with the NCAA Tournament in March. Northerns presented Bardo with a letter addressing the financial crisis, and also attached letters from current and former Shocker Sound members.

One letter came from 2015 graduate alumna Mitchell Crow, who played in Shocker Sound from 2010 through 2015 while he earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.

“Participating in Shocker Sound has been the most influential, rewarding and memorable experience [I had] at Wichita State University,” Crow said in the letter.

The highlight of his experience, as for most members in the program, came in 2013 when Shocker Sound competed in the Battle of the Bands competition during the Final Four in Atlanta, Georgia. WSU won the contest.

In the letter, Crow also thanked the graduate assistants for pushing him to his limits, challenging him to be a leader and providing him the opportunity to be part of something bigger than himself.

“Players really feel like they have a profound affect on the game, the fans and the experience,” Northerns said. “And I think they do.

“It goes beyond playing music, loving basketball or anything like that. Shocker Sound is something more.”

Thursday, Bardo stated an intent to request funding from the Kansas Board of Regents.

“The Student Government Association wrestled with a difficult budget and I plan to accept its funding recommendations for student organization,” he said in a university release.

“However, Shocker Sound has become an important part of the university experience for both participants and spectators at athletic events, so I plan to ask the Kansas Board of Regents to include Shocker Sound funding as a very small addition to student athletic fees.”

For the future of Shocker Sound, the answer will be waiting.

“I do believe that when it comes down to it, President Bardo is not going to let that band die,” Shepard said. “He’s going to protect that band, and be sure they sustain.”

SHOCKER STREET SPEAK

What do Wichita State students think about dining options at Wichita State?

“This place is one of the main reasons why I came to Wichita State. The Shocker Hall is the big wow factor and the RSC is pretty amazing as well. I am a very American food style person, so the fact they have pizza everyday and burgers and fries is nice. They mixed it up between those as well.”

“There are options, but probably for a month or two we had just grilled cheese. Or we will have hamburgers every night for dinner.

There could definitely be better things for what we are paying for.

Like a lot of times there might just be pasta. I think last night I had two different types of pasta for dinner.”

“What I like mostly here is the international cuisine. I like to get a taste of back home. The problem is the cuisines they offer have pork. As a Muslim, I don’t eat pork. It’s not like everyday they do this. But there are times it happens and it gets frustrating for me.”

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“I think hey have a lot of options.

But the quality isn’t great.

Sometimes you come in here and its all pasta or all carbs. But there are options.”

“I kind of get tired of burgers and pizza everyday. I want bacon for breakfast and they never serve any bacon.”

“Most of the time there isn’t many options, and the food isn’t that good. Really, there isn’t much else to say about the food here.”

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FROM PAGE 1 “There’s less options, but the food is better,” Marr said.

“When I have the option, I’d definitely prefer the food at Fairmount over Shocker Hall. I have no complaints other than the fact that they close it down

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for lunch and over weekends.”

Alexis Woods, a dental hygiene sophomore and Fairmount resident, said she prefers Shocker Hall food over Fairmount. She said she has never eaten at Fairmount because of the smell.

“It smells awful in the Fairmount dining hall,” Woods said.

“I go to Shocker Hall every day.

There’s more options, though I wish they had more. I think the

Rap music upstaging rock; bands not pushing boundaries Whatever has happened to rock music?

Maybe I read too COLUMN BY much ANDREW Pitchfork, LINNABARY but over the last few years, rock music seems more and more stagnant.

This comes from someone prone to listening to rock music ranging from The Beatles to metal band Iron Maiden, which I grew up with and still love.

Radiohead, arguably one of the most genre-pushing and innovative rock bands of the ‘90s and 2000s, realized this “death” of rock at the turn of the century, releasing a nearly all electronic album with the 2000’s “Kid A.” Since then, they’ve kept the synths and computers around, meshing their sonic textures with traditional instrumentation.

And yes, there are surely many other objectively good rock bands still around making solid music, but where has the musical innovation gone? It seems most rock bands tap into formulas established decades ago instead of pushing themselves to advance their genre.

Maybe rock has truly been pushed to its limits. Undoubtedly there have been countless advances within the field, whether through technique, song structure or gear.

It seems right now rap is

leading the way in sonic innovation, whether in Drake’s (typically) minimalist approach, Kendrick Lamar’s free jazz-funksoul melting pot or Future and Young Thug’s auto-tuned rap singing.

Young Thug stands right now as one of the most polarizing figures in rap music. Many of his lyrics are unintelligible, and those lines that are understandable can leave listeners wondering if the man can even think straight.

Yet despite lyrical shortcomings, Young Thug is able to convey genuine, unequivocal emotion. Isn’t that what music’s ultimate goal is?

