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Jeremy McClain is a Divi-sion II guy.
He stated that this is what Missouri Western needs throughout his presentation Monday at the Griffon Indoor Sports Complex.
McClain, one of four candidates for the Athletic Direc-tor job cur-
One month of the semes-ter down and nearly half of the Stu-dent Govern-ment As-s o c i a t i o n S e n a t o r s are gone.
On the s u r f a c e level, it means that the few are g o v e r n i n g the many, sim-ply meaning that the student body isn’t receiving full representa-tion in SGA.
Maybe that’s not a bad thing, according to SGA Vice President Jacob Scott, as he states passionately that he believes it’s more about the level of commitment than the number of people in the Senate.
“I’d rather have 10 great senators than 20 lackluster senators,” Scott said.
Scott said that while the number of senators has fluc-
Don Kaverman said he wants to make a difference at Missouri Western.
On Friday, Kaverman stood in front of his audience in Spratt Hall and said there are five areas in which West-ern needs help.
After he announced the five: academic success, com-petitive success, program in-tegrity, external outreach and athletic program value to the universtiy and community, Kaverman began his presen-tation.
“Visioning as an exercise is just the first step in a plan-ning process,” Kaverman said.
Kaverman envisions plenty of future plans for Western. One of his plans includes Western finishing in the top half of the confer-ence.
“[We] need to compete annually for MIAA cham-pionships,” Kaver-man said. “[We should] be recog-nized nationally by having teams consistently advance
to post-season play.”Kaverman, former A.D.
for Southeast Missouri State, said in order to compete and have success, athletics has to be important to the community. He believes fund-raising options are available through pri-vate parties.
“The only way we are going to be able to move forward,” Ka-verman
said, “is to generate addition-al financial support.”
There are over 21,000 alumni in the state of Mis-souri, and over 5,000 live in the St. Joseph region.
The Harris-Stowe athletic director is a former director at Western. He was here when Jerry Partridge was an-nounced as the head football coach. Kaverman
rently available at Western, said he wants to be a part of the Griffons and loves the di-vision in which Western par-ticipates.
“Things that hap-pen at Division
II programs are a little bit dif-ferent,” Mc-Clain said. “I’ve proven that pro-grams I’ve been involved in have been successful.
I think from a learning
curve standpoint, I walk the walk.”
McClain was a Division II athlete at Delta State, where he is currently the AD. He said that D2 is entertaining just like Division I, but that the atmosphere is great be-cause you can be a student athlete, as well as have the experience of being a part of the student body.
“Student-athletes have a unique opportunity to not only play high level, highly competitive, very entertain-ing college athletics, but to also be a better student.”
The Delta graduate said the key to recruiting as well as maintaining a great program is to have athletes that gradu-ate. McClain stands behind his words, as the graduation rate at Delta has risen from 50 to 69 percent while he has been in charge. He says if Western can hold a steady 60 percent graduation rate, everybody will benefit.
“That’s a pretty lofty goal, but it can be done,” said Mc-Clain, . “[Recruitment] is the key to reaching that goal of 60 percent and reaching the
Thomas Huitt-Johnson | Sports [email protected]
Candidates contend for positionFormer Western AD looks to return, improve community
McClain: higher athlete graduation rate is essentialThomas Huitt-Johnson | Sports [email protected]
Don Kaverman served as Athletic Director at Division I Southeast Missouri State from 1999 to 2009.
Kyle Inman | Asst. Sports Editor
Jeremy McClain, current Athletic Director at Delta State University, is a former Division II athlete.
Kyle Inman | Asst. Sports Editor
See Kaverman page 2
See McClain page 2
At the annual Black Stu-dent Union fashion show, which occurred at the Eder fountain on Sept. 23, numer-ous people were eager to see the designs, the models, the performers and the catwalks. Roughly $300 in profit was made on the show, due to the support of the student organizations and numerous members of staff.
When dusk set in, around 80 people were already sit-ting in their chairs or min-gling with other guests as they waited for the show to begin. Student Life Director, Isaiah Collier, and Adminis-trative Coordinator for Vice President of Student Affairs, Kathy Kelly, were just a few administrators that left their offices to come see the show. Members of sorority Tri-Sig-ma also arrived early so they could have a perfect seat be-fore the show began. Tri-Sig-ma member Theryn Johnson expressed her anticipation for the event, as she not only came to support the show, but also her sorority sister, model Charnelle Starling.
Fashion show adds style and ‘stagger’ to the runwayEboni Lacey | Online [email protected]
“This is my first time,” Johnson said. “I think fashion is really cool. I think it will be cool with the fountain and natural light.”
Johnson also includes what she personally likes about fashion.
“I like new styles. I want to see wild clothing: something people wouldn’t wear,” John-son said.
Another audience member was Daniel Banks, who came to see some fashion and sup-port his friends that were both models and the show’s side talent. The talent in-cluded a duo with drummer Daniel Cole and singer Mary Fulk, rapper Louis Erby and singer Christina Williams.
“I like fashion, designs and clothes,” Johnson said. “I’m
an artsy person. I enjoy Ori-ental design and anything with bright colors.”
Banks, who has been to a few Missouri Western fash-ion shows, remembers how well last year’s BSU fashion show turned out, which was in Remington Hall.
“It was fun and well cho-reographed,” Banks said. “Though this show has a good outdoor feeling, I still like Remington better. This show is probably not going to top last year’s show.”
Though it might now have topped last year’s show, which had roughly 150 in attendance, it certainly brought new attention with new clothing styles, new tal-ent and new designers. The show, which lasted about an hour, had roughly five seg-ments, each with new cloth-ing and new faces. The first segment included a dark theme, as all female models dressed in all black. This seg-ment had a wide range of clothing from bathing suits to party outfits. The next segment was all males in an urban chic style. The next
See Fashion page 2
SGA senate trumpets quality over quantityTodd Fuller | News [email protected]
See SGA page 2
tuated, he feels that they are achieving the goals of pass-
ing good legislation and serving the students
of Missouri Western.
I d e a l l y, We s t e r n w o u l d have stu-dents vy-ing for the op-portunity
to be on the senator
ballot and rep-resent the students
of Western, but as the last few years have shown, the opposite appears to be the case. At present, the number of senators is down to 13 with an additional can-didate up for discussion at the next senate meeting, ac-cording to Scott.
Noah Green, communica-tions director for SGA, indi-cated that people not meet-ing the qualifications to be a senator can still have their
Model Anecia Taliaferro poses wearing clothing and jewelry from Charming Charlie’s. Jason Brown | Photo Editor
Hurricane Katrina forced T.J. Fannin to relocate to Missouri. His blazing speed has allowed him to start as a wide receiver and kick return specialist. See page 8
“Win Win,” starring Paul Giamatti and Amy Ryan, is reviewed in Features. This film, an Official Selection at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, is more than worth the dollar.
