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• Energetic and creative designer with a passion for good food, travel, fitness and photography.

• Experienced in design for print and web. Very detail oriented, digitally proficient, organized, and have a positive attitude and strong willingness to learn new skills quickly and efficiently.

• Interested in creating original artworks with digital illustration, drawing and painting.

• Fluent in English and Mandarin. Skilled in graphic design, typography, video shooting and video editing. Proficient in Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign/Premiere, Final Cut 7/Pro.

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VOX Magazine -- Art Director 2015.5 --- 2015.12

• Design cover, features and department pages for a weekly city magazine • Work with editors to visually illustrate and strengthen their ideas throughout the magazine• Work with the Photo Director to plan and execute photo shoots

Columbia Missourian -- News Designer 2015.1 --- 2015.5• Design the front news page once a week, as well as occasional sports or photo pages • Use news judgment to help choose articles for the front page, and to create a visual hierarchy• Communicate with editors, photographers

Centaurs Technology Co,Ltd -- Designer 2014.12 --- now• Create Branding System for the company• Manage and design the fundraising campaign• Create and produce videos for the promotion of product with online marketing team

The Time Weekly (leading pioneer Chinese newspaper) -- Reporting intern 2013.10 -- 2013.12• Produce international reports for the newspaper• Produce content for Microblog promotions • Edite and translate foreign reports about certain issues in China

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University of Missouri, MO, U.S. 2014 --- 2016 • Bachelor of Journalism, Missouri School of Journalism • Emphasis on Design • GPA: 3.6

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China2011 --- 2013 • Bachelor of Art• Emphasis on International journalism

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• 2nd and 3rd place of multipage story at 2016 SSND College News Design Contest • The winner of the DanceArt T-shirt 2015 Design contest • Dean's Honor Roll for the Spring and Fall Semester of 2014 and 2015

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Redbook Magazine -- Design Intern 2016.1 --- now• Design a variety of departments, minor imaging work,updating layout and visual walls•Researching illustrators, and art admin work

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Voluntary experience• Volunteer for Society of News Design SF workshop in 2016 and DC workshop in 2015• Redesign logo for Naisa, a non-pro�t educational organization in Washington D.C.• Work as indoor volunteer for Canton Fair in 2014

The Dialogue Group -- Freelance Designer 2016.1 --- now• Create captivating visual products for their clients, such as logos, brochures and other marketing collaterals.

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Cover of Vox Magazine Nov. 9 issue—Art Direction, Design and illustrationThis is story about how tasting, selections and pairing can help people reader reach sommelier status. The splash of wine was my main inspiration. I created the

illustration of Wine pouring from a winebottle to a wine glass for the cover to fit with the "uncorked" concept and carried the watercolor style over this pacakge. I was also influenced by the color theme of the main photograph on the intro page of this feature story.

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Please don’t ask me what I’m looking for, you think as you quietly enter the wine and spirits section of the store. Bottles of various shapes, sizes and colors sit on perfectly lit shelves. All of the different brands and varieties can be overwhelming for someone who just turned 21, as well as those who have been browsing

shelves of wine for years. You move past the Barefoot and Yellowtail recognizable from the collection of empty bottles above the cabinets in your college apartment and disregard Franzia, knowing you can’t possibly impress anyone with the same bag of wine undergrads chug at parties.

“Imma sip Moscato…” you hum as Waka Flaka Flame’s lyrics get you in the right mindset. Moscato has to be a good choice if he name drops it in “No Hands,” right?

But why are some wines so cheap? How can you tell what’s good? How does anyone really know, and how can you possibly choose a wine without tasting it?

There’s red, white, sweet, dry, sparkling and thousands of grape varietals. And where does sangria fit in? Choosing a quality bottle involves even more factors when you’re serving it with a meal — even if that “meal” is Ramen noodles.

In 2013, millennials were the second biggest group of wine consumers behind baby boomers, according to the Wine Market Council. Here’s help for your transition from a clueless wine drinker to a savvy wine-drinking connoisseur.

Learning how to read wine labels, find a quality low-price bottle and judge what you’re drinking can help. Study up, pop some bottles, and wow your friends and family with your new, sophisticated expertise. — By Jordan Bromberg

An introduction to wine — how tasting, selections and pairings can help you reach sommelier status

Illustrations by Site MaPhotos by Ellise Verheyen and Katie Hogsett

When you’re unfamiliar with the ins and outs of the world of wine, shelves full of bottles, like these at Macadoodles, can be a little overwhelming. Our guide is here to help.

1. LookThe first thing you should do is “see” your wine. Hold it up in front of your face, and really look at it through the glass. Gently swirl the wine around. What does it look like? Does it show body (weight and fullness of the wine), or does it appear watery? You can tell a lot about a wine from how it looks. For example, if wine is a brown color, there’s probably something wrong with it. It could be oxidized or spoiled.

Laura Oliver, whose family owns Cave Vineyard in Ste. Genevieve, says you can see how much alcohol and sugar is in the wine by how it sticks to the glass. When you swirl the wine, it creates “legs,” she says. Legs are streaks down the sides of the glass that say a lot about the consistency.

“If the legs linger for a long time, you know there is a higher alcohol or sugar content in that particular wine,” Strussione says.

2. SmellNow that you’ve taken a good hard look at the wine, you’re ready to take it to the next sense. Nosing a wine is just a fancier way to say sniffing it. The smell can have an effect on the flavor. Basically, you’re going to stick your nose in the glass and take a big whiff. In order to nose to the best of your ability, Johnson recommends keeping your mouth open to get the full effect.

“The scent comes up and strikes the cilia in your olfactory organ,” Johnson says. “That runs to your brain and tells the brain, ‘great wine.’”

That swirling technique in the previous step? Not only is that used to get a better idea of the wine’s content, but it’s also a way to “open the bouquet”

Johnson says. The bouquet is the smell of the wine after it has been aged. Many different scents can come from a wine. Most wines are made using only grapes, but their bouquets can have notes of other ingredients that aren’t actually present in the wine. For example, a woody aroma can come from the oak barrels the wine is aged in. The wine could also smell like spice, tobacco, toast, caramel, cedar and vanilla. Make sure the scent is “balanced,” which means there isn’t one scent that completely dominates the others.

3. TasteNow comes the fun part: tasting the wine. You have 10,000 taste buds in your mouth that sense different flavors. After sipping the wine, swirl it in your mouth like mouthwash to take in the full flavor. Johnson recommends what he dubbed the “reverse whistle” in order to expand the flavors.

“Take a good-size sip of wine, and drop your chin,” Johnson says. “You let the wine drop to the front of your mouth, and you purse your lips like a whistle. Slowly draw in air. Let it gurgle through the wine. Stop and slosh it around, and do it again slowly.”

Johnson says sloshing it makes the wine bigger in your mouth.

4. FeelWhile the wine is in your mouth, Johnson says you should look for a mouth-coating sensation and evaluate how the wine feels on your tongue. “You don’t want a watery wine,” Johnson says. “It destroys the whole thing. You want a wine to be big and balanced and to have some viscosity.” Ask yourself: Is it heavy on the tongue? Is it thick or thin? Does it coat the mouth? Does it leave a pleasant sensation? Be sure to mention all of these if you want to impress your fellow wine tasters.

5. LingerThe finish of the wine is the final step of the tasting. This is all about the lingering taste and sensation of

the wine on your palate after you swallow. Some wines will have virtually no lingering flavor, but others have a sensation that might last several seconds or even minutes after your initial sip. “You don’t want things to just fall off,” Johnson says. “You want the wine to stick around.” This taste might be totally different than the flavor you originally sensed when you first started drinking the wine, and that’s usually a good thing. That means you can say the wine has a “complex array of flavors.”

At this point you can determine what your exact impression of the wine is, whether that be good, bad or fantastic beyond belief. Side note: Even if you really don’t enjoy the wine, it’s against wine etiquette to make a disgusted face. If you’re at a winery, remember the people who make the wine are probably nearby. Making a face is the equivalent of telling your Grandma you think her homemade apple pie is disgusting. Just don’t do it.

Congrats: You now have the tools to act like a wine-tasting expert. Whether you’re a fan of white or red, sweet or dry, it’s up to you to use your newfound skills to find the perfect wine for your palate.

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By Taylor Wanbaugh

Get to know the wines you love

So you want to try wine tasting but have no clue what you’re doing. Why are people swirling their glasses like wine tornados and making weird gurgling noises? What the heck is this “bouquet” they keep referencing?

Going to a winery and choosing wine that didn’t come from a box can be daunting. Face it: You need all the help you can get.

Hank Johnson, co-owner of Chaumette Vineyards and Winery in Ste. Genevieve knows a thing or two about wine tasting. “You want to think about taking the wine apart as you taste it,” Johnson says.

Pick out a wine you’d like to try, and go through the five steps of proper wine tasting: look, nose, taste, body and finish. Following these steps can help you fully appreciate the craftsmanship of wine.

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With thousands of varieties of wine, finding the right bottle can be a chore. Zack Laycock, wine steward, broke down some of the more popular wines by taste for newbies.

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Light bounces off the walls of glass bottles.A sea of blue, brown, yellow and dark

green hide the wine within. Wine can be judged by the bottle, or

more specifically, by the label. Details on the label tell a story about what’s inside without having to open or taste the wine. Each element of the label provides a clue to how the wine was made and what the drinker should expect.

All labels provide consumers with certain information, and the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau approves all labels before they go on the market.

“The reason that all wineries have to go through this process of label approval is to protect consumers,” says Ann Miller, marketing manager for St. James Winery. “The government has set up the TTB and (these) requirements to make sure the consumers are getting all the information they’re supposed to.”

The approval process takes time and careful fact-checking for the small TTB office to conduct. “Depending on the time of year, it can take 35 to 40 days,” Miller says. Some seasons such as spring are more popular for new wines to come out. “Right now, it takes only 15 days.”

The regulations protect the quality of the product and the consumer, Miller says. Details that are not required or not included also say something. “Marketing studies have shown that consumers buy by the label,” Miller says. “Labels are very impactful.” Although all look different, there is some information you should be able to gather from most labels. Get to know your wine before you take it home.

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BrandThe brand name, wine producer or winery is required and is typically prominent and easy to locate. The producer that made the wine is sometimes written in small text at the top or bottom of the label.

VineyardIn order to name the vineyard on the bottle, at least 95 percent of the grapes used to make the wine must come from the same vineyard.

VintageIf there is a year on the bottle, it indicates when the grapes were harvested.

VarietalThe type of grape used to make the wine must be included on the label.

Alcohol contentAll labels are required to display the wine’s alcohol by volume. Wines can have an ABV between 7 and 16 percent. Wine with less than 14 percent alcohol can be labeled “table wine.”

Special designationThe winemaker may choose to mark the label with unique qualities of the wine. This is not regulated by the TTB. “(Reserve) just means the winemaker considers that wine in the bottle very special,” Miller says. “As wineries, we are not required to prove the fabulousness of the reserve. It’s just a marketing word.”

Estate bottledIf this appears on the bottle, it means 100 percent of the grapes have to be processed on the same property from vineyard to bottle, Miller says.

RegionA label might include a general region or a specific American Viticulture Area where the grapes are grown. In the U.S., an appellation is AVA, or a recognized wine-making region such as Napa Valley.

Creative nameA fanciful name is a marketing tool producers sometimes use to give the wine or brand a unique quality.

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If no grape is mentioned:The wine was most likely made with a blend of more than one kind of grape. Some common blends include the Bordeaux, Chianti and Port. In order to use a varietal name on the label, a wine must be made up of at least 75 percent of that type of grape, Miller says. In that case, the TTB requires the varietal name be on the label.

If there’s no year:The wine is a multi-vintage or nonvintage wine, meaning the grapes used were harvested at different times or grown in different locations. It doesn’t mean the wine is lower in quality. The TTB allows up to 15 percent of a blend to be harvested in a year. American Viticulture Area wines are held to a higher standard and can have up to 5 percent of grapes from another year.

If no vineyard is listed:Listing a vineyard on the label is optional, but many producers choose to name the vineyard when they believe a uniquely high-quality grape is grown on that property. The TTB’s goal is to not misrepresent the wine in any form. Miller says the most important part of wine labels is how accurately they represent what’s inside.

Les Bourgeois Wine & Tasting Room

A family business that started as a hobby, Les Bourgeois Vineyards has grown to be the third-largest winery in Missouri. The tasting room gives you a chance to try a the wine including the Vignoles and Chardonel. 14020 W Hwy BB, Rocheport Open daily 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 698-2716

Canterbury Hill Winery & Restaurant

Located near the Missouri River and the state capital, Canterbury Hill Winery offers 11 in-house wines as well as wine from across the state and country. 1707 S Summit Dr., Holts Summit Tuesday–Thursday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday–Saturday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. 896-9966

Bushwhacker Bend Winery

Bushwhacker Bend Winery offers a selection of 13 varieties of wine. Bring your own food, and enjoy a glass with views of the Missouri River from the winery’s deck. 515 First St., Glasgow Wednesday–Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, noon–5 p.m. 660-338-2100

Stone Hill Winery

Stone Hill Winery was established in 1847. Prohibition caused the winery to close, but Jim and Betty Held reopened it in 1965. The winery offers tours and tastings at its main location in Hermann. 1110 Stone Hill Highway, HermannMonday–Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Friday–Saturday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 486-2221

Ramen NoodlesAnother way to pair wine is to find dramatically different flavors, Speake says. A semi-sweet Riesling or Pinot Grigio complements the salty Ramen.

Making dinner can be a hassle. After a long day of classes and work, popping something in the microwave is sometimes the best option — especially if

you cringe when you look at your bank account. There’s no shame in eating on the cheap. Some popular low-budget options people indulge in are ramen noodles, mac ‘n’ cheese and pizza.

These foods might not be top quality, but they can be paired with quality wine. Although many people are familiar with Trader Joe’s “Two Buck Chuck” or other similar wine deals, there are plenty of options that can add to the flavors of these budget foods.

Co-owner and manager of Sycamore restaurant, Sanford Speake, is well-versed in wine pairings. Sycamore has an extensive wine list, seasonally ranging anywhere from 30–40 American and European wines. He says there are two ways to pair wine: similar tastes or the opposites-attract approach. Vox tapped into his knowledge to get suggestions for wine pairings with these inexpensive dinner options.

Wine pairings for tight budgetsBy Rachel Green

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Mac ‘n’ Cheese “The bright acidity (of Pinot Grigio) cuts through the richness of the cheese,” Speake says. Chardonnay also pairs well with the pasta’s creamy texture.

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Pizza“Similar tastes like big spicy food with big spicy wine pair well together,” Speake says. A spicy red wine, such as a Tuscan Chianti or Malbec, pairs well with the marinara of the pizza.

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RieslingSaeler’s recommendation: Kung Fu Girl, $12.98Tastes like: Semi-sweet with notes of green applePairs well with: Chinese food, typical Thanksgiving dinner mealWhy he likes it: “It’s so well- balanced. (Charles Smith, the winemaker) really wants to make wines for everyday people.” Other recommendation: Dr. Loosen, $11.98

ChardonnaySaeler’s recommendation: The Path, $11.12Tastes like: Oak and butter notes with a citrus finish Pairs well with: Veggies, teriyaki, pasta, seafood and cream saucesWhy he likes it: “It’s versatile and a very easy, drinkable wine.”Other recommendation: Robert Mondavi, $10.98

MoscatoSaeler’s recommendation: Salt of the Earth, $9.72Tastes like: Each type of Moscato tastes a little different. White has hints of peach and apricot, pink has a strawberry flavor, and dark has hints of dark berries. Each variety has a sweet flavor. Pairs well with: Thai food or anything on the spicy sideWhy he likes it: “This is the most popular wine among college students. It’s basically juice in a jar.” Other recommendation: Barefoot Moscato, $5.98

Red BlendsSaeler’s recommendation: 19 Crimes, $8.98Tastes like: A sweet note at the beginning with hints of chocolate, cedar and fruit. Contains a mixture of different grapes including Syrah and Petite Sirah. Pairs well with: Burgers or pizzaWhy he likes it: “It’s really easy to drink. It goes really well with everyday meats.”Other recommendation: DeadBolt, $12.98

Pinot noirSaeler’s recommendation: McManis, $9.72Tastes like: Smooth with hints of smoke, cherry and chocolatePairs well with: Filet, veggie pasta, salmon and pork chopsWhy he likes it: “If you drink a lot of white wine, it’s a good red to switch to.”Other recommendation: Mirassou, $10.42

Cabernet SauvignonSaeler’s recommendation: Carnivor, $9.98Tastes like: Velvety softness on the tongue with notes of leather and tobaccoPairs well with: Steaks and fattier meatsWhy he likes it: “It’s a 90-point wine.” Wine is rated from zero to 100 by wine magazines and critics. “A 90 or above is what you really want.”Other recommendation: Sterling, $8.98

No one wants to spend more than he or she has to when buying a good bottle of wine, and there’s really

no need. At some point, we’ve all been there: standing in the liquor department, staring at shelves of wine bottles, unsure of which ones are worth our money.