Genuine emotion is something today’s rock music generally seems to lack. Bands appear happy to release carbon copy songs knowing the subject matter or melody will satisfy listeners.

That has led to musical stagnation.

That’s not to say that rap music doesn’t have plenty of unoriginal artists — it undoubtedly does.

But that is unavoidable in any kind of music. The difference is rock has become sustained by unoriginality, whereas rap is sustained by new ideas and approaches.

Maybe some new band will come forward and take rock in a new and exciting direction, but for now, rock is stuck shamefully in the past given how it was built on pushing ideas and music forward.

quality of the food depends on the day. Their grilled cheeses are pretty good, even though they have grilled cheeses nearly every day.”

WSU Dining Services general manager Sam Cross reiterated that Envision is just evaluating dining services data. He said there is an estimated timeline of six months for Envision’s results.

Cross said students have given

the dining services a 91 percent overall satisfaction rate, based on previous university surveys. He said despite that there’s always opportunities to improve.

“Service, brands, hours and locations — all those things are being evaluated,” Cross said.

“We’re excited for the opportunity to have someone on campus evaluating things and moving us forward.”

Kansas taking steps toward ending rape kit backlog COLUMN BY

TJ RIGG

Hundreds of thousands of rape kits sit untested in the United States, according to the website endthebacklog.

org.

Rape kits consist of DNA evidence that, when tested, can be a tool to solve and prevent crimes involving sexual assault and rape. A rape kit can identify an unknown assailant and confirm a survivor’s account of an attack. The kit’s evidence can connect the suspect to other crime and exonerate innocent suspects.

To accomplish all of that, however, rape kits must be tested.

The federal government estimates, according to the website, hundreds of thousands of kits remain untested in police and crime lab storage facilities across the country.

An interactive map on the website shows Kansas has 2,008 untested kits, a number echoed in a Kansas City Star article in October.

However, the number is an estimate of untested kits in Kansas in 2015, and according to the Star article, that could increase.

The interactive map also shows that counting is in progress, yet

there is no statewide reform other than a comprehensive count.

It is unacceptable that rape kits sit untested in any U.S. jurisdiction.

Rape kit testing should be a mandatory part of the legal process in these cases, as the kit serves to protect survivors and make sure that perpetrators of sexual assault and rape are punished for their crimes.

DNA evidence has come so far in the last decade and a half. Innocent people are exonerated because of DNA evidence. Crimes that have been unsolved for years are resolved thanks to DNA evidence.

The justice system has the power to help prevent one of the worst crimes a person can commit. All it takes is simple reform requiring responsible parties to test rape kits for DNA evidence. Doing so will reduce the number of assaults and keep all of us safer.

It is promising that in Kansas, a new crime lab for the Kansas Bureau of Investigation opened in November. A Kansas City Business Journal article reported the facility will house more than 70 scientists and technicians and serves as the crime lab for the entire state.

Hopefully the new crime lab for the KBI is put to good use in preventing the epidemic of sexual assault. Only time will tell.

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Baseball avoids sweep in MVC opening series NICK BEACH

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Wichita State entered Missouri Valley play with nine wins. In Evansville, Indiana, the Shockers looked to better their record, and with a five-run advantage, WSU had all but narrowly secured the advantage to steal Game 1, avoiding a series sweep against the Purple Aces.

A three-RBI homerun in the eighth started a four-run rally for the Purple Aces, redshirt junior Willie Schwanke escaped with his fifth win of the season, sophomore Tyler Jones collected the save. The Shockers couldn’t avoid the Purple Aces’ batting rotation in games two and three, falling to Evansville in two of the three games in the series.

Game 1 Wichita State hoped to carry the momentum off of Tuesday’s home-win against Oral Roberts.

Manufacturing early runs put WSU en route to victory. Four strikeouts by Jones in the final two innings of the game helped hold off the Purple Aces from completing the five-run rally to tie the game.

WSU edged by the Purple Aces 6-5 to start their conference record at 1-0.

Sophomore catcher Gunnar Troutwine set the pace in the batter’s box, scoring an infield single to the shortstop in the first inning to score senior centerfielder Mikel Mucha.

Schwanke pitched seven innings, and as the weekend-starter he threw out six batters, allowing one earned run in 105 pitches.

Mucha finished with two RBIs hitting two pop flies into right and center field.

Game 2 Left-handed sophomore pitcher Cody Tyler gave up six hits and four runs in six innings. Junior Reagan Biechler and freshman Clayton McGinness gave up a combined three hits and three runs, failing to achieve the save after WSU

fell into an early four-run second-inning deficit.

The Shockers played catch up most of the game. Freshman Dayton Dugas had two hits, a single into left field scored Troutwine from second base, putting the Shockers in the box score for the first time in the top of the sixth inning.

