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CoMo January 2013 RMN meetup

jschooltiger — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:32:44 -0000

Hi RMN! Glad to be planning a meet up!

Details: Friday, Jan. 11, noon, Flat Branch, CoMo.

If you can respond to my email (on my profile) or to this post, that would be great. I just want to get an idea of who's coming. I will probably try to nab the large round table in the back by the bar, if possible.

My Twitter profile pic looks reasonably like me, still:

https://twitter.com/robweir

profile with email:

http://www.sbnation.com/users/jschooltiger

Looking forward to seeing everyone!

Hi RMN! Glad to be planning a meet up!

Details: Friday, Jan. 11, noon, Flat Branch, CoMo.

My Twitter profile pic looks reasonably like me, still:

https://twitter.com/robweir

profile with email:

http://www.sbnation.com/users/jschooltiger

Looking forward to seeing everyone!

Fellow Tigers, The past week has opened up an important discussion about dealing with sexual...

jschooltiger — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:30:57 -0000

Fellow Tigers,
The past week has opened up an important discussion about dealing with sexual assault on our campus. Despite