See page 5
Belgian illustrator Dominique Goblet has been a guest in the art department over the past week. Many students have been encour-aged by her innovative work.
See page 4
On Saturday, Sept. 24, the Griffon Softball team hosted their annual pan-cake feed fundraiser.
Each year Western brings a former athlete to speak to those in attendance. Megan Sova was this year’s speaker. She talked about her experience as a Griffon from 2004 to 2007. A short highlight video of the 2010 season, in which Western made its fifth post-season appearance, was also shown. Ap-proximately 100 people were at the feed.
Afterwards, the team played Des Moines Area Community College in a double-header scrimmage, winning both games.
Contributed by Jason Brown and Thomas Huitt-Johnson
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Thursday, September 29• Griffon Yearbook Portraits, 9
a.m. to 6 p.m.• “Forces of Nature” Planetarium
Show, 7 p.m.
Saturday, October 1• “Cardboard Rocket”
Planetarium Show, 11 a.m.• “Black Holes” Planetarium
Show, 12 p.m.• Griffon Soccer vs. University
of Central Missouri, 7 p.m.
Sunday, October 2 • Krug Park Concert, 2 p.m.
Monday, October 3• Griffon Luncheon, 12 p.m.
Tuesday, October 4• Foreign Films Movie Showing,
6:30 p.m.• Griffon Volleyball vs.
Northwest Missouri State University, 7 p.m.
• “Fractals” Planetarium Show, 7 p.m.
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Workshop for student teachers
The Student Affiliate of the National Council of Teach-ers of English (SNCTE) at Missouri Western State Uni-versity will hold a workshop called ‘’Surviving the First Six Weeks of Teaching’’ at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 4 in Murphy Hall, room 106.
Recent Western graduates will deliver short presenta-tions about what new teach-ers should expect and how they can make the successful transition from college stu-dent to classroom teacher. A question-and-answer session will follow. Refreshments will be served. The public is wel-come.
Shakespearian Twist
An encampment of Civil War re-enactors on the lawn in front of Potter Hall will give opening night theatergo-ers a hint: Missouri Western State University’s production of William Shakespeare’s ‘’Romeo & Juliet’’ will be just a bit nontraditional. Instead of being set in 14th century Italy, the production directed by Tee Quillin, assistant pro-fessor of theatre and cinema, will be set in Missouri in 1861.
“The backdrop of Romeo and Juliet’s love story is two feuding families who literally live in a state of war,’’ Quil-lin said. ‘’With 2011 being the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, and with Missouri’s status as a border state with strong sym-pathies on both sides, it was natural to localize Shake-speare’s timeless story by set-ting it in a community much like St. Joseph at the war’s outset.”
Grants to fund research
Missouri Western State University has received near-ly $500,000 in two grants from the National Science Foundation to fund research and education in the field of synthetic biology.
‘’These grants are largely the result of the excellent work our undergraduate stu-dents have done in conduct-ing and presenting research in the field of synthetic biol-ogy,’’ said Dr. Todd Eckdahl, professor and chair of biol-ogy.
NEWSNOTES
goal of quality programs.”According to McClain,
emphasizing graduation rate helps with recruiting when talking to parents.
Western is attractive to McClain because he likes the facilities, the campus and St. Joseph. McClain said West-ern is in great shape to move forward and build on success.
A former professional ath-lete, McClain was an All
American baseball player at Delta. He said that if any-body asked about his legacy, Delta would be thankful for what he accomplished while there, as a student and a di-rector.
“I would hope that peo-ple would say that we were successful,” McClain said. “That we won on the field and on the court. That our student athletes were treated
fairly. That they were given resources they needed, the opportunity to be successful and that we graduated our student athletes.”
But overall, McClain said his student athletes were giv-en an opportunity to succeed in sports and in the classroom because the budget was very well balanced.
“We are facing pretty diffi-cult times, but it didn’t sacri-fice what we provided for our student athletes, fans and our lives.”
left Western in 1999 to serve as Athletic Director for the Redhawks for 10 years.
If Western appoints Ka-verman to the university, it will hire an applicant who has had issues in the past.
While at Southeast, Ka-verman helped produce the Women’s basketball team as a participant in the NCAA Tournament. However, Ka-verman was fired at South-east for refusing to resign after allegations spread of illegal actions taking place at Southeast.
“I don’t feel we violated the rules,” Kaverman said. “The rules are very complex.”
Southeast was accused of violating several NCAA terms, such as future pros-pects given benefits and coaches illegally watching practices. Kaverman believes that the allegations were more of a miscommunica-tion than a violation.
“We didn’t consciously vio-late anything,” Kaverman said. “We found ourselves in violation of rules as a result of not knowing what was go-
ing on.”Kaverman said changes
have been made since he was last employed here, and that it a great thing. If Western can succeed in the five ar-eas he mentioned, he thinks it will have a successful pro-gram. He also said the athlet-ics program should not have to compete with St. Joseph.
“Griffon athletics definite-ly makes Missouri Western a better place,” Kaverman said. “It’s important to com-municate that with the uni-versity and the community through the media.”
included fall clothing such as dresses and long pant rompers, and the next seg-ment included jeans and fan-cy accessories.
The final segment was party-themed, with mod-els in hot pink colors and mixed-and-matched skirts and tops. This was designed by 17-year-old designer Jim-my Rand. Rand not only featured these models in bright, attention grabbing clothing, but had them walk around the circular stage in a drunken fashion. Though it stunned the audience, it was the ultimate highlight of the show.
“I had an idea of different kind of scenes,” Rand said. “I had the drunk teacher who just came from work and is going out. Then I had a little girl who was getting drunk for the first time. She sees her older sister and they kind of have on the same outfit. Then I had a school girl. I just wanted to have different elements.”
Though the crowd might not have understood the concept, they certainly paid close attention to the mod-els staggering so close to the water fountain that they al-most slipped in. The models were also holding bottles that mimicked alcohol bottles, which added to the devel-oped concept.
“I think they understood my concept because it was different,” Rand said.
Among the modeling and the talent that was show-cased in between segments, the show’s urban concept and message of creativity was something the audience could definitely take home.
“My favorite thing about tonight’s show was to see ev-erybody drunk,” Rand said jokingly. “Art is something I have a passion for and is something I want to do. To see me do it is kind of excit-ing. I accomplished one of my goals, which was to be in high school and have a fash-ion show in college.”
voices heard in different ways.
