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Missouri State University’s Residence Life Housing andDining Services is scrambling to find rooms for its overflowof students, but the director, Gary Stewart, said this has hap-pened before and there’s nothing to worry about.

Overflow is the term used to refer to a number of studentswithout housing who must be given temporary accommoda-tion until a room becomes available. It is sometimes calledexpanded capacity.

“It’s nothing new. We’ve had overflow historicallythrough the years, and overflow is the result of the number ofpeople who are admitted to the institution,” Stewart said.

Stewart said enrollment numbers are up for Missouri StateUniversity, but high school graduate numbers are down. Hebelieves this means many students are choosing to transfer

from other universities to become a Bear.“We just had a limited number of beds available, and as

the numbers kept growing, we knew we needed to have agameplan,” Stewart said.

The gameplan was to divide 138 students in betweenrooms in Freudenberger House, Woods House, Wells House,Blair-Shannon House, Hammons House and Hutchens Housefor temporary accommodation.

At the start of classes, some students began living in com-mon areas, resident assistants’ rooms or the designated studyareas in each hall.

Alan Adams, sophomore computer science major, is cur-rently living in one of the overflow rooms in FreudenbergerHouse, also known as Freddy.

Although he said he wasn’t immediately notified he wasgoing to be out of a room, he’s adjusted well and hasn’t beeninconvenienced by it at all.

“I was placed in an overflow room, and I’m making dowith what I was given ... eventually there is going to be a

room once they figure it all out,”Adams said. Students are given a break on their room and board

charges for any inconvenience they suffer while living in anoverflow room, by having 20 percent of the daily rate of roomand board fees credited back to their student accounts.

Stewart said vacancies begin to pop up every year becausestudents don’t show up and don’t think to cancel their con-tract with campus housing, arrive and decide it’s not for themor are unable to register for classes and must give up theirhousing to someone else.

Now, a week after classes began, Residence Life has about50 more students to place into rooms.

“It’s not a negative thing ... it’s making the best of what itis we have to work with ... the main thing is to concentrate onyour classes and get started, and we’ll get you settled as soonas we can, “ Stewart said.

Stewart said he can’t be certain when all students will bein their rooms, but they are doing the best they can as fast asthey can.

By Briana SimmonsThe Standard

@SimmonsReports

The Department of PoliticalScience invited the Kazakhstaniambassador to the United Statesto speak to students at MissouriState University on Aug. 21.

The Political ScienceDepartment welcomed KairatUmarov for a Q&A sessioncalled, “Kazakhstan: Heart ofEurasia.” The session was heldin the basement of Strong Hall.

According to Brad Boden-hausen, director of the Interna-tional Leadership and TrainingCenter, the ambassador was ona two-day visit around south-west Missouri to learn moreabout the area’s agriculture,

manufacturing and small busi-nesses.

“I thought it was great thatthe ambassador took the time tocome to southwest Missouri fora two-day visit,” Bodenhausensaid. “So many times the per-spective of an international vis-itor is based on being in Wash-ington, New York or Los Ange-les. The chance to get to theMidwest and learn about what’sgoing on here in Missouri, Ithought, was a great idea.”

Congressman Billy Long ofthe seventh district set up theevent. He said he wants this tobe the start of an ambassadorseries at Missouri State.

When asked whether hehoped this event would lead tohaving other ambassadors oncampus, President Clif Smart

said, “Yes. This is a greatopportunity to expand all of ourknowledge of global/worldevents and history.”

“I would love to attend moreevents such as this one, as I’malways interested to knowwhat’s going on in the interna-tional community, especiallydirectly from a country’sambassador,” said Kyle Cubel,a sophomore global studiesmajor.

Before the Q&A session, theambassador discussed the histo-ry of Kazakhstan.

Umarov said Kazakhstan isthe ninth largest country in theworld and has a population of17 million. Kazakhstan is cele-brating 22 years as an inde-pendent country in CentralAsia.

Kazakhstan was home tomany nuclear testing sites forthe Soviet Union. For 40 years,it housed all of the SovietUnion’s nuclear weapons. Over450 nuclear weapon tests wereconducted during this time peri-od, Umarov said.

During the Q&A, a studentasked about Kazakhstan’sdeveloping economy. Umarovsaid Kazakhstan has a goalcalled “Kazakhstan 2050.” Itwas developed in 2012, and thegoal is to be in the top 30 mostdeveloped countries by 2050.

“Each ship needs to know itsdestination,” Umarov said. “Weknow our destination. We knowwhere we are going.”

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Lucas Stoddard, freshman civil engineering major, talks to a residencelife staff member about moving into a realbedroom after living in a Freudenbergerstudy room.

MSU is filled to the brim

By Nicole RobertsThe Standard

@NReneeRoberts

Photo courtesy of MSU Photographic Services

Kairat Umarov speaks to students during hisvisit to Springfield.

Higher enrollment has residence halls over capacity, causing somestudents to live in overflow areas like study rooms and lounges

u See UMAROV, page 2

Kazakhstani ambassador visits MSU

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Tuesday, Aug. 25Student Organization FundingAllocation Council (SOFAC)Training, 9-10 a.m., Plaster Stu-dent Union 308 A&B

Women’s Equality Day, all day

Wednesday, Aug. 26Sample Springfield, 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., North Mall PSU

House Calls, 6:30-8 p.m., Allresidence halls

Thursday, Aug. 27College of Arts & Letters trans-fer student meeting, 12:15-1:15p.m., Plaster Student Union 313

Friday, Aug. 28Deadline to request a FERPAHold, all day

Schedule Change Deadline-75% Refund, all day

Ask the Experts BlackboardOpen Session, 1:30-4:30 p.m.,Meyer Library 205

Monday, Sept. 1Labor Day, no classes andoffices closed

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Correction forAug. 19 article‘Exercise yourright to vote’

In the Back to Campusspecial section that wasreleased Aug. 19, the story“Exercise your right to vote”said students could vote in thelibrary or Plaster StudentUnion. However, studentscannot vote there. Those arelocations that students canregister to vote. Pollingplaces are determined by resi-dential addresses submittedon the voter registrationapplication.