Whether you’re a college student trying to upgrade from jungle juice or a bona fide adult looking for a good drink to help you unwind, there’s no need to spend more than $15 for a decent bottle of wine. Not all $50 bottles are worth splurging for, and there are some $10 bottles that will exceed expectations.

Vox talked to Macadoodles wine manager and resident wine specialist Aaron Saeler to come up with a cheat sheet for bottles of wine that out-perform their prices.

The best deals for your dollar

By Taylor Wanbaugh

Immersing yourself in the world of wine can be daunting. With so many words and phrases describing the taste, texture and smell of wine, where do you begin? Having the right vocabulary to describe what

you like will help experts pick out wines for you. To assist future oenophiles (wine lovers), here is a glossary of basic wine definitions provided by Gene and Susan Marksbury, owners of Bushwhacker

Bend Winery in Glasgow, Missouri.

Acidity: A naturally occurring element in wines that creates a sharpness or tartness to the taste. The acid helps preserve the wine as well.

Balance: When the elements that make

up the wine work together to create flavors.

Body: The feeling of the weight of a wine in your mouth. “Full-bodied wines just feel heavier,” Gene Marksbury says. Think of the body like the difference between skim, 2 percent and whole milk.

Learn the lingoBy Molly Curry

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Sangria is known for being wine’s party hard cousin. It is a go-to drink for big get-togethers because of its limitless recipes and openness to ingredients. Despite its hodgepodge appearance,

sangria has a history just as rich and illustrious as the wine that goes into making it.

Flash back to 200 B.C. The Romans were occupying present-day Spain and decided to plant vineyards. Their grapes grew fantastically, so, soon enough, much of Rome’s wine-drinking population (read: everyone) was consuming Spanish wines and loving them. People began to add fruits and spices to the wine, dubbing the creation “sangria” from the Spanish word for blood because of the rich colors of the drink.

Fast forward to the Middle Ages. It was uncommon for people to drink water because most people thought it was unsafe. Milk was only for infants, so even children were drinking some form of alcohol. Hippocras, a wine and spice concoction, was one of the period’s most popular drinks. Do those ingredients sound familiar?

Sangria didn’t become popular in the United States until the 1964 World’s Fair in New York City. Visitors to Spanish World were served the fruity drink. After that, nothing was the same.

Traditional sangria is a red wine punch, but it can be made with white wine which is also called sangria blanca. The ingredients can vary

greatly, but the basic idea is wine, a sweetener (simple syrup, honey), chopped fruits (apples, oranges, limes, grapes, melons and anything in between), brandy and occasionally soda water. The recipe is fairly open to interpretation. You can throw in whatever fruits, spices, liquors or wines you like.

Dan Menold, wine and spirits manager and certified wine specialist of Hy-Vee on Conley Road, offered some at-home recommendations for sangria makers.

“If you want authentic sangria, go with the Spanish Rioja,” Menold says. “It’s not as common anymore, but it’s traditional. Most (pre-made sangrias) are sugared up. It’s just much better to do it yourself.”

Menold says sangria is easy to make at home. “Good wine, dash of brandy, fruit, and you’re good,” he says.

Sangria has a long history as a go-to libation. Its versatile nature makes it the perfect drink for any occasion. As the weather cools down, try this recipe for warm spiced sangria. Its sweet and spicy flavor is the perfect complement to wintertime festivities.

Warm spiced sangria:

By Molly Curry

Place peppercorns, allspice, cloves, cinnamon sticks and orange rind strips on a 5-inch square of cheesecloth.

Gather edges of cheesecloth and tie securely with kitchen string.

Combine orange juice, apple cider, sugar and spice bag in a 6-quart slow cooker.

Cover and cook on high for 2 hours.

Cover and cook on low 30 minutes or until thoroughly heated. Discard spice bag before serving.

Bold: A wine that is strong and distinct in aroma and flavor.

Bouquet: As wine ages over the years, it develops a bouquet or smell.

Blend: A wine made from more than one grape variety. If the name of the wine isn’t a grape varietal, it’s a blend.

Complex: Wines with complexity never bore the drinker. They contain many subtle flavors and scents. The flavors change from taste to swallow.

Grassy: Susan Marksbury describes grassy as “when the finish of a wine is rather earthy or green.” This term is usually used negatively

but can refer to hints of green pepper in red wines and unripe fruit in white wines.

Elegant: A wine that has the perfect combination of flavors, balance and boldness. Elegant wines age better.

Finish: The flavor or texture a wine leaves after it has been

swallowed, usually described in terms of length such as a short finish or a long finish. It says something about the quality of the wine.

Oaky: The flavors added to wine from aging in oak barrels. White wine can have vanilla, coconut or butter flavors. Red wine can have flavors of spices and vanilla.

Tannins: Come from the grape stems, skins and seeds; wines that are high in tannins are usually considered dry.

Varietal: A wine made from at least 85 percent of a single wine grape variety.

Vintner: A fancy word for a wine maker.

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Wake up,ColumbiaBy Annie Rees

Growth is here, and the mayor says he’s just trying to deal with it

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Bob McDavid will not seek a third term as Columbia’s mayor. Development has been a hotly contested item between McDavid and his City Council.

efore Bob McDavid sat through City Council meetings that stretched into the early mornings, he was a doctor. As a physician, his patients made appointments and described their

problems. McDavid would listen and form a solution. He was in control. Little was decided by committee.

Fast forward to Sept. 21: After five years as mayor, McDavid announced he will not seek a third term. Two is enough, he says, and he declines to elaborate further. But he probably won’t miss the six-hour council meetings.

“I like to joke that I quit obstetrics because of lawsuits and being up all night,” McDavid says. “Well, now the city gets sued, and I’m at a council meeting until 3 a.m.” He’s referencing the recently settled civil lawsuit, now under appeal, filed against the city and Opus Development Co.

As mayor, one of McDavid’s biggest priorities has been Columbia’s economic growth, a vague phrase that includes commercial real estate downtown and working with Regional Economic Development Inc. (REDI), a group of public and private investors, to bring new business to Columbia, among other things.

To McDavid, the word “development” sounds pejorative. He prefers “growth” when referencing the city’s boom. But by whatever name, Columbia residents have differing opinions on the issue.

McDavid knows he doesn’t always have a majority on the council where development is concerned. As vocal

community members bemoan the excess of construction cranes downtown, McDavid seems to be saying, “Wake up, Columbia.”

Like it or not, the mayor says, the city is changing — as we all do. Change has come to his role as mayor as much as it has come to Columbia.

City growthColumbia is expanding, partially due to MU, which has grown by 12,000 students since 2000 (Fall enrollment was 35,050). But the growth isn’t all university-driven: the city population also grew by 30,000 people during the past 15 years.

In response to this population boom, Columbia is annexing more land and courting new industry and housing.

But many see more-is-better development as a false solution, one that exposes existing problems of infrastructure and planning.

Karl Skala, Third Ward councilman, worries that the mayor’s attitude can veer toward “growth at all costs.”

“We seem to have bought into the idea that we have to grow our way out,” Skala says, referring to economic vitality. But he doesn’t believe growth at this pace can sustain itself. For Skala, sustainability is key.

“I can’t use the word ‘sustainability’ enough,” he says. Skala is concerned the city will lose money if it continues to subsidize growth at 80 percent and about the deficit in the infrastructure downtown. He worries that the only people who make money are developers who “get in and get out” while the city is left to pick up the pieces. He wants to ensure the council has a greater voice in

REDI, the organization that coordinates the city’s economic development activities.

Skala’s not ready to raise the red flags yet, but he advises caution.

Company town“Our business is education,” is one of McDavid’s favorite expressions. “And our business is college students.”

But for all the talk about Columbia’s business being MU, the city’s relationship to the university’s growth could be described as reactionary. In McDavid’s mind, when the university expands its student body, Columbia must respond. Sometimes, the city is left scrambling to accommodate the growth.

The downtown apartment complexes are, by and large, for students. “How fast will [MU] continue to grow?” McDavid asks. “I don’t know. But the university says they want 3,000 more students. So where are they gonna live?” In fact, the university wants even more students. UM System President Tim Wolfe has said the goal is 40,000 by 2020.

With these estimates, McDavid does the math in his head. Opus’ District Flats apartment building houses 250. A growth of 3,000 more MU students means the equivalent of 12 more Opuses. “Where do you want those 12 Opuses?” he says.

McDavid wants those buildings downtown, and so far he’s gotten them. This fall, developer American Campus Communities broke ground on a 652-bed student housing development between Conley Avenue and Providence Road next to the brand-new Todd luxury complex, which houses 351. The new structure that will house Shakespeare’s Pizza on Ninth and Elm is under

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construction. It will include retail on the first floor, office space on the second floor and 50 apartments above.

A denser Columbia“Build up, not out,” the mayor says. He hates

the sprawl created by building apartments on the outskirts of town because they create a commuter culture. We should want college students to live within walking distance of campus, McDavid says.

Density is a more efficient way to address the boom in students who want to live downtown, but density involves increasing building height, a point of contention among Columbia residents.

Currently, any proposed building taller than 10 stories gets special review by the City Council.

In 2013, the council squashed a proposal for a 24-story mixed-use high rise on the north edge of MU’s campus in Bengals’ current location.

Most new apartment buildings aren’t more than five stories tall. McDavid would be happy to increase building heights to eight, 10 or even 15 stories. “Instead of a maximum height requirement, let’s try a minimum height requirement,” he says.

His exception is the nine-story parking structure at Fifth and Walnut, the only addition to Columbia’s cityscape since the 1970s.

“I don’t like that being the dominant skyline feature of Columbia.” he says. “But it is.”

As private developers take on the booming Columbia student housing industry and the city recruits new businesses to come to town, McDavid and City Council are forced to find ways to manage the development boom, but that’s not always easy.

“I’m not the one creating the growth,” McDavid says. “I’m just trying to deal with it.”

Welcome wagonAlthough students and housing take the spotlight, much of the mayor’s real focus is industry.

There is perhaps no better example than the story of how the city and REDI recruited Beyond Meat, a company that processes plant-based, meat-free food products.

REDI worked with representatives of Beyond Meat to find a factory space in Columbia —convenient because researchers at MU, who helped develop and refine the product — can work with the company.

In an effort to welcome the company, REDI members involved with MU brought in music. And not just a single violin player: Marching Mizzou. “You know, not everyone gets to be welcomed by Marching Mizzou,” McDavid says.

The marching band is perhaps the best analogy to look at development in Columbia.

Columbia will soon have a new mayor. Regardless of who occupies the seat, ongoing concerns — infrastructure, cost, public opinion — will remain.

Development in the city may be hitting some wrong notes, but growth continues; relentless and ongoing, brash and buoyant as a Sousa march.

In a university town like Columbia, growth has a butterfly effect.

Factors like land growth, downtown growth, population growth and university growth all interact to create a dynamic, developing city.

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GROWING PAINS

Like one of its many students, Columbia is maturing. The city is in the midst of great change, including the reality of new housing, aesthetic concerns and infrastructure constraints. And there is more ahead.

New housing crops up throughout the city and begs the question of whether developments are meeting the community’s needs. City leaders, developers and residents debate what Columbia should look like as it grows. The battle is indicative of the city’s identity crisis between a small town and a booming

college town. And though developers reach for the sky with new apartment buildings and hotels, they are still bound to the ground by sewer lines and electrical grids.

These and other issues reflect the good and the bad of this adolescent period that seems like it might never end. At the focal point of all of this is one question: What kind of place should Columbia be? — Allen Fennewald

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As Columbia grows upward and outward, residents, developers, students and government officials all have a stake in what the future looks like.

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GROWING PAINS

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ome incoming students spend their summer hoping they have a place to live. If not, Dionne George, the coordinator of off-campus student services at MU’s Department of Student Life,

helps them explore housing options elsewhere. This phenomenon is all too familiar as MU’s enrollment continues to rise and private developments crop up around Columbia.

In 2001, when the Department of Residential Life drafted its first master plan, the university anticipated housing needs for 24,000 students, not all of whom would live on campus. At the time, the student body was expected to grow by 1 percent each year, according to

university estimates. But that plan didn’t pan out. Instead, UM System President Tim Wolfe says MU should aim for enrollment near 40,000 students by 2020.

By 2005, MU had grown more than 3 percent per year, and it fell short by 3,600 beds. In a 2012 update the university reupped residential life master plan to house more students. The vacuum in living options flung open a door in Columbia for non-university housing.

“Frankly, (MU is) in a good position,” says Third Ward Councilman Karl Skala, a frequent critic of unsustainable growth. “They can wait for these private corporations. (Student housing developers) are lusting after property to do this within every city that

I’m aware of that has a university.”The result is that university housing

options have grown increasingly scarce for MU students, says Frankie Minor, the director of MU’s Department of Residential Life.

One-third of res hall space used to house transfer students or non-freshmen, he says. But now those students only make up 10 percent of res hall populations.

For the past seven years, residential life signed a master lease with off-campus housing providers to supplement on-campus housing capacity.

This year those units, called “Tiger Reserve” at The Reserve apartment complex, house up to 340 students. Residential Life officials project the

amount of incoming students 10 months before the newest freshman class arrives on campus.

Because of this excess in demand, private housing complexes are thriving in Columbia and across the nation. From 2011 to 2013, developers in Columbia built space for 3,800 additional beds in the form of luxury student housing, according to a report published by The New York Times. Since then, at least a half dozen other complexes have opened.

Education Realty Trust (ERT), which operates The Reserve on Old Highway 63, reported a 16 percent increase in revenue last quarter compared to the same period a year ago. American Campus Communities, which

As more developers enter Columbia’s student housing market, luxury apartments are becoming the new residence halls

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Even with new halls, MU, like many universities, is struggling to house the large influx in enrollment. In response, some students turn to private housing complexes. From left: Gateway Hall, The Reserve at Columbia, Lathrop Hall and Todd Apartments. Photos by JUSTIN L. STEWART AND HALEE ROCK

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operates three apartment complexes in Columbia — Forest Village and Woodlake on Providence Road, Grindstone Canyon on Old Highway 63 and The Cottages on Nifong Boulevard — reported a 3.5 percent revenue increase.

“The outlook for the student housing industry in our company remains very, very positive,” Randall Churchey, the president and chief executive of ERT, told investors on a July earnings call, according to the public transcript.

The private student housing industry expects university enrollments nationally to continue to grow 1.2 percent annually, according to ERT and industry officials say universities aren’t doing enough with their own facilities to keep up.

In other words, universities are ceding student housing, something they once viewed as their responsibility, to private developers.

That, Skala says, puts pressure on the city’s infrastructure and public services, which, in his opinion, developers have treated like a public subsidy.

“It’s one thing to have the private sector house all of your students,” he says. “But then there are all kinds of other questions as to how permanent

these buildings are, how well they’re built. All of these things cascade.”

George says students come to her looking for the amenities of on-campus living. They want affordable rent (nothing more than $500 a month), individual leases, something close to or on campus and reliable public transportation.

“Private student housing complexes fill the need for roommate matching, individual leasing and some transportation to campus,” she says.

And in that climate, the companies that own those complexes are doing very well. Churchey told investors that ERT expects new student housing supply to be 47 percent less in 2016 compared to 2015. And the company is targeting cities for development that face similar student housing shortages.

ERT expects a 5 percent increase in enrollment at the University of Tennessee next year and purchased a 117-bed property within walking distance of campus. The University of Colorado-Boulder just finalized plans to build a 317-bed community next to campus.

“These external factors provide great opportunities for companies such as ours” ERT’s Executive Vice President

Thomas Trubiana told investors.MU is doing everything it can to

keep up, Minor says. One new residence, Gateway Hall, opened this school year. By 2017, two new halls will replace Jones Hall and will hold 572 students combined.

Minor says the department submitted plans for new halls that will replace Laws, Lathrop and Jones. Approved by the Board of Curators, those plans would allow the university to house 7,200 total students, according to Minor. These residences currently house 6,620. But with continued enrollment growth, his staff is considering ways to increase that number. Now, 7,500 might be the new target.

If the student population continues to increase, that still might not be enough, sending more students to George asking for housing advice. Now more than ever, they go to private student housing developments.

Students around the country are facing the same of housing shortage and turning to similar complexes for a place to live. Quickly, they’re becoming de facto new residence halls for universities.

Patrick Zenner, better known as Pat, is Columbia’s development services manager. He was living in South Carolina when he drove through Columbia for the first time and was amazed at its vibrant downtown, a stark contrast to sleepy Myrtle Beach. Now seven years later, he’s charged with overseeing the city’s development, and his expertise shows. He explains things like height requirements as thorough as others discuss the football draft. For Zenner, the city’s 165-page comprehensive plan, which he helped draft, is like his fantasy team.

