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UMKC’S INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER
Vol. 79, Issue 12
Nov. 7, 2011
10
A&E
The Mainstreet
at 14th and Main
streets is one
of four important historic
downtown theaters.
3
NEWS
Green jobs have become a
focus for one Kansas City
company.
Photo by Johanna Poppel
7
SPORTS
Senior Dustin Dibble dribbles
past his opponent with
expertise during the exhibition
game.
Photo courtesy of UMKC Athletics
Photo by Nathan Zoschke
2|News
Vol. 79, Issue 12
campus news
French Club to host
soirée and guided
tour
Starr
Symposium
Event brings movers and
shakers to campus
This is a crepe. Blueberries accent this French cuisine style.
Photo courtesy of Google Images
Michelle Heiman
Copy Editor
The French club, known as Le Cercle Français, will host a
soirée de crêpes on Nov. 7th at the home of President Margot
Gibson. Crêpes, thin pancakes, are a staple of French cuisine.
The soirée is meant to give participants a taste of French
culture.
Although it was established at least 20 years ago, Le Cercle
Français has been active on and off during the past several
years on campus, according to Gibson. She hopes this year
the club can become more permanent, with a stronger base of
student participants.
Treasurer Lara Schanzer said everyone is welcome to join
the club, regardless of French-speaking skills. “Of course the
language is important, but we just want to bring together a
community of people who appreciate French culture and who
would like to learn more about it,” she said.
Schanzer is a French major, and one of her professors, Dr.
Gayle Levy, got her interested in the club. “I have always been
interested and inspired by French culture. My parents owned
Napoleon Bakery, and it was there where I received exposure
to the French culture and its people,” Schanzer said. “I took on
the position of treasurer, so my main role is creating budget
proposals and figuring out ways to support the club, but I am
also taking on the position of media officer, making posters
and getting the word out about our events.”
Gibson, a junior now, was first involved with Le Cercle
Français as treasurer during her freshman year. “Now I’m
president and I’m ready to see more changes in the club, such
as a greater level of student participation and fundraising
ideas,” she said. “I want to get UMKC students passionate
about French culture so that it isn’t just something that they
learn in the classroom.”
The club’s next event following the soirée de crêpes will
be a French/English guided tour through the Nelson Atkins
Museum of Art on Dec. 3. For more information about the
club, or for those interested in joining, email Schanzer at
[email protected].
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Women’s activitst Gloria Steinem discussed the aspects of aging during her keynote speech.
Teresa Sheffield
for the luncheon and workshops were
sold out. The four different workshops
The Starr Symposium brought included “The older woman as art
women’s activists Gloria Steinem and and artist,” “Advocacy: changing the
Dolores Huerta to the UMKC campus community,” “Financial literacy for
this weekend. The symposium took the boomers and beyond” and a class
place in the University Center and on leadership for women.
Many women came just to see the
included a luncheon, four different
workshops, and lectures and book speakers, with the approximate 500
available seats nearly selling out.
signing by the famous ladies.
“I came to see Gloria. She’s my
The symposium is endowed by
Martha Jane Starr, and has been hero,” symposium attendee Kim
an annual event since 1992. It is Westhusing said. “I read her book on
organized in part by the Women’s self-esteem when it was published
in 1992 and it helped me have the
confidence to go back to
On Monday, do one outrageous
school. She is awesome.”
thing in the cause of age justice
Steinem was the keynote
and I promise I will do one thing
speaker in the morning
too, and I guarantee you two results,
and Huerta the one in the
and by Tuesday, the world will be more
afternoon. Both women spoke
linked. And you’ll have such a good time
and answered questions for
you’ll never get up in the morning without
about 60 minutes with warm
saying, ‘what am I going to do today?
reception from the audience
-Gloria Steinem, Starr Symposium speaker
with many women yelling,
and women’s rights activist
“Don’t stop talking!” when
their lecture time was up.
Steinem was a pioneer voice in the
Council and the Women’s Center at
women’s rights movement in the ‘70s,
UMKC.
“The Starr Symposium brings to and has written books, articles and
the forefront issues that affect the lectured on the subject for decades.
lives of girls, women and or families,” Her lecture included thoughts on
Starr Symposium Chair Kelli Wright fear of aging, the culture surrounding
age, mentoring young people, men’s
said.
The workshops and lectures relationship with aging, and lying
revolved around this year’s theme of about getting older.
“It’s interesting it’s the one thing;
“Age becomes us.”
Wright said the 250 available seats it’s an economical, cultural and
Staff Writer
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Photo by Teresa Sheffield
physical event, in which we all go
through, if we’re lucky. And it’s the
one thing in which we are most likely
to lie,” Steinem said.
She ended her speech with an
exhortation to the audience.
“On Monday, do one outrageous
thing in the cause of age justice and
I promise I will do one thing too, and
I guarantee you two results,” Steinem
said. “And by Tuesday, the world will
be more linked. And you’ll have such
a good time you’ll never get up in the
morning without saying, ‘what am I
going to do today?’”
Huerta is a prominent voice and
organizer for the Latino community.
She co-founded the United Farm
Workers of America and is an
outspoken voice in the area of
women’s rights. She spoke about how
aging is viewed by the Latino culture
and by America as a whole, and gave
personal anecdotes about her life.
Wright said Huerta and the rest
of the Starr Symposium benefit the
community by giving a voice to issues
that aren’t regularly discussed.
“It allows us to explore topics
that often don’t get much attention.
The idea is to inspire and give our
community the advantage of that
cutting edge thinking,” she said.
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News|3
Nov. 7, 2011
Green
jobs
tour
comes
to
Kansas
City
Johanna Poppel
briefly mentioned
Volunteer awarded
for tireless
contribution
Mary Kay McPhee has helped raise more than $5 million for
two UMKC scholarships for numerous programs.
Photo courtesy of Google Images
Photo Editor
“The population growth is crazy;
within 10 years, Africa will be a new
China,” said Eric Krichbaum, COO/
Senior Vice-President of Operations at
Milbank Manufacturing.
Missouri voters passed Proposition C
in November 2008, requiring utilities to
generate 15 percent of their electricity
from renewable energy by 2021.
The General Assembly stripped the
requirement that the renewable energy
be delivered to Missouri, undercutting
the job-creating potential of Proposition
C, according to a press release.
With the population of our world
increasing, many feel the need for
environmentally sustainable actions is a
must for better communities and better
quality of life.
On Wednesday, Nov. 2, 30 Sierra
Club members, students and other
community members took part in a
Green Jobs Tour to view a business
in northeast Kansas City that makes
supply parts for wind turbines, solar
generators and electric car plug-ins. The
plant, Milbank Manufacturing, expects
to hire 57 new employees to support its
expanded clean-energy products.
“Milbank Manufacturing proves the
potential for renewable energy to create
jobs in Missouri,” said John Hickey,
Sierra Club Chapter Director. “It is
time for the state of Missouri to expand
our use of renewable energy. We know
that renewable energy means cleaner air
and healthier communities. Now we are
showing that it also means good-paying,
clean energy jobs.”
“We incorporate green in what we
do,” said Krichbaum. He started the
Green Jobs tour with a presentation
of Milbank Manufacturing and
its products and philosophies that
encourage environmentally friendly and
efficient business. “A lot of people talk
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Top: Milbank employees assemble sheet metal into grid boxes.
Above: Eric Krichbaum leads tour through the Milbank factory.
about green products but we have green
plans,” Krichbaum said.
Along with making parts and
products that promote renewable energy,
the company also offers consulting for
individuals who look to make positive
changes in their energy consumptions
and who want change their increasing
energy bill costs.
“We
offer
renewable
energy
based solutions; we want to provide
guidance to customers to help people
with changing to renewable energy,”
Krichbaum said.
“We are not ready to conquer the
U.S., but individually people may want
it in their homes,” Krichbaum said
in response to an audience member’s
question about his opinion on the future
of renewable energy in our country.
As well as the comparison of other
renewable energy, dominant countries,
such as Germany which solely runs on
solar and wind power, were discussed
in Krichbaum’s presentation. They
compared government incentives of
other countries to the ones in the U.S.
He
discussed
how
Milbank
Manufacturing,
besides
making
green projects, is also changing the
way it does business by new business
policy deployment, waste elimination,
culture transformation and altered
management. “We [Milbank] think
green jobs are everybody’s jobs,”
Krichbaum said.
Photos by Johanna Poppel
Renewable energy is not just
important for a sustainable planet - it
is also vital in improving environmental
health.
“We have the importance of fighting
the health effects of dirty coal,” Hickey
said in regard to America moving
toward renewable energy.
After the presentation, a tour was
given of the plant that makes the parts
for the pieces used to make meter cases
and grid boxes. This gave community
members a closer look at what Milbank
does.
USW District 11 Sub-Director
Emil Ramirez said, “Our members
understand that investing in clean
energy technology means more good
jobs right here in Kansas City. That is
why the USW, along with other groups
including the Sierra Club, are part of
the BlueGreen Alliance. This tour will
give a chance for more local citizens to
see this potential with their own eyes.”
The event gave students and
community members encouragement
that positive jobs were going to be in
Kansas City.