Students can register atDriver’s License Bureaubranches, any branch of theSpringfield-Greene CountyLibrary District, the GreeneCounty Clerk’s Office or onthe Secretary of State’s orGreene County Clerk’s web-sites.

Missouri State has updated its alert messagesystem that is used to notify students and facul-ty of any campus emergency or closing.

Among these changes is a new opt-out sys-tem. All students and faculty are automaticallysigned up for the alert system under the contactinformation they have provided the university.

Once the new system is activated, everyonewith a text-enabled phone number will receivean initial text notification.

Jay Huff, assistant director of Safety andTransportation, said that the circumstances inwhich students will be notified has not changed,but rather the software used to alert them has.

“Previously, we had an opt-in system where ifyou wanted to receive alerts, you had to sign upfor it,” Huff said. “Our number of subscriberswas under 50 percent. We have an obligation toour students here and wanted a different way tomake sure they were getting these messages.”

Huff said of the enrolled students, only 8,200to 8,500 were signed up under the old alert sys-tem.

To get the numbers up, he approached theStudent Government Association to help comeup with a better plan.

The resolution was the opt-out system andalso a re-bid over the service, including a change

By Annie GoochThe Standard

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The updated university alert system willautomatically send texts to all phone numbers included in a student’s contactinformation in the case of an emergency.

in the software company.“It should have been this way from the begin-

ning,” said Kyle Falconer, senior computer sciencemajor. “When I first signed up for alerts three yearsago, I was surprised that it wasn’t automatic.”

Another feature available with the new alert sys-tem is the option to add family members’ contactinformation so they can also receive updates.

“Students can now sign their parents up witheither their phone number or email address,” Huffsaid. “We’re urging students to go in and checkhow they want to be contacted.”

Huff also added that if students or faculty wishto change their information or add family membersto their list, they may do so on the preferences pageafter signing in with their BearPass ID.

Students may list as many phone numbers andemail addresses as they would like, and the alertsystem will contact all that are associated with theaccount only once.

Students may also opt-out of the system underthe preferences page but are encouraged by theDepartment of Safety and Transportation to partic-ipate since the alert system is a primary way infor-mation is communicated to the campus in the eventof an emergency.

“If there is an emergency on campus, then Iwould like to know that they have taken all thesteps to ensure I get notified, which is the point ofan alert system,” said Ryan McKenzie, senior ele-mentary education major. “I don’t think there isanything wrong with it.”

University updates text alert system to reach more students

Another student asked aboutthe different religions in Kaza-khstan. The largest religion that ispracticed in the country is Islam,while the second largest is Chris-tianity. Umarov said there havebeen little, if any, problemsbetween the two religions, whichstudents didn’t expect.

“I was surprised that eventhough the two dominant reli-gions are Islam and Christianity,there have been no conflicts overthat given the tension of the tworeligions in that region,” DarylMullins, a junior physics major,said.

When asked about the overallQ&A session, Bodenhausen said,“Kazakhstan has had tremendoussuccess over the last 20 years. Tocontinue making progress toward

the goals they have outlined,Kazakhstan needs cooperation.They need to learn and shareideas with others and gain per-spective from others who haveexperience.

“That’s a lot of what we try todo at Missouri State, especiallythrough international programs.We try to connect people comingfrom other countries with theirprofessional peers, so they canlearn new ideas, new technolo-gies, new ways to do things andwe can learn from our visitors aswell,” he said.

Cultural competence is one ofthe pillars of MSU’s PublicAffairs Mission. According to theMSU website, the goal is to helpstudents recognize and respectmultiple perspectives and cul-tures.

This can be done throughStudy Abroad, learning the histo-ry and culture of other countriesand interacting with internationalstudents and visitors.

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Photo courtesy of MSU Photographic Services

Rep. Billy Long introduces President Clif Smart and Ambassador Umarov.

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STANDARDMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY OPINION // 3

When reading “Pay atten-tion to what happens in theworld around you,” manythings came to mind. Thefirst being I am one of thosewho do not ‘pay attention’ tothe news. I don’t turn on theTV at all during the week andseldom on the weekend.The only news I receive areblips on my phone and then Ichoose what to pay attentionto. I don’t need the newsinundating me 24/7 to makea difference in the world.And to all other people whodon’t “pay attention” it’sokay because we live inAmerica and have that right.

My next thought respondsto the paragraph “As anAmerican citizen, this is notokay. When things are bad,… a citizen must perform”and that is while so many

people are listening andfocusing on all the immoralthings happening in theworld, I spend my timefocused on what I can do asone person to make a moralimpact on the world. Since Idon’t spend the majority ofmy time on a phone, onFacebook, on Twitter, listen-ing to the radio, reading thenewspaper or watching TV, Ihave plenty of time to helpmy community through myvolunteer work. I focus onthe good and work to bringas much good into the worldas possible.

You mention “holdingthese positions of authorityaccountable” and yet wedon’t even hold ourselvesaccountable. I say to all ofthose who feel that thepolice take things into their

own hands too often, howwould you feel if you neededthem and they weren’t there?What if no one ever wantedto be a police officer or mili-tary personnel? What wouldAmerica look like then? Mybrother puts his life on theline in the military and as apolice officer and detectivefor many years. He put him-self in harm’s way to evenprotect those citizens thatdidn’t like or appreciate any-thing he did for them. Trythanking the military, policeofficers, firefighters and allothers who put themselves inharm’s way so that we canrest easy instead of hangingthem before the facts evencome to light.

What if the “bravereporters” hadn’t shown upin Ferguson, Missouri?

Would the family and thepolice have been able to sortthings out in a more peacefulmanner? I guess we willnever know. What if thereporters had waited for thefacts instead of sensational-izing the story? Is it reallymore important to sell news-papers and TV spots than itis to wait for the truth beforereporting? Was there reallyonly one person in Americashot that day or was this justthe one that could sell themost newspapers? Until allmedia stops printing opin-ions instead of facts, theywill continue to be part of theproblem and not the solu-tion. As for the “peacefulprotesters,” what purposedoes standing there withsigns in the middle of thenight serve? What if those

peaceful protesters hadspent their time cleaning upthe streets, helping the elder-ly in the community with yardwork or paint a bunch ofhouses or fences that mayneed a new coat of paint?Do you think this would be abetter way to spend their idletime? Standing in a group toprotest, talking about orreading about all the troublesin the world won’t help themgo away.