Wichita State lost 7-2, freshman Luke Ritter singled to score senior Chase Rader for the Shockers’ only other score.

Game 3 Junior right-handed pitcher Zach Lewis entered Sunday’s game with losses in each of his five starts. He brought in an ERA of more than 5.50.

Lewis had showed trouble holding opponents at the plate through the first-half of the season.

Lewis cleared two innings unscathed before Evansville senior Eric McKibban singled to center field to score one runner, and advance another.

Evansville cleared the bases with a three-run homerun into right field, giving the Purple Aces a six-run advantage.

With another homerun in the fifth inning, WSU’s deficit grew to seven runs.

Head coach Todd Butler pulled Lewis after four innings, Lewis allowed six of the Purple Ace’s 11 runs en route to UE’s second straight win, claiming two of the three games in the series.

Troutwine ended the chances of a shutout with a single up the middle of the field, but the deficit was far too large for Wichita State to successfully complete any rally.

Redshirt sophomore John Hayes entered in the fifth inning, allowing the Purple Aces to score four more in a little under two complete innings.

Wichita State (11-21) returns to Eck Stadium to host Oklahoma in a one-game series. The Shockers play the Sooners at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday at Eck Stadium; they host their first home conference-series against Missouri State starting at 6:30 p.m. Friday.

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Sophomore Kelsey Sterneker winds up for a pitch March 23 against Oklahoma State at Wilkins Stadium. The Shockers lost two games in a three-game series over the weekend at Evansville.

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In an effort to bounce back from a 10-run shortfall against No. 14-ranked Oklahoma on Wednesday, the Shockers took a step back after dropping two out of three games at Evansville over the weekend.

File Photo by Jessica Green

Freshman Dayton Dugas prepares for a hit March 1 against the University of NebraskaOmaha. The team won Game 1 over the weekend at Evansville.

FOOD

FROM PAGE 1 Food will be served from tented stands and customers can eat at picnic tables set up in the courtyard or take the meals to go, Terrenska said.

The InterFest menu has not yet been finalized, but in the fall it included cuisines from Bangladesh, India, Iran, Japan, Korea, Kuwait,

Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Paraguay, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Vietnam.

Terrenska said Tuesday’s InterFest will feature hard work from student organizations and student volunteers who put hours of time and days of planning into the festival.

Food will be served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

“Interfest is an important fundraiser for participating student organizations,” Terrenska said.

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Game 1 Both teams struggled to get runs early in Game 1 on Saturday, with four hits through the first four innings. The Shockers got it rolling in the fifth inning. Senior Brittany Fortner hit a single to drive in freshman Laurie Ann Derrico in from third base.

Pinch hitting for junior Kelli Spring, senior Liz Broyles hit a single to right center field that gave Wichita State a 2-0 lead.

Evansville’s only run came in the bottom of the seventh inning, scoring off of a sacrifice fly to centerfield. Junior Katie Malone got her third save of the season by forcing three straight outs by the Purple Aces in the final inning, giving the Shockers a 2-1 win.

Junior Jenni Brooks got her 11th win of the season, pitching six innings while striking out three Evansville batters, giving up three hits.

Game 2 The Shockers made sure they got on the scoreboard early in game two, with Broyles hitting a single that scored junior Paige Luellen in the first inning. Sophomore Mackenzie Wright hit the fifth and final hit of the inning with a single to left field, scoring a run that put the Shockers up 2-0.

Luellen’s two-run home run in the fourth inning increased the Shockers lead to 4-0, but a

grand slam homerun by Evansville’s Morgan Lambert tied the game in the bottom of the fourth inning.

An RBI double by Evansville in the bottom of the sixth inning gave the Purple Aces their fifth and final run of the game, forcing three straight outs by Wichita State in the seventh inning to defeat the Shockers in Saturday’s second game 5-4.

Game 3 Trying to get the series win on Sunday, the Shockers got a boost by junior Macklin Hitz, who started off the game with a solo home run to right field to put WSU up 1-0 in the top of the first inning.

After an RBI single by Evansville tied up the game in the bottom of the first inning, Hitz answered the bell in the top of the third inning.

Her deep sacrifice fly to center field scored Fortner from third to give the Shockers back the lead 2-1.

Evansville responded in the bottom of the fourth inning, regaining the lead off of a double and a single to put the Purple Aces up 3-2.

Sophomore Kelsey Sterneker came into pitch relief for Brooks in the fifth inning, striking out three Evansville batters, allowing one hit. The Shockers, however, were unable to get a hit in the final three innings of the game, ending in a 3-2 defeat.

Wichita State (21-16, 7-5) next travels to Columbia, Missouri, for a double-header against No. 16 Missouri on Wednesday. The Shockers return home for conference play, with a weekend series against Bradley starting with a double-header starting at noon at Saturday at Wilkins Stadium.

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