“We also have associate senators, if you don’t meet qualification [to be a sena-tor],” Green said. “You can still be there [SGA senate meetings], you can still have your voice heard, with the only difference being that you can’t cast a vote.”
Scott also pointed out that there are many other ways of helping out and making a difference like joining a com-mittee, with the only require-ment being the donation of your time.
SGA President Alison Nor-ris basically echoed the senti-ments of her vice president with regards to the numbers.
“I would like a full senate, but I would like a full senate that’s engaged and passion-ate about it [SGA],” Norris said.
Norris said that the com-mitment shown by the mem-bers of the current senate is very impressive. Norris said
that the senators are work-ing in committees outside of the SGA meetings, which she feels is really what SGA is supposed to be about.
Norris said that she thinks the qualifications for senate reflect the type of commit-ment and campus awareness that students need to be able to govern the student body. Norris also said that commu-nication is the key to getting students involved in the cam-pus and SGA.
“Before we’ve always just posted things online, and now we’re actually getting out there with the students,” Norris said. “That’s why I’m so impressed with the senate this year; they’re [senators] actually talking to students and finding out what stu-dents want.”
SGA leaders are not blind to the issue and say that their hope is that with all the com-munication and information they’re providing that student involvement will get better.
Fashion: continued from front
Eder fashion show puts spin on modeling
SGA: continued from front
Kaverman: continued from front
McClain: continued from front
SGA President ‘impressed with the senate this year’
Above: Louis Erby emcees the BSU fashion show. He entertained audience members with his rap skills.
Far left: Olivia Wood struts down the sidewalk by the Eder fountain, donning a garment made by a featured fashion designer.
Left: Top-hatted model Cierra Diamond struts by the Eder fountain as the sun sets.
Jason Brown | Photo Editor
‘I don’t feel we violated the rules’
Athletes should succeed in classroom
International student Ahmad Shah Salimee speaks about Afghanistan during Western’s lecture series.
Move over Ivy League. The vines that once wrapped around prominent schools such as Harvard and Yale have journeyed to small town St. Joseph, Mo., placing Mis-souri Western State Univer-sity in a prestigious position.
Esther George, an alumna of Western’s class of 1980, has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer for the Federal Reserve in Kansas City, Mo. She is one out of two women who are bank presidents for the Fed-eral Reserve. George also serves on the Board of Foun-tain Directors at Western, and has received much atten-
tion since being announced the President of the KC Fed-eral Reserve.
Dr. Patrick McMurry, pro-fessor of economics at West-ern, believes that George’s record of hard work has paid off. “George is one out of twelve bank presidents in the United States,” said Mc-Murry. “This is huge for a Western Student to achieve.”
Students of the Craig School of Business want to know more about her ac-complishments and how she influenced Western. Busi-ness major Jimmy Summers feels that the education he receives from Western will lead him to the same success as George.
“When business students
find out that George went to Missouri Western, that will result in them having a great outlook on our business school and overall univer-sity,” Summers said. “West-ern is not just producing students, but driven ones like Esther George.”
Dean of the Craig School of Business, Philip Nitse be-lieves that George’s accom-plishments have shown that our university is stepping up in the world. “When an alumnus achieves this level of success, everyone at the institution should feel pride, especially in the sense that this is proof that the educa-tion provided here at West-ern is of such quality,” Nitse said. “It shows that someone
can go on and accomplish something great.”
The Craig School Business will receive much attention because of George becom-ing the next President of the Federal Reserve. Nitse says that Esther has been a long standing supporter for the Business School.
“George has served with distinction as a member of our Advisory Board,” Nitse said. “Her picture is current-ly used in the pictures around the building as a successful alumna.”
Faculty and students both now wonder if George will be asked to come and speak to the Western community about her journey from stu-dent to success. When asked,
Nitse believes she has a stand-ing invitation, and the school will be working with her to nail down a date to speak.
Western has been produc-ing well-educated students that have success and stable careers, but when you have a student like Esther who worked her way from the bottom up, it makes students wonder if they can achieve the same level of success.
Summers says that when you have students like George who soar high to reach these goals, it makes a current stu-dent think about their own future.
“Every student has their own personal goals and dream job in mind,” Sum-mers said. “The fact is now
we can soar high, and are motivated to work harder to-ward our goals and dreams to be like Mrs. Esther.”
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The International Lecture Series, presented by the Of-fice of Global Engagement, showcases the culture and lifestyles of the home coun-tries of many Western inter-national students.
The International Lec-ture Series will be covering three countries this year: Af-ghanistan, Kosovo and India. There will be food samplings the day before the lectures, so anyone interested in expe-riencing the cuisine of these countries is encouraged to attend.
When asked about the concept of the lecture series, former International Student Coordinator Huey Shi Chew said “The idea of this whole series is to get people to see what life is like over in these other countries. We want students to understand the
differences in people’s lives over in these countries ver-sus our own.”
Students will be surprised how different life is in other countries.
One of the most interesting facts about the International Lecture Series is that inter-national students are actually the ones conducting these lectures. For the Afghanistan lecture, international student Ahmad Shah Salimee talked about his home country.
“It is nice to be able to share how life is over in my home country of Afghani-stan,” Salimee said. “This is a chance for people to see Afghanistan beyond the po-litical side of things and see how we really truly live.”
International students will be presenting in the lectures for Kosovo and India. Most students are oblivious to how people reside in these other nations.
“I honestly didn’t know any of the stuff that was brought up,” freshman Evan Hill said. “It was interesting to hear what was said. I’ll be coming to the next lecture as well.”
Approximately 40 people were in attendance. Student Affairs is hoping that more people come to upcoming lectures and that the word is spread on what will be shared during the series.
“I hope more people come the next time one of these lectures is going on,” Salimee said. “It is very educational for anyone that decides to sit and take in what other coun-tries are all about.”
The lecture on Kosovo will be held Oct. 19, and India will be discussed on Nov. 16.
For further information, contact Global Engagement at 816-271-4150 or visit Stu-dent Affairs in Blum 210.
From abroad:Caleb Jones | Staff [email protected]
International Lecture Series gives students foreign taste
Megan Thompson | Staff Photographer
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Brianna Barnett braces herself in front of the barbell for the clean and jerk. She bends over and wraps her fingers around the bar, still in the mindset that she is going to thrust the 94 kg (206.8 pound) barbell over her head. She whips the weight up with her elbows out. Barnett puts one foot out in front of the other as she throws the bar-bell over her head. A giant smile immediately covers her face. She throws the barbell down in victory--no sweat.