So the next time you wantto spend hours (yes, societyspends hours connected tomedia) wasting time on allthe news, go volunteersomewhere. Be the good.Focus on the good. Reportthe good.

Tami BowenAccounting Technician

Letter to the editor

MSU’s new alert system a great step

By The Standard Editorial Board

OUR VIEW

“Today I consider myselfthe luckiest man on theface of the Earth.”

These were the wordsuttered by Lou Gehrig, oneof the most well-known vic-tims of Amyotrophic LateralSclerosis in his farewellspeech from baseballbetween games of a dou-bleheader at Yankee Stadi-um. Gehrig had such animpact on the Americanpublic — particularly NewYorkers — that ALS wouldeven be nicknamed afterhim: Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

Now, take a moment tolook at your Facebooknewsfeed. Yes, I’m givingyou permission to put thiswonderful newspaperdown for a couple sec-onds.

Alright, welcome backto the paper.

What did you see onthat newsfeed? I’m willingto bet that you saw quite afew ice bucket challengevideos.

At first, these videoswere hilarious and fun towatch. Then you probablygot a little bored. And thenyou learned what thevideos are actually about— ALS awareness andfundraising.

While they may be clog-ging your newsfeed, eachand every video is vital tothe ALS fundraising model.

Though it may seem likea bunch of people dumpingice water on their heads toget out of donating moneyto ALS research, everyvideo has the potential toexponentially increaseawareness of ALS. Let mequickly explain how expo-nential growth works, andyou’ll see what I mean.

Imagine you’re hostingan impromptu dance partyon the North Mall. You wantthis dance party to behuge, so you invite one per-son and tell them to inviteone person and for thatperson to invite another

and so on. In a few hours,you have about 150 peo-ple for your dance partyand you dance the nightaway in style.

The next day you real-ize you want anotherimpromptu dance party,but you want it even big-ger.

With this goal in mind,you invite three peopleand tell each to invitethree people and so on.This time in a few hoursyou’ve invited the entirepopulation of Springfieldand then some. Your partyreaches epic proportions,and the North Mall turnsinto the reincarnation ofWoodstock, leaving yourdance party to continuefor three straight days.

See what I mean aboutexponential growth?

On the same note, theALS ice bucket challengeis perhaps one of thegreatest marketing toolsever employed. Accordingto the ALS Association, asof Aug. 23 ALSA dona-tions — as a direct resultof the challenge — havereached $62.5 million.

That’s incredible, isn’tit?

Thanks to those of youwho have done andwatched this seeminglypointless challenge. Youhave indirectly raised mil-lions of dollars, andaccording to ALSA, 1.2million new donors havemade this possible aswell.

So what does it mean?It means that anytime yousee an ice bucket chal-lenge video, you shouldshare, retweet, reblog etc.until Twitter and Facebookshut you down for over-use. And if you haven’tdone the challenge yet, doit. A few of our awesomeMSU administrators havealready beaten you to thepunch, so you have somecatching up to do.

ALS ice bucket

challenge a worthy

causeBy Spencer Martin

Columnist

On page 2 of this week’s issue of The Stan-dard, you’ll find Annie Gooch’s story about Mis-souri State University’s new text alert system.

As the story notes, MSU no longer operatestheir alert system through an “opt-in” model, hav-ing changed to an “opt-out” model.

This means that every student at the universi-ty is automatically signed up for the alert systemwith the contact information that each student hasprovided.

Students can then add as many phone numbersand email addresses as they like, all of which willreceive the alerts.

This way students and their parents can beaware of any emergencies or closings that affectthe university.

Jay Huff, assistant director of Safety andTransportation, said that before this system wasimplemented, less than 50 percent of the studentsat the school were enrolled to receive the alerts.

Now, students will have to actively choose toavoid receiving these alerts.

The Standard would like to commend MSU onthis move, and we think it represents a big step inthe direction of improved student safety, especial-ly after a few mishaps last year that could havebeen handled better.

However, there’s still a lot of responsibilitythat comes along with this new system. Ensuringthat students are informed about events that maypresent a dangerous situation is incredibly impor-tant — but so is ensuring that the warnings comein a timely manner, as well as not using the sys-tem for non-emergencies.

Many students, as well as The Standard, feltthat on occasions such as the Greenwood Labora-tory lockdown in September 2013 and the simul-taneous incidents at Drury and OTC in October2013, adequate information was not provided tothe students about the events occurring, oftenleading to learning about potential dangers viaTwitter, Facebook or word of mouth — notalways the most reputable sources of information.

But if the university quickly and effectivelytells us when we need to be concerned aboutsomething, it’ll be a win-win situation for every-one involved.

If all of these guidelines are followed, and amajority of students continue to choose to receivethe alerts, the new system is sure to be far morehelpful than the previous one.

@Spencer_XC

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Briefs

Tuesday, Aug. 26Women’s Equality Day, all day,entire campus, free

Wednesday, Aug. 27Happy hour live, 5:30-7 p.m., Uni-versity Plaza, free

Downtown book club, 5:30-7p.m., Coffee Ethic, free

Josh Abbott band and StoneyLarue, 7:30 p.m., Gillioz Theatre,$20-25

Thursday, Aug. 28Foam party, 9 p.m.-midnight,North Mall PSU, free

Friday, Aug. 29Ganesh Chaturthi, all day, entirecampus, free

Saturday, Aug. 30Strength Foundation and well-ness seminar, 12-3 p.m., 506 S.Jefferson Ave., free

Bat/cave awareness and batflight, 11 a.m.-dark, Sequiota Park,free

Wine tasting and live entertain-ment, 5-9 p.m., 5448 N. BerryLane, free

Sunday, Aug. 31Fourth annual Labor Day “Run forHistory”, 7:30 a.m., 902 S. QuarryRoad, $20-40

Monday, Sept. 1Labor Day, no classes and officesclosed

Best college in theMidwestThe Princeton Review selected

Missouri State University as oneof the best schools in the Mid-west. Their 2014 online list of“Best Colleges: Region byRegion” dubbed Missouri State asone of 155 schools to receive the“Best in the Midwest” designa-tion and has been included for thepast 11 years.Missouri State was chosen

under the assessment of studentsurveys, academic excellence andthe evaluation by the PrincetonReview’s staff and college advis-ers. “An important factor in their

selection process is informationthey received through a survey ofour students,” said Don Simpson,associate vice president forenrollment management, in apress release. “That’s the bestendorsement we can get.”