“I went to the event to get an idea of
what kind of jobs would be out there
for me when I graduate,” said Deanna
Johnson Sapp, senior environmental
science major.
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Asst. News Editor
Mary Kay McPhee already set an indelible
impression on UMKC throughout the past four
decades, particularly through her tireless dedication
and volunteering efforts.
Her support is credited for generating more than
$5 million in fundraising for various programs in the
university, including the Women’s Council/Graduate
Assistance Fund and the Herman Johnson African
American Scholarship.
In 2008, the Council for Advancement and
Support of Education (CASE) presented her as one
of five recipients of the national Distinguished Service
Awards for invaluable contributions to UMKC as a
non-alumna.
On Tuesday, Nov. 1, she was rewarded with one of
the area’s top honors, as the recipient of the ATHENA
Award, at the 11th annual Kansas City ATHENA
Awards Reception sponsored by the Chamber,
KPMG, Kansas City Power & Light and MRIGlobal.
“She is the consummate volunteer and a great source
of inspiration to me and all those who shared in - and
observed - her efforts. This award is well deserved,”
said Vice Chancellor of University Advancement Curt
Crespino.
McPhee joins the company of some of the region’s
most celebrated women in leadership and mentoring.
Past recipients of the award include: Secretary
of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius,
Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation Chairwoman
Julia Irene Kauffman, and former Interim President of
United Way of Greater Kansas City Susan Stanton.
“I am humbled by this recognition, particularly
given the company of women who have received it
before me,” McPhee said.
The ATHENA award is named for the Greek
goddess of wisdom, warfare and women’s arts.
Since 2001, the Greater Kansas City Chamber of
Commerce has given the award to women who exhibit
excellent leadership and professionalism, in support
of the development and mentorship of women across
multiple professional fields.
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4|News
Vol. 79, Issue 12
Police Blotter
Lindsay Adams
News Editor
Oct. 28
3:37 p.m.Information
A resident at Oak Place was
harassed by someone with whom
he had an intimate encounter.
4:24 p.m.
Larceny
At Oak Street Residence Hall, a student
reported a video game missing.
11:28 p.m.
Common Assault
A couple was having a physical altercation on
the sidewalk at 54th Street and Rockhill Road.
Oct. 29
9:56 p.m.
Harassment
A faculty member reported harassing emails
from a suspect at the Education building.
Oct. 30
1:16 a.m.
Noise Disturbance
Officers had to remove people refusing to
leave a party at 54th and Harrison streets.
1:12 p.m.
Larceny
At 54th and Harrison streets, a student’s laptop
was stolen during a party the night before.
4:56 p.m.
Common Assault
A student forced another student’s head down
and threatened him because he didn’t clean
the microwave at Oak Place Apartments.
Oct. 31
9:30 a.m.
Larceny
A student left his laptop in the
restroom at Swinney Recreation
Center and found it missing.
10:21 p.m.
Disturbance
Officers took a report of a group of female
students at Johnson Hall calling each other
names and provoking each other to fight.
Nov. 1
1:21 p.m.
‘Lucerna’
Undergraduate research
journal is six years strong
additional times until we have our essays
Nathan Zoschke
Production Manager/Copy Editor
Since its 2005 inception by the Honors
Program, Lucerna has remained UMKC’s
lone undergraduate research journal.
Lucerna is also unique in that entries
are selected in a blind reviewing process
and edited by a select group of honors
students and faculty who work with the
organization.
Students from any discipline are allowed
to submit entries in the areas of business,
science, social science, humanities and the
arts.
Lucerna Editor-in-Chief Taylor Barton
said essays range from 2,000 to 6,000 words
in length and are evaluated in the blind
reviewing process based on originality,
clarity, organization and argumentative
qualities. Photographs of student works
of art are also included in the reviewing
process.
“Each essay is reviewed three times
in the initial [blind] reviewing process,”
Barton said. “After the pool of essays has
been narrowed down, they are reviewed
knowledge, like light, must have its source.
The hope suggested by the journal’s title
is that UMKC student research should by
this source of knowledge - this light.”
So far, Barton said several promising
entries have been submitted. The team of
nearly 15 honors students who work on
Lucerna is preparing to kick into high gear.
As editor-in-chief, Barton oversees
the production of Lucerna, and must
coordinate all efforts with the rest of her
staff from start to finish, from designing
the journal to reviewing its content.
Barton said she hopes to continue the
tradition.
“My goal this year is to maintain the
high standards that have been set for this
journal over the past six years,” Barton said.
“We’re looking to attract submissions from
a wide variety of disciplines. We’re looking
for fresh ideas and thought-provoking
arguments in this year’s submission pool.”
A complete list of submission rules and
forms can be found at www.cas.umkc.edu/
honors/lucerna.asp.
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Other News| GOP leans on Bloch
alumnus ahead of 2012 vote
Disturbance
Female residents of Johnson Hall provoked
students in the University Center.
Louis Trigg
Nov. 3
10:35 a.m.
Florida Governor Rick
Scott (R) held a full-time job
at a local grocery store and
served on active duty in the
United States Navy while
enrolled in the Bloch School
of Management. That ability
to perform with versatility
allowed him to succeed in
the business world following
graduation.
Ahead
of
the
2012
presidential
election,
an
October report in the Miami
Herald noted the Republican
Party’s current reliance on
Scott, the incumbent leader
of the country’s largest swing
state, to deliver a crucial
electoral
victory
against
Larceny
A student returned to their vehicle
to find the front license plate missing
at the Rockhill Parking Garage.
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to publish.”
Barton said the goal is to receive 50
submissions each year six of which will
appear in the journal. Submissions for the
2012 journal opened Oct. 24 and will be
cut off March 4.
Barton stressed the benefits of having
one’s work published in an academic
journal.
“When Lucerna was founded, the
honors program was looking to create
a new opportunity for students to share
their original research and to recognize
students who provide outstanding and
unique insight into a wide range of fields,”
she said. “It was also intended to provide
students with a great opportunity to make
their résumé or CV really stand out. Being
published as an undergraduate looks great
to future employers, graduate schools or
professional schools.”
A preface by the editors to the first
edition in 2005 explained the meaning
of Lucerna, the Latin word for “lamp,” as
the publication title: “Light has often been
used as a metaphor for knowledge. But
Asst. News Editor
President Barack Obama (D).
“In the three years this
president has been in office,
we’ve elected nine governors
in battleground states that
Barack Obama won in 2008,”
Rick Wiley, the Republican
National Committee’s political
director, said in the report.
“The infrastructure from
those governors represents 131
electoral votes -- Florida and
Virginia being two of those.
The infrastructure from those
governors helps the party up
and down the ticket.”
Obama only won Florida
by 2.8 percentage points in
2008, and has visited the
state multiple times in recent
months, referencing the state’s
vulnerability.
However, Scott has a long
Governor Rick Scott has increased efforts to improve his image for
the 2012 election.
Photo courtesy of Google Images
way to go to assist his party
and influence a Republican
victory for the state in 2012.
According to the New York
Times, his approval rating was
the lowest of any governor in
the country in the first half of
the year.
“I think Gov. Scott’s got a
long time to build in Florida,
and he already is bouncing
back,” said RNC Chairman
Reince Priebus in a separate
Miami Herald article.
“His
numbers
have
improved over the last several
months and I think they’re
going to continue to improve.
Rick Scott’s not on the ballot,
Obama is, and I think that’s
what matters.”
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News|5
Nov. 7, 2011
Truman Center lecture hosts
UN Deputy Secretary-General
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corner
Subsidized vs.
unsubsidized
college loans
Dr. Asha-Rose Migiro, Deputy Secretary-General of the United
Nations, took questions from the audience. Those in attendance
included students, faculty and members of the community from
across the Kansas City region.
Photo by Nathan Zoschke
to Truman Center director Dale Neuman.
Nathan Zoschke
Production Manager/Copy Editor
A special visit to campus last Tuesday
by Dr. Asha-Rose Migiro, Deputy
Secretary-General of the United Nations,
attracted more than 50 attendees from
across the region.
The lecture, hosted by UMKC’s Harry
S. Truman Center for Governmental
Affairs and political science honor
society Pi Sigma Alpha, included a brief
introduction and question-and-answer
session.
Migiro’s visit included an introduction
focusing on her work with the UN in the
areas of global poverty, inequality and
justice.
As part of its mission to honor its
namesake, who received an honorary
UMKC diploma shortly after attending
the UN charter signing, the Truman
Center hosts a UN speaker every year in
conjunction with the Kansas City Mayor’s
UN Dinner.
Last year’s speaker was B. Lynn Pascoe,
a Missouri native and Under-SecretaryGeneral for Political Affairs. The topic
of his visit focused on the structure and
organization of the UN.
Migiro, on the other hand, is a native
of Tanzania, and holds a more ministerial
role.
She also holds the highest position of
any UN speaker to visit campus, according
Her visit took a different tone than
Pascoe’s, focusing specifically on issues of
global policy and international relations.
Prior to her current position, Migiro
held various ministerial posts in Tanzania,
including the distinction of being the first
female Foreign Minister, a title she held
from 2006 until her appointment to the
UN in 2007.