Missouri Western fresh-man sports recreation major Barnett has been Olympic-style weightlifting since she was 9 years old. Olympic-style lifting is in her blood. Her older brother Brandon used to lift, and most famous-ly, her uncle and 2-time U.S. Olympian, Wesley Barnett, lifted as well.
Barnett is currently one of the top seven lifting prospects age 20 and under in the U.S. She has represented the U.S. five times in competitions outside the country. She has
competed in Mexico, Peru, Thailand, Bulgaria and Malaysia.
Barnett is currently work-ing hard to prepare for the Olympic Team Trials that will take place March 2 through 4, 2012. She says she has been training extremely hard to get her strength up and believes that she will do well in the trials.
“I have had
five opportunities to represent the USA already, but as far as the Olympics, that is my ultimate goal,” Barnett said. “To represent Team USA would mean the world to me.”
Barnett had the option of moving out of state to train at an Olympic training center, but chose to stay in St. Joseph and attend Western. Not
many people would have turned down an opportu-nity of that magnitude, but Barnett states that several factors kept her from going.
“There was the issue of where I would attend school while I was there,” said Barnett. “I am happy with the decision I made to stay here because it’s good to train with a coach I am used
to, and I also have friends
here I couldn’t live without.”
Dennis Snethen is Barnett’s lift-ing coach at the Wesley Center, which is named after Barnett’s uncle Wes. Snethen is a Missouri W e s t e r n A l u m n u s ,
class of 1981. He has been coaching weight-lifters in St. Joseph for 31
years. His accomplishments include coaching over 100 national champions, as well as coach- ing Olympic
weightlifters
Pete Kelly and Wesley Barnett.
Snethen says he has really enjoyed coach-ing over the years, even though it has been a lot of hard work. He believes that Barnett has the potential to be the best and possibly bring home a medal in the 2012 or 2016 Olympic Games.
“Brianna is a great athlete, and I
believe that the 2016 Olympics will be her biggest shot,” said Snethen.
B a r n e t t speaks very
highly of Snethen. One
thing she is very grateful for is, when she was hav-ing trouble getting back and forth to practice, Snethen and his family let Barnett live with them for a year so she wouldn’t miss practices. Barnett cur-rently resides in the Missouri Western dorms. She is without a vehicle right now, so Snethen’s son picks her up and takes her to practice.
“Dennis has
been there through thick and thin, and he always
speaks the truth,” said B a r n e t t .
“He and his family have helped me out so much.”
Snethen currently coaches over 130 male
and female lifters, starting in the third grade. The cost for lifting at the Wesley Center is $15 per month, but Snethen says that he would never turn anyone who wanted to lift down whether they can pay the $15 or not. Anyone interested in Olympic-style lifting can contact the Wesley Center at 816-238-4511 or www.inter-serv.org/wesley.htm
Along with Snethen, junior Keri Lorbert, who has lis-tened to Barnett’s unique experiences as a weightlift-er, feels Barnett has led an intriguing life and hopes she will do great things in the future.
“I think it’s a really cool thing Brianna’s doing,” Lorbert said. “I wish her the best of luck.”
Jesse Bilderback | Staff [email protected]
Pablo Picasso, Leonardo Da Vinci, Norman Rockwell and Dominique Goblet– the average student may recog-
nize most of the names on this list, but for students in the art department, Goblet’s name stands out as the world renowned graphic art-ist who recently interacted with many of the Missouri
Western students.“I discovered her work in
Amsterdam in 1998, when I was doing a research proj-ect in Russia and stopped in there for a few days,” Geo Sipp said, associate profes-sor of art. “I went to a book store that specialized in com-ics and experimental art-work, and I found a book of hers and I fell in love with it.”
That was before social media, explained Sipp, who spent some time tracking down a way to contact the artist, eventually sending her a message on Facebook.
“I thought that, because comics are so popular in the United States, that we ought to bring her to Missouri Western for a couple weeks to talk about her work,” Sipp said. “She is extremely well known in the field of graph-ic arts and comics, and see if we could share her with other institutions.”
Goblet has visited Northwest Missouri State University, the University of Kansas and the Kansas City Art Institute during her visit, which ends Sunday.
“I am working only with art students,” Goblet said. “I’ve done a lot of very experimental work in my field, which is comics, and I’d like to share these experi-ences and make people see different aspects of what they know about comics, which is linked to what they see here in America.”
“Here the background of comics are more superheroes and so on, and I try to offer a
new point of view and what has happened in Europe and explain that their comics are completely involved in the process of contemporary art,” Goblet said.
While students in the art department initially didn’t know who the graphic novel-ist was, they found her advice and experience very helpful.
“She’s helped me out a lot,” senior art student Andrew Setter said. “She has made us think outside the box a lot. Normally we draw posi-tively, and she has asked us to draw the negative spaces first. It’s been a great experi-ence. Some people might not like her art, but she knows her stuff and she will get you where you are trying to go with art.”
According to Goblet, her style of art can help students expand their horizons and see things in new ways.
“We think all about limits and how to find new ways of expression,” Goblet said. “I think when people from different parts of the world meet, they sort of discover from each other.
“I’ve learned a lot from the students here, and it’s a different spirit,” Goblet said. “Even a simple exercise of selecting photos from the internet, they pick different than what people around me would choose. We can see that the spirits are still dif-ferent, which is a happiness because I wouldn’t live in a world where everything was the same.”
Austin Goacher | Staff [email protected]
Belgian illustrator inspires creative thinking
Freshman power lifter presses toward Olympics
Barnett prepares for the Olympic Trials in March 2012. Jason Brown | Photo Editor
Goblet presented her body of work to multiple classes during her visit. Austin Goacher | Staff
Goblet (top drawings) and her 7-year-old daughter, Nikita Fossoul (bottom drawings), made a pact to draw each other biweekly for ten years. All ten years of the drawings have been published in Goblet’s visual narrative “Chronographie.” hoodedutilitarian.com
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‘Win Win:’ stars Giamatti, Ryan triumph I’d never heard of “Win
Win” before my trip to the Redbox Sunday afternoon, but after seeing that it starred Paul Giamatti and Amy Ryan as a married couple, I knew I had found the movie I’d be reviewing this week.
Giamatti plays Mike Fla-herty, a struggling small-town lawyer practicing elder law by day and coaching high school wrestling by night. Mike obtains legal guardian-ship of one of his clients to collect the monthly check and accidentally obtains the client’s teenage grandson, Kyle, along the way.
Though much of the mov-ie after Kyle’s appearance revolves around wrestling, potential sports-phobic au-diences should not be de-terred: “Win Win,” directed by Thomas McCarthy, is a funny, insightful, perfectly cast film.