One of the biggest concerns is the influx of student housing downtown. Throughout the past five or six years, he says, developers focused on downtown. Zenner says the student housing boom there is slowing and will soon come to a halt. It’s a cycle, he adds. The last approved project by American Campus Communities will be on Fourth Street and Turner Avenue, and after that, growth should move to the next circle outside of downtown.

Although nothing specific is planned, Zenner predicts places like the housing complexes on the south side of town will undergo renovations.

“You have opportunities where these projects may be reaching the end of their life cycle,” he says. Updating older complexes provides “a different option for when the new and shiny of the downtown wears off. After five, 10 years, you’re going to see people wanting new and shiny again” he says.

After those complexes get an update it’ll be time for developers to consider renovating places like Aspen Heights off Nifong Boulevard. Though, Aspen Heights is only 2 years old, its time for renovation will come.

Although longtime residents might be unhappy with the seemingly uncontrollable growth in student housing, says Zenner. He doesn’t think it’s something to worry about.

“We’re growing as a community, and it’s a painful growth experience,” he says. “Our qualities are changing. We remember when we were a community of 36,000–40,000 people, and that was it. We’re no longer there.”

LOCAL PERSPECTIVE: Pat Zenner, development services manager

—Jillian Deutsch

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Odle Brothers The work of the Odle family stands on every street corner, or that’s the way it seems.

Nathan and Jon Odle began their foray into building apartments with 1,800-square-foot

townhomes off Old Plank Road. Then, the Odles, with their company Trittenbach

Developments, made plans for a major housing complex in the heart of downtown. Their first downtown Brookside property popped up on Tenth and Locust streets in August 2010.

They added onto the original Brookside with an extension at Tenth and Cherry streets, and in 2012, Brookside on College Avenue opened a new, larger downtown complex.

Although the family’s projects are easily visible, the brothers couldn’t be more invisible to the public. In court, they’re always represented by a lawyer and even their company office near I-70 barely offers a hint of their family or company name.

But the Odles are definitely still a force. This year, in a partnership with the Rader family, they knocked down Shakespeare’s Pizza and are rebuilding on the land with a larger Shakespeare’s below an apartment complex. In addition, the company recently purchased the land where Bengal’s Bar and Grill and Casablanca Mediterranean Grill currently stand.

Columbians might not recognize Jon or Nathan Odle on the street, but they’re definitely leaving their mark on this town. — Jillian Deutsch

Barbara HoppeBarbara Hoppe spent nine years as Columbia’s Sixth Ward City Council member, serving the southwestern region of the city.

In those nine years Hoppe orchestrated the

preservation of the historic Niedermeyer house and the development of Stephens Lake Park and acted as the deciding vote in Columbia’s smoke free ordinance. She was also the leading advocate for laws to protect local streams from development.

Hoppe says she firmly believes in including the “average citizen” in the process. Hoppe also believes in a strict growth management plan. “The zoning we have now comes from the 1960s, and it’s an old-school sort of sprawl model,” she said in a 2009 Columbia Tribune article. “Form-based codes are very good where you want to redevelop, do infill and develop in a more concentrated way.”

Hoppe left office as one of the most popular City Council members ever, according to a report by Columbia Heart Beat. “I believe strongly we must pay attention and take care of the basics, the nuts and bolts of city government,” Hoppe said at her final council meeting. “Council members need to be critical and challenge things that don’t fit well with our community.” — Caitlin Busch

Pam Cooper Pam Cooper is a familiar face on the development scene. Cooper has lived in Columbia since 1987 and in the Fourth Ward for the past 21 years. She often speaks out on issues concerning the rights and well-being of the public.

Cooper is a participant in CoMo City Council Watch, a group of about 30 residents who act as watchdogs over the City Council and its staff. As a PAC, the group works to support or oppose candidates in city elections and makes contributions to campaigns.

Cooper also belongs to Repeal 6214, a group against the ordinance that allowed the development

of the new Opus District Flats apartment building downtown. The group gathered signatures on a

petition against the ordinance within 36 hours of its passing. After the initial petition, the City Council

passed a second identical ordinance, which prompted another petition drive. The council voted to repeal

the ordinances, but the city issued the necessary permits for construction to proceed anyway. Repeal

Karl Skala Karl Skala wants Columbia to slow down development, particularly in student housing construction. The two-term Third Ward councilman says growth is positive but

unsustainable, and builders aren’t paying their fair share to support aging infrastructure and a ballooning population.

“I’m not antidevelopment,” he says, “but somebody raised the question to us, to the City Council, what is going to be left of downtown for the adults?”

As enrollment at MU continues to grow, developers have descended on Columbia. Skala says the city needs to plan with the university’s student population in mind when deciding locations for housing complexes.

“Some people on the Council think about growth at all costs,” Skala says. “You harvest taxes, and it will pay for all this. I think that’s bologna. It’s a Ponzi scheme. If that were true, we wouldn’t have infrastructure problems.”

The solution, he says, isn’t stopping growth. It’s slow growth that can sustain Columbia’s character and its relationship with the university. It’s time for developers, he says, to pump the brakes. — Jacob Bogage

Tom Mendenhall Throughout the past 200 years in Columbia, the name Mendenhall and growth have become synonymous. The Mendenhall family’s Columbia roots extend back to 1819. During that time, the family became business

moguls, founding their real estate company in 1894 and building it into the largest firm in Columbia with more than 160 agents, now known as RE/MAX Boone Realty.

As a fifth generation Mendenhall, Tom has emerged as a leader in Columbia real estate, serving on the Downtown Community Improvement District Board as well as the Central Missouri Development Council. He’s also involved in a slew of developments around the city: He’s part owner of the Lofts on Ninth Street and also served on the committee that developed Stephens Lake Park. And when it comes to growth, Mendenhall couldn’t be more supportive.

Stanley Kroenke Stanley Kroenke is richer than God, presumably.

But despite his wealth, Kroenke is a famously private man. He has earned the nickname “Silent Stan” and prefers to amass his empire as far out of the spotlight as

he can get. Kroenke was born and raised in Missouri and educated at MU, where he earned bachelor’s and M.B.A. degrees. Despite having seven homes, he and his wife keep their primary residence in Columbia. His wife is Ann Walton Kroenke, the niece of Wal-Mart co-founder Sam Walton. Kroenke is a business entrepreneur who first made his fortune in real estate, developing warehouses and shopping centers.

Kroenke has also amassed a global sports empire through his company Kroenke Sports Enterprises, which includes the St. Louis Rams and the Denver Nuggets; he is also the majority shareholder of the English Premiere League football club Arsenal.

He is America’s ninth-largest private landowner, and he owns about 864,000 acres in the United States, the land equivalent of 22 Columbias. As of October 2015, Forbes estimated Kroenke’s net worth at $7.7 billion and estimates Ann Walton Kroenke’s wealth at $4.1 billion, for a combined total of $11.8 billion.

Kroenke’s real-estate developments funnel through The Kroenke Group, which develops real estate

properties including shopping centers and apartments. — Annie Rees

6214 sued the city in response, arguing that the city acted illegally in issuing demolition and construction

permits. On Sept. 21, a district judge ruled in favor of the city. An appeal is now in progress.

— Timoshanae Wellmaker

“If a city’s not allowed to grow, it becomes stagnant,” Mendenhall says. “You have to look at the economic good. Does it create jobs? Is it something that’s going to be there for a while?” — Jack Flemming

ith its ups and downs and high-risk decisions, it’s easy to compare the real estate market to the stock marketPicture Columbia as the trading floor, where residents are the buyers and real estate brokers are the traders, constantly in the motions of buying and selling. The residents’ most prized

stocks are their homes. As Columbia sees a boom of new development, is that growth good or bad for their portfolios?

The answer depends on location. Where a property stands within Columbia’s 60 square miles can make all the difference.

Whether the home sells in record time or sits on the market for a few months can hinge on a ZIP code. Location can even dictate if a home’s value will jump $10,000 in a single year or stay stagnant.

Overall, the average number of homes sold per month in Boone County has been increasing, mostly the resale of existing properties, according to Columbia’s Board of Realtors statistics.

“Having universities here keeps the real estate market very vibrant,” realtor Kim Schwartz of Kim Schwartz and Associates says. “It keeps the rental and resale properties strong.”

Re-selling existing homes and renting properties are vital to the real estate market. The fewer homes that are built, the more in demand the current properties are. Overbuilding new homes and having more properties on the market than buyers means houses could sit unsold and lose value.

“If we overbuild and have too much inventory,

prices will go down,” Schwartz says. “This year inventory was low, so things will be interesting in the next few months.” The smaller supply of homes for sale means quicker sales.

Columbia’s home values are increasing every year, according to the Columbia Board of Realtors. In addition, average prices of a newly constructed home in Boone County have risen to about $291,847 over last year’s $277,456, according to the same group.

Existing homes have also appreciated in value this year to an average of about $195,154, a leap from $183,801 in 2014.

Schwartz, who has sold homes in Columbia for the past 11 years, says there are always peaks and valleys in the real estate market. Despite monthly fluctuations, Schwartz says she has seen only annual increases in home values throughout the past decade, a trend she thinks will continue.

Columbia’s housing prices even remained stable

during the country’s recession years due to stability in the insurance, education and healthcare industries, realtor Jody Calvin says.

Calvin, owner of Prudential Vision Real Estate, is a real estate veteran with 32 years of experience. She says Columbia has continued to grow during her 42 years of living here.

Right now, southwestern Columbia sees the most activity in the housing market. Calvin cites infrastructure, schools and services as the main draw for residents.

Southeastern Columbia is the second most in demand area due to the 2007 development of Old Hawthorne, Calvin says. Home prices are higher than the average there, with houses on the low end of the spectrum listed in the high $200,000 range.

New buyers are coming to town, and houses are spending less time on the market. Things look good for Columbia’s housing portfolio, at least for now.

Columbia’s real estate market benefits from the city’s boomBy Cheyenne Roundtree

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LOCAL PERSPECTIVE: Robbie Price, architect

Robbie Price knows about long-term, sustainable buildings. He works as an architect at Simon Oswald Architectures, which just moved its operations from downtown to a new building in northern Columbia. The office was recently named one of the buildings with the most innovative sustainability practices in town with a Mayor’s Climate Protection Agreement award.

Energy efficiency exists in all facets of the building. Unused bricks salvaged from the Broadway Hotel are now part of the building’s façade. Pipes run water through the ground to fuel the air conditioning and heating system. The result is a building that uses 30 percent of the energy of an average structure.

Although he favors more traditional designs — his favorite building is the classic style of the 1916 Boone County National Bank — Price doesn’t think the new student housing complexes downtown are ugly. He thinks their fronts add to the diverse look of downtown, a necessity for the creation of any major city.

“I think that Columbia can accept a wide range of aesthetic standards,” he says. “You will see high-end design, mid- and low-end design, and it all fits together within the fabric of the community. That’s what really builds a city. You have all different styles coming together to create a community, and it takes all of them.”

Sustainable designs and how it fits within the fabric of the community is an issue. “That’s what really builds

a city. You have all different styles coming together to create a community, and it takes all of them,” he says.

The problem, he says, lies in the sustainability of these buildings. Not enough developers prioritize the longevity of the buildings and choose cheap over long-term quality. When they do prioritize durability, buildings last longer than 50 years.

“That’s the hallmark of a great city, that you have buildings that have been there for decades,” he says. “You can’t go and tear down a building that has been there for only a couple of years. You need to build something that’s going to last and bring value.”

— Jillian Deutsch

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ith three universities within blocks of the city center and a red-hot real estate market, Columbia is growing out and up, and some people aren’t happy about it.

People protested last year about the Opus building on Eighth Street, and community members are now grumbling about a student housing complex going up in place of the iconic Shakespeare’s. The Columbia staple will live on the complex’s first-floor retail space, but will it be the same? Stated more broadly: Is development changing Columbia’s classic college town vibe?

It isn’t just population growth and new buildings. Columbia looks different. Some

of the newest buildings such as The Lofts at 308, Todd apartments, Opus’ District Flats, around downtown, are undeniably different. That makes some wonder whether the city’s style is becoming a little more mixed than matched. But who decides what Columbia should look like, anyway?

The short answer is no one. Columbia doesn’t have an architectural review board, which explains the city’s smorgasbord of a design.

When it comes to getting city approval for buildings, John Simon, a buildings regulation supervisor for Columbia, says there are stringent restrictions. However, they’re mostly technical and not aesthetic.

“We’re just trying to establish

minimum safety requirements,” Simon says. “That’s going to involve having an architect, a mechanical engineer, an electrical engineer and fire assistance engineers to establish that the minimum standards are being met all the way around.”

The process includes extensive building permits regarding site development. Weaving through the entire process is a plethora of information on proposed construction, but there’s nothing to regulate the look of a building.

There’s no argument that building codes, foundations and the general stability of a structure are important factors. Nobody wants collapsing walls.

But what about the aesthetic parts that

With buildings like Todd springing up around town, Columbia must consider whether it wants to look cohesive in the future. Photo by JUSTIN L. STEWART

BUILDING CHARACTER:How does a city control

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make up the city’s “look”? Is Columbia attractive to both its residents and its visitors?

District Flats, Opus’ highly controversial new student housing complex, sits on Eighth Street, also known as the Avenue of the Columns. Because of the location, it was required that the sidewalk outside of District Flats be inlaid with brickwork to match, Simon says.

The sidewalk regulation in front of District Flats is the exception to the typical: For the most part, the city doesn’t concern itself with the appearance of new buildings.

“The fact is that there are very few standards or requirements in the city code that pertain to how a building will look in terms of architectural elements, design, materials, style, et cetera,” City Planner Steve MacIntyre says.

The regulations mostly focus on land use, dimensional requirements, height limits and the like; they cover the technical bits and pieces.

But just because a building is well-made doesn’t mean it’s well-designed. That’s why many cities rely on an architectural review board to keep their look’s cohesive.

Miami has one; so does Seattle. Madison, Wisconsin, has one, too, and its situation was once similar to Columbia’s.

The University of Wisconsin is based there and, like MU, is the state’s flagship university. Although Columbia isn’t Missouri’s state capital (Madison is Wisconsin’s), Jefferson City is just 30 miles south.

Madison’s review board, the Urban Design Commission, has been around for 40 years, according to Tim Parks, a city planner for Madison. For the past 15 years, the city has seen the kind of growth Columbia is just now experiencing.

Private developers started coming into the city, Parks says. “We started seeing all these high-amenity high-rises, about 15 stories,” he says. “That’s not that high in general, but it’s high for Madison.”

Those developers provided student housing closer to campus. The single-family homes converted to accommodate student living became less popular, and students started moving closer to campus into new private student housing and apartments. “We saw a real densification of the areas surrounding the university,” Parks says.

It’s a familiar picture. Unlike MU’s situation, the University of Wisconsin has had a steady attendance for quite some time, Parks says.

Columbia’s growth is partially because of the MU’s

increased enrollment in recent years. Private developers seem happy to come into Columbia and take care of student housing availability.

The same applied to Madison, but the Urban Design Commission makes sure the city retains its identity.

Madison’s commission makes recommendations on planned developments, Parks says. These design professionals focus on architecture, landscaping and the general contouring of the buildings and sites.

Parks says the commission includes architects, residents and landscape architect. This ensures a combination of good design and local flair. It’s not easy, though. Parks says there is a danger of micromanaging and slowing the process.

Columbia residents have to weigh the pros and cons of creating such a group. Second Ward City Council member Michael Trapp cautions against having a “pretty city” that is too expensive to live in. “Adding another layer of bureaucracy would add cost to projects,” he says. “One competitive advantage of Columbia is we are more affordable than the average community. Protecting that affordability is an important priority.”

On the other side of the debate is Ian Thomas, Fourth Ward council member. “An architectural review board certainly sounds like a good idea to me,” he says.

Thomas argues that the board’s role would have to be carefully outlined with reference to existing zoning codes and design guidelines. Parks says that having a board doesn’t necessarily solve a city’s problems.

“Having been a planner in Kansas City and now being a planner in Madison for roughly 12 years, and from my own personal travels, does the Urban Design Commission guarantee a better outcome across the board? Not really,” he says

It depends on the city. So where does this leave Columbia?

Zach Mortice, a freelance architectural journalist based in Chicago and an MU graduate says, “The biggest factor is what the local government is willing to invest in it.” Cities take on their own lives as they grow and change, he says.

Mortice stresses that small towns generally have an irrational fear that they will suddenly transform into New York City overnight. “And that just doesn’t happen unless people distinctly want it to,” he says.

Whether or not you agree with the road Columbia is heading down, a city cannot exist, let alone be great, without change or growth.