“You don’t get to be the first female
Minister of Foreign Affairs in countries
where there are strong traditions of
male leadership unless you are very
confident and persuasive and have strong
leadership,” Neuman said. “She expressed
those qualities delightfully well in her
speech to the students and at the mayor’s
dinner.”
One student’s question was how the
UN balances the foreign policy objectives
of the U.S., its most influential member
state, with those of other member states,
some of which have conflicting policies.
A key example is the recent addition of
Palestine as a member state of UNESCO,
the UN Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization, which resulted
in automatic funding cuts to UNESCO
from the U.S. and Canada.
Israel responded by allowing settlement
of the West Bank, which will likely
increase violence in the region.
“She did a good job contextualizing
the issues and pointing out that the
U.S. responded in the only way that it
can respond because of laws passed by
Congress,” Neuman said. “The Secretary
General was urging folks to stop posturing
and start negotiating on the Arab-Israeli
question.”
Another question dealt with the UN’s
progress in reaching its eight Millennium
Development Goals, which focus on
reducing poverty, disease and inequality.
Migiro acknowledged that although
it is improbable all of the approaching
2015 benchmarks will be met, significant
progress has been made.
She also encouraged students to
embrace a more active role in global
affairs.
“Your generation is typically referred to
as the leaders of tomorrow, yet indeed you
are also the leaders of today,” she said.
Pi Sigma Alpha member Maja Kotlaja
said the lecture was thought-provoking.
“The lecture allowed me to walk away
thinking about the need of my generation
to begin considering our communities, our
country and the world at large in a pursuit
of bringing a positive contribution to the
whole of society,” Kotlaja said. “Hopefully,
my generation will start making decisions
which foresee the consequences of 50
years and not simply four.”
For more information on the Truman
Center’s upcoming events and scholarship
opportunities, visit www.cas.umkc.edu/
trumancenter/.
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For the month of November, we are going to
cover topics on financial aid. As college students,
we all know that financial aid and student loan
processes can be pretty rough throughout your
college experience. So, we will talk about loans,
the FAFSA, funding for graduate school, and tips
for the Financial Aid Office. Starting this week
with student loans, lets give you the basics on two
types of loans most students apply for: subsidized
and unsubsidized Stafford loans.
Interest Payments
Subsidized loans do not require you to pay
interest until you graduate. The federal government
pays the interest during the time you are still in
school. For unsubsidized loans, the interest starts
accumulating when your loan is first disbursed
during your time in school. You need to start
paying off both of these types of loans and interest
six months after graduation for both subsidized
and unsubsidized loans.
Qualification
In order to qualify for both subsidized and
unsubsidized loans, you need to complete the Free
Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA)
and indicate that you would like to receive student
loans. Subsidized loans are based on the financial
financial need of the student. Conversely, all
students are eligible for unsubsidized loans no
matter what your FAFSA says.
Loan Limits
Subsidized loans have a tight limit on how much
you can borrow, even though your financial status
is big determining factor on how much money
you get. It also depends what type of program you
are in and if you are a graduate or undergraduate
student. For unsubsidized loans, you can borrow up
to $5,000 more than subsidized loans per year.
The SIFE Financial Corner is created by
members of UMKC Students in Free Enterprise.
For more information, find us on Facebook and
Twitter, or attend our weekly 7 p.m. Tuesday
meetings in the Brookside Room of the
Administrative Center.
6|News
Vol. 79, Issue 12
briefly mentioned| School of Law unveils new library addition
Louis Trigg
Asst. News Editor
The School of Law will host an opening
ceremony for the new Tom and Vina Hyde
Collaborative Instruction and Technology
Library 4-6 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 9 at
the School of Law.
Last year, the school decided to renovate
the space on the building’s lower level into an
area that can provide more space for students
and visitors interested in law. Construction
of the $1.33 million renovation took place
from February through August.
School of Law Dean Ellen Suni said
the facility, part of the Leon E. Bloch Law
Library, is expected to be a focal point of the
school and attract more students into the
library.
Compliant with standards by the American
Bar Association, it includes a laptop clinic,
academic strategies library and the Courtney
Turner Trust Collaborative Instruction and
Technology Classroom.
Although students have been able to
use the facility since August, Wednesday’s
ceremony is intended to showcase the
school’s reverence for legal scholarship, while
fostering camaraderie among its students
and visitors.
“The improvements convey a sense of
pride and passion for the law, not only to
our internal constituents, but to visiting
faculty, government officials, members of the
judiciary and prospective students as well,”
Suni said.
In addition, the new facility is named in
honor of Tom and Vina Hyde, who have
spent years helping to development UMKC
into a world-class facility.
As an alumnus of the School of Law,
Tom Hyde received the UMKC Alumni
Achievement Award in 2004 for an
outstanding career in law, including a
position from 2003-05 as executive vice
president of Legal Ethics and Corporate
Secretary at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Mr. Hyde
was also named to the UMKC Board of
Trustees last year.
Tom and Vina Hyde also contributed
$300,000 to the project.
“We are very grateful to Tom and Vina
Hyde, as well as to other donors for their
generous support of this project,” Suni said.
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‘Fast Food Nation’ author comes to campus
Eric Schlosser discusses eating trends in America
Teresa Sheffield
Staff Writer
Investigative journalist and author Eric
Schlosser came to UMKC last to talk about
his book, Fast Food Nation.
Schlosser’s book was a two-year New
York Times bestseller, and talks about the
origins of fast food in the 1950’s in southern
California, the manufacturing of fast food,
its global popularity, and the questionable
targeted marketing to people of color, those
in poverty and to very young children.
Schlosser’s visit was a part of the fifth
annual Social Justice Book and Lecture
Program which showcases books that
highlight social struggles and problems.
“This lecture is about more than fast food,
it’s about low-income families who have
few choices and the limited unhealthy food
options available to them,” Kristi Ryujin
UMKC Assistant Vice Chancellor, Diversity
Initiatives said. “It also is about the unsafe,
hazardous conditions to which food workers
are exposed and the issue of fast food being
marketed to the underprivileged and people
of color.”
Schlosser specializes in authoring books
that delve deep into topics that aren’t usually
discussed. He’s written other books on
marijuana, migrant workers, the American
pornography industry, and is currently
writing books on nuclear weapons and the
American prison system.
Schlosser has also written two historical
plays, co-wrote the screenplay of the movie
version of Fast Food Nation and Food Inc.,
and was the executive producer for the film
There Will Be Blood.
“It’s an honor that [Fast Food Nation]
is being taught at a university like this,
especially as a part of the social justice
program,” Scholsser said.
In his approximately hour-long remarks,
Schlosser spoke in-depth about book.
“When I wrote it, I had no idea anyone
would want to read it,” he said. “Right here in
the United States we have a deeply perverse
relationship with food. The success of this
system is based on our being ignorant of how
it works.”
One of the main areas Schlosser focused
on was his perceived corruption of the fast
food industry. He compared it to the tobacco
industry, and said that it has pervasively
taken over our culture.
“This isn’t just about food, it’s about how
companies are profiting at the expense of the
public,” he said. “It’s an enormous profit and
it’s hurting people.”
Schlosser also talked about the health
effects that the culture of fast food has had
on the United States. He said that outside
of tobacco-related deaths, obesity is the top
cause of preventable deaths, and is well on its
way to overtaking smoking as the top killer.
Schlosser said the answer to this epidemic
is government intervention and legislation,
as well as educating the public on the hazards
of fast food and letting them know what
other options they have for a healthy lifestyle.
“Of course this can be changed, of course
the system can be different,” Schlosser said.
“I have seen astonishing changed in my
lifetime, and I’m not that old.”
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Events Calendar
Monday Saturday
UMKC Theatre Presents: The Diversity Project (7:30 p.m. Nov. 7, Grant Hall 306)
Contact Carla Noack at 816-235-2858.
Tuesday
ArtSounds: Where is My American Dream? (7 p.m. Nov. 8 at the KC Art Institute
4415 Warwick Blvd.) Stories of Secrets, Liberty and Luck
Wednesday
APC Presents: Coffee House Sessions, featuring Rudy Currence (1 to 4 p.m. Nov.
9, Jazzman’s Coffeehouse). Contact Zachariah Hinton at [email protected]
Linda Hall Library Presents: Second Saturdays (10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 12, Linda
Hall Library) Exhibition halls at the Linda Hall Library will be open the second
Saturday of each month to allow patrons an opportunity to view the current
exhibition. The William N. Deramus III Cosmology Theater will also be open to the
public. Normal reference services will not be available during these Saturdays.
www.lindahall.org.
The Vagina Monologues auditions (12-3 p.m. Nov. 12, Women’s Center, Haag Hall
105)
All skill levels welcome – no memorization required! Performances will be held
in February 2012. To reserve your audition time, contact us at 816-235-1638 or
[email protected].
Thursday Sunday
MAZE (7 -9 p.m. Nov. 10 in the Student Union Theater) is an experience that
escapes the boundaries of any single definition. In stark contrast to the typical
“magic show,” MAZE presents a unique blend of illusion, intuition, psychology,
humor, mystery and danger. Contact Ryan Dahm at [email protected].