Mike’s choices early in the film are less than admirable; in the hands of another ac-tor, it would be easy to write Mike off as selfish. The lik-ability that Giamatti lends to the character makes it very easy for the audience to see his motivation and, in turn, understand his choices. Mike’s boyish manner and nervous “ahems” are the per-fect foil to his wife’s aggres-sive personality, portrayed flawlessly by Ryan.
In my opinion, Ryan can do no wrong, and her turn as Jackie Flaherty is no excep-tion. Ryan’s Jackie is a brash Jersey girl turned adult; her accent and Jon Bon Jovi tat-too are intact, but her wild ways have been translated
into a fierce love for her fam-ily.
Ryan’s portrayal never falters—her accent is subtle enough to not be noticed immediately, but grating enough to be realistic.
The true star of the mov-ie, however, is Alex Shaffer as Kyle. Shaffer is wonder-fully understated in this role. His character comes from a background of drugs and crime; at the age of 16, his hair is bleached, and he is tattooed many times over. It would have been easy to overdraw this character into a cursing, smoking ball of rage. The subtlety that Shaf-fer brings to the role makes it so easy for the audience to become absorbed in the film.
There is no distracting “performing,” but only the sad story of a young man fighting to escape the world created by his drug-addicted mother. When Kyle finally lets a smile slip through, the audience feels just as grati-
fied as Mike does.The amount of wrestling
in this movie should not de-ter the audience. Kyle’s wres-tling style is a little unortho-dox (apparently, though I wouldn’t know one wrestling style from another). While explaining it to his team-mates, he tells them to just do whatever it takes. This wrestling motto serves as a metaphor that translates to the rest of the characters in the film: they are all fighting to make it and have to do whatever the hell it takes to succeed. This extended met-aphor may sound cheesy, but I think that the varied prob-lems of the characters, and the hilarious situations they get themselves in, serve to al-leviate this problem.
“Win Win” received a 94 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, and this accomplishment is truly deserved. I think that everyone should go rent this movie; it’s more than worth the dollar.
Caitlin Cress | Managing Editor [email protected]
Giamatti, Ryan and the actresses that play their daughters are shining points in this comedy. Allmoviephoto.com
Never judge a musician by how they look. I took one quick glance at the front and back of Rob Frommel’s new and first CD, “A Thousand Times,” and thought I had him figured out.
With the picture of Rob Frommel on the back (a spit-ting image of the well known country singer Travis Tritt) and the dirt image on the front, I would have bet my life that this guy was anoth-er country singer. I learned quickly that not everyone with a scraggly beard, Bo Bice hair and a flannel shirt sings country.
The first time I listened to this CD all the way through, I couldn’t recall a single catchy sound. My view com-pletely flip-flopped when I
finished listening to the CD the second time through.
Frommel is your average modern mellow-rock style singer. The CD starts out with a Tommy Emmanuel sort of vibe on the guitar. Emmanuel is arguably one of the most talented acous-tic guitarists alive right now, so when I heard this CD start, it didn’t quite fill me up with the jaw-dropping guitar work that I expected.
The songs jump around and change from purely acoustic to soft electric. It even throws in a small taste of saxophone. A handful of the songs had instrumentals that made me expect Jack Johnson to slide in with some smooth lyrics.
Since the CD kind of psyched me out of hearing what I expected to hear, it didn’t do anything for me.
After researching a little bi-ography on Frommel and lis-tening through again, I had a completely different view.
I applaud Frommel on “A Thousand Times” because it was put together with 16 years worth of songwriting work.
Every song had more feel-ing the second time through once I knew this. He waited until each individual song sounded exactly how he wanted it to sound.
Yes, he could have sung someone else’s lyrics with an auto-tuned voice and a new single every three weeks, but he didn’t. He chose to head down the path that leads musicians to the title of an artist, instead of the label of just another singer.
Although Frommel is fair-ly average musically, I would recommend listening to him
over any average singer with a pimped out microphone.
I have yet to hear a lyric from any of the songs that explains why he chose the title “A Thousand Times.” I could come up with a pretty good guess saying he prob-ably wrote, played, edited and revised every song about “a thousand times” over the years before officially putting them together on a CD.
It’s not one of those al-bums where you say in the middle of a conversation “hold on, I love this song!” If that is what you are look-ing for, your next favorite is not likely going to be from this CD.
If you listen to music be-cause of what it is, how it’s made and the effort you know that was put into it, “A Thousand Times” is defi-nitely worth listening to.
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Guitarist and vocalist Rob Frommel is a Missouri native whose first CD release, “A Thousand Times,” combines 16 years of fine-tuning and reworking. Frommel currently plays in the area with his bands Bitterspoon and Complete Strangers. RobFrommel.com
‘Win Win’ was released to DVD in late August. The film was nominated for an ESPY for its depiction of wrestling. Allmoviephoto.com
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Opinions September 29, 2011The Griffon News
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While Thomas Friedman spoke about the end of the age of average for Ameri-cans, students at Missouri Western State University slept soundly, nestled against one another for comfort, in the bleachers of Looney arena.
If your cheeks just blushed, then they rightly should have. If you laughed or scoffed, perhaps you should reassess you college career. See, the point of Friedman’s speech was that this type of behavior is over. Do you honestly think that Japanese and Chinese students even think about falling asleep during lectures or speeches? Currently, there are more honor students in China and India than there are students in America.
For those of you who didn’t fall asleep during Friedman’s speech, my apologies for the recap, but the sleeping beauties in row 17 obviously didn’t get the memo. It’s over. Americans can no longer ride on the financial backs of past generations. America’s gold-
en era of economic strength and foreign policy power is collapsing. To even make a living in America, you have to shine, not sleep.
It’s not enough to get a degree any more. It’s not enough to work a job any more. It’s not enough to be an American anymore. We have to participate in Amer-ica. This is the country that invented the Internet. This is the country that invented the microchip. This is the coun-try that invented individual sovereignty. Why would you squander all of that, that which all those that have come before us have given, on an extra 40 minutes of sleep during a three-time Pu-litzer Prize winner’s speech?
That power nap you took wasn’t just a slap in the face of our university, but a slap in the face to our country and its history. Do you think that Irish immigrants were able to power nap when they came to America? Do you think German Jewish immi-grants attempted to escape
Nazi persecution for an extra 40 minutes of sleep? These immigrants worked and per-severed with a relentlessness that Friedman believes can revitalize our country.
As citizens of America we are lucky that we don’t have to worry about the basic ne-cessities of life. In parts of the world, people of our gen-eration aren’t staying up all night and enjoying the luxu-ries of life, they are staying up from hunger or fear. No one should feel guilty for be-ing an American, but instead seize the opportunity and not waste it.