Tom Bamberger, a Milwaukee-based urban design writer, encourages people to think of a city as a garden. “If you plant something and really take care of it, then, more often than not, you’re going to come up with something really beautiful.”

Instituting a design review board would help ensure that new construction will mesh well with existing structures in Columbia, such as City Hall. Photo by AMBER GARRETT

Patrick Earney can tell you a lot about a building. Looking out the window of Coffee Zone on Ninth Street, he analyzes the nearby buildings. The proportion is all wrong, and it looks like they ran out of brick, he says, pointing to the top floor of an exterior.

But the Commerce Bank just down the street? It’s glazed terra cotta, “dressed to the nines.”

In one breath, he can run through the histories of Switzler Hall, Shakespeare’s,

the Niedermeyer and the Guitar Mansion. Earney, a structural engineer and a member of the Columbia Historic Preservation Commission, spends a lot of time thinking about the value of buildings. But don’t assume he’s anti-growth.

“People want Columbia to look like it did in 1960,” he says. “Columbia had 30,000 people then, and they all lived downtown. You’re not going to get a hardware store downtown — forget about it. The best thing you can do is get a ton

of students down here, and if it’s all fancy, teeny-bopper clothes and restaurants, that’s great. It’s business.”

Although he jokes about wanting a city ordinance that prohibits “ugly buildings,” he knows that won’t happen and maybe shouldn’t. Otherwise, he says, the town would become a caricature of itself, places like Hermann or the St. Charles Historic District.

Earney isn’t concerned the city will lose its natural, historical charm. There are

enough people who appreciate the history of the place that it’s not going to go away, he says. He just has to keep convincing people to preserve old buildings.

“You have to have that mix of old and new,” he says. “You have to have the old buildings, the historic buildings. You have to maintain the downtown character, or you’ll lose some of the attraction that you have. You can’t just demolish everything.”

—Jillian Deutsch

LOCAL PERSPECTIVE: Patrick Earney, structural engineer

Lucky’s Market chose to renovate an eyesore instead of building something new. Read why the grocery store chain chose to call Columbia home and how it’s changing its business model on VoxMagazine.com.

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LOCAL PERSPECTIVE: Rachel Bacon, city planner

You’d think it was the street view that got someone interested in city planning, but for Rachel Bacon, a Columbia city planner and liaison to Columbia Historic Preservation Commission, her interest began in the sky. Seeing the city grids from the window of an airplane got her thinking about how someone can “shape the world you live in.”

Now Bacon engages directly with many of the difficult decisions about how and where Columbia will grow. But,

she says, we’re in a good position.“So many towns would kill to have

what we have,” Bacon says. “We have a vibrant downtown, a mix of people, a place that people want to come to.”

She understands the importance of walkability and of accessing the outdoors throughout the city with bike paths and green space.

Bacon is also excited about the possibility of mixed-use developments that provide a variety of housing

alongside businesses, including restaurants, offices and shops. These developments would have a similar feel, all the while providing an array of activities for residents on foot.

But she doesn’t want Columbia to get too shiny. There needs to be a certain gritty factor, she says. She used the example of Manhattan in the 1990s, when people felt like things were too polished and the city was losing its character.

“It’s hard to put your finger on character,” she says. “That unique cornice, that one brick that’s not quite the right color, and you wonder what the story was.”

Bacon still wants to see interesting people and be surprised when she walks around the corner.

As she puts it, “I don’t want us to be too perfect.”

— Jillian Deutsch

Boulder, Colorado Springfield, Missouri

University of Colorado 30,265 students

28.6 percent of city’s population

Missouri State University24,735 students 14.9 percent of city’s population

Like Columbia, Boulder has a limit as to how high a building can be built up, which is capped at 55 feet.

In recent years, Columbia has bought up small plots of land around the city in order to accommodate growth. Boulder bought land years ago to preserve as open space In Columbia the average owner-occupied home price was $169,800 from 2009-20013 while Boulder had an average of $489,400 during the same time period.

Columbia has approximately 2.5 times more land area than Boulder, but only has 12,000 more people of Boulder is significantly more densely populated.

As a result, landlocked Boulder remains a slow growth city by choice, while Columbia slowly expands outward.

—Ben Landis

Springfield, the third largest city in Missouri, experienced strong growth over the past few decades. Columbia is follows the same trend.

In Columbia and Springfield, education and healthcare are the industries that helped drive growth, employing almost 20 percent of the total workforce.

Springfield is home to the Missouri State University receiving nearly 25,000 students and MU with 35,000 students.

Both cities have plans to reduce the sprawl by building taller buildings. This is something that has yet to be fully achieved.

Springfield’s principal planner Bob Hosmer blames the reduced growth in Springfield on its Vision 20/20 plan which was unclear and contradictory.

—David Soler Crespo

Cost of living: 6.8% below the national average

Median household income: $41,791

Unemployment rate: 4.4%

A tale of two cities For an analysis of the growth of these two cities, see the extended story at VoxMagazine.com.

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Boulder and Springfield were once the size of Columbia. Here’s how they stack up today

Cost of living: 18.6% above national average

Median household income: $72,554

Unemployment rate: 3.3%

Square Miles: 25.8 Square Miles: 82.3

Population in 2014: 105,112 Population in 2014: 165,378 Population in 2000: 97,468 Population in 2000: 151,580

$489,400Median home price: $118,800Median home price:

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Long waits and high rises

By Allen Fennewald

While Columbia wrestles over luxury housing, Section 8 clients wait for safe, affordable and available homes

For the past three years, NeKeisha Williams has arrived to work under the yellow. pencil-shaped pillars of Nanny’s Neighborhood Childcare Center.

The quaint, one-story daycare sits behind a small flower bed and a wooden sign bearing its name in bright primary colors. It is surrounded by public housing units.

At the end of the workday, the 22-year-old single mother goes home to a one-

bedroom apartment off Sylvan Lane, which she rents by the month.

Williams doesn’t want to commit to a longer lease. She wants to find somewhere bigger for her and her daughter, but that hasn’t been easy.

“Sometimes I just want to give up and just stay where I’m at now because I feel like it isn’t going to make a difference,” she says.

Williams doesn’t want her almost 1-year-old daughter’s first memories to include sharing a room with Mom. Her dream is to have a nursery — someplace to call the baby’s room.

Although she wants a bigger place, government-sponsored housing vouchers won’t cover the cost of another bedroom until Williams’ daughter turns 2. “(Everyone) keeps telling me to try to look,” she says. But I may have to settle for less.”

If Williams settles, it could mean sharing a room in a rough neighborhood throughout her daughter’s adolescence.

The Section 8 Housing Voucher Program, which assists citizens whose rent exceeds 30 percent of their monthly income, is flooded with applicants. Williams applied before she became pregnant, and only recently received her voucher.

As of Sept. 22, there were 2,711 people in the program in Columbia, nearly 73 percent of whom are black. The city’s applicant waiting list opened and closed during one week this summer and accepted 1,200 applications. It won’t open again for about two years. People are turned away every day.

Issues like this are the downside of “the two Columbias.” City Manager Mike Matthes referred to this divide in his strategic plan presentation in September.

Matthes led into the subject with the positives. Unemployment is at 3.5 percent in a growing city with improving graduation rates, and 79 percent of residents are satisfied with the quality of life in Columbia ccording to a recent survey. “Although these are positive and promising indicators,” he said, “we also learned some troubling truths.”

For example, unemployment is four times higher among Columbia’s black population. The typical black household earns 60 percent that of a white household. Half of the manufacturing jobs in the city have been replaced by minimum-wage positions with no benefits.

“Clearly not everyone in Columbia is thriving,”

Matthes says. While more

and more luxury apartment buildings are built downtown, this “other Columbia” is in the thick of a housing crisis. There simply aren’t enough places to live, especially for those with assistance vouchers.

Williams joined the voucher waiting list three years ago, before her pregnancy, and received a voucher earlier this year. But her current landlord doesn’t accept Section 8. Few places do. A home close enough to the daycare and where she feels safe enough to raise her daughter has been hard to find.

Racial and economic biases — both real and stereotyped — make many landlords unwilling to accept the vouchers.

Brian Nichols, the property manager at Stadium Apartments, says Section 8 isn’t accepted there. In his experience, voucher-holders tend to do more damage to apartments than other tenants.

And that is Williams’ dilemma. The only places she’s found that are close enough to the daycare and accept vouchers are in dangerous neighborhoods.

“(I’ve looked) literally everywhere,” Williams says. “The (Section 8 housing) on Demaret I didn’t have an interest in because I didn’t want to raise my daughter over there. I just didn’t feel like it was a safe place for her.”

Nichols says management at the higher-end places generally prefer students because of their access to student loans.

“Government hands out student loans like candy,” he says. “Students borrow it; the schools raise their tuition. The investors of these big complexes come in and charge exorbitant amounts of money for rent because they know the students will pay it. They can get access to the money.”

Vacancies have been rare because former students haven’t moved out, Nichols says. They haven’t found careers after school that afforded them an upgrade.

Students who can’t afford the prices of the new luxury housing downtown look outward for cheaper rent in the same areas as Section 8 clients, causing competition among the university and resident populations.

The authority hopes downtown’s luxury housing boom will attract enough students away from low-income housing to create substantial vacancies, decrease the housing demand and eventually decrease rent prices as well, according to Columbia Housing Authority CEO Phil Steinhaus.

But downtown, with the District Flats at capacity

and The Lofts and Brookside Downtown almost full, the housing crisis has not diminished. Instead, low-income Columbia residents are spreading out to Section 8 housing in Prathersville and Centralia, and the marketplaces there are getting more competitive.

Williams says that even students who are financially supported by their parents and can afford the high-end housing might still prefer to pay less rent, leaving them in competition with voucher holders. “I wouldn’t say (the luxury housing) would make a difference, honestly.”

Margaret Patrick, property manager of Hanover Village off of Clark Lane, says the housing crisis is largely due to the profits landlords can make from renting to students. She explains how duplexes split between students and a family can have vastly different rents between the two units.

“Sometimes the students’ rent is $950 to $1,000; the family’s rent is $650. It’s ridiculous. Everybody’s getting hurt, but somebody’s making money,” Patrick says.

This puts the 116,906 residents of Columbia in direct competition with MU’s 35,441 students.

“Those of us in this industry, we get sick about it,” Lakewood Apartments employee Lori Fowley says. The owner of the apartments, The Yarco Company Inc., renovates run-down housing to offer affordable rent.

She says people have been waiting for vacancies, especially in the nine Section 8 units, for about two years. She has had to send away people on her waitlist who lived under bridges. She resents that she’s legally not allowed to put people who are displaced ahead on the list. When their turn does come, Fowley knows she won’t be able to contact them without a phone number or mailing address.

Both Fowley and Williams, landlord and tenant, have a fairly bleak outlook. “It’s a crisis,” Fowley says. “That’s a good word for it.”

As Williams searches for different housing with her voucher in hand, she wonders if the housing programs and the private sector will be able to make a difference.

The years-long waiting list isn’t inspiring optimism. The new luxury housing downtown is just a few blocks east of the public housing and Nanny’s Neighborhood Daycare — a reminder that the private sector doesn’t seem very interested in modest rent checks, public assistance vouchers and the “other Columbia.”

Paquin Towers houses some Section 8 program participants. Those who qualify pay 30 percent of their household income for rent. Columbia’s Housing Authority makes up the rest. Photo by JUSTIN L. STEWART

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The click-click-click of Judy Garland’s ruby-red slippers in The Wizard of Oz. Audrey Hepburn’s composed stroll past a New York jewelry store window in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Uma Thurman dealing death to one swordwielding ninja after another in Kill Bill. Jodi Foster’s chilling conversation with an impris-

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The click-click-click of Judy Garland’s ruby-red slippers in The Wizard of Oz. Audrey Hepburn’s composed stroll past

a New York jewelry store window in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Uma Thurman dealing death to one swordwielding ninja after another in Kill Bill. Jodi Foster’s chilling conversation with an imprisoned cannibal in The Silence of the Lambs. Actresses have captivated audiences in some of the most iconic roles in film history. And beyond performances, women have made significant contributions to the industry as directors, writers and producers


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ohnathan Breuer extends his arm out the window of his dusty red Ford Ranger. A cigarette rests in his fingertips. He wears a checkered cabbie hat, and tufts of dark brown hair peek out from underneath it. His beard is bushy. His mustache is thick. Both are slightly grizzled. His Carhartt vest and tan skin reflect the look of a man who spends time outdoors.

The unlatched hood of his pickup bounces as he travels down the gravel road at Oak Spirit Sanctuary near Boonville. A “Trees are the answer” bumper sticker is haphazardly placed on his tailgate. The truck sloshes through puddles on an over-cast April afternoon.

Breuer, 30, is headed to one of three natural beehives he discovered on the sanctuary over the past few years. He first noticed the low buzz of the bees in a tree he estimates to be 350 years old. Since then, he’s returned dozens of times to sit in the shade and commune with the bees.

West of Oak Spirit Sanctuary is 210 acres of undeveloped land Breuer bought this year. He plans to develop the space into a harmonious ecosystem where visitors can see how bees, birds and even bats live in unison. At its heart will be more than 600 active beehives. The honey they produce will serve as the raw material for Breuer’s ultimate vision: Norseman’s Hall Meadery.

Breuer hopes to open Norseman’s Hall by this September. Once he does, it will be the second meadery in the state and the first in mid-Missouri. The honey-based alcoholic drink dates back to 7000 B.C. Its modern use has largely been relegated to Renaissance festivals. Imagine: a goblet in one hand, a turkey leg in the other and a jousting game ahead.

Now mead is slowly regaining popularity as an artisanal alcohol, with about 300 registered mead makers across the country.

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Johnathan Breuer admires a

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Mead-to-know basis Don’t get it confused. Mead isn’t beer. Mead isn’t wine. Mead is mead.

This sentiment is echoed throughout the mead-making industry. Mead is unfamiliar to many people, so it’s often defined by what it’s not.

Beer usually comes from wheat, malt or barley. Wine is derived from grapes or other fruits. Mead, however, begins with honey.

At its core, mead tastes like honey, says Todd Rock, head mead maker at the Leaky Roof Meadery in Buffalo, Missouri. As with beers, coffees and teas, the drink can be flavored. For example, the Leaky Roof Meadery offers a green tea and mint mead called the Mikado.

Breuer also plans to offer a variety of flavors: traditional honey, chipotle, ghost pepper, pine needle and sassafras. He’ll also offer seasonal varieties, including blackberry in the summer and yule mead made with nutmeg, cinnamon and clove in the winter.

Mead is similar to wine in some regards, says Stephanie Drilling, the president and founding member of the Missouri Mead Making Society, which is based in O’Fallon, Missouri. “It can be dry, not just sweet,” Drilling says. “Mead has a more silky mouth feel whereas wine has an astringent mouth feel.” It’s also typically dressed and labeled similarly to wine — sometimes as “honey wine.”

“Among winemakers, mead is the red-headed stepchild,” Rock says. “It never receives the same attention or credit, though — never as popular or prestigious as the grape wine.”

Like wine, mead can also be extremely versatile, Rock says. Dry or sweet, strong or weak, flat or carbonated or anywhere in between.

In the U.S., mead typically ranges from 12 to 14 percent alcohol by volume, but some meaderies brew as low as 5 or 6 percent. Most beers are between 3 and 10 percent, and most table wines are between 8 and 14 percent. However, back in Breuer’s ancestral homeland of Denmark, he has seen mead with a 70-percent alcohol content.

“Dangerous,” Breuer says.

Mead the family For Breuer, making mead is a natural extension of his heritage. His family is from Denmark, but his ancestors most likely traveled there from Germany during the Viking era, a 300-year period starting in the late 8th century. This history is reflected in his last name, Breuer, which is Danish for brewer of ale or beer. Fortunately, he has an affinity for beer, wine and spirits.

Breuer grew up about 90 miles east of Columbia in Washington, Missouri. At 18, he joined the Marine Corps, in part to honor his Viking heritage. After six years in and out of Afghanistan, Iraq and Kenya, Breuer enrolled in East Central College Missouri to study marketing and business management. He took biology as an

Cauldron of HochdorfIn 1978-79, archaeologist Jorg Biel excavated a burial chamber in Germany. The grave revealed a Celtic noble who’d been buried around 500 B.C. — and a 500-liter cauldron with nine large drinking horns. A cake-like deposit found in the cauldron tested positive for mead.

Drinking horns Viking drinking horns, typically made from cow or goat’s horns, were the drinking vessel of choice back then. Think of the horn as today’s funnel.

Game of Thrones Mead is never mentioned by name in the TV show. But some people are attributing the growing popularity of mead to the HBO show. Game of Thrones viewing party, anyone? Order a keg of mead.