Friday
Last day to withdraw with “W” (second 8-week session).
Last day to withdraw with assessment (W or WF) (undergrad) (regular 16-week
session).
“Wholistic” Health Fair (11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 13, Student Union)
Where can you learn how to give a massage, make paper from plants, bake
kolache and sample wine or/and tea? Communiversity, of course.
Sports|7
Nov. 7, 2011
Cross country impresses at Summit League Championships
Tyren Rushing
Staff Writer
The men’s and women’s
cross country teams wrapped
up the conference with 4th and
3rd place finishes respectively
in the Summit League
Championships on Oct. 29
in Tulsa, Okla. in an event
sponsored by Oral Roberts.
The men’s team scored 110
points and had an average
time of 26:46:40 in the 8K
race, which helped the team to
its best finish since the 1999
season.
The women’s team had
similar success and scored 99
points and averaged 21:27:75
in the 6K race.
Junior Cosmas Ayabei had
the best finish for the men’s
team and finished 2nd overall
with a time of 26:46:40. Ayabei
won the race last year and
guided the Roos to a 6th place
finish. With 73 runners in the
men’s field the Roos had three
top-25 finishes. Junior Zach
Mathias finished 8th overall
and had a time of 25:19:50.
Senior
Brandon
Leibold
finished 25th with a time of
26:29:00. Ayabei received first
team All-Conference honors
for his performance and
Mathias received second team
honors.
A 5th-place finish in the
6K from junior Sarah Meiners
helped propel the women’s team
to a 3rd-place finish. Meiners
time of 22:08:45 wasn’t far off
the mark of Southern Utah’s
Diana Medina, who finished
the race with a time of 21:21:75.
Senior Jylian Jaloma finished
in 9th place with a time of
22:28:69. Meiners also received
All-Conference first team
honors and Jaloma received
second team honors.
Southern Utah won the
men’s race, winning their 10th
championship in the 30 year
history of the Summit League,
while the North Dakota State
women’s team won its first title.
Head Coach Shameika
Fields has improved the team’s
conference standings in every
season she has been in charge
of UMKC’s cross country
program. In only her third year,
Fields will prepare to lead the
team to the NCAA Midwest
Regional’s on Nov. 12 in
DeKalb, Ill.
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Men’s basketball back in action with mixed results
Darryl Washington
Staff Writer
The men’s basketball team bounced back
from its shock exhibition opener defeat to
Benedictine on Nov. 1 with a resounding
90-67 victory against the Tabor College
Bluejays at Swinney Recreation Center on
Saturday night. The Roos hit 14 threepointers, taking 26 points from senior guard
Reggie Chamberlain and 21 points from
redshirt sophomore Kirk Korver in the
contest.
Tuesday night’s exhibition game with
Benedictine was the first opportunity for
the team to showcase its skills on campus,
after a pre-season tour in August which saw
it compete in Italy. The Roos eventually
fell 74-67 in overtime to the Ravens, but
showed some signs of promise and the
gelling together of new recruits. After losing
starters Jay Couisnard, Spencer Johnson and
The men’s basketball team’s exhibition
Bakari Lewis, the team is reloaded with new
performances show their determination for
faces in the starting rotation.
success this season.
Chamberlain led with a team-high 20
Photo courtesy of UMKC Athletics
points, while Korver drained 18.
The loss came off the back of a bad
shooting night which saw the Roos shoot
only 33.8 percent from the field, while the
Ravens shot 51.8. The Roos showed flashes
of what might be to come this season as
redshirt transfer Nate Rogers, now in the
starting rotation, tallied nine points on the
night.
Chamberlain proved to be a marksman
from the arc, swooshing four three-pointers
from four attempts, and he also directed the
traffic throughout the game.
In the contest, the Ravens jumped out
to an early 19-10 lead, starting hot from
beyond the arc. The home side, however,
stayed calm and continued to run its offense
and chip away at the lead until they got
it down to just two points, coming off a
Korver layup with 9:37 left in the first half.
The Roos gained some momentum right
before the half ended, with two threepointers by Chamberlain and they took a
27-26 lead at the 3:19 minute mark in the
half. After end-to-end attacks, Raven guard
Quarnan Johnson netted a three-point
buzzer-beater to give his side a halftime
lead of 33-32.
The second half proved to be a tight
affair; no team led by more than four
points throughout. Freshman guard Estan
Tyler was impressive, while junior forward
Thomas Staton hit double figures with 10
as both played significant minutes down the
stretch, making nice contributions on both
ends of the floor. Tyler tied the game at 6161 with just over a minute left in regulation,
and after another Raven score, Tyler came
right back with a key assist to Korver to
knot it back up at 63-63 to send the contest
into overtime.
Korver opened the extra period with a
three-point score, but the Roos couldn’t
record another bucket from the floor. The
Ravens answered with a three of their own,
followed by a layup, to secure a five-point
lead and a hard-fought victory.
The Roos will now battle Northwest
Missouri State in their regular season
opener at Swinney Recreation Center on
Friday, Nov. 11 before a road game on Nov.
13 at Bradley in Peoria, Ill.
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Women’s soccer’s remarkable season comes to
a close in Championship semifinals
Darryl Washington
Staff Writer
The women's soccer team’s record-breaking season ended
in a 2-1 defeat to the North Dakota State Bison in the
semi-finals of the Summit League Conference on Nov. 4 in
Rochester, Mich.
NDSU got on the scoreboard after a free kick play by Bison
forward Anisha Kinnarath in the 21st minute. The free-kick
was off-target but teammate midfielder Michelle Gaffney
was quickest to react and headed the ball into the Roo net.
The Roos were unable to respond and went into the half
trailing the Bison 1-0.
In the second half, the Roos stuck the equalizing goal
when freshman Kaely Tott smashed a freekick goal-bound
and sophomore midfielder Ashley Gann converted the goal
with a header, bringing the score to 1-1 in the 54th minute.
With the goal, Tott recorded her third assist for the season
and Gann recorded her third game-tying goal on the year.
As the game-clock wound down, it appeared as though
the outcome would be the same as when the teams battled to
a 1-1 overtime tie in the Summit League Conference earlier
in the season.
Unfortunately for the Roos, this was not the case as Bison
forward Danielle Boldenow gained control of the ball at the
edge of the box and snuck a shot past outstretched keeper
Jami Finnell for the game-winning goal in the 88th minute.
The Roos may have been eliminated but the future is bright
as this seasons success has shown what the team is capable of
under the guidance of Summit League Coach of the Year
Chris Cissell and Assistant Coach Miguel Rodrigues. This
season has yielded many milestones for the team and also
individual players, as sophomore forward Taylor Bare was
named to the All-Summit League First Team while Sarah
Todd was named to the second and freshman teams.
The team also said goodbye to the first ever senior class
of the program as Amanda Casalinuovo and Laura Creason
The women’s soccer team had a successful fall season.
Photo courtesy of UMKC Athletics
finished their Roo careers with the program’s most successful
campaign to date.
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8|Sports
Vol. 79, Issue 12
Volleyball Continues Winning-Run in Last Home Weekend of the Season
junior Emily Lucas tallied 13. Junior Ella
Caitlin Christopher
Contributing Writer
The volleyball team (11-15) (5-10 in
Summit League play) continued its winning
streak as it beat a 2nd-placed IPFW team on
Friday night at Swinney Recreation Center.
After falling behind 2-0 in the match, the
Lady Roos regrouped and won the game after
some dominating offensive performances on
the night. For the home team, three players
finished the game with double-digit kills, as
seniors Kelsey Knoche and Elizabeth Beck
recorded 17 and 14 kills respectively, while
Meier controlled the court with 44 assists,
18 digs, and two kills, as she helped lead her
team to another hard-fought victory.
The game started off rough as the visiting
Mastodons took the first set 25-17, and
quickly followed this with a 25-22 second set
victory to take the teams to intermission.
After the break, a revitalized Roo side
punished the Mastodons’ complacency and
hope was not lost for the Roos as they won
the third set 25-13.
In the set, the first five points went to the
Roos including four kills from Beck, Knoche,
and two from senior Christiana McQuin.
On three different occasions during the set,
the Roos led by 12 and easily reduced the set
margin to one at 2-1.
In the fourth, again another quick start
gave the Roos early confidence as they rattled
off six of the first seven points. As expected,
the Mastodons made a comeback toward the
end of the set and trailed by two with a score
of 22-20 before the Roos finished strongly to
tie the contest with a 25-20 set win.
In the deciding fifth set, the momentum
of the Roo comeback was clear for all to see
as they again gained a quick lead with three
straight kills to start the set. IPFW reduced
the lead to 6-4, which in turn fueled a three-
point-streak from the Roos to bring them to
a 9-4 lead. Spurred on by the Swinney crowd,
the rest of the points belonged to the Lady
Roos, as they recorded a 15-4 triumph for
their fifth Summit League win in a row.
The team will now travel to the Dakotas
to face off against South Dakota State on
Nov. 11 in Brookings, S.D., before battling
North Dakota State on Nov. 12 in Fargo,
N.D. to finish out the 2011 Summit League
Conference season.