America is an exceptional country, but not when its best and brightest are sleeping on the bleachers of its universi-ties. As students, we can do better. As citizens, we owe it to those who came before us to not waste the dawn of such of young country. An Ameri-can has the most freedom out of any citizen of any nation in the world; undisputed. But, what’s the point if we’re asleep?
Editorial: Sleeping students should wake up
To the Editor,
Thank you for printing my letter in your paper. I have been happy with the feedback I have received from many students both agreeing and disagreeing with myself. There is one area of my letter, however, I would like to clarify for any who found my point vague.
The idea that the proposal I voiced was a “political stunt,” as some have suggested, goes to the heart of the intent of my criticism. This proposal was not meant as a catch all solution to our budgetary woes, in which case it would indeed be a “political stunt.” Asking the administration to help bear the burden of a tuition hike by the means suggested would be a symbol-ic gesture that would help us students swallow the pill of increased tuition. I see no reason why our student representatives could not be in favor of such a condition on our approval.
Furthermore, SGA’s act of unanimously sup-porting this tuition hike in a symbolic vote is itself a “political stunt,” the problem being it is a stunt with the administration’s interests in mind, not ours. By failing to promote student interests and allowing its actions to become talking points for the administration SGA has failed to represent its constituents. It isn’t the system that the students, myself included, disapprove of; it is the abuse and neglect of the system.
There is no one-stop solution to budget prob-lems, and I am not suggesting that tuition increases are out of the question. If they are employed, however, they should come only after the students have seen evi-dence of budgetary cuts that do not hinder the quality of our education and only if they are not unilaterally placed on students. We want to know the powers that be, specifically those responsible for raising tuition, are sharing the burden. And we see our student represen-tatives as being responsible for ensuring this. Perhaps there was an administrative hand behind SGA’s tuition vote and perhaps not. Either way, we students under-stand it to be a major missed opportunity. Because our representatives failed to attach conditions to a bill vital to our interests, symbolic or not, they gave our voices up to the administration’s agenda.
I would like to stress that this is not intended as an attack on any individual’s character or integ-rity. Respect is due to all persons willing to make an informed judgment on these issues, whether it is the same as mine or not. Hopefully this dialogue will con-tinue to provoke MWSU students to engage in thought-ful discussion on the issues we face, both as students and as a university.
Respectfully,Gary Weidemann
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Budget problem requires mixed solutions A past edition of the Grif-
fon News featured a letter to the editor from a student that was apparently aggravated with the MWSU administra-tion and SGA over the recent tuition increase. There were three main points to his argu-ment that I feel are in need of a response.
• The student claimed that MWSU received budget cuts because of hard economic times and that the cut shouldn’t be shrugged off onto the students. He preferred we look at cutting things like beautification projects.
• For the sake of stu-dents feeling better, the author suggested that the increase in tuition be counterbal-anced with cuts to ad-ministration salaries.
• Finally, the student made this statement, “It is time our stu-dent representatives and SGA leadership stop behaving like toadies for the ad-ministration and de-fend our interest.”
In responding, for the re-cord, you should know I am not and never have been a student representative or part of SGA leadership. I can, though, understand the need for a tuition increase, and I don’t feel it makes me a “toady” for the administra-tion.
MWSU has increased its enrollment by 18 percent over the past three years, which is higher than all of the other four-year universi-ties in the state. Interestingly enough, MWSU accom-plishes this while receiving
less state aid per student than all of the other four-year uni-versities in the state.
A much improved, more beautiful, campus likely at-tracted a few of those new students. Thank you com-munity members, because
through your itemized do-nations we have been able to accomplish most of the beautification projects seen on campus. A thank you is also due to the MWSU ad-ministration, because they didn’t take a pay raise over the course of the past three years either.
Now, lets review the reason MWSU received budget cuts. Each year the governor ham-mers out a budget that he sends to the state legislature, which then goes through a legislative process filled with committee hearings, expert testimony, debate, and, of course, voting from the state legislature.
In the event of a major natural disaster the governor can choose to make certain funding withholdings from almost any government en-tity receiving state funding. These withholdings forego the legislative process; requir-ing no hearings, no expert testimony, no debate, and definitely no votes from the state legislature.
A state Representative from Joplin, Bill White, was quoted in the St. Louis Post
Dispatch on Aug. 27 saying, “This is why we have a rainy day fund; higher education shouldn’t have to pay for de-bris removal in Joplin. We have other money for that.”
It should also be noted that the governor’s withhold-ings closely resemble his own budget that he issued to the state legislature earlier in the year. That budget went through the above process, and came out with MWSU receiving its adequate share of funding. Interestingly enough, the governor chose to sign the budget that went through the legislature in-stead of augmenting it with his power of a line-item veto. Using the line-item veto would’ve allowed him to set the funding level for MWSU, but he would have also been the only person to blame for the change.
SGA, if you’re now con-sidering the proposed way of dealing with tuition increases by cutting administration sal-aries by the same percent of increase that the students are facing… please don’t do this.
I’ll admit I’m not a math major, but if this policy were to be put into place we would end up with a very poor ad-ministration and eventually none at all.
For example, with a policy like this, if tuition were to in-crease with an average rate of inflation (say three per-cent annually) then within a decade the administration would have a pay cut of 30 percent. Within two decades 60 percent, three decades 90 percent, and 40 years from now the administration would have to pay to work at MWSU.
Patrick GrahamGuest Columnist
Lani Brownsophomore
“They’ve made it a lot more complicated than it needs to be, and it’s really annoying how they keep changing it all the time.”
“I don’t really notice any changes except for the little play-by-play that’s on the right-hand side.”
Jordyn Hickoksophomore
Sam Marshfreshman
“It’s interesting, to be honest. If you walked into it not knowing what they did, it could be completely confusing.”
Student understands need for tuition increase
Jason Brown | Photo Editor
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SportsSeptember 29, 2011The Griffon News
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Jerry Partridge said his team has played well in the second half all year. But when Missouri Western stepped on the field Thursday at Yager Stadium, the Griffons didn’t deliver that same achieve-ment.
Western was up by three at halftime but let the lead squander away as they lost 41-20.
“They had big conversion plays [in the second half],” Partridge said. “We did wear down a little bit. Some of Washburn’s technique wore us down.”
The Griffons showed how well they could adapt on the road against a top-10 team, even when things weren’t exactly going their way.
Western had three turn-overs in the first half, but still held a tight lead, 13-10.
“We played pretty good in the first half,” Partridge said, though he admitted Western still had problems. ”We did a lot of mindless things.”