Media departmentgets funnyMissouri State University’s

Media, Journalism and FilmDepartment launches their secondWeb series, “A Little Help.” The episodes follow an aspir-

ing comedian, Ringo, who wantsto head to New York City to pur-sue a career as a comedian. Leav-ing home however, is a littletougher than Ringo had imagined.His hippie parents, expecting sis-ter, rabbit-loving best friend andromance makes the idea of takingon a new adventure complicated.The series was created by

screenwriting graduate studentKevin Shabel and converted to aWeb series by Shabel and seniorgraduate student, Nicholas Peltz. The series’ main actors include

BFA theatre majors WilliamBixby, Beth Domann, DavidGreathouse, Cecilia Dorhauer,Drew Dively and Emily Feldt.Many faculty, staff and stu-

dents in the College of Arts andLetters, including both graduateand undergraduate students frommedia production, digital film,electronic arts, graphic design,journalism, communication, pub-lic relations and theatre and dancemake up the production team,according to a press release.You can watch all four

episodes of the Web series onlineat http://alittlehelp.missouris-tate.edu/watch-now.html.

Fraternity raisesmoney for puppies,by puppiesSigma Pi fraternity’s annual

“Rent a Puppy” philathropy eventraised over $1,000, Monday, Aug.25. The high heat index didn’tstop over 200 people from com-ing out to play.Zach Reil, Sigma Pi communi-

ty service chair, said, “100 per-cent of the proceeds go to Route66 Rescue to help foster dogs finda good home.”

The Bears go marching inNotes, steps and practice are just a few items

students in the marching band must know and dothroughout the school year. It may be demanding,but Missouri State University’s Pride MarchingBand has fun filling the campus with music andduring their performance.“(Marching band) is a combination of hard-

work and fun,” said drum major and music edu-cation major, Ben Todd.Over the summer, the drumline and color

guard had weekend camps, and the week beforeschool started, all marching band students partic-ipated in Band Camp. At the New Student Con-vocation, the band performed for over 1,000 peo-ple in the soccer stadium, due to the constructionof the football stadium. “(They are a) good group. Last week they

worked hard, and learned things as fast as wepushed it out to them,” Jerry Hoover said. Hoover has been the Pride Marching Band

director for 29 years and says he loves every bit ofit.“I like it all, bands are versatile. (You can

wear) so many different hats, (whether it’s) play-ing in the parade, concerts, football games orentertainment,” Hoover said. The band is currently practicing for five home

game performances and pre-game shows.This year, the drumline will perform at Palen

Music in Springfield in March, at Mozingo Musicin St. Louis and at the Runway Loud fashionshow at the Welk Theatre in Branson. “Band is the highest visibility of anything on

campus and you can see us playing around cam

pus … we’ve played at the Macy’s Parade inNew York City three times and the Rose Paradetwo times,” Hoover said.Marissa Kyser, a senior instrumental educa-

tion music major and plays the trumpet in theband, is excited for one particular event on Nov.1. “The Bands of America Super Regional,”

Kyser said, “it’s a big honor.”Pride Marching Band will perform during the

Exhibition Performance: Bands of America SuperRegional that is held in Atlanta, Georgia. Thisevent is a two-day competition for high schoolmarching bands. The Pride Marching Band willnot participate in the event, however, it is anhonor for them to be invited to perform. The over 300 person marching band has many

challenges ahead of it, but it is ready for the per-formances and practices it will undergo during the2014-2015 school year.

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Pride Marching Band battling the heat at practice. They will perform at the first home football game on Sept. 13.

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Pride Band color guard creates a sea of maroon as the practice with the marching band.

By Emily CampbellThe Standard

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Many were read, one was chosen.“The Heart and the Fist” by Eric Greitens was

selected from several faculty and student suggest-ed works as the common reader for this year’sGEP courses.A selection committee made up of faculty,

staff, a student representative and representativesfrom MSU’s West Plains campus and OzarksTechnical Community College chose the book.The current chair is English senior instructor JohnTurner.Associate provost for student development and

public affairs Rachelle Darabi said the goal of thecommon reader is not only to promote the book toMSU students but also to share the book withother Springfield schools and the community.The book focuses on Missouri native Greitens

who started out doing humanitarian work inrefugee camps and became a Navy Seal deployedto different areas such as Afghanistan, Iraq andSoutheast Asia.After returning from Iraq in 2007, Greitens

founded The Mission Continues, a non-profitorganization helping veterans to serve and inspiretheir communities when they return home.Director of first year programs Michael Wood

said nearly 60 books were suggested to the selec-tion committee. After they were narrowed downto four, the committee read the potential fourbooks over winter break of last year.Wood and Darabi said the committee looks for

a book to match the yearly public affairs theme.