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Senior night at Durwood ends the 2011 men’s soccer season
Darryl Washington
Sports Writer
The men’s soccer team ended its season
with a 2-1 home defeat against the Southern
Illinois University of Edwardsville (SIUE)
Cougars on Friday at Durwood Soccer
Stadium in a night which honored this year’s
senior class.
After Summit League results on Saturday
didn’t fall in favor of the Roos in their bid
to make the post-season tournament, this
contest proved to be the last for senior
captain Chris Markey, Matt Kopsky, Josh
Lind, Luke Harman, Brandon Nilsson, and
forward pair Jimmy Simon and Diego Rojas.
The Cougars (8-7-4) struck first when
winger Aaron Lantz assisted Derek Huffman
with a cross from the right that was converted
inside the box in the 24th minute and this
would be the only score of the half.
As the second half got underway, it was
clear the home side had upped the tempo
of the game and created more scoring
chances. The Roos found themselves on the
scoreboard after sophomore Zach Balthazar’s
deflected shot found senior Harman, whose
shot from the top of the penalty box rocketed
past SIUE goalkeeper Scott Meyer to tie the
game at 1-1 in the 73rd minute.
Ten minutes later the Cougars answered
with a goal from forward Jack Twellman,
who found himself one-on-one inside the
box and converted his chance for the gamewinning strike.
The Roos were outshot on the night 167, with superb performances throughout the
game from Kyle Martin and Kevin Corby
who both shared time with a half apiece.
It has been a season where the exiting
seniors made huge contributions to the
team’s overall performances on the field and
Women’s basketball dominates Harding in opening exhibition game
Darryl Washington
Sports Writer
The women’s basketball team got its
first chance to showcase its talent for the
upcoming 2011-12 season in a 88-73
victory against the Harding Bison on Oct.
31 at Swinney Recreation Center.
The Roos started off strong with most
of their early points coming from the
“bigs,” who did a solid job protecting the
basket and scoring as well. UMKC’s stout
defense and active hands forced the Bison
into early mistakes and many turnovers.
Judging from this performance, the Roos
will create problems for opposing offenses
due to their frontcourt all season long with
their size, strength and scoring ability, not
to mention the shot-blocking ability of
6’5” center Ashli Hill in the paint. Hill
was the second leading scorer in the game
,recording 15 points, seven rebounds
and two blocks. She even stepped back
to knock down a three-pointer, showing
her expanded range from her work in the
offseason.
Not to be overlooked was the backcourt.
They played fast all night long, with
senior guard LeAndrea Thomas scoring
12 points and playing sticky defense
,harassing Harding all night long and
stealing the ball seven times. Senior guard
Dayon Hall-Jones led all scorers with 17
points and dished out five assists while
slicing through the defense.
The Roos jumped out to an early 7-0
lead after a three-point shot from Hills
and extended that lead to 12 before a 15-2
Harding run, putting them ahead of the
Roos 27-26. The Roos then buckled down
and, before the half was up, went on a
momentous 14-0 run, conducted by senior
guard Brianna Eldridge.
In the second half, the Roos remained
hot. After Harding scored the first three
points of the half, she went on another
scoring run, this time 19-6, giving them
a 20-point lead with just 10.07 remaining
on the clock. The Bison tried to respond
and closed the gap to 11 points but
couldn’t get any closer. By the game’s end,
the Roos tallied 30 turnovers, 17 of which
were steals, showing a great
improvement on defense and
a new attitude to improve on
last season’s 6th-place Summit
League finish.
Top-scorer on the night
Hall-Jones had this to say
about the upcoming season:
“The year’s team is much
more experienced. We’re
returning five starters and
have six seniors on our team
so we’ve played a lot of
basketball together. We really
are focused especially on the defensive
end this year and know with that mindset
it will help us be more successful. As far
as the preseason poll its exactly what it is
a preseason poll. During the span of the
season anything can happen. We feel that
we have something to prove and that fuels
our fire. We believe that we can be just as
good as we apply ourselves.”
The Roos will be hitting the hardwood
again in their last preseason exhibition
contest against Park at 7 p.m. on Monday,
Nov. 7 in the Swinney RecreationaCenter.
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also helped the newly-recruited faces in the
team to settle and become comfortable in
the soccer program’s set-up. Although the
2011 season is over, the team is now focusing
on the next challenge and poised to put
in a solid spring season and build toward
successful future campaigns under Head
Coach Rick Benben and Assistant Coach
Fred Schlichting.
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Coming up next...
Luke Harman
Sports Editor
Men’s Basketball
vs. Northwest Missouri State
Swinney Rec.
Nov. 11 1 p.m.
Men’s Basketball
vs. Bradley
Peoria, Ill.
Nov. 13
4 p.m.
Women’s Basketball
vs. Park
Swinney Rec.
Nov. 7
4 p.m.
vs. Northwest Missouri State
Swinney Rec.
Nov. 11
4 p.m.
Volleyball
vs. South Dakota State
Brookings, S.D.
Nov. 11
5 p.m.
vs. North Dakota State
Fargo, N.D.
Nov. 12
7 p.m.
Cross Country
NCAA Midwest Regionals
DeKalb, Ill.
TBA
TBA
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Arts & Entertainment|9
Nov. 7, 2011
Students sport
fall fashion styles
Johanna Poppel
Photo Editor
With the hustle and bustle of the wind blowing and leaves crunching beneath your feet while rushing to class, you notice
the unique trends popping up across campus.
The temperature is dropping and students are layering clothes and strutting the latest trends for this fall.
Here are some fellow students who stick out and are sharing their thoughts on style and bestow some fashion insight.
Paige Lockhart,
Junior
Riley Mortensen,
Freshman
Stephen Herzig,
Junior
H
erzig
keeps
it simple by
wearing some
vintage-inspired jeans,
a comfy cotton v-neck
and cowboy boots to
top it all off.
“I love cowboy boots.
I have several pairs. It is
just what I like to wear,”
Herzig said.
Clayton Kruger,
Freshman
K
ruger keeps it
casual by layering
a cardigan over
a plaid button-up shirt
paired with skinny jeans.
“I think sweaters and
skinny jeans are pretty
damn
comfortable,”
Kruger said.
M
ortensen
is
wearing a threefourth sleeve,
silky textured dress with
funky geometric designs
in some dark autumn
hues. She pairs her dress
with black suede boots to
add comfort and warmth.
Her fashion inspiration
is Rihanna because “she’s
got some sweet duds.”
Emilie Svedja,
Senior
S
vedja
pairs
two
interesting blocks of
color to create a unique
cold–weather look, along with
keeping warm with black
opaque tights and cowboy
boots. She incorporates tan
and black and pulls the outfit
together with a long necklace
with a turquoise pandent.
“Whatever works with
cowboy boots works with me,”
she said.
L
ockhart keeps it
comfy and casual
by wearing a t-shirt,
zip-up hooded sweatshirt,
black skinny pants and
finishes the look with
vintage-inspired olive green
flats.
Her
style:
“Simple
outfits with accessories. I
really like sequins. I would
describe my style as Audrey
Hepburn meets Divine
from the movie ‘Pink
Flamingos.’”
Her advice: “Fill your
closet with solid color
dresses, spicy shoes, vintage
broaches and miniature
hats.”
John Chang,
Junior
C
hang keeps it
sleek, wearing
dark
grey
straight-legged pants,
a navy pea coat and
loafers.
His advice: “When
I wear clothes, I look
at how it fits. It all
depends on your size
and
height.”
You
will look good if you
choose clothes ideal for
your body shape. Pay
attention to what looks
good for your unique
height and body type.
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10|Arts & Entertainment
Vol. 79, Issue 12
ALL AROUND TOWN
Four downtown theaters,
Four different stories
rate films by the time it was shuttered
Nathan Zoschke
Production Manager/Copy Editor
A flashy 50-year anniversary sign
adorns the stately, columned entrance
to the Lyric Theatre, commemorating
the Lyric Opera.
But the luster seems to have left the
Lyric Theatre these days.
The Lyric has lost its primary
tenants, the Kansas City Symphony and
Lyric Opera, to the new, $300 million
Kauffman Center for the Performing
Arts.
The sleek contemporary architecture
and impeccable acoustics of the Modis
Safdie-designed Kauffman Center
received grand accolades in the national
press.
Now 85 years old, the Lyric Theatre
has seen its glory days come and go.
The classical revival-style façade
resembles the Temple of Vesta in Rome,
with Corinthian capitals and exquisite
architectural details, but the streetscape
around it isn’t as pleasant.
Hailing from across the street is the
tall, blank, ivy-covered service entrance
brick wall for the downtown Marriott.
Currently, no plans to reuse the
Lyric have been announced, although
the theatre has been speculated as a
potential site for a proposed downtown
campus for the Conservatory of Music
and Dance.
The Lyric isn’t the only downtown
theater to cycle through.
Not too far away, the recentlyrenovated Midland by AMC and
AMC Mainstreet have once again reestablished themselves.
The façade of the Mainstreet has
strong French Empire and Neoclassical
influences, boasting an ornate dome and
terra cotta architectural embellishments,
which have been allowed to deteriorate
over the years.