HoneymoonThe term comes from the ancient tradition of giving newlyweds a moon-worth of honey wine or mead. This was believed to assist in securing a fruitful union (aka many babies).

Mead DayYes, there’s a holiday for mead. And possibly the best excuse to drink. Mead Day, organized by the American Homebrewers Association, has been a tradition since 2002. This year, Mead Day is Aug. 1.

Mead of Poetry Norse mythology tells the story of a Mead of Poetry. Supposedly, anyone who drank mead turned into a scholar. They would be able to recite lists from memory and solve impossible dilemmas.

Mead fact and fiction

The tattoo on the inside of Breuer’s right arm is a Norse compass. “I turned it upside down because you never really know where you are going,” he says.

Breuer envisions a

peaceful visiting experience at Norseman Hall

Meadery, a place where people can enjoy nature and

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The bees mind their business as

they go in and out of their hive. “I love my bees,” he says. “They

treat me well.”

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— Direction and DesignThis is a story about the resurgence of mead, an artisanal alcohol made from honey, and the local man behind it. The making process of mead was

my main inspiration. When I was doing sketches for my spreads, I wanted to carry the concept of this honey-based alcohol over this package, which is how I ended up with honeycomb as the main elements of my design.

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BRINGING IN THE GREENSDig up the best herbs and blooms for an indoor gardenPAGE 4

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Three decades of good food and

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elective, and it was there he fell for bees.Breuer remembers the first time he tended a

hive. It was 2012, and he was excited, bold and naive. He was wearing only gloves and a hat, and the bees swarmed.

He later counted about 175 stings. But that wasn’t the worst part for Breuer. Because honeybees die after they sting, he lost a portion of his hive.

Breuer has never repeated that mistake. Whenever he adds a new hive to his collection, he visits it daily for a week and always wears his protective gear.

“Bees fall in love with you after about a week,” Breuer says. “People don’t see that. If they land on me now, it’s because they want to dance on me like I’m their queen.”

After the first week, Breuer collects the honey with ease. He harvests from different areas of each hive every third or fourth day and usually collects 3 to 15 pounds of honey each time.

In addition to the three natural hives on his Boonville property, Breuer has about 600 hives on a separate property in the Ozarks.

In Missouri, bee season typically runs for about eight months starting in March.

Once his hives are active, Breuer estimates they’ll produce between 41,000 and 61,000 pounds of honey during each season, depending on the pollen counts, the size of the hives and the weather.

That’s more than enough to sustain his meadery.“The first time you get to drink mead that your

bees made you, that’s pretty awesome,” he says.

Mead-ieval historyHistorical accounts of mead are as varied as those who tell them. But most aficionados agree on one fact: Mead was the first alcoholic beverage known to man. Chris Webber, former president of the American Mead Makers Association, says it occurs on its own in nature.

“In prehistoric times, dinosaur bees were probably making honeycomb in a tree trunk or cave,” Webber says. “Water gets into it, diluting it down. There’s naturally occurring yeast, so add air, and fermentation happens.”

When the production of mead became intentional, it spread across cultures and continents. During the Viking era, mead was the drink of choice. According to Webber, it was used for celebrations and medicinal purposes.

By the height of the Middle Ages, people had turned to beer and wine because it was cheaper and easier to make, Webber says. However, for monks, mead was considered a holy drink because of the numerous Biblical references to honey. It also tasted better than water, Breuer says. The sales from mead were used to fund the church.

Literature’s most famous mead maker might be Robin Hood’s Friar Tuck, who was also was a beekeeper. A second reference is found in the Old English poem Beowulf, which is primarily set in a mead hall.

Need for meadMany mead makers consider the drink the next step in the craft alcohol trend, from wine to microbrew beers to hard ciders.

“Craft beer was the nexus for everything else,” says Webber, who traces the explosion of all craft alcohol to a 1978 federal law legalizing homebrewing.

Webber says the interest in mead has traditionally been strongest in Michigan. He once called it the epicenter of the mead industry. Other states with high concentrations of mead making include Colorado, California and Washington.

Jonathan Steffens, co-owner of the Craft Beer Cellar, located in downtown Columbia, says the store has easily become the top mead seller in mid-Missouri offering almost 25 different meads. “There are one or two sections of the spirits industry that have potential,” Steffens says. “Mead is one.”

Drilling, who owns Design2Brew, a beer, wine, mead, cider and distilling supplier in O’Fallon, says her business, which sells 26 varieties of honey to brewers and winemakers, has noticed an uptick in honey sales.

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makingCreate the unfermented version of mead. A combination of water, honey and yeast.

Filter the honey from the hive. Straining helps ensure little bee legs won’t be found floating in the mead.

The mixture ferments for up to two weeks.

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Breuer started making batches of mead about three years ago in five-gallon buckets. The process was never highly sophisticated, but he now uses 250-gallon food-grade jugs in a barn in the Ozarks, where he will produce his mead until he opens Norseman’s Hall. His process roughly follows these steps.

Add aditional ingredients for flavor.

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Mead between the lines“Every week we have a dozen new mead makers come into the store,” she says. Not every mead maker is in the beekeeping business, so they rely on suppliers like hers for their honey, Drilling says.

The mead market is young but growing, according to the spring 2015 issue of American Mead Maker. Last year, the industry counted 42 new meaderies.

It’s difficult to define the national profits from mead making, but the American Mead Makers Association tries to keep tabs. A survey of its members revealed that 52 meaderies reported $62 million in profits in 2014. That was up 84 percent from 2012. However, mead still cannot compare to its elder brother, craft beer, which pulled in $19.6 billion last year.

Sweet dreams made of meadLike the Leaky Roof Meadery in Buffalo, Breuer wants to start small and remain

exclusive. His first goal is to get his mead on the shelves at the Craft Beer Cellar. He’s starting with three flavors: traditional honey, blackberry and ghost pepper. As soon as the mead labels are printed and approved, he’ll begin bottling.

Once the mead starts pouring, he’ll get started on the construction of Norseman’s Hall. He envisions a great hall with long tables and a blazing fire in the center — one reminiscent of the mead hall in Beowulf. He wants to create a communal atmosphere that brings people together by celebrating his Viking heritage. Using a combination of profits from his honey, mead, organic fruit, a barter with Amish near Sedalia and a loan, he will create his great hall.

Breuer says it’s about paying tribute to where he came from. He hopes to give his ancestors a good name and to bring mead back into the spotlight.

Breuer plans to plant blueberries,

blackberries and raspberries in one-acre

hexagonal plots. He hopes the land will

look like a giant honeycomb.

“I have never seen mead enjoyed more in any hall of earth.”

— Beowulf, Seamus Heaney translation

“A horn of mead was never far from his hand.” — A Dance With Dragons, George R.R. Martin

“He had never tasted anything like it before, but enjoyed it immensely.”

— Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling

“They sat long at the table with their wooden drinking-bowls filled with mead.”

— The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

“The long years have passed like swift draughts of the sweet mead in lofty halls beyond the West.”

— The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien


Topped with shrimp and blue cheese, Blue Chips Cheese Bread remains one of Murry’s most popular dishes. This inventive take on cheese bread is inspired by Chips Godfrey, blue cheese enthusiast and longtime friend of the Murry’s co-owners, Bill Sheals and Gary Moore.

How did you get your name on this dish?“When they opened, business was really slow, and Bill used to kill time by coming up with interesting combinations and naming them after his friends. So one night when we were there he came up with this blue cheese bread, and because I love blue cheese, it was named after me and later put on the menu.”— Chips Godfrey

One of the newest additions to Murry’s menu, these rings are deep fried green bell peppers topped with powdered sugar. This might seem like an unusual combination, but this dish is one of the restaurant’s most famous items. The namesake, Brock Jones, is another longtime friend of the owners.

How did you get your name on this dish? “Well, I walked in (to Murry’s) one day to find my name on the menu next to something named Green Pepper Rings. When I asked Bill what they were and how he came up with the recipe, he said that he based it off a dish I had told him I had during a trip to New York. Of course he tweaked the recipe a bit by adding powdered sugar.” — Brock Jones

How did you get your name on this dish? “When I came from New York to Columbia, it didn’t take long for me to discover Booches, which is where I solidified my friendship with Gary. I would order a grilled cheese sandwich and asked for it without all the lard. (One day) I was walking across the street from Booches around lunchtime. As I was walking, I heard Bob Rapold (one of Booches’ owners) on the grill saying, ‘Oh jeez, here comes the asshole.’ I knew he was talking about me. Chris waited on me, and knowing that Chris is married to Bob, I told her to tell Bob, ‘The asshole would like a grilled cheese sandwich with everything on it.’ Which at Booches meant sauerkraut, pickles, mustard, ketchup, and maybe tomato. It grew to being such that I would walk in there and just order an asshole sandwich. Then there were other people who had heard the story and would walk in and ask for the sandwich. At one point I said to those guys (the owners of Booches), I want to see the it on the menu. Of course they wouldn’t do it. When Gary and Billy opened Murry’s, they couldn’t exactly put an asshole sandwich on the menu, so it became known as The J.P. Grilled Cheese.” — Jon Poses

The J.P. Grilled Cheese is more than a piece of cheese between two slices of bread. It’s like a burger version of a grilled cheese but with no meat and all the fixings, including sauerkraut, onions and pickles. The sandwich is named after Jon Poses, or “J.P.,” who is executive director of the “We Always Swing” Jazz Series.

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Cover of Vox Magazine July 02 issue— Art Direction and DesignThis is a story about the 30th anniversary of Murry's, a local restaurant famous of live jazz, historical

performers and scrumptious food. I went and ate at Murry's several times before sketching for my spread. I was inspired by the dark and stylish atmosphere and use the menu as a design element in this feature.

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When Murry’s co-owner Bill Sheals and his family eat dinner at his restaurant, they wait in line like everyone else. “No one, no matter who you are, can get a reservation,” says Pete Allison, a devoted Murry’s customer who has frequented the restaurant since it opened. Allison recalls that years ago, then Gov. Mel Carnahan and his staff were refused a reservation.

For co-owners Sheals, 66, and Gary Moore, 62, that’s part of their secret to success. No advertising, no name changes, no fancy attire required. It’s just, “Good Food, Good Jazz.” Yesterday, July 1, marked the restaurant’s third decade. In true Murry’s fashion, there wasn’t a big celebration with a VIP guest list. The owners continued working as they always have.

If there’s one thing Sheals and Moore have learned since opening in 1985, it’s the power of staying put. They have made their business a success in a location where the two previous establishments closed in fewer than five years.

Murry’s lore reaches back to the late ‘70s when Moore and Sheals met as students working in the local bar scene. The building at 3107 Green Meadows Way that eventually became their restaurant went through two sets of owners before they took over. The original business, Andy’s Corner, got its name from an old roadhouse in the area. That restaurant failed and Mick Jabbour, one of the owners of Booches, and his wife, Missy McReynolds, bought it in the mid-‘80s. The couple came up with the name Murry’s in honor of a customer who played a lot of snooker at Booches. “Mick just liked the guy,” Moore says.

About six to eight months later, Jabbour and McReynolds realized they couldn’t handle the demands of two restaurants. So they handed Murry’s off to Sheals and Moore, who was a former Booches employee. To avoid the cost of registering a new name, Moore and Sheals stuck with Murry’s.

“We wanted to create a place where people could come and get a steak without having to dress-up,” Sheals says.

Sheals and Moore also really like jazz, and no other places in town were playing it at the time. They started booking live acts, such as Ravi Coltrane and Christian McBride, and steadily earned a reputation for great music. On New Year’s Eve in 2005, René Marie sang at Murry’s and NPR highlighted the restaurant in a segment called “Toast of the Nation.”

The comfortable, homey atmosphere and the storied history have kept employee turnover low. Numerous staff members have been with the restaurant for more than a decade. Others have come to learn from Sheals and Moore before branching out on their own. The co-owner of Teller’s, Deb Rust, and the co-owner of Sycamore’s, Sanford Speake, both got their start at Murry’s. “We are totally excited about everyone that has left here to do something else and hugely supportive,” Moore says.

Those who know the owners well admire them for their collaboration. “Most partnerships don’t last very long, but Bill and Gary have been really good friends the whole time,” Allison says. From the beginning, the duo set out to pair quality food and quality service with good people. “If we could do that, then people will come back,” Moore says. “It took a little while, but they did.” Their dedication shows as soon as customers step foot into Murry’s.

Introduction by Emma GambaroPhotos by Stephanie Sidoti


“Murry’s evokes Bill and Gary’s

personalities; they like jazz. They

like baseball…” longtime

customer Pete Allison says. The

restaurant houses jazz and sports

memorabilia. For the most part, all

the photos and LPs on the walls are from people

who have played music or eaten at

Murry’s.

Murry’s is known for its casual, comfortable atmosphere. At Murry’s customers are just as welcome to dress up as they are to dress down. The dim lighting gives the restaurant a sophisticated feel, though the lack of tablecloths make the joint seem a little more relaxed.

Jazz guitarist and teacher Lyle Harris is the only local artist who appears in a portrait on the walls at Murry’s. “He taught just about everybody who played guitar in Columbia,” Sheals says. “If you ask The Hennessy Brothers, or anyone that played music between 1960 and 1990, they would know who Lyle is,” he says.

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Murry’s is known for its casual, comfortable atmosphere. At Murry’s customers are just as welcome to dress up as they are to dress down. The dim lighting gives the restaurant a sophisticated feel, though the lack of tablecloths make the joint seem a little more relaxed.

These red chairs once lined Busch Stadium, home of the St. Louis Cardinals. Sheals and Moore received them as a Christmas gift from their staff. They’re now placed outside the restaurant as a place for customers to sit while waiting in the long lines that are typical at Murry’s.

Although the restaurant’s name hasn’t changed since Sheals and Moore took over, they’ve had options. When the two owners bought Murry’s, they considered changing the name to Miles, after legendary jazz artist Miles Davis. However, due to the expense of filing for a business name change, they decided to stay with Murry’s. Andy’s Corner a previous name.

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The plaques at the end of the bar pay tribute to longtime employees. “I’ve been coming to Murry’s since the beginning, and I know people who have worked there for 15 years,” frequent customer Pete Allison says. “People want to work at Murry’s. To them it’s more than a job; it’s a family.”

Former employee Elise Rugolo painted jazz-themed murals for Sheals and Moore. These works went in the new section of Murry’s, which Moore helped plan out. His past work as a city planner in Mexico, Missouri, helped the owners execute their vision for the added space.

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Nov. 22, 2009– Christian McBride Bassist McBride has performed four times at Murry’s. His band, Inside Straight, won four Grammy awards and played songs with The Roots.

Dec. 31, 2009 – Bobby WatsonAlto saxophonist Watson played with Art Blakey’s legendary Jazz Messengers as a college graduate. He has released 21 albums as a main performer.

Oct. 10, 2010 – Tierney SuttonSutton’s multiple Grammy nominations and performances at Carnegie Hall and The Hollywood Bowl confirm she’s one of jazz’s great vocalists.

Dec. 5, 2010 – Joey CalderazzoPianist Joey Calderazzo’s has performed his measured work alongside former Miles Davis band member Jack DeJohnette.

Feb. 20, 2011 – Ray VegaA trumpeter for Tito Puente, Vega’s Latin-based sound is full of soul and passion.

Jan. 2, 2012 – Ravi ColtraneThe son of the monolithic saxophonist John Coltrane, Ravi Coltrane has stepped out of his father’s shadow to forge his own storied career.

Feb. 17, 2013 – Grace KellyKelly has played across the world and performed with “Take Five” creator Dave Brubeck at inauguration festivities for President Obama.

Dec. 8, 2013 – Aaron DiehlA Juilliard School grad, Diehl has performed at the Monterey Jazz Festival and won the Cole Porter Fellowship from the American Pianists Association in 2011.

April 13, 2014 – Catherine RussellThe daughter of Louie Armstrong’s musical director, Russell has been around jazz her entire life. Every one of her wailing notes drips with soul.

March 1, 2015 – René MarieMarie’s 2005 performance at Murry’s was broadcast nationally for NPR as part of its “Toast to the Nation” series. The vocalist is unafraid to get political and has dedicated songs to the Jena 6 and altered the lyrics to “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

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What MU students are getting right about sexual assault prevention


Cover of Vox Magazine July 30 issue— Art Direction, Design and IllustrationThis is a story about what students in MU have done to help prevent sexual assault in campus. I

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MU administrators have been giving sexual assault prevention the old college try, but so far, students are the ones leading the wayBy Laura Heck

In early 2015, three groups of MU student leaders came together to outline their goals for the year. These groups — the Missouri Students Association, the undergraduate student government; the Panhellenic Association, the governing body for sororities;

and the Interfraternity Council, the governing body for fraternities — are heavy hitters in the campus community. They frequently are first to get the ear of administrators and have autonomy to make decisions that affect student life.