This year’s theme is The Ethical Citizen: Can YouMake a Difference?The committee settled on “The Heart and the

Fist” because it not only matched the theme butother pillars of the public affairs mission such asethical leadership and cultural competence.Darabi said when students read stories from

figures like Greitens, they start realizing they canmake contributions to the world.“They figure out you can be a single person and

make a difference,” Darabi said.While the book follows Greitens through vio-

lent situations in countries like Rwanda andBosnia, he does not spare the graphic details ofwar. Wood and Darabi said the faculty on the com-

mittee were concerned about the graphic nature ofthe book but said the student representative, CassieSchmidt, pushed for the book because it depictedthe reality of war.“I know a few of us were worried about the

graphic nature, but she said it’s showing real lifeand it’s engaging,” Wood said.GEP instructor Kelli Farris, assistant director

for co-curricular involvement, actually suggestedthe book to the committee after student engage-ment assistant director Victoria Culver suggested it

to Farris.Farris said every chapter in the book has a clear

theme or message she plans to discuss in class.“There’s a lot of conversation in the book about

doing service, whether it’s humanitarian efforts oron the front line,” Farris said.Besides the topics relating to public affairs,

Farris said a strong suit of the book is that conflictsand politics mentioned in the book directly relatewhat students will hear about in current news.“This isn’t us reading a history book. It’s really

about talking about his perspective, his story andhis lessons and how they can apply to students,”Farris said.Since freshmen students have just started on

the book, Farris said she is waiting to hear studentfeedback on the book as a whole.As far as the graphic descriptions and emotion-

al moments in the book, Farris said she is prepar-ing students to read those parts after they becomemore comfortable with each other in the class inorder to create a safe space for discussion.Farris said she plans to have her class nearly

finished with reading the book before Eric Greit-ens speaks at MSU on Oct. 28 for the PublicAffairs Convocation.

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Students read, MSU listens

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Sin City: A dame not worth killing for“Sin City’s

where you go inwith your eyesopen, or youdon’t come outat all.” That’sthe mantra ofJohnny, JosephGordon-Levitt’sheadstronggambler, one of

the main characters of “Sin City: A Dame to KillFor.”

Whether Johnny comes out of Sin City willdepend on his luck. How you feel coming out of“Sin City” will likely depend on how you feltabout the original.

“Sin City,” when it came out in 2005, was awell-received film that was almost a shot-for-shot remake of Frank Miller’s graphic novels.Everything about it — the flashes of color break-ing through the black-and-white world, the hard-boiled dialogue, the larger-than-life animation— felt, and still feels, like something complete-ly novel.

And therein lie many of the problems with“A Dame to Kill For.” It’s simply more of thesame — it just doesn’t feel new anymore. Whilethat’s fantastic if you want more of what “SinCity” delivered nine years ago, it’ll be a disap-pointment for anyone hoping for an evolution onthe original.

As with the original, “A Dame to Kill For” isbroken up into several stories — three big ones,

along with an intro story starring Marv, the mas-sive mountain of a man played by MickeyRourke. “Just Another Saturday Night” followsMarv as he does what he does best — smashunpleasant folks into a pulp.

Director Robert Rodriguez, along withMiller, seems to have realized the best part of theoriginal “Sin City” was unquestionably Marv’sstory “The Hard Goodbye,” as he is featured inthree of the movie’s four segments.

This time around, it’s Ava Lord, played byEva Green, who steals the show, in her segment“A Dame to Kill For.” It’s the main story of themovie, and at times feels like it’s dragging on abit too long. But when Ava shows up, it’s impos-sible to look away from the screen.

To use the phrase “maneater” to describe Avawould be an understatement. She goes throughmen like wet tissue paper, her green eyes visiblyglowing with delight as they fall at her feet.

Josh Brolin does a fair job taking over therole of Dwight from Clive Owen as he tries toget revenge on Ava, but in a film that mostly rel-egates women to supporting roles, it’s hard not toroot for the bad girl to win just once.

The other two stories are a bit of an oddity,

having been written by Miller specifically for thefilm. “The Long Bad Night” sees Gordon-Levittchallenging the corrupt Senator Roark (playedby Powers Boothe, who should have kept themustache from the original) to a game of pokerand the consequences that occur when he wins.Gordon-Levitt plays a cocky gambler well, andBoothe still gives one of the best performancesin the series, but as a whole the segment fallsshort.

“Nancy’s Last Dance” fares a little better, asNancy (Jessica Alba) is finally given a chance todo something other than dance in the strip clubvarious characters frequent.

Where Nancy was primarily a damsel in dis-tress before, she’s taking charge to finally takedown Roark, who she views as responsible forthe death of her savior John Hartigan (BruceWillis).

Hartigan appears as a ghost trying to comfortNancy, tragically unable to reach her, and tragi-cally reminding us that Willis was one of the bestparts of the first movie.

There’s not a lot to see in “Sin City: A Dameto Kill For” that wasn’t done better in “Sin City,”and it’s not really clear why. The cast and crew aremostly the same, but the movie never reaches thesame kinetic, fun feeling that imbued the original.

Perhaps it’s the lack of original material toshoot the last two stories from — “Sin City” wasessentially an exact translation of frames fromthe graphic novel.

I spent a lot of time in the theater thinkingabout parts of the original and how much I liked

them, but apart from Green’s performance,nothing in particular stands out this time around.If you’ve never cared about “Sin City,” thiswon’t be the thing to reel you in.

Lust, greed, pride — these are all no bigdeal. But boredom? Now that’s an unforgivablesin.

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Writer Callie Rainey and her four-leggedfriend, Ryder.

Ruff responsibility for students

Dogs and cats are adorable, especiallywhen they’re so little and young. They’re fullof energy. They’re fluffy and so good to cud-dle. They love you no matter what. They’realways excited to see you.

They’re so much more than that though.Having a pet takes a lot of responsibility.

They need food. There are many differentpet food brands and prices. A 15-pound bag ofBil-Jac Puppy Select Formula Puppy Food is$31.99 at PetSmart. A 31-pound bag of PurinaBeneful Healthy Growth Puppy Food costs

$26.99 at Petsmart. What if your dog has anallergy to gluten and needs grain-free dogfood? A 24-pound bag of Blue WildernessGrain Free Large Breed Puppy Food costs$54.99 at Petsmart.

Pets need to go to a veterinarian. Likehumans, animals need different shots to helpkeep them from getting diseases that could bedeadly. A typical veterinary bill at Divine Vet-erinary Clinic for a puppy is an average of$60. Puppies will need to go to the vet almostevery other month at first. However, as theyget older they only need to go about twice ayear for their vaccines, which cost around $20each.