Once used to host Vaudeville
performances in its 3,200 seat theater,
the building was converted to a screen
theater in the 1950s, and had declined
to a seedy grindhouse showing second-
in 1985.
By the time renovations began in the
mid-2000s, a mature tree was growing
out of the roof, and the interior of the
theater suffered extensive damage.
When plans were announced to revamp
the theater, some believed it was beyond
repair.
The turnaround at the Mainstreet
is a 180-degree difference. Once used
to host Vaudeville performances, the
Mainstreet has been transformed with
the infusion of technology.
The theater includes AMC’s novelty
Cinema Suites concept, which allows
patrons to order food and drinks from
their seats during the movie. The
auditoriums are also smaller in size than
most movie theaters and have larger
screens, creating a pleasant movie going
experience.
The
Midland,
which
never
experienced the same level of disrepair
as the Mainstreet, benefited from a topto-bottom remodel. The original handpainted plaster has been restored, and
most of the building’s historic details,
from the furniture in the lobby to the
bathrooms, have been meticulously
preserved.
Now one of Kansas City’s premier
indoor venues, the Midland is looking
more and more like its former self.
When the building was completed in
1927, it was the third-largest theater in
the U.S., and the first air-conditioned
theatre in Kansas City.
The Midland’s ornate exterior
includes both French and Italian
Baroque influences. A four-story
window above the marquee welcomes
visitors. Engaged pillars and exquisite
details cover the glazed terra cotta brick
façade.
The Folly Theatre, completed in
1900, was one of Kansas City’s first
burlesque and Vaudeville halls.
Today, it remains one of four
noteworthy historic theater venues
downtown, and is the smallest with
1,078 seats.
A large palladium window is the focal
point of the front brick and rusticated
limestone façade.
Like other downtown theaters, the
Folly has had rough times, featuring
striptease performances and adult
movies until it finally closed in the
1970s. Status on both the National
Register of Historic Places and local
historic register saved the Folly from
demolition; and a complete renovation
took place in the early ’80s.
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Above: A four-story gilded
window above the opulent
marquee, with 3,600 lights.
Left: The Lyric Theatre has
barely been used since the
Lyric Opera and Kansas City
Symphony relocated.
Bottom left: A dome
surrounded by circular
windows and large
reproduction marquee define
the AMC Mainstreet.
Bottom right: The Folly
Theatre remains one of
Kansas City’s most active
theatre venues.
Photos by Nathan Zoschke
Arts & Entertainment|11
Nov. 7, 2011
movie review
Have ‘A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas’
Mal Hartigan
Copy Editor
If you’ve seen “Harold and Kumar Go
to White Castle,” the first of the ongoing
comedy series, you know it’s riddled with
hilarious obscenities, illegal drug use, and a
giant slew of ridiculous situations. The third
movie of the series, “A Very Harold & Kumar
3D Christmas,” sets the comical duo up for
another adventure.
Harold and Kumar, who have been best
friends for years, used to be avid potheads.
Because of their marijuana use, they often
found themselves in hilarious situations with
an odd assortment of characters, including
Neal Patrick Harris and the deformed
“Freakshow,” cleverly played by Chris
Meloni.
After the crazy events that take place in
the first two movies, including Harold’s
marriage, the third movie takes place during
Christmas time. Harold is happily married
and holds a stable job on Wall Street. There
is a taste of current events in the movie
when Harold looks out the window and sees
protestors picketing his building, objecting
to his company’s high wages.
Harold and Kumar have long parted ways,
not speaking to each other for two years,
and Harold went on to make another friend
I viewed it in 2D. However,
it became apparent that most
of the movie was centered
around showcasing 3D effects
rather than solidifying a
sufficient plotline. A majority
of the characters’ actions were
centered around how the
visual aspect could be tweaked
to appear three-dimensional.
The humor in this movie
also wasn’t up to par with
the previous installments.
A 5-year-old girl being
Harold and Kumar are back to their usual selves in ‘A Very
accidentally
exposed
to
Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas,’
Photo courtesy of Google Images pot smoke and cocaine
wasn’t particularly comical,
especially when she acted
who is hardly comparable to Kumar. He’s
even more like an annoying toddler in the
straight-laced, drives a mini-van and has a
process. Though these events were meant to
toddler daughter. His humor is dopey and
bring humor to the movie, it seemed more
not relatable.
like the immature humor you’d find in a
Kumar, on the other hand, still sits around
sub-par television show.
his apartment, smoking weed on a daily
A side character that emerged, to my
basis. The two end up crossing paths again
dismay, was a popular Christmas gift: a robot
when a package addressed to Harold arrives
that makes waffles. As off-the-wall as that
at Kumar’s apartment.
sounds, this waffle-making robot eventually
This movie prides itself on being in 3D,
rescues Harold and Kumar from a sticky
capitulating to the current movie craze. The
situation where they’re about to be lit on fire
theatre I went to didn’t show 3D movies, so
with gasoline. The robot was supposed to be
movie review
‘City Ball’
Documentary tells heart-wrenching story
Darryl Washington
Staff Writer
“City Ball” is a documentary done by
Metro Sports featured at the Union Theater
this past Wednesday.
The movie is about teen athletes from
different schools in Kansas City and
reveals the hardships that they’ve faced in
a mediocre school system. Not only that,
but it chronicled their home lives as well as
the struggles they face. Each teenager has a
unique story.
Graduating high school seems like the
typical standard, but these teens from inner
Kansas City city had to fight every day just
to keep that hope alive. Some of the young
adults felt abandoned by parents.
A teen even watched as one of his older
brothers was shot and killed in a shootout
with police, while his remaining two
brothers dropped out of school, leaving him
to be the sole hope for his siblings to bring
home a high school diploma.
Ricky Hicks, a senior running back from
Central High School, was the only teen in
the film that had grown up in a two-parent
household and stood out considerably.
This isn’t to say he was better than the
others, but it was apparent that he was much
more fortunate with his family life.
Ricky’s values were different: instead of
hoping he’d simply make it to high school
graduation, college was his standard. While
some of the movie focused on the decline
in the inner Kansas City district as well as
the Interscholastic League of sports, the
viewer could understand how these young
individuals were affected.
The district considered education to be
a business and seemed to care more about
money and less about the education of
the student, with sports programs being a
safe haven for many of these young adults.
Sports shielded them from a world that was
steadily caving in from all angles.
The alumni from the city’s rich history
of sports programs feel the same history and
rivalries from long ago have changed. This
documentary is a real David and Goliath
story as these young teens demonstrate
rough accounts that were painful, but
molded these individuals into young adults
of good character.
They weren’t dealt a fortunate deck of
cards, but each had hope and a vision.
Watching the stars graduate in the end was
emotional since the movie made each viewer
expressively involved with the characters.
The viewer watched as they clung to any
small support figure that they had in their
lives in that moment; the emotion could be
felt as each teen graduated and received the
utmost liberation.
“City Ball” showed that although major
changes are needed in the districts, the
athletics, and the inner city youth as a whole,
Kansas City is a place where perseverance
helps anyone reach their goals. For more
information about the documentary “City
Ball,” visit www.kcmetrosports.com.
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humorous, but in most situations, I hardly
uttered a laugh. The humor with the toddler
and the robot seemed far too juvenile for my
taste.
The same obscene humor that’s trademark
to the Harold and Kumar franchise was
lacking in this film, and the resolution at
the end was sloppy. It seems the storyline
was thrown together just to highlight the
3D effects and Christmas decorations. As
disappointed as I was, there were still a few
occasions where I found myself laughing
aloud at some of Harold’s remarks. Harold and Kumar are perfect character
foils of one another: John Cho plays
Harold as a more reserved and levelheaded businessman, while Kumar, played
by Kal Penn, is a rule-breaking, destructive
pothead. Kumar always lands them in the
predicaments that make the movies so
entertaining, and Penn sells his character
completely with his seamless portrayal of a
subtle rebel.
If you’re a fan of the rest of the Harold and
Kumar franchise, it’s well-advised to see the
third movie for the sake of fandom. If you’re
new to the obscene humor offered by Harold
and Kumar, you might want to move on to
the next movie.
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12|Arts & Entertainment
Vol. 79, Issue 12
‘My name is not Kanye’
Rapper gains local following at UMKC
Kharissa Parker
Staff Writer
His name is Wesley Forte, but his fans know him as
Undergrad – the 29 year-old charismatic Christian rapper
with a sound and style similar to Kanye West.
“People have compared me to Kanye West since I first
started rapping in 2004,” Undergrad said.
Though Undergrad finds the comparison flattering, his new
mixtape lets listeners know that his message and character is
completly opposite of anything Kanye West represents.
The mixtape, “My Name is not Kanye,” released on Sunday,
Oct. 30, was introduced to the world with a listening party/
concert in UMKC’s Oak Street Residence Hall lounge. The
mix features the instrumentals of some of Kanye West’s most
popular songs such as “Power,” “Gold Digger” and “Heartless”
and exchanges the secular lyrics for original Christian lines.