Many of these students are part of the “Mizzou Famous” crowd, an informal group who are often selected for Tour Team, Summer Welcome and secret societies. They are future politicians, high-level administrators and company COOs. They use buzzwords such as “programming”and “we started the conversation” in everyday speech.

And they are working hard to prevent sexual assault on MU’s campus.

Sexual violence has plagued college campuses for decades, inspiring federal legislation such as Title IX in 1972, which handles cases of sexual violence and gender-based discrimination in any federally funded educational program. The Clery Act, signed in 1990, requires colleges to disclose information about crime on and around campuses.

In 2014, President Barack Obama set up a task force dedicated to finding solutions for sexual assault on college campuses. The force created several strategies released in an April 2014 report called “Not Alone.” In the report, the task force identified one important factor helping to alter the climate on college

campuses across the country: “A new generation of student activists is effectively pressing for change, asking hard questions and coming up with innovative ways to make our campuses safer.”

Some of the activists mentioned in the report can be found on MU’s campus. They’re spearheading programs, including PHA and IFC peer education groups and MSA awareness campaigns, to create a legacy of sexual assault prevention.

The MSA’s work received the attention of the presidential task force. As a result, MSA President Payton Head sat on a panel about educational and awareness efforts on college campuses during the President’s Leadership Summit at the White House in June.

MU and Ohio State University were the only schools asked to be on the panel. “Missouri definitely got the conversation going for the other schools,” Head says. “We got real with them. We shared some of the good things Mizzou has done — which was inspiring for other student leaders that things can be accomplished — but we also talked about our shortcomings.” He says sharing difficulties of the MSA sexual assault awareness campaigns during break-out sessions helped other school leaders speak up.

But the conference was also bittersweet for Head. Yes, MU is at the forefront of national sexual assault awareness. But the conference also highlighted how difficult making a real impact can be. “That’s when I realized that even the White House doesn’t have the proper solution for this,” Head says.

MU students, faculty and staff march on campus during the Take Back the Night event in April. Photo by HANNAH BALDWIN

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The teal ribbon is the symbol for Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April.

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STUDENTS IN THE LEADThe culture of college campuses contributes to a higher rate of sexual violence at universities compared to the surrounding towns and cities, according to a 2004 study from the Journal of Family Violence. To try and decrease this rate, university administrators across the country, who might be uninformed about the dynamics of student life, make policy changes. They hire Title IX coordinators and create presentations to combat sexual assault on campus but might not gather adequate input from the people they’re seeking to protect. It’s a backward approach, and the presidential task force recommends bringing students to the table as much as possible.

The June summit is an indication that students across the country are taking charge instead of waiting for administrations to lead the way. Laura Palumbo

of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center in Pennsylvania says she has seen students taking the lead for more than a year.

“When (the administration has) done best by us is when they let us lead in a lot of the programming,” says Samantha Franks, MSA

director of student services. She says that working with administration has recently become easier, and now students can be more transparent about problems with university culture and policy. “We’re finally able to say things are not always great at the university, but we’re going to try to make it better,” Franks says.

There are still frustrations, Franks says. In the fall, students got a Green Dot banner placed on the columns, which brought awareness to the Relationship and Sexual Violence Center program focused on creating spaces where sexual assault is not tolerated. But when the SEC Network set up for GameDay, the banner was relocated to Switzler Hall to get a shot of Jesse Hall, according to an MU tweet.

The university’s public identity is one of many issues the administration has to consider alongside their legal and civic responsibilities to provide a safe place for students. Although MU has several administrators dedicated to sexual assault prevention and survivor support, they are also swamped with day-to-day tasks or don’t know what it’s like to be a freshman woman at a fraternity party. Allison Fitts, PHA president, says that’s why

listening to students is imperative to finding solutions. “We don’t want to be discounted because we’re 21- or 22-year-old students,” she says. “We’re entrenched in this daily culture.”

As student leaders push their own agendas, many say they are happy with how administrators have been listening to them about the realities of student life. Fitts says such efforts make all the difference. Student leaders cite Cathy Scroggs, vice chancellor for student affairs, and Danica Wolf, RSVP Center coordinator, as administrators who go out of their way to get input from students.

Ellen Eardley, who began as MU’s Title IX administrator in April, worked as a lawyer in Washington, D.C. Although she has dealt extensively with sexual assault cases, she’s new to working directly with student leaders. The MU News Bureau declined to make Eardley or any other administrators available to Vox for interviews.

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Ellen Eardley is the MU Title IX administrator.

People walk along Broadway on a Thursday night. About half of national sexual assault cases involve alcohol either by the victim or the perpetrator, according to a study from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Photo by MARISSA WEIHER

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Eardley has been learning, though, according to various student leaders. Franks of the MSA remembers Eardley attending a meeting in the spring semester, pen and paper in hand to take notes. When the discussion turned to pepper spray and mace, Franks took note of Eardley’s interest — and surprise — at the number of women who carry such devices on college campuses.

Franks says having conversations like that will be important going forward. Blunt discussions between administrators and students about race relations on campus is a good model for sexual assault conversations, she says. “Getting them to listen to what our day-to-day life is like is important,” Franks says. “You hear the numbers and the rhetoric all day long, but it’s entirely different to hear your own students speak about what it’s like to live here.”

DIVISIVE PROPOSAL This June, tension between MU administration and students boiled over when proposals by the MU Fraternity Alumni Consortium, a group of alumni fraternity members, were leaked, catching the attention of national media outlets such as USA Today College and The Huffington Post. The regulations included a ban on hard alcohol in fraternity houses, restricting out-of-town formals and — most incendiary — not allowing women in the chapter houses during peak party hours on Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m., Stop Day and the first week of classes.

These requirements are meant to protect women and, more generally, students, according to the consortium. But two groups

weren’t part of creating the regulations: students and women.

The proposals blindsided many and were seen as out-of-touch solutions showing what can happen when people

outside of a group try to change it. “It was very clear it was coming from a place where these people don’t know the culture well enough to make policies for Greek Life,” says Kendall Foley, vice president of risk management for the Panhellenic Association.

In response to the attention, student leaders and MU administration were invited to attend the Chancellor’s Summit on Sexual Assault and Student Safety in Greek Life in July.

“We did something similar to this in the ’90s but nothing to this degree,” Scroggs says in a statement released after the summit. “I think within a year they’re going to be saying, ‘Let’s do things like the University of Missouri.’ That’s our goal. We intend to be the national model.”

Some walked away from the discussion saying it was fruitful. PHA president Fitts says her organization will implement some of the strategies discussed during break-out sessions, though they weren’t proposed in the meeting’s body. But the lack of immediate action frustrated Jason Blincow, IFC president. “We had all these important people with huge voices on campus in the same room, but we all left, and it didn’t really seem like we had a great game plan,” he says.

IFC was already working on policy changes similar to those discussed in the consortium proposals and during the summit. Blincow says the proposals didn’t change anything for students; most of the rules have been dropped, and a hard liquor ban was something IFC officers have been talking about for awhile. They’ve seen other universities, such as KU, find realistic success with the ban as far as mitigating general risk, he says. The rule will be enforced at or near the start of the school year, according to Blincow.

IFC has worked to change how fraternity men think about sexual assault, despite not being brought into the consortium’s proposal discussions. Last year, IFC began plans for a peer-education program that was tested this spring. About 15 fraternity men attended almost-weekly meetings to discuss alcohol safety, gender norms and masculinity. Various officials came and spoke to the men, including Kim Dude, director of the Wellness Resource Center, and Travis Fox, a counselor from the MU Counseling Center.

The goal is for these men to take what they discussed back to their houses. Blincow says fraternities are unclear about what is considered sexual assault, and education is key to changing the culture.

But it has to be realistic and engaging for men to want to learn. “The idea of peer education is not to force a bunch of guys to sit in a room in front of a speaker,” Blincow says. Instead, students talk about how they see the culture around them affecting themselves and others.

The sense of personal responsibility that comes with engaging in discussion is a reason peer-education programs can be the most effective way to start a conversation among Greek chapters, Foley says.

BAND OF SISTERS Shortly after the consortium proposals were leaked, PHA released a sexual violence education plan its members had been working on for months. “We wanted people to know that we are working to make this

What is the policy?Because of a system-wide policy implemented after a 1972 ruling, all MU employees must receive training to be mandatory reporters of sexual harassment. If faculty believes a student has been sexually harassed, the staff member has to report it to the Title IX office. This doesn’t necessarily mean the incident will be reported to authorities. From there, the Title IX office contacts the student, asking if he or she would like to pursue the case further. Mandatory reporters are required to explain their duties before the student mentions anything they would be compelled to share with Title IX. Staff have the ability to cut someone off mid-conversation for fear of hearing something they have to share, according to the MU Title IX website. They should be able to direct the person to the RSVP Center or other people with whom to speak.

Which faculty members are exempt from mandatory reporting?The policy states that exceptions to this rule at MU include the RSVP Center staff or other faculty with additional legal requirements, such as health providers or lawyers. This gets tricky for faculty who play multiple roles at the university. For example, when Danica Wolf acts on behalf of the RSVP center, she can offer confidentiality. But when she is teaching a course, she is compelled to report any instances of sexual harassment. Staff members who work at both the Women’s Center and the RSVP Center can only offer confidentiality while working for RSVP.

If you tell a mandatory reporter about a case of sexual harassment, what happens?Short answer: It’s not as scary as it sounds. The faculty member informs the Title IX office, which then reaches out to the victim and makes sure he or she has been given enough help and information. It doesn’t commit the victim to any legal processes, and no formal reports are filed unless he or she decides to do so. The Title IX office also discusses the availability of medical attention, mental health services or legal procedures. All of these options are just that — options.

Is the policy changing?Samantha Franks, Missouri Students Association director of student services, says mandatory reporting has only added to the confusion surrounding Title IX and has made students feel alienated from staff. Student leaders on campus want ways to make it easier for students to confide in university staff to whom they feel close. MSA proposes an “ally” position where staff can undergo further training that makes them exempt from mandated reporting and be a less intimidating ear for students who have been sexually assaulted.

Why is the change happening?Although mandated reporters are suggested policy through federal Title IX legislation, the University of Missouri System began training programs after the controversy surrounding MU student Sasha Menu Courey’s suicide in 2011. ESPN revealed Menu Courey had told at least one university employee of an alleged assault, but she didn’t get help for the incident. This is something that many media outlets, at the time, said could have been a contributing factor in her death.

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Missouri running back Derrick Washington is suspended from the football team. Washington was accused of rape in October 2008. He is later sentenced to five years in prison for a June 2010 sexual assault incident involving a tutor. In August 2014, Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin said the school should have performed an investigation in 2008 in compliance with Title IX.

Two Clery releases describe a suspect harassing female students on campus, in one case giving the student a “bear hug.” The bear hugger, Timothy Anderson, is sentenced to 10 days in the Boone County Jail and two years of probation.

Sasha Menu Courey, a Missouri swimmer, dies by suicide. Before her death, she alleged a Missouri football player raped her in 2010. The case is brought to the Columbia Police Department in 2014 and closed in March 2015 when no suspect is found. The story fuels debate about the responsibilities of administration.

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better, not sitting around for a semester,” Foley says. Sorority leaders talked to members of the Greek

community to find the biggest risk factors for sexual violence for Greek women and the types of pressures the women face. The resulting plan encompasses various entry points for education throughout a woman’s time in Greek Life. The plan states: “The PHA board recognizes that it is unrealistic and ineffective to treat the issue of sexual violence as if it affects all of our members in the same way. We have tailored the education plan to address members throughout all phases of their time in college and

different types of members within the sorority chapter.” The plan, which includes tiers of both formal and informal education for new members, officers and general sorority women, goes into effect in the fall semester.

The group identified the time of year when women are most at risk for sexual violence: September and October during a student’s freshman year.

But PHA members know adding more presentations and programs to a new student’s agenda won’t help. “They’re at college for the first time,”

Foley says. “They’re worried about classes. They’ve got new member programs with their chapters. What we see with new members is that the more you throw at them, the less they retain.”

So PHA hopes to take a more realistic approach. The plan requires each chapter to select 10 incoming pledge class members to become peer educators who spend time receiving specialized education to bring to their sorority sisters. “It’ll be informal, from the inside out,” Foley says. PHA President Fitts says these peer educators will be encouraged to talk casually to other new members, perhaps at lunch,

MU students, faculty and staff attended Take Back the Night at Traditions Plaza. The event was part of MSA’s work to foster a culture of respect and to empower survivors. Photo by HANNAH BALDWIN

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More than 220 people attend the Chancellor’s Summit on Sexual Assault and Student Safety in Greek Life. The summit takes place in response to a series of controversial guidelines from the MU Fraternity Alumni Consortium to prevent sexual assault.

Due to a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, the RSVP Center and The Maneater switch office spaces in the student center. This provides RSVP the chance to expand its operations.

Ellen Eardley is appointed MU’s Title IX administrator. She is tasked with ensuring that the university follows all Title IX legislation, as well as overseeing MU policy related to Title IX.

The Obama administration launches the It’s On Us campaign to help prevent sexual assault on campus.

A Delta Tau Delta member is accused of sexual harassment after dressing like a Teletubby and dancing in the streets during sorority recruitment. The member meets with a Title IX coordinator, but the case is dismissed. Several news sites such as Total Frat Move wondered how the dance moves could be interpreted as sexual harassment.

and learn to recognize when a situation becomes dangerous for their friends.

People can experience a breakthrough when they understand these issues, Foley says. “If we can get those 10 women to get to their breakthrough early on, that can help,” she says.

The hope is that the program helps women to learn what rape and sexual violence really means. A 2013 study from the journal Violence Against Women presented groups of college women with

stories of sexual encounters that legally fit the definition of rape. The women didn’t consider many of the described encounters, which included forced intercourse with a boyfriend or drunken fingering at a party, as violating consent. Many in the study said they would not advise their friends to come forward in those situations because they wouldn’t be taken seriously.

The PHA officers, and many others, see this similar thought process occurring around them. “If people don’t know the definition of different types of sexual assault, it’s just very common that they’ll learn later what sexual assault means, and they’ll realize, ‘Holy crap, I’ve been sexually assaulted all this time,’” Foley says. The new member education program is meant to help teach women what consent means in a variety of scenarios.

The plan also acknowledges that students who learn of a fellow sorority member’s sexual assault often have no idea how to respond. To combat this, leaders will attend training summits and be provided with detailed manuals.

During the Chancellor’s Summit, Fitts says her breakout group developed the idea of creating a new position in each chapter: a Title IX and RSVP Center liaison. This provides an avenue for leaders who find out a member of their chapter has experienced sexual violence. Fitts says this will give Greek women someone they know they can turn to. The position will be implemented in each chapter this fall.

A CULTURE OF RESPECT MSA President Head and his fellow officers are dedicated to creating a “culture of respect” on campus. He says that idea alone could limit sexual assault. Prevention is the priority.

Last year, MSA student leaders launched a campaign called Enough is Enough, which educated students about how to prevent sexual violence. This year, MSA adopted the It’s On Us campaign created by the White House task force because it has more national support and attention. Commercial spots have been running nationally and feature celebrities such as MU alumnus Jon Hamm, as well as Kerry Washington and Common, who say, “It’s on us to stop sexual assault.” The campaign encourages members to take a pledge and offers tools for carrying out its goal.

A candlelight vigil honors those who have lost their lives to or suffered from sexual violence. Photos by HANNAH BALDWIN

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Spice up the season with events for every taste

HOMECOMING QUEENSheryl Crow returns to Mizzou

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Fall Review

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Arts Meet the Author Series: Susan Finlay Susan Finlay talks about her recent suspense novel “Liars’ Games.” The book tells the story of a math teacher who falls into a world of lies and deceit at a new school where school violence is the norm.Where: Boone County Museum and GalleriesWhen: Dec. 20, 10:30 a.m.Cost: $3Call: 443-8936Online: boonehistory.org

Festivals

Living Windows FestivalForget mannequins. The Living Windows Festival brings magic to life in the windows of The District shops by using real people. Where: Boone County Museum and GalleriesWhen: Dec. 20, 10:30 a.m.Cost: $3Call: 443-8936Online: boonehistory.org

Santa HotlineCurl up with hot chocolate and call Santa’s hotline for a chance to speak to Santa, Mrs. Claus or one of the elf helpers. (Note: Callers must be 3 to 10 years old, so no MU fans wishing for a bowl game win should tie up the line.)Where: Boone County Museum and GalleriesWhen: Dec. 20, 10:30 a.m.Cost: $3Call: 443-8936Online: boonehistory.org

Winter Craft BazaarDon’t go far to find the areas best baked goods, resale items and handmade crafts. From cranberry candles to pine birdhouses, this bazaar showcases home-based vendors. Where: Boone County Museum and GalleriesWhen: Dec. 20, 10:30 a.m.Cost: $3

Call: 443-8936Online: boonehistory.org

Breakfast with Santa Holiday TrainHop aboard the Columbia Star for a two-hour excursion including a hot breakfast, activities and Mr. and Mrs. Claus along with their helpers.Where: Boone County Museum and GalleriesWhen: Dec. 20, 10:30 a.m.Cost: $3Call: 443-8936Online: boonehistory.org

Columbia Eve FestFrom a 5K run/walk to live entertainment, this alcohol-free block party aims to bring the community together. Food trucks and fire twirlers will help ring in the New Year. Where: Boone County Museum and GalleriesWhen: Dec. 20, 10:30 a.m.Cost: $3Call: 443-8936Online: boonehistory.org

Sports Tunnel TrotThe inaugural Missouri State Parks Racing Series ends with the Tunnel Trot. Runners put their best foot forward and stride down the 5K or 12K Katy Trail course.