Travis Partridge impressed the coach as well. Partridge was making his first road start of his collegiate career.
“One of the brighter spots of the football game was how he played.”
Travis kept his com-posure throughout the game. Even though he has faced skeptical criti-cism, Partridge showed he can play against an MIAA opponent on the road.
“In the first half we came out playing,” Partridge said. “We just didn’t get it done. There was not one thing I know that we could have done.”
In the s e c o n d h a l f , We s t e r n (2-2) fell b e h i n d after two big touch-d o w n drives by Washburn (4-0). The Ichabods came out primed. They scored on a five play, 57 yard drive and then on an 11 play, 60 yard drive to tire out Western’s defense and keep Travis Partridge and company off the field.
“We were really not a smart football team tonight,” Jerry Partridge said.
Travis didn’t con-nect with his receivers
Kyle Inman | Asst. Sports [email protected]
Western blows 1st half lead to No. 8 WashburnTurnovers cause the Griffons to lose on national television
Western football to take season one week at a time
Thomas Huitt-Johnson | Sports [email protected]
It’s a cliche, but it’s more true now than ever.
Missouri Western football is knee-deep in its regular season schedule. Four games in with only two wins, all indications are that the Griffons need to win six out of their next seven games to have a chance at another post-season appearance.
But Western may be on the uprise. With some heads looking down at the quar-terback, Travis Partridge led a 12 play, 70-yard drive to signify his presence with the Griffons is needed. Before the drive, Western looked shot. It was down by two touchdowns, and the offense didn’t appear able to amount to a comeback.
Although the Griffons comeback did fall short, that drive alone stood out for many reasons. For one, the job of the quarterback isn’t simple, but one of the main areas a quarterback needs to be successful in is third-down- and fourth-down-con-versions.
Partridge nailed a third down, 7-yard strike to T.J. Fannin on the Griffon side of the field. Three plays later, on fourth-and-1, Partridge ran for a first.
His most impressive play came when he hit wide receiver Tyron Crockum for a touchdown. Not only did it give Western a serious shot at winning a nationally televised game, on the road against a top-10 opponent, but the ball zipped past the defender’s hand. If the ball was thrown any differently, an interception would have ended the night, and more criticism would come.
One question remains about the offense, and it is not the quarterback. Why is the offensive coordinator still running what seems to be over 90 percent of the plays out of the shotgun? Michael Hill is an old-school type of running back. He is averag-ing four yards a carry. Is the shotgun really needed? And it’s not like Western’s receiv-ers have outstanding num-bers right now.
Fannin leads the team with 13 receptions, and no other receiver has double-digit catches. If the offensive line can help give Partridge more time to throw, perhaps the team can justify its play calls.
Until then, the Griffons should give 100 percent effort Saturday afternoon, when they head to Joplin, Mo. to take on Missouri Southern. Because they know every game is the most important game of the week, and they must take it one game at a time.
for much of the third quar-ter. The Griffons went three-and-out, and then Partridge gave Washburn its biggest break of the game.
The Ichabods, up by four midway through the third, backed their pass cover-age up. Playing off of wide receiver Tarrell Downing, Partridge sailed the pass too high, and Ichabods cor-nerback Devon Connors snatched the ball out of the air. The pass put Washburn in great field position to set up the next touchdown. Eventually, it would add a field goal to up the lead to two scores.
Partridge didn’t let the crowd, nor the 14-point pre-dicament Western had in the fourth, affect his play. He stayed tough and drove the Griffons from their own 30-yard-line down to the seven. From there, he zipped a pass through Washburn’s defenders coverage to Tyron Crockum for the score. This put the Griffons down by a touchdown with 9:17 left in
the ballgame.
W e s t e r n ’ s defense couldn’t hold up against pre-season All American quar-terback Dane Simoneau and his prolific offense.“We just gave
up some big plays in the second half,” cor-
nerback Ben Jackson
said. “We just didn’t play [Missouri Western] football.”
Jackson wasn’t on the field when the Griffons were down by seven late in the fourth. Instead, Marcus Thompson stepped in at right cornerback, but couldn’t handle the receivers
he was put up against.He was flagged for
pass interference, which moved Washburn inside the 30-yard-line.
And a few plays later, the Ichabods ended Western’s
hope at a victory.“They got a couple big
runs,” Jackson said. “Passing wise, maybe we gave up a lit-tle bit over the top, but that’s on the secondary. We’ll
come back harder.”Washburn faked
a run on third-and-goal from its three-
yard-line, and deliv-ered a strike towards
Thompson’s side as wide receiver Ronnell
Garner caught a pass in the back of the end zone. With 6:47 left on
the clock, Washburn again found itself up by
two scores.
“They made some great plays, and they’re a really good football team,” Jerry Partridge said.
Western gave up just eight yards on the ground in the first half, but in the third quarter alone had 207 total yards. Western had just four yards passing in the quarter.
The loss hurts the Griffons, not just because they find themselves at 2-2, but also because they have to go on the road again next week to battle Missouri Southern in Joplin, Mo.
Western was without starting defensive end Ben Pister, who was suspended for disciplinary reasons. He will return for the Griffons next week, and they need him. Western did record two sacks on the day, but the pass rush wasn’t there, and it was noticeable in the second half. Jerry Partridge com-pared Washburn’s offense to Pittsburg State’s, as the mis-direction plays in the second half hurt the Griffons.
With only two wins in four games, the Griffons find themselves in a must-win mode as they look to
make it back to the playoffs. Last season, they fell to rival Northwest Missouri State in the first round, though the Griffons did make it in with three losses.
Downing had three recep-tions for 61 yards. Adam Clausen caught an 11-yard-touchdown to put Western up 13-10 towards the end of the second half.
Western caused Simoneau to have three turnovers in the first half. Freshman lineback-er Stephen Juergens rushed Simoneau on a third down, forcing the senior to fumble, instantly recovered by Tom Madget, who also recorded an interception.
The Griffons’ first turnover was by Jackson, who stopped the Ichabods from scoring on their when he intercepted the ball in the end zone.
Simoneau shook off a bad first-half performance to end up with 360 yards through the air. Another pre-season All American, defensive end David Bass, recorded a sack in his third straight game. The game was broadcast on national television (CBS Sports Network).
Above: Senior receiver Adam Clausen (5) scores a touchdown to put Western up 13-10, giving Western its first lead of the game.Top left: Junior running back Michael Hill (22) fumbles in the second quarter of Western’s 41-20 loss to No. 8 Washburn.Top right: Sophomore quarterback Travis Partridge (12) stares down receiver Tarrell Downing (11) in the first half. The game was televised nationally on CBS Sports Network.