“It is very important that animals go to aveterinarian regularly. Rabies is the mostimportant shot to get. It’s actually required bylaw. The rest of the shots we recommend as apreventative. Kennel cough is absolutely con-tagious. You could get it and pass it to yourdog just by being around a dog that is kennelcough positive,” Sally Smith, vet technician atDivine Veterinary Clinic, said.

Dogs require more attention than cats andmost caged animals. A big reason of this isdue to the fact that dogs need to be taken out-side to use the restroom unlike other animals.Cats use litter boxes which need to be cleanedout regularly or else it results in a foul odorthroughout the home and can cause the cat tono longer use the litter box.

Megan Williams, a senior business major,has an almost one-year-old Mal-shi namedBrutus. She jokes, “I should have named himShadow because he follows me everywhere.”She got Brutus to live with her in her loftbecause she was lonely. Living in a loft meansWilliams has to walk farther to take Brutus tothe bathroom. “I don’t like to feed him late atnight so he won’t potty on the floor,” she said.

All animals need to be shown love andaffection, just like any human. They look upto, and rely on, their owners in many ways.Although having a pet is a big responsibility itcan be greatly rewarding. There is nothingquite like coming home to an overly excitedpet that is always there to greet you.

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The Missouri State University’svolleyball team met last Friday fortheir annual open Maroon and Whitescrimmage. The teams were divided,but players were shuffled around totest lineups.The maroon team began with this

lineup: freshman Lynsey Wright,junior Kinsey McCarter, junior EliseMunroe, freshman Lily Johnson,junior Kayln Vlasin and seniorMaddy Hogan.The white team began with this

lineup: senior Andrea Beaty, sopho-more Tatum Marshall, freshman Bri-anne Dixon, freshman LaurenBoone, sophomore Hannah Stein-beck and freshman Caroline Finnell.Senior MaryJo Kolze and fresh-

man Mary Maerz were both inactivefor the night.A lot of anticipation leading into

this season revolves around whowill fill the starting setter positionfor the Bears. The position is vacantafter being locked up by all-starCarly Thomas. The two settersvying for that spot are McCarter andBoone.Both played well, and although

an absolute starting lineup has not

been declared for the season opener,both are capable of doing exactlywhat the team needs them to.“I felt like we played really well

tonight,” said McCarter. “I thoughtthe whole team came out to provesomething, and we just went after it.We have six new freshmen, and Ithought they did a great job.”Head coach Melissa Stokes was

also pleased with the freshmen’sresponse to being on the court forthe first time as collegiate athletes.“I thought the freshmen all

stepped up at different times and didsome really good things,” Stokessaid.Freshmen Dixon, Wright and

Johnson immediately displayed theirabilities on the court. Dixon playedwith a lot of composure as if she wasan experienced veteran, while John-son displayed a powerful and accu-rate jump serve.Wright played with a lot of pas-

sion, making it look like she wascompeting for a championship, not ascrimmage.“The team atmosphere was per-

fect,” Wright said. “Defense wasdigging balls, hitters were connect-ing with setters — altogether it justflowed really well.”Stokes put a lot of emphasis on

the defense this season, and defen-sive specialists Hogan, Munroe and

Marshall — who are returning play-ers — demonstrated a consistency inpositioning and timing that showedbetter team synchronization.“We’ve been working a lot on

taking the right steps to the ball, andI really felt like we did that tonightto back each other up,” said Hogan.Both teams and each player

reacted well to one another’s suc-cess, and the freshmen were vocaland leading, something not oftenseen in any sport. This will be key

entering into the tough stretch oftournaments that the Bears opentheir season with.MSU starts by travelling to Utah

this weekend for the Utah Classicwhere they will face New MexicoState, Utah and Montana State.The Bears’ first home matches

come in the Dr. Mary Jo Wynn Invi-tational Sept. 4-6. Teams they hostare Oral Roberts, Incarnate Word,Western Kentucky and Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

When the Missouri State Ice Bearsmet for their annual player orientationlast week, it gave coaches a chance tolay out the team’s expectations andguidelines, gave players a chance tocatch up with one another, and intro-duce themselves to new players com-ing into the organization. However, none of them expected to

be saying goodbye to one of their own.Sophomore Chase Dobler

announced, following the conclusionof the orientation, that he would beaccepting a two-way contract to playfor EHC Saastal and EHC Visp insouthern Switzerland for the upcom-ing year.“I couldn’t turn it down,” Dobler

said following the orientation. “It’s theright opportunity at the right time for

me. My dream is to be a pro hockeyplayer, so I couldn’t say no.”Dobler gave his coaches and team-

mates an emotional farewell, inform-ing the team of his final decision toplay overseas.“It all came out of the blue,”

Dobler said. “I was getting ready forthe semester and for the upcoming sea-son when I got a call with a proposal.We spent a few days negotiating, butwe finally came up with something Iwas happy with, and we were able tofinalize.”Dobler scored two goals and regis-

tered six assists while playing in 34games for the Ice Bears last year. Hewas one of four freshmen to skate forthe D-II club during the 2013-2014campaign and was a part of the team’sfirst trip to the D-II National Tourna-ment.“You can’t fault anyone for going

Thursday, Aug. 28Football: 6 p.m. vs. NorthwesternState at Natchitoches, Louisiana

Friday, Aug. 29Field hockey: 11 a.m. vs. Mon-mouth at West Long Branch, NewJersey

Volleyball: 5:30 p.m. vs. New Mexi-co State at Salt Lake City, Utah

Men’s soccer: 7 p.m. vs. IncarnateWord at home

Women’s soccer: 7 p.m. vs Tulsaat Tulsa, Oklahoma

Saturday, Aug. 30Volleyball: 11 a.m. vs. Utah at SaltLake City, Utah

Field hockey: 11 a.m. vs. Rider atLawrence Township, New Jersey

Volleyball: 6 p.m. vs. MontanaState at Salt Lake City, Utah

Sunday, Aug. 31Women’s soccer: 4 p.m. vs. OralRoberts at Tulsa, Oklahoma

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Friday, Aug. 22Missouri State 0 0 –– 0UMKC 0 1 –– 1