Where: Boone County Museum and GalleriesWhen: Dec. 20, 10:30 a.m.Cost: $3Call: 443-8936Online: boonehistory.org

Magic Tree Holiday FestivalExperience the Columbia tradition of illuminating a tree with thousands of Christmas lights. After the lighting ceremony, shop a holiday bazaar, meet Santa and ride on a carriage.Where: Boone County Museum and GalleriesWhen: Dec. 20, 10:30 a.m.Cost: $3Call: 443-8936Online: boonehistory.org

Jingle Bell Run/WalkCome wearing bells and ready to spread holiday cheer for the nationwide 5K race for arthritis. Where: Boone County Museum and GalleriesWhen: Dec. 20, 10:30 a.m.Cost: $3Call: 443-8936Online: boonehistory.org

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Where: Boone County Museum and Galleries

When: Dec. 20, 10:30 a.m.Cost: $3

Call: 443-8936Online: boonehistory.org

Breakfast with Santa Holiday TrainHop aboard the Columbia

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Sports Tunnel TrotThe inaugural Missouri State Parks Racing Series ends with the Tunnel Trot. Runners put their best foot forward and stride down the 5K or 12K Katy Trail course.Where: Boone County Museum and GalleriesWhen: Dec. 20, 10:30 a.m.

Cost: $3Call: 443-8936Online: boonehistory.org



Vince gill with Amy GrantElizabeth Smart’s story is not an easy one to hear. In the summer of 2002,

Smart was abducted from her Utah home and held hostage for nine months. Smart was chained, raped, threatened and kept in disguise. Af-

ter persuading her captors to return to Utah, Smart was rescued and returned to her family.

For a decade, Smart didn’t talk about the gruesome details of her kid-napping. In October, she shared the whole story, from her abduction to the courtroom confrontation of her captors, in her memoir My Story.

that it doesn’t mean you have to be defined by it for the rest of your life.”For a decade, Smart didn’t talk about the gruesome details of her kidnap-

ping. In October, she shared the whole story, from her abduction to the court-room confrontation of her captors, in her memoir My Story. that it doesn’t mean you have to be defined by it for the rest of your life.”

For a decade, Smart didn’t talk about the gruesome details of her kidnap-ping. In October, she shared the whole story, from her abduction to the court-room confrontation of her captors, in her memoir My Story. that it doesn’t mean you have to be defined by it for the rest of your life.”

For a decade, Smart didn’t talk about the gruesome details of her kidnap-ping. In October, she shared the whole story, from her abduction to the court-room confrontation of her captors, in her memoir My Story. that it doesn’t mean you have to be defined by it for the rest of your life.”

For a decade, Smart didn’t talk about the gruesome details of her kid-napping. In October, she shared the whole story, from her abduction to the

courtroom confrontation of her captors, in her memoir My Story.

Where: Jesse Hall AuditoriumWhen: March 14, 7:30 p.m.,doors at 7 p.m.Cost: $10 for general public; free for MU studentsCall: 882-4640Online: eventpros.missouri.edu

Vince Gill has written and performed more than his share of hits, such as “One More Last Chance” and “My Kind

ofWoman.” But on this tour, like Garth Brooks and his stripped-downVegas residency, Gill is turning to the past to pay tribute to some country music icons.

Gill’s latest album is called Bakersfield, a reference to the distinctive “Bakersfield Sound” ofWest Coast country producers in the 1960s and ’70s and a tribute of sorts to his two songwriting idols: Merle Haggard and Buck Owens. Gill’s modern hits will share stage time with classics including “Branded Man” and “Foolin’ Around.”

“It’s daunting taking on iconic records like this,” the singer recently told theTennesseean. “It comes from such an honoring, reverent and beautiful place; it never felt anything but special.”

Joining the fun is Gill’s wife, contempo-rary Christian singer Amy Grant, whose most recent album is How Mercy Looks from Here. Since 2000, the couple has joined up for numerous tours.The pair will be putting duet spins on the classic Bakersfield material and their own hit “House of Love.”

Joining the fun is Gill’s wife, contempo-rary Christian singer Amy Grant, whose most recent album is How Mercy Looks from Here. Since 2000, the couple has joined up for numerous tours.

Where: Jesse Hall AuditoriumWhen: March 14, 7:30 p.m.,doors at 7 p.m.Cost: $10 for general public; free for MU stu-dentsCall: 882-4640Online: eventpros.missouri.edu

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Stage The Moscow Ballet’s The Great Russian NutcrackerEnjoy this holiday favorite that is returning to Columbia for its second year. Forty of the world’s best dancers hit the stage as visions of sugar plums dance in the audiences’ heads to the sound of Tchaikovsky’s beloved score. Where: Boone County Museum and GalleriesWhen: Dec. 20, 10:30 a.m.Cost: $3Call: 443-8936Online: boonehistory.org

Arts Meet the Author Series: Susan Finlay Susan Finlay talks about her recent suspense novel “Liars’ Games.” The book tells the story of a math teacher who falls into a world of lies and deceit at a new school where school violence is the norm.Where: Boone County Museum and GalleriesWhen: Dec. 20, 10:30 a.m.Cost: $3Call: 443-8936Online: boonehistory.org

Festivals



Winter Craft BazaarDon’t go far to find the areas best baked goods, resale items and handmade crafts. From cranberry candles to pine birdhouses, this bazaar showcases home-based vendors. Where: Boone County Museum and GalleriesWhen: Dec. 20, 10:30 a.m.Cost: $3Call: 443-8936Online: boonehistory.org



Sports Tunnel TrotThe inaugural Missouri State Parks Racing Series ends with the Tunnel Trot. Runners put their best foot forward and stride down the 5K or 12K Katy Trail course.Where: Boone County Museum and GalleriesWhen: Dec. 20, 10:30 a.m.Cost: $3Call: 443-8936

Online: boonehistory.org



Stage The Moscow Ballet’s The Great Russian NutcrackerEnjoy this holiday favorite that is returning to Columbia for its second year. Forty of the world’s best dancers hit the stage as visions of sugar plums dance in the audiences’ heads to the sound of Tchaikovsky’s beloved score.

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Magazine Prototype—Art Direction, Design and illustrationFreelancer is a picture magazine that provides a platform for young artists and designers to share ideas, thoughts, experience and imagination of the unknown.

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With just two and a half years of experience, 16-year-old Spanish photographer Cristina Otero captivates us with these zoomed-in self-portraits. Using fruit as her inspiration in this

series entitled Tutti Frutti, Otero disrupts the conventional notions of feminine beauty and interacts with different fruits in a seductive performance for the camera. She draws the viewer in with her wide, innocent eyes while the bold, striking colors of her make-up complement each fruit. During an interview, she said that she loves photographing the human face because, “It’s like a dictionary of emotions and ideas, all you want in a person is there, written on her face, so easy to decipher.” Using her own face as the canvas, Otero creates refreshing photos that are extraordinarily eye-catching. These self-portraits are filled with personality!

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FeatureFruit faceWhen it comes to creative self-portraiture, nobody does it quite like Cristina Otero. Known for transforming herself into the most compelling characters, she gained widespread attention when her Tutti Frutti series went viral.

Designing with wordsThis inspiring art project will help you create an exclusive cover page that represent your own personality by just following a few simple steps.

Career10 steops to a freelance designer One of the biggest misconceptions about freelancing is that you sit at home and work comes to you. When the reality is you have to fight for it, and fight hard. Here are some simple secrets to becoming a successful freelancer.

Q&AThe Crazy MindMarwane Pallas, a young talented self-taught fine art photographer and visual artist, shares his idea behind his crisp, rich in content, and heavily beautiful images.

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Two years ago, I accidentally discovered a series of very creative self portraits on instagram by a16-year-old photographer, Cristina Otera. The combination of colorful makeup with different type of fruits was so fancinating to me that I save these photos in my own albem. From them on, I started to collect interesting art and design ideas that I found online, put them all in one folder and look at them whenever I am stuck in design. These beautiful art works could always give me inspiration, that’s why I came up with the idea of creating Freelancer, a magazine that opens your mind.

Published once a month, Freelancer is a picture magazine that’s devoted to provide a platform for young artists and designers to share ideas, thoughts, experience and imagination of the unknown. We focus on searching for the most extraordinary work in creative, art, photography and design. We also have a job board for companies and organizations who want to hire freelance artists, hoping to help young creative people succeed in their career. The event calendar will also offer you information about the most recent art events for the coming month. In this first issue, I take a look at a lot of creative portraits ideas by young photographers and designers.

Online, Freelancer will share tutorials of beautiful design and art works. We encourage young designers, especially students, to share your ideas with us. We’ll provide a forum for you to ask questions, share advice and inspire one another. We’ll also put free design resources online for you to download.

I appreciate your support and are so happy to have you as a reader of Freelancer Magazine.

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Q&A

A conversation with Marwane PallasBy Cathy Smith

Marwane Pallas is a young, self-taught fine art photographer and visual artist. This French photographer is based in Saint-Etienne. Currently he is attending a French Grande Ecole in a city

near Paris where he moved, but he’s from the countryside. He just finished a three year bachelor last year and in a couple of years he will graduate with a Master in Business Sciences.

He shoots portraits and self-portraits, and let me tell you, they are out of this world. His images are so crisp, rich in content, and heavily beautiful. He doesn’t take himself too seriously, but, that’s what makes this interview fun! Join us as Marwane tells us about the meaning behind some of his most fantastical series, shows us what it takes to get from the shot out of the camera to the final image, and humorously tells us about his self published book. This kid’s got some talent!

Marwane said he photographed his ass because "it’s my body part that had always received most praises."


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How would you classify the work that you create?Pictures. I really like the adjective “pictorial”, there is a very important link between painting and photography in my art which is a kind of cross-over. Mixing two ingredients requires taste, which I’m always exercising. I need to reach the perfect dosage. Sometimes two good things can merge into something very disappointing. Like chocolate with alcohol in it.

How did you become interested in photography?I discovered photography quite late actually. Some people are born with a camera in their hands, but in my case I had pencils.* I had already left high school when I started being interested in taking photos and only bought my DSLR in june 2011 (I remember it clearly because it was the day right after the most important exams of my life). I was very busy with my studies already, but I needed to keep exploring visual arts. I switched from drawing to photography as it seemed faster to take a photo than to draw.*Except that one time when I was 8 and I was given a disposable camera for a school trip of several days, and I kept taking photos of the same building near the youth hostel every morning because I was not sure I had taken the right photo the day before and finally the only photos that survived printing where the 6 photos of that very same building. Regarding today’s standards in contemporary photography, I think I can say it was my first conceptual series.

Why’d you photograph your ass? It’s my body part that had always received most praises. The story behind it is that I

came back from a portfolio review where I was told I would be “a good stock image photographer” because my work was only illustrative or brainless or “too much”, and I will never be taken seriously if I don’t drop my pencils and take photos of sinks in the third world while quoting Nietzsche in my artist statements. So they got a picture of my ass.

What inspires you?Paintings of the XXth century, screenshots of movies, old BBC series, my childhood, folk music, the countryside, life frustrations, pieces of clothes, the sky and jokes.

How long is the process of creating a photograph?I don’t plan my shooting, sometimes I have an idea but I tend to improvise more. It’s hard to compute the time spent on one single photo. I can produce up to 10 pictures out of a single shooting or only 2 for a shooting of the same length. Then the editing varies from a couple of hours to several weeks of different drafts when drawing is involved.

What is your proudest moment as an artist?I haven’t accomplished much for the moment. I may be represented in America by a gallery based in New York later this year, which is a huge thing for me but I’m not sure of the outcomes yet. So for the moment, it’s every time I showed my pictures to my parents. I view my photographs like my drawings, and the first thing I would do after finishing a drawing was to show it to my mother or father. I still do that with most of my photos. Including the weirdest ones.

I don’t “wear” myself everyday. I wanted to pull something from within.

MWhat is your favourite image that you’ve ever created?“Central Station” from my series Sur/face. It features Little Nemo, The visuals of a Universal exposition in late 18th century Paris, Charlie Chaplin… it has more poesy than most of my photos. I shot and drew it when I was doing an internship in Paris. I was commuting every day and was spending a lot of time in the trains watching the city outside my windows. I wanted to portray how the busy life of a city can impregnate the human body, how you feel part of a whole in a city, not just with the people, but with its walls and irons too. You’re part or a bigger machine, however there is a little place in your mind that is still a shelter, even if it’s very tiny. That’s where people go and relax while they’re silently waiting and thinking in the trains. And you have to cherish that place as it becomes tinier each day because of the city.

Your series titled “Sur/Face” is so unique and absolutely beautiful. Can you tell us about this series?I was stuck in a small room of the ugly Paris suburbs when is shot this series. I was far away from any landscape or beautiful things to take photos of. I was only left with myself. I took it as a challenge. I wanted to see how far I could go with just creativity and little ingredients to feed it (the skin of my bust, a white sheet behind me…). Sur/face is a play on word (sur=above).Some people are very good at showing who they are in the outside, or at least that’s what they think. I’m not that kind of person. I don’t “wear” myself everyday. I wanted to pull something from within. I wanted to explore something deeper with this series, proposing something that the skin would hide.

You have a book released titled “The Indigo Child”, how did it feel releasing your first book?It’s self-published and I sold only a very few copies so it’s not a big thing. It’s an enhanced portfolio. But I was very proud of it. I kept the photos secret for 6 months until the book was released which helped me focus on why I was taking photos.. Obviously, it was not for an audience. I would like to create more pictures for a second book, this time I might/may try to get it published by an editor but I don’t have high hopes.



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This is somewhat a combination of the previous two steps. Be sure to create an impressive tangible portfolio that you can give to those who want to see your work “in person”. If you’re a print designer, that is. Also use your branding and identity to create business cards, stationery, etc. Any time you can slap your personal logo on something, do it.

Nearly any company or organization falls apart without an established style. Without a impressive personalized logo you will simply fade into the background where literally thousands of freelance designers wander. Becoming a successful freelance designer means becoming a successful, memorable, quality brand.

It is nearly impossible to become a successful freelance designer without having an impressive online presence. Any potential clients or employers will want to see your work and most of them will prefer to type in a URL and click on what they want to see. Take some time to create an effective online portfolio or you can kiss your chances of becoming a successful freelance designer goodbye.

Don’t be afraid to call people, offer services, email businesses and more. Recently, I was printing a job for a client and at the printing shop, a man complimented me on the design of the piece. After engaging in friendly conversation, he asked me for some tips on the piece he was printing for his own business. Although I was short on time, I was happy to help him and when I got ready to leave, I offered my future services and handed him a card. Becoming a successful freelance designer means having confidence that people will appreciate your skills.

Word of mouth is the most important tool you have. Nothing can help you or hurt you more than rumors and compliments spread by those for whom you have done work before. About 90% of the freelance work I do comes from word-of-mouth advertising. Over time, with lots of word-of-mouth referrals, you’ll find yourself becoming a successful freelance designer.

I like to carry a small notebook around with me. Whenever I see an advertisement, photograph, building, person, etc. that influences my creative thinking, I try to write it down. When you go places, pay attention to new trends. Collect successful design pieces that you find at restaurants, at the mall, or anywhere you go just to relax. Always be on the look out for creative inspiration.

This goes along with Number 4. Be sure to believe in yourself. You can become a successful freelance designer. But no one will ever hire a designer that thinks he may not do as good a job as the next guy. Be sure to reflect your confidence in your pricing. If your work is good, charge good money for it.

Design is always rapidly changing. Every day new techniques and styles are developed and the designer found sleeping on the job is left in the dust. Sign up for social networks like twitter, linkedin, facebook, digg, and more. Start a blog and frequently add meaningful comments on others’ blogs. Creating a name for yourself in the design world and becoming a successful freelance designer takes some time but can be done using social media.

Nothing will help you increase in confidence and ability more than practice. If work is a little slow, nail down some of those personal projects you’ve been meaning to finish. Join a group at school or in the community where you can freshen your skills. Participate in design forums, contests, and workshops. Nothing can take the place of real life application and experience.