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Sports September 29, 2011The Griffon NewsPage 8
The Griffon Soccer team fell to 2-3 on the season after losing their home opener Saturday at Spratt Stadium. They lost to Fort Hays State 2-1 after letting a one goal halftime lead slip away.
“It was a matter of effort and we will get it fixed,” coach Chad Edwards said. “We need to be more consis-tent for ninety minutes.”
The Griffons took the early lead when K.C. Ramsell scored a goal off an assist from Ashlyn Castillo in the 14th minute of the game. The goal was the fifth of the season for the freshman. She has scored five of the seven
total goals on the season for the Griffons.
“K.C. has been fantastic,” Edwards said. “ As a team we need to be more consis-tent for the ninety minutes, but she is doing fabulous.”
Things looked good for the Griffons at halftime as they held a 1-0 lead, but Hays wasted little time in the sec-ond half to score. Joanne Glynn netted a goal from twenty yards out on an assist from Cindy Benitez in the 50th minute.
Hays stayed aggressive and scored its second goal to make the score 2-1 in favor of the Tigers in the 62nd minute. Glynn scored the goal on an assist from Benitez again.
“We let two players on their team beat our whole team,” said goalkeeper Kelly Voigts. “We have to learn how to play a whole nine-ty minutes, and we have to learn how to play with heart, and take pride in the field.”
The Griffons tried to make a comeback and tie the game up near the end. It looked as if Ramsell had a chance to score again, but an offsides penalty was called.
“We do work well togeth-er as a team, but today we didn’t connect our passes like we usually do,” Ramsell said. “That’s why we didn’t have a chance to come back and score.”
Voigts made 10 saves and gave up two goals. Hays
attempted 21 shots to the Griffons’ 13.
“Kelly is fantastic. She is a leader, an all-conference player, and we are fortunate to have her on our side,” Edwards said of his goal-keeper.
This is the first season that Hays has a soccer program and the first ever meeting between the Tigers and the Griffons. Hays is 3-4-1 on the season.
“Our goal was to score first-- we just have to be able to finish the game,” said Edwards. “We just gave up too many opportunities.”
The Griffons’ next game is against Washburn Sept. 27 at 6 p.m. in Topeka, Kan. The Ichabods are 0-4-1.
(Left) Freshman defender Emily Hoffmann keeps ball in play Saturday at Spratt Stadium. The Griffons lost 2-3.
(Right) During the Griffons’ home opener, sophomore forward Ashley Juravich fights for the ball as she bounces over an opponent.
(Far right) Freshman midfielder Theadora Serna keeps the Fort Hays player at a safe distance in order to control the ball.
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Kyle Inman | Asst. Sports [email protected]
New Orleans native and speedy Griffon receiver T.J. Fannin has shown tremen-dous resiliency on his path to becoming a college football player.
In 2005, the same year Fannin graduated from high school, Hurricane Katrina forced him and his family to relocate to Moberly, Mo.
“I have been evacuated from probably 15 hurricanes in my life,” Fannin said. “I just thought this was another evacuation, but they weren’t letting people back in the state for a month or two this time.”
But this wasn’t just anoth-er evacuation. The city was ruined. Where Fannin lived was destroyed by wind dam-age, and 20 minutes down the road there was 40 feet of water. Some of his friends lost their homes.
Fannin’s parents are origi-nally from Missouri and decided to make the perma-nent move after being back here for a couple of months. Fannin’s heart was still in New Orleans, and he didn’t want to be in Missouri, away from everything he knew.
He went back on his own and began working and liv-ing in a FEMA trailer, which is a government-issued trailer given to victims of the hur-ricanes that sit in front of their homes and run off pro-pane and electricity from the house. They have become part of the cultural land-scape of New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina.
“It was 5 or 6 feet by 15 to 20 feet,” Fannin said. “We would run out of propane all the time. There were times during the winter when we didn’t have any propane at all.”
The trailer Fannin was liv-ing in was in front of his best friend’s grandmother’s house. She decided that she didn’t want them living there anymore and cut off the electricity to the trailer. At
that point, Fannin was living in a FEMA trailer with no propane or electricity.
Fannin went back to Missouri and attended a community college. He grew tired of it and decided to go back to New Orleans. He planned to work for a while and then walk on to a football team and go to school there, but money and living situations forced him to move back to Missouri with his parents. He met a girl that encouraged him to go to school, and he started looking for a place to play football.
“I wanted to play for a really good school,” Fannin said. “I sent my highlight tape out to a bunch of places, and it came down to here and Northwest Missouri State).”
The choice became an easy one when the coach of Northwest told Fannin that they only allowed two players to walk on each year, so he shouldn’t even bother.
“Western let me know that they wanted me here and were happy to have me,” Fannin said. “When I got here they had a locker ready for me and everything. It was like God sending me a mes-sage, telling me this is where I was supposed to be: this is my new home.”
Fannin’s greatest gift on the football field is his world-class speed. The junior has been clocked running the 40-yard-dash in 4.3 seconds, which has earned him the nickname ‘white lightning’. Four games in, he leads the team in receptions with 13.
“He is obviously very fast,” coach Jerry Partridge said. “His running ability is so great that he can catch the short ones and make things happen after the catch. When he catches the ball he turns into a running back out there.”
Fannin still misses his two sisters, two nieces, a nephew and many friends who are in Louisiana and still visits when he can.
“It’s tough watching your
best friends get married and have kids and you can’t be there, but it is what it is,” Fannin said. “Never would have thought I would be
playing football at Missouri Western. I had never even heard of it, but it worked out great, and I wouldn’t change it for anything.”
When you run as fast as Fannin does, there is always a chance at having a future in professional football.
“I’d go play anywhere,
really. I’d play arena football, Canadian football. Why not? To be making money to play football would be really cool,” Fannin said.
Kyle Inman | Asst. Sports [email protected]
Sport: Women's Soccer
Year: Freshman
Position: Forward
Stats this week: Shots on goal — 2Total shots — 2Goals — 1
K.C. RAMSELLK.C. RAMSELLRamsell scored her fifth goal in five games last
Saturday and almost added another in the second half of her first home game played at Western. Though the Griffons lost (2-1) and have a record of 2-3, Ramsell is currently 11th in the nation in goals scored per game.
ATHLETEOF THE WEEKATHLETEOF THE WEEK
Western soccer squanders lead
‘White Lightning’ strikes black and gold at Western
T.J. Fannin, junior receiver, outruns yet another opponent against Truman. According to his coach, T.J. is valuable for his speed. Jason Brown | Photo Editor