Undergrad said, “I used Kanye’s beats to grab the listener’s
attention. It’s deeper than just being compared to him. I
figured people would listen because they recognize the music,
then when I come in with completely different lyrics that are
talking about Christ, they’ll be even more intrigued.”
Undergrad’s goal is to get 10,000 mixtapes out, but not for
fame or fortune (the mixtape is free and can be downloaded
at Undergrad.Bandcamp.com), his real priority is to give the
gospel.
Undergrad began his Christian rap career in 2006 shortly
after making the decision to live for Christ. After two years
of writing and performing, he released his debut album titled
“Free,” available on iTunes and Amazon.
“Free” reflects how I felt after giving my life to God. With
Salvation comes this liberation that’s like a breath of fresh air.
That’s what “Free” is all about,” Undergrad said.
However, the initial zeal of his newfound faith didn’t last
long. After ending a two-year relationship with his fiancée
who did not take kindly to Undergrad’s new lifestyle, he
realized the romantic affair actually hindered his spiritual
growth.
“Outside of music, I hadn’t accomplished anything for
God,” Undergrad said. “I wasn’t in Bible study or doing
anything to build my faith. After I broke up with her, I
wondered how many other Christians were letting people or
situations hinder their spiritual walk.”
This curiosity led to the making of his second album,
“Hibernation,” a real world, no-nonsense production
encouraging Christians to truly live their lives according to
biblical standards. “Hibernation,” also available on iTunes
and Amazon, was released in November 2009. Earlier this
year, Undergrad released his first music video, “Salty Light,”
featuring Christian singer/songwriter Chris Lee Cobbins.
Undergrad’s target audience is students and he is inspired by
the Bible verse 2 Timothy 2:15 which reads, “Study to show
thyself approved.” He said, “I’m a full-time student for Christ.
When I die, heaven is my graduation.”
He plans to release an EP next spring and another album
Underground’s new album hooks listeners with familiar beats
but original lyrics.
Photo courtesy of Google Images
in 2013. Students can pick up copies of “Hibernation” and
“My Name is not Kanya,” at Soul Sundays’ Open Mic Night
held at 7 p.m in the Oak Street Residence Hall Lounge on
Nov. 13. For more info on Undergrad, visit www.wix.com/
UndergradEnt/SchoolBoyMusic.
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Nov. 7, 2011
Low brass
ensemble
demonstrates
versatility
Mal Hartigan
Copy Editor
On Oct. 25, the White Recital Hall was
lit aflame with the energy and expertise
of UMKC’s own euphonium and tuba
performers. This low brass ensemble
consisted of four euphoniums and six tubas,
each player severely adept in their musical
abilities.
Thomas Stein, a much sought-after
tuba and euphonium instructor, was the
conductor for the ensemble.
Stein picked a diverse musical selection
to showcase the ensemble’s versatility and
ability to adapt to any piece despite potential
challenges. Stein told the audience that one
of the selections, entitled “Magnificat,”
even had time signatures ranging to 22/4.
The opening number, “Fanfare No. 1,”
was a short piece, introducing the audience
to the ensemble’s ability to meld together.
There were excellent crescendos by the
tubas, startling the listeners, and the slew of
staccato 16th notes were double-tongued
with proficiency.
Though many listeners may originally
think tubas and euphoniums are not capable
of creating gorgeous blend and harmonies
since their sound is so low, the ensemble
was quick to negate this assumption.
The second piece, “Benediction,” was
conducted by David Dimmit, a euphonium
player in the ensemble. This song gave the
group the ability to harmonize with each
other, creating rich chords with complex
layering.
Long gone are the days of a tuba being
the sole foundation of the band and the
days of tubas only playing downbeats in a
march while euphoniums squeal a countermelody.
“Benediction” gave these musicians
a chance to demonstrate low brass
adaptability. A euphonium solo was
featured in this piece, threaded throughout
the rest of the song, as well as a tuba solo.
“Hauntings,” the next piece, was divided
into four different sections (not necessarily
movements, Stein informed the audience),
each thoroughly chilling. Some sections
featured momentary dissonance, and others
included forceful crescendos, causing an
uproar of eeriness.
This piece was the longest and perhaps
most captivating, since it included a
recording of brisk wind. The tuba players’
fingers moved swiftly and precisely across Tuba and euphonium ensemble performed various pieces at White Recital Hall.
the valves, making the audience feel frantic
all the while.
“Magnificat” was a gorgeous piece,
conducted as if it didn’t have a time
signature, Stein said. It swapped between
time signatures so frequently that it proved
to initially be a challenge for the ensemble,
but it was quickly perfected and performed
for the audience with ease. It was another
legato piece with impressive chords and
harmonies.
The last two pieces of the evening were
short but upbeat marches, with “La donna
e’ mobile” conducted by fellow tuba player,
Matthew Crossley.
It was a fun and cheerful piece - much
better than a traditional march, since it did
not include any woodwind instruments,
but instead, was another example of how
functional low brass instruments are
together.
The concluding march, “The Bride
Elect,” was just as short and uplifting.
UMKC’s low brass ensemble was
unquestionably polished and professional
in their performance. Their brass events
are free to the public and certainly worth
attending. For more information regarding
upcoming performances, visit www.
conservatory.umkc.edu.
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Photo by Mal Hartigan
14|Roo Views
Vol. 79, Issue 12
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Is the liberal media a myth?
Nathan Zoschke
Production Manager/Copy Editor
Dealing
with gossip
Sarah Vaughn
Everyone has heard of the domino effect: knock
one down and the rest come crashing down.
The same can be said about how we treat people.
We like to walk the fine line between right and
wrong. People face issues in their lives every day
and deal with them in their own ways.
I’m surrounded by people who like to talk about
their issues. The more they talk, the more twisted
the stories become.
Girls are chatty and observant, a lethal
combination.
We feed on judgment and gossip. There is
something appealing about being told a really good
story and turning around to tell someone new.
It’s a cycle that keeps going, but where does it
end? How do we know what we should or should
not say?
Gossiping is a natural habit of which many of us
are guilty; we like to talk about someone’s outfit or
celebrity news. Lately, gossip has turned into more
than a couple of people chatting.
Gossip is now going behind people’s backs and
talking about their worst traits.
How are people supposed to trust one another
when someone acts one way to your face and
another behind your back?
We need to learn the difference between a
simple comment and “trash talking.”
We should be able to say to the person’s face
what is said when they are not around.
This might not be the case for everyone, but
there are lots of people who suffer from hearing
rumors about themselves.
Word of mouth is the easiest way to spread
gossip, and the further down the line it goes, the
more skewed the story becomes.
Knowing that others are affected by what you
say should make you think twice about repeating
the juicy piece of news you heard in the “caf ” that
morning.
A wise man once told me, “Never trust anyone
with your secrets, because you never know where
they will end up.”
I think he is completely right. You have to be
careful what you say and where you say it. People
may be more affected by what is said than you
realize.
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It has been said that a lie repeated often
enough becomes the truth.
Gallup has found that in each of the
past 10 years, between 45 and 48 percent
of surveyed American adults believed
news media was “too liberal,” and between
11 and 19 percent believed the media was
“too conservative.” The remaining percent
chose another response.
While liberal media bias undoubtedly
exists, one must take into consideration
the sources most people get their news
from, few of which are left-wing.
A 2009 poll by CBS News and The
New York Times found that television is
the primary news source for 60 percent of
American adults.
A separate poll by NBC and The Wall
Street Journal found that of the 48 percent
of adults whose primary televised news
source is one of three cable networks,
more respondents chose FOX over CNN
and MSNBC combined.
To say that FOX isn’t the most blatantly
biased mainstream media source is an
understatement. The liberal incarnations
of Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin, Sean
Hannity, Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly
would be ruthlessly attacked on any other
network, yet all have flourished on FOX.
All five have made statements many
consider blatantly racist.
Beck, without any legitimate basis to
make such an assertion, claimed that
President Obama is a “racist” with a
“deep-seeded hatred of white people.”
Coulter, a gloating conservative
provocateur, referred to Obama’s memoir,
“Dreams from my Father,” as a “dimestore version of Mein Kampf,” and appears
frequently on “The O’Reilly Factor” and
the “Hannity Show.”
O’Reilly himself has admitted to an
extent the bias of FOX’s commentary, but
justified its necessity to counterbalance
the “liberal media.”
O’Reilly’s statements, which he later
retracted, should be appreciated for
their sincerity. FOX and most of its
enthusiasts are quick to rebuttal any claim
of conservative bias by claiming that
despite people like Sean Hannity and
Bill O’Reilly, the news segment programs
adhere to standards of neutrality.
Unfortunately, not even that is the case.
The coverage of two recent events, the
Nathan Zoschke
Occupy Wall Street protests and News of
the World phone-hacking scandal, show a
bias in both the amount of coverage and
its quality.
FOX and News of the World are owned
by the same company, Rupert Murdoch’s
News Corp.
Coincidentally, FOX also had half the
level of coverage of the phone hacking
scandals as MSNBC and one-third that
of CNN, and the coverage tended to
downplay Murdoch’s knowledge of the
scandals.
Murdoch has funneled millions in
donations to Republican organizations
through News Corp’s general fund, but
has donated little to Democratic groups.