Sunday, Aug. 24Missouri State 1 1 –– 2Utah State 0 0 –– 0

Men’s soccer

Wednesday, Aug. 20Missouri State 1 1 –– 2Missouri S&T 1 0 –– 1

Sunday, Aug. 24Missouri State 1 0 –– 1Missouri Valley 0 0 –– 0

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Sophomore defender Dobler signs pro contract to play in

Switzerland, ending his college career at MSU

In pursuit of a dream

MSU signs newtelevisionagreementMSU recently signed an exclu-

sive five-year television agree-ment with Nexstar Broadcasting,Inc., the parent company ofKOLR-10 and KOZL, whichbegan at the start of the 2014-2015 academic year.The deal includes high-defini-

tion broadcasts of 17 basketballgames per season –– eight men’sbasketball games and ninewomen’s basketball games ––through the conclusion of the2018-2019 basketball season.Highlight shows for football andmen’s and women’s basketballwill also be aired.

MSU tennis to holdopen tryoutThe Missouri State women’s

tennis team will hold an open try-out on Aug. 27 from 2-4 p.m. atCooper Tennis Complex. The tryout is open to all full-

time female students. Participantsare to bring their own shoes, rack-ets and any other necessary equip-ment. Transportation will not beavailable and thos who attend willnot receive excused absencesfrom class.

MSU golf schedulesreleasedThe Missouri State men’s and

women’s golf teams both releasedtheir schedules for the 2014-2015season. The MSU women’s golf team

will play in eight tournaments,and will host the Payne StewartInvitational Oct. 13-14 at theRivercut Golf Course in Spring-field.The MSU men’s golf team will

compete in ten tournaments, andwill host the Missouri Valley Con-ference Championship April 27-28 in Sunrise Beach, Missouri.

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The Missouri State women’s soccer Bears (1-1-0) were literally thehottest show in town on Aug. 24, playing through near record-setting heatduring a 2-0 victory against the Utah State Aggies (0-2-0) at Allison SouthStadium.The start time for the game was moved up from 1 p.m. to 11 a.m. due to

an issued heat advisory. However, the temperature had already cracked the90-degree mark at the start of the game.“It was miserable. We tried not to think about it,” senior midfielder

Molly Huber said. “We had a gameplan to let the other team think about itand that would be their uphill-battle, and we beat them.”MSU quickly made the game an uphill-battle for Utah State, taking the

lead during the fifth minute, when freshman defender Brooke Zimmermanrecovered a rebound that deflected off of Huber on a corner kick from jun-ior defender Lauren Fussell. Zimmerman found the back of the net to makethe score 1-0.“Fussell had a good shot on it, and then it deflected off of (Huber), and

then I just finished up the trash,” Zimmerman said. “So the other girlshelped me out, and it got me my first college goal.”Zimmerman’s goal was also the first official goal recorded inside of Alli-

son South Stadium, with this game being the first regular season contestplayed at the new venue.Junior goalkeeper Jessica Perry played a vital role in ensuring the Bears’

shutout of Utah State, recording six saves in the game. Perry made two bigsaves during the first half, one being a diving stop to her right side. The sec-ond was a save Perry made on a free kick from just 10 yards away. “She had a good game today,” head coach Rob Brewer said. “We’ve

known she has that potential, and she did an excellent job today.”MSU struck again during the 53rd minute when Huber took a cross from

Zimmerman in the box and shot the ball by the Utah State goalkeeper toincrease the Bears’ lead to 2-0.

“I was really excited about it. I just kind of ran through,” Huber said.“In practice I’ve been working on not swinging through, just letting it hitme and just place it in.”Perry made another crucial save during the second half, denying a Utah

State attacker of a goal on a breakaway during the 65th minute. “I saw her coming through and I knew the defender couldn’t be there,”

Perry said. “I took a good one to the stomach, and I couldn’t breathe for asecond, but I got the job done.”Next up for the women’s soccer Bears is a two-game road trip at the Hol-

iday Inn City Center Tulsa Invitational in Tulsa, Oklahoma. MSU will faceTulsa on Aug. 29 at 7 p.m. The Bears will play as the host team against OralRoberts on Aug. 31 with a 4 p.m. start time. MSU returns home on Sept. 7when it hosts Arkansas State at Allison South Stadium.

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Senior midfielder Molly Huber dribbles past a Utah State defender during a game on Aug. 24. Huber scored a goal during the contest.

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Men’s soccer Bears ring innew era with pair of wins

The Missouri State men’s moccerBears, pre-season favorite in theMVC, started the Allison South Sta-dium era on the right foot with twoquality wins as the university official-ly dedicated the field on Sunday.“It was such a neat night tonight,

seeing the dedication,” said headcoach Jon Leamy. “Tonight was moreabout the stadium than anything else,but the boys played well.” In the game on Wednesday the

Bears welcomed Missouri S&T andwon by a close margin, 2-,1 with alast-minute goal from freshman for-ward Ryan Burnyeat in front of a

crowd of 1,348 which would havebeen the program’s fifth-largestcrowd had it been a regular seasongame. Sunday’s game was less dra-matic, but the Bears still took care ofthe visiting Missouri Valley Vikingsto win 1-0.“We were a little bit more pol-

ished against S&T, not as manyturnovers. Still a couple of things weneed to work on but it was a goodthing to get a shutout, to find the backof the net.”The two games mark the only

exhibition games MSU will play thissemester before the season startsagainst Incarnate Word on Friday. Forveteran players like seniors BrandonBesong and James Fawke, who wasvoted onto the pre season all-confer-

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The MSU Volleyball Bears played their annual maroon and whitescrimmage on Aug. 22.

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MSU seeks to return favor, hand Demons season-opening loss

Bears football is back this Thursday, as the Bears travel downto Louisiana to take on the Northwestern State Demons.

This is also the start of my weekly game previews for TheStandard. I’ll break down the opponent the Bears will be facingeach week, give you some stats on them as well as other story-lines to follow in the game, and then conclude with my predic-tion for the final outcome. So, let’s get started.