Doing well at a small job for someone can help open doors for your client to do bigger, better things. I entered a logo contest for a particular organization and out of the four logos I entered, two tied for first place pick. They were so impressed, I offered to design their website as well. Similar offers can be made for an organization’s stationery, business cards, etc. Becoming a successful freelance designer means finding a niche and then taking courage and offering more.

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1. Brand yourself

2. Crete an effective online portfolio

3. Create an effective print portfolio

4. Be brave, bold, and professional

5. Go the extra mile for your customers

6. Take the small jobs first

7. Don’t underestimate yourself

8. Network

9. Practice, practice, practice

10. Pay attention

Events

ExhibitionsMeet the Author Series: Susan Finlay Susan Finlay talks about her recent suspense novel “Liars’ Games.” The book tells the story of a math teacher who falls into a world of lies and deceit at a new school where school violence is the norm.Where: Boone County Museum and GalleriesWhen: Dec. 20, 10:30 a.m.Cost: $3Call: 443-8936Online: boonehistory.org



Winter Craft BazaarDon’t go far to find the areas best baked goods, resale items and handmade crafts. From cranberry candles to pine birdhouses, this bazaar showcases home-based vendors. Where: Boone County Museum and GalleriesWhen: Dec. 20, 10:30 a.m.Cost: $3Call: 443-8936Online: boonehistory.org


LecturesEve FestFrom a 5K run/walk to live entertainment, this alcohol-free block party aims to bring the community together. Food trucks and fire twirlers will help ring in the New Year. Where: Boone County Museum and GalleriesWhen: Dec. 20, 10:30 a.m.Cost: $3Call: 443-8936Online: boonehistory.org

Meet the Author Series: Susan Finlay Susan Finlay talks about her recent suspense novel “Liars’ Games.” The book tells the story of a math teacher who falls into a world of lies and deceit at a new school where school violence is the norm.Where: Boone County Museum and GalleriesWhen: Dec. 20, 10:30 a.m.

Cost: $3Call: 443-8936Online: boonehistory.org

Living Windows FestivalForget mannequins. The Living Windows Festival brings magic to life in the windows of The District shops by using real people. When: Dec. 20, 10:30 a.m.Cost: $3Call: 443-8936Online: boonehistory.org

ScreeningsSanta HotlineCurl up with hot chocolate and call Santa’s hotline for a chance to speak to Santa, Mrs. Claus or one of the elf helpers.Where: Boone County Museum and GalleriesWhen: Dec. 20, 10:30 a.m.Cost: $3Call: 443-8936Online: boonehistory.org

Winter Craft BazaarDon’t go far to find the areas best baked goods, resale items and handmade crafts. From cranberry candles to pine birdhouses, this bazaar showcases home-based vendors. Where: Boone County Museum and GalleriesWhen: Dec. 20, 10:30 a.m.Cost: $3Call: 443-8936

December 2015 Event CalendarBelow is an abridged list of the art events during this month; learn more at freelancer.com/events

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He shoots portraits and self-portraits, and let me tell you, they are out of this world. His images are so crisp, rich in content, and heavily beautiful. He doesn’t take himself too seriously, but, that’s what makes this interview fun! Join us as Marwane tells us about the meaning behind some of his most fantastical series, shows us what it takes to get from the shot out of the camera to the final image, and humorously tells us about his self published book.

Inspiration

The ‘doctrine of signatures’, an important aspect of folk medicine, drew upon the belief that herbs resembling parts of the body can be used to treat ailments of those human components. titling a series of self-portraits with this theory, french

photographer marwane pallas has used forced perspective to link a group of edible objects to body parts. the four images draw a comparison between food and figure, depicting a peeled apart grapefruit as pallas’ lungs, red cabbage as a brain, a halved peach as a nose, and a bisected apple as a bottom. Currently he is attending a French Grande Ecole in a city near Paris where he moved, but he’s from the countryside.

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Doctrine of signaturesMarwane pallas uses forced perspective to parallel human body parts and foodBy Prestond Lee

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DESIGNING WITH

WORDSUse photography and typography to

represent your personalityBy Site Ma

Designing With Words is a art project that use words, photographies and design to represent your personality. The goal of this project is to play with letterforms, think about topic and tone, and create some one-of-a-kind editorial lettering. It's perfect for lettering enthusiasts as well as pros looking to add some fun to a portfolio. Use these three simples steps to build your own personality page:

1. Start by listing ten words or phrases that descripe yourself and find one image that may represent this personality. Then, collecting inspiration from photo portfolios, museums, magazines,

and blogs. Look for ways that type is used in interesting ways.

2. To recreate your letterforms: sketch your ideas, choose a font that matches your creative vision, then create custom vectors for your letterforms. Add textures and details, then build out all the letters

you need to create your final headline.

3. The final piece of artwork could be put on your personal website or your print porfolio as your cover page. Measure your print portfolio or website to help determine the size.

Here are a few examples that may inspire you.



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Front pages of Columbia-Missourian— Art Direction and Design

Missourian

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TO MAKE YOUR LIFE DELICIOUS

GooDFooD

88 Brand-new HomemadeDesserts for Summer

BEST 28 HALLOWEEN CUISINES -for kids-

Nutrition for babies, toddlers and pre-school children

Exclusive Series from Tom KerridgeBecome the Master of Chief this summer

Magazine Design/Personal Works

Personal Work— Art Direction and Design This is a class assignment of redesigning a cover and two spreads for GoodFood Magazine.

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Find out more recipes from our website: www.bbcgoodfood.com

We picked the best 28 treats that kids will love and adults will find delicious!

Best 28 Halloween Cuisines for Kids

SPIDER WEB CUPCAKES

INGREDIENTS• 1 recipe basic chocolate or vanilla cupcakes • 1 recipe Chocolate Ganache or Va-nilla Frosting • 1 recipe Royal Icing • 12 plastic spider rings

PREPARATIONTop the cupcakes with Chocolate Ga-nache or Vanilla Frosting. With a pastry bag fitted with a small tip, apply the icing in a spiral shape on the ganache. With a knife, from the centre, draw lines outward to form a web. On top of the cupcakes, place plastic spider rings; sold in most dollar stores.

SPIDER CUPCAKES

INGREDIENTS• 1 recipe Basic Vanilla Cupcakes • 1 recipe Vanilla or Orange frosting• 72 quarters twisted black licorice• 12 chocolate-covered almonds• Oreo cookie crumbs

PREPARATIONTop the cupcakes with vanilla or orange frosting. For the spider legs, cut long twisted black licorice quarters (6 pieces per cupcake). Place the pieces on each cupcake. For the body of the spider, place a chocolate covered-almond in the middle of the legs. For a hairy spider, cover the sides of every chocolate-covered almond with Oreo crumbs.

DUMPSTER CUPCAKES

INGREDIENTS• 1 recipe Basic Vanilla Cupcakes • 1 recipe Chocolate Ganache • Jujubes, of various colours, cut into pieces• Pieces of green licorice • Sweetened red peanuts • Jelly Beans • 1 miniature plastic rat

PREPARATIONTop the vanilla cupcakes with chocolate ganache. Garnish with jujubes of differ-ent colours, cut into pieces, bits of green licorice, sweetened red peanuts, and Jelly Beans. Garnish with a plastic rat figurine; sold in most dollar stores.

BRAIN IN A JAR

INGREDIENTS• 1 recipe Basic Vanilla Cupcakes • 1 recipe Vanilla Frosting (see recipe)• 12 small marshmallows • 12 large marshmallows• Almond Paste • Black fondant or icing, to draw the eyes

PREPARATIONTop the vanilla cupcakes with vanilla frosting. Top a large marshmallow with a small marshmallow to form the body of the ghost. Cover with a circle of almond paste. With a toothpick, draw the eyes with the fondant or icing, coloured black.

WITCH HAT CUPCAKES

INGREDIENTSChocolate Cupcakes• 1 recipe Basic Chocolate Cupcakes • 1 recipe Orange Frosting Witch Hats• 12 store-bought mini cones• Melted chocolate • Pieces of green licorice• Pieces of black licorice

PREPARATIONWitch HatsWith a pastry brush, generously cover the outside of the mini cones with the melted chocolate. Place the cones (open side down) on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Refrigerate for about 10 minutes or until the chocolate is set.On another baking sheet, with a teaspoon, form 5-cm (2-inch) in diameter discs with melted chocolate. Place a cone (open side down) in the centre of each disc. Refriger-ate for 1 hour. AssemblyTop the chocolate cupcakes with orange frosting. Garnish each cupcake with a witch hat. Wrap a green licorice around the hat to form a cord. Attach pieces of black licorice to the hat’s cords.

Frankie Phillips is a registered dieti-tian and leading child nutritionist.

Frankie has experience of advising patients about their diets and has ap-peared on a range of TV and radio pro-grams, she is currently working as part of the Organix No Junk Challenge.We opened up the floor to our social au-dience, and you had questions on ev-erything from food phobias to portion control… see all your questions and answers below.

Healthy snackingQuestion: What’s the best healthy option between meals?

Frankie says: There are plenty of options for healthy snacks and the best

advice is to go for a variety. This means there are more chances to get in extra vitamins and minerals. Snacks get a bad press, but they can be a really useful part of the diet and one or two snacks can help boost nutrition for children. Fruit is al-ways a good snack, but go for other foods too – yogurt, vegetable sticks and dips, mini sandwiches, rice cakes and oatcakes with a few chunks of cheese.

Fussy eatingQuestion: My youngest is particularly fussy. His fruit and veg intake is basically raisins with his cereal and peas and sweet-corn, which is only on occasion. No red meat or chicken either. I need help.Frankie says: It’s difficult dealing with children who seem to be fussy eaters, but

do be reassured that for most cases it does pass, but in the meantime, try not to wor-ry too much. There are lots of strategies to try, and some of these I’ve put in other posts here. Try to keep a diary of exactly what he does eat - sometimes it can be really useful to get a full idea of what he’s eating over a full week. A sure fire way that helps most people is to get their chil-dren involved in the food planning, shop-ping, cooking. You can also try having friends over to act as good role models - and of course eating together as a family always helps. Red meat and chicken aren’t essential, but other protein foods are fish, eggs, beans, peas and dairy foods, so you can include these too. Have a look at the strategies for fussy eating that are on the NHS choices website.

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Nutrition for babies, toddlers and pre-school childrenA Q&A with Frankie Phillips

Ideal weightQuestion: My son is four years old and his weight is 14 kg, he is very ac-tive and jumping up and down all the time although he doesn’t have any eat-ing preferences, which means whatev-er I cook he eats. But he can’t swallow meat, he chews and chews but keeps it in his mouth, that’s why I guess his protein needs are not being fulfilled. I want to ask you what is the ideal weight for a four year old and and tips on getting him to eat by himself?

Frankie says: Meat is a good source of protein, but it’s easy to get plenty of protein from non-meat sources, such as dairy foods, eggs, beans and fish, so you can include these as an alterna-tive to meat. Some meat can be tough, depending on the cut used and the way it is cooked, so perhaps you could try casseroling or slow cooking a stew and cutting the meat into smaller pieces to see how he gets on with that. As for his weight, there isn’t an ideal weight for age, but your health visitor will be able to see from his growth records if he is about the rightweight for his height.

Over eatingQuestion: My daughter won’t stop eating. She’s 3 years old. She likes to snack (though she eats all of her

meals) & I’m running out of ideas as to what to give her that’s filling and healthy and relatively low in sugar. She has a very healthy diet and I home cook all of her dinners but she just says she’s hungry all day and it’s driv-ing me mad.

Frankie says: Your daughter sounds like she may be going through a rapid growth spurt. That, alongside the busy lifestyle that lots of 3 year olds have is certainly giving her an appetite. It seems like you are doing a lot of the right things already, with home cooked food being a great way to know exactly what your daughter

is eating, and no added junk! A couple of ideas you may like to try, perhaps she might need slight-ly bigger portions for some meals, so add an extra

spoonful of veg and an extra spoonful of potato / rice / pasta. Add a nutri-tious pudding too – a milky pudding such as rice pudding with some fruit puree, a fruit crumble with homemade

low-sugar custard or a yogurt and some slices of fruit can all help to fill her up and boost nutrition too. Be aware that some days she might not want as much to eat, and so don’t in-sist that she finishes every meal. As for snacks, fruit is great, but try mixing things up a bit and go for crumpets or teacakes, or some cheese and crackers or mini sandwiches.

Fruit avoidanceQuestion: My 4 year old has never liked meat or fish (so I provide protein in other ways). She has gone off fruit and veg. I can hide the veg in pasta sauces and soups but how can I hide fruit?

Frankie says: Smoothies can be a good way to introduce more fruit in the diet, but let her help you to make them so that she sees that fruit is in them. You can also try adding fruit purees to natural yogurt – swirl in different colours to make them look good. Hiding fruit and veg can be useful in the short term, but try to re-introduce the whole veg and fruit in as soon as you can – go shopping with her and get her to help you choose

“Having different textures in food is essential for good devel-opment so think about how he manages with other tough foods such as jacket potato skin or raw vegetables. ”


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Never thought of going? You might be surprised!

PHOTOGRAPHY BY Site Ma

BY THE EDITORS

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Your first sight of this tiny town is like seeing a typical acient young lady form the south part of China, gentle, graceful and tender. Stone bridges, rippling water, willows along the bank, retro houses with grey tiles and white walls...... all of a sudden, you are walking into a tranquil town of Qing dynasty.

He GardenMost of the rooms on second floor of quaint wooden residences along the river are inns for tourists, so you don’t need to worry about finding place to live. But choosing a good room with local characteristic is important for enjoying the comfortable life here since not all

the rooms are neat and tidy.

Drum TowerYou’d better compare the living condition of several inns first before making a decision. When you find a perfect room with a balcony toward the river, nothing could be better than sitting on a wooden chair, having a cup of tea with local gordon euryale cake, enjoying picturesque scenery in the morning and appreciate the slow paste of life here. When night comes, red lanterns hung on the antique houses were lighted and their reflection in the water swaying slightly with winds.

Confusion TempleBut there is a completely different world when you turn left at the end of west street into the Beishan street where filled with noisy bars and fancy night clubs. People’s wiggly reflection in colorful and flashing lights could be seen far from the other side the river.

Dongming CanalBut when you really walk into this street, this town transforms itself into an enchanting and voluptuous woman willing to have love affairs with you. Young man and woman with fancy clothes were soliciting in front of the bars. Although every clubs are decorated elaborately with different themes and styles, the same is all of them were saturated with deafening music and roaring sound, so

you would rather run and past the street as soon as possible.

Piggie Bread

Tumip Cake

Try Qingdao’s famous chili-fried clams, or Suzhou’s sweet-and-sour river fish. Jiangsu cuisine, called Huaiyang, is considered one of China’s four great cooking styles, and is light, fresh, and sweet. As you travel inland to Anhui, the food is famously salty,on preserved ham and soy sauce tuse of mountain-grown mushrooms and bamboo shoots. Vegetarian options, often available in or near Buddhist temples, showcase chefs who manipulate tofu, wheat gluten, and vegetables to create "mock" meat that even carnivores will appreciate.

Xitang, the ancient scenic Chinese town in Jiashan Country, is a place full of contradictions. People come here to escape the bustle of city, to find peace in their heart, to indulge in the illusion of alcohol or to encounter an amazing love affair.

Xitang Travel Guide

Hotels in this region are improving every year, and most major cities now have a range of international luxury brands. Don't expect to find such creature comforts in such smaller cities, but you will discover comfortable midrange lodgings. You’d better compare the living condition of several inns first. You probably won't find an English-speaking staff at cheaper hotels. Most places these days accept credit cards, and you'll get better rates if you book in advance.

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Personal Work—Shoot Art direction, Design and IllustrationThis is a class assignment for a travel magazine. I travelled to this small town in China and used the

photographs I took in my design. I pulled design inspiration from elements of these photographs to create unity and harmony to the concept of a small, ancient and quite water town.

The new Xitang water twon

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Poster Design/Personal Works

·全球首款语音格斗手机游戏Vocal Warrior火爆内测即将开启!·现招募手游资深玩家参加冲级大赛!·高逼格实用好礼全球包邮!

1. 超级学霸：英语口语水平达到雷军Level2. 人生赢家：拥有一台苹果设备3. 高端玩家：拳皇能打出3连击水平4. 社交达人：会用朋友圈转发本海报（参赛名额有限，先到先得）

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Web Design/Personal Works

I’m Site Ma and I’m a journalism student from the University of Missouri. I love travel and design. My dream is to become a great designer and enjoy every moment of my life.

Feel free to leave any comment here!

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UI mockup for VOX Magazine True False Film Festival

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Advertisement poster for Vox Magazine on IPad

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Personal works— Paintings

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