Other media parent companies have also
made political donations, but in much
smaller increments than News Corp and
to candidates of both parties.
But do claims that any conservative
slant on FOX is justified because it
balances out the liberal bias in the rest
of the media carry any validity? Is the
mainstream media really liberal?
True, The New York Times, MSNBC,
Time, CNN and countless other outlets
have had liberal media slant accusations
mercilessly thrashed against their
reputations, deservingly in some cases.
In making a judgment, it’s important
to contextualize the difference between
being liberal and conservative and
favoring candidates of one party over
another.
As a whole, news coverage and political
commentary tend to prefer Democratic
candidates, but the media is not decisively
liberal on a number of issues.
FOX was quick to portray the Occupy
Wall Street protestors as a fringe group,
but other networks have been more
reluctant to portray the extremity of
certain tea party groups and candidates.
A more thorough investigation of the
war in Iraq would have revealed claims of
weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to be
a hoax, but few in the media challenged
the Bush administration’s claims.
It is only in recent years that the media
has adopted a more progressive stance
on social issues like gay rights, race and
gender equality, but the representation
of minorities in the news is far from
progressive.
Media Matters found that in 2008,
67 percent of the guests on prime-time
cable news were male and 84 percent were
white. MSNBC had the greatest gender
imbalance, while FOX was the whitest
network.
Latinos, who comprise more than 15
percent of the population, only represented
2.7 percent of cable news guests.
When it comes to fiscal policy, the
notion that the federal budget deficit and
national debt are hampering economic
recovery seems to be universally accepted,
despite conventional economic wisdom
to increase government spending when
private sector demand and investment
taper off.
CNN, MSNBC and other allegedly
liberal media outlets have attempted to
balance left-wing and right-wing pundits,
guests and commentary.
FOX, on the other hand, often uses
moderates, liberals and straw men to
rebuttal stronger conservative political
commentary.
All paint a picture far different from
the widely-held belief in a liberal media.
How could this be?
Either the media isn’t quite as liberal
as people think it is, or it has become
too empathetic with its detractors, who
shrewdly realized they could sway content
with accusations of bias.
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Roo Views|15
Nov. 7, 2011
Blue + Gold does not equal brown
Mark LinvilleEditor-in-Chief
I admire the university’s efforts to
keep the campus clean. For years I have
seen different aspects of the university
improve.
UMKC has added new buildings with
a more sleek and polished look. No more
vintage drywall with a faded paint job and
dry cracking wood trim and furniture.
The landscaping has always been
exceptional.
Year round you will be sure to see
someone tending to the foliage, blowing
leaves, trimming trees and grass, and
shoveling snow. This truly is a campus to
be proud of.
However, there are moments of ill care
on the university’s part.
No, I am not referring to the UMKC
homes and the derelict condition some of
them are in.
I am talking about the human waste
department. I know no one likes to deal
Mark Linville
with the filthy human by-product, but
people don’t want to see or smell it either.
What inspired me to comment on
the cleanliness of the Volker campus is
the presence of the port-o-potties on
51st Street. Since the Homecoming
celebrations, and the Oct. 1st block
party, two Johnny on the Spots have sat
abandoned right in the path of students’
commute to classes for more than month.
When heading up the stairs to the quad,
one can’t help but notice the capsules of
human excrement.
When the day is warm enough, or
when the wind blows right, you get a nice
whiff of what Johnny has to offer.
I don’t see a need for the “can” to be
there. Students do not use them, nor is
there a construction zone in the vicinity.
The closest is the Cherry Street Parking
Garage.
They are surely not the “best seat in
the house.”
I think this is an issue that should be
addressed sooner rather than later.
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Mozart for the masses
Teresa Sheffield
Staff Writer
In the words of a lyrical genius,
“Classical music is tight, yo.”
Despite the recommendation from
Kanye West, classical music really is tight.
And yet for some reason, it has a bad rap.
“Classical music is the kind we keep
thinking will turn into a tune,” Frank
McKinney said.
To many, classical music is something
the esoteric echelon of the very wealthy
and educated dress in furs and pay huge
amounts of money to see.
Many of the people associated with
mainstream music have close ties to
classical music. Rock star Pat Benatar was
accepted to Julliard to study opera, Alicia
Keys and Beyoncé were classically trained
and Billy Joel now writes instrumental
classical music.
In other fields of work, Thomas
Jefferson and Albert Einstein both played
the violin, Harry Truman played the piano
and Alan Greenspan studied clarinet at
Julliard for more than a year.
Jerry Springer and Richard Nixon have
both been subjects of operas, and video
games such as “Resident Evil,” where
you have to learn to play Beethoven’s
“Moonlight Sonata” before you can open
a trap door, use classical music in their
soundtracks.
What would the movies you love be
like without the classical music scores
or the classically-trained orchestra and
composer? “Star Wars” wouldn’t be “Star
Wars” without Darth Vader’s theme
song. We wouldn’t be able to have that
suspenseful moment or the jubilant,
happy ending without classical music.
Other
movies
take
famous
compositions and include them in
their movie scenes, like Mozart in the
“Shawshank Redemption” with Tim
Robbins, “The Barber of Seville” in “Bugs
Bunny,” and the “Brandenberg Concerto”
in “Cruel Intentions,” “Hannibal,” “Die
Hard” and “Slaughterhouse Five.”
In my opinion, there doesn’t need
to be some huge schism of music that
is automatically liked and others that
are written off. You don’t have to be a
connoisseur to enjoy the “Flower Duet”
I would like to encourage the creation of a
cross-campus coffee pass.
The availability of this pass would allow
students to essentially prepay for refills in order
to unify the multiple coffee shop locations on
campus ( Jazzman’s, Einstein Bros’, Robot Café,
Starbucks).
The Coffee Pass would prevent excessive and
redundant purchases, which can now only be
avoided by returning to the original location of
purchase for a coffee refill.
This saves students time, money and
substantially curbs the number of paper cups
thrown away each year. Since coffee is a highly
marked up commodity, refill promotions are fairly
common within the coffee industry (source: I have
worked at Starbucks for 3 years). The University
has an interest in encouraging students to remain
on campus during the day and also to save
students time and money, which could otherwise
be directed at studies.
Both of these could be accomplished with the
inclusion of the proposed coffee pass.
I see no reason why a coffee pass would be an
unworkable proposal, as it would only further
streamline the already integrated food service
offerings on and off campus. This will only
improve the UMKC student experience, and I
would be happy to see it implemented soon.
-Frederick Phillip Wolff
Political Science Major
letter to the editor
Teresa Sheffield
from Lakme or Dvorak’s “New World
Symphony,” you just need to have ears
and an open mind.
“Classical music is not boring, it’s not
stiff, and it’s not for the elite. It’s done by
people like me who love any other kind of
music,” violinist Julian Rachlin said.
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letter to the editor
This semester I have noticed an increase in the amount of
risky driver and pedestrian behavior.
Today as I was driving to the Rockhill parking structure, I
stopped to let a woman cross the street before I turned right.
While I was waiting, an oncoming car turned sharply toward
the crosswalk and nearly hit the woman crossing the street.
I feel this is the result of people not paying attention while
A modest
proposal
driving.
I have noticed equally absent-minded behavior by
pedestrians.
As weather gets fouler as we approach winter, the risk only
increases.
-Kelsey Leftwich
I am a student at the University of Missouri
Kansas City and the food prices are not in the
budget of a college student.
A bagel should not cost $2.49 at the Einstein
Bros Cafe. A strawberry cafe (smoothie) should
not cost $4.49. The Cafeteria food plan rates are
too high.
Why does it cost $2,000-$3000 to eat at the
cafeteria? Throughout my day, I do not have time to
go to the cafeteria. That’s between studying, classes,
extra activities and programs that I am involved
with on campus. I eat at the cafeteria once a day.
That’s for dinner. Chick-fil-A chicken is not in the
price range of a college student as well.
The Market (Campus store) prices are
outrageous. A bottle of Naked Juice, 16 oz. should
not cost $5.00. Wal-Mart’s 16 oz. bottle of Naked
Juice costs $2.39.
We as college students have to accept these
prices because it’s convenient. Also due to the lack
of transportation for some students, the amount
of space in our dorm room mini refrigerators, and
money (college is expensive enough).
Yes, we have a free bus pass for the metro bus,
to be able to get around but we are only allowed so
many bags on the bus.
These circumstances need to change.
word on campus
Johanna Poppel
Photo Editor
sudoku
“What is the worst part of being a UMKC student?”
Junior
Biology
“Parking.”
Megan Rea
Freshman
Undecided
“The food on
campus is
expensive. It’s hard
to eat lunch here
everyday and not
go broke.”
Eric Markham
Senior
Chemistry
“The bookstore
needs to have more
solution manuals.”
Yasmin Sawyer
Sophomore
German
“It makes me upset
that not all my credits
transferred.”
Todd Saylor
Olivia Wamkpah
“I don’t like how
the meter lots are
the closest to the
buildings.”
“There is not much
social stuff. UMKC
could improve on
spirit.”
Junior
Biology
Sophomore
Biology
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