The Bears and Demons faced off in the season opener lastyear, in which the Bears lost 23-17 after letting the game slipaway in the final quarter. The Demons went on to have a better-than-expected year, finishing 6-6 in the Southland Conference,another D1 FCS conference like the Missouri Valley the Bears

play in.On the offensive side of the ball, the Demons have a new

coordinator in Ben Norton, who is responsible for the offensiveline as well as offensive game plan.

The passing game looks like the strong point for the Demons’offense with senior Zach Adkins at quarterback. Last year,Adkins threw for 2,712 yards with 21 touchdowns with only nineinterceptions. He was voted Southland Newcomer of the Year asa transfer player.

Rushing is a different story for the Demons. They employed12 different rushers last year, but running backs Garrett Atzen-weiler and Daniel Taylor should see the majority of carries. Theduo combined for 955 yards last season and eight touchdowns.

In the receiving corps, lead wide receiver Louis Hollier, whoaccounted for one-third of all receiving touchdowns last year, isgone. The Bears’ secondary is relatively young, so this will be acrucial area to watch as the Demons will look to test the Bears inthe air.

On the defensive side of the ball, the Demons gained a new

coordinator in Mike Lucas, who arrives from Sam HoustonState. Calling his defense the “Purple Swarm,” Lucas describesit as an aggressive defense with a philosophy on swarming theopposition and playing with “calculated violence.”

Leading tackler Patrick Black is gone, leaving safety AdamJones and linebacker Tyler Roussel as the team leaders. The cor-nerback play for the Demons is also strong with senior corner-backs Fred Thomas and Imoan Claiborn both returning. The duolead the team with five interceptions and 11 pass breakups.

I believe Missouri State is the better team; the Demons werea bad team against the run last year, allowing over 2,285 yardsand 28 rushing touchdowns while giving up an average of 160rushing yards per game. With the strength of the MSU offensiveline and running back corps, the Bears should be able to dictatetheir will in the run game.

The Bears’ defense should receive a good challenge in takingaway the passing game If the Bears can run like they are built torun, then I believe they will be looking at their first non-confer-ence win since 2010.

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off and living their dream,” teammate and fellowsophomore Ryan Hogland said. “We’re upset thathe won’t be playing with us, but he will be livingout his dream. He’s a great guy that did a lot ofgreat things for us and he was just as good of aguy off the ice.”

Head coach Bob Bucher was also very sup-portive of Dobler’s decision and was aware of the

Canadian-born player’s dreams to go pro.“I am very excited for (Dobler) as he contin-

ues to follow his hockey dream. After our firstconversation more than a year ago before hecame to Missouri State, I knew his goal was to bea professional,” Bucher said. “I know that hisyear with us was one that helped him turn a cor-ner in his playing career and he helped us turn acorner ourselves.”

When it came time to thanking people,Dobler was at a loss for words.

“I just want to thank everyone at Missouri

State and in this hockey organization,” Doblersaid. “There’s not one person I can call out indi-vidually. I loved everyone at MSU and here inSpringfield. To be a kid from a small town inCanada and to be taken in the way I was, it justmeans so much. I can’t really put it into wordsjust how grateful I am for my year here.”

Dobler left for Switzerland late last week, butencouraged family and friends to keep in toucheither through Twitter (@ChaseDobler41) orthrough the EHC Saastal Facebook page. Doblersaid his season would begin in September, right

around the same time as the Ice Bears’ season.The Ice Bears will begin their season by trav-

eling to St. Louis on Sept. 5 to face the NA3HLJr. Blues in an exhibition matchup. The Ice Bearswill begin their regular season the followingweekend against the Eastern Illinois Panthers atMediacom Ice Park. Beginning this year, theMissouri State Bear Line will run a route fromcampus to Mediacom Ice Park for students toattend games. Students will also be able to pur-chase two general admission tickets for the priceof one with two valid Missouri State IDs.

Dobler

team and returning defensiveplayer of the year in the MVC,those two exhibition gameswill prove to be invaluable.

“It feels great. I know wewere waiting a long time to getback out here. We’ve beenplaying well against ourselves,but it’s another thing altogetherto get out here and play in frontof these fans,” said Besong.

“I just have to agree withBrandon, I thought we had agood showing tonight. Weshowed brightness in front ofthe goal and we just got to keeppushing forward,” said Fawke.

Each contest saw plenty ofaction for the younger mem-bers of the team, helped by theextra time added onto the endof each game. For assistantcoach Michael Seabolt, it’s anatural way to conclude anexhibition game.

“Well when you go into theend of a match tied they add onthe extra time so it’s good prac-tice for our guys and the maingoal of exhibition is for every-one to improve, to work onmechanics so the extra timejust makes sense,” Seaboltsaid.

For freshman goalkeeperLiam Priestley and freshmandefender Scott Midgley, thetransition to college soccer isabout an increase in fitness andpace, something the exhibitiongames have helped greatlywith.

“It was hard at first, gettingadjusted and getting the rightfitness, but we’ve been work-ing really hard with the coach-es and in the pre season to giveus the best shot,” Liam said.Midgley agreed with his team-mate,

“It was tough coming fromoverseas. It’s hard to come inand make yourself known. Itwas tough getting into the fit-ness side of things, but we’regetting well after the first twoweeks.”

Besong certainly agreeswith that sentiment and says hesee’s great things from all thefreshman but had specificpraise for Midgley.

“Yeah you can see theseguys are definitely starting toget it. They’ve been playingwell, getting good minutes. Imean look at Midgley. He wastearing up that right side and heplays my position. He’s gonnagive me a hard time.”

The Bears have the week toprepare for Incarnate Word,

who the Bears beat 1-0 lastyear, but Leamy is preparedfor a tough game.

“They have a tough team, atalented team, but we’regonna be ready. We want togive the fans a show,” Leamy

said.The Bears take the pitch

for their season opener onAugust 29 at 7 p.m. at AllisonSouth Stadium.

Admission is free to all stu-dents with a valid MSU ID.

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The Missouri State men’s soccer Bears will open theregular season on Aug. 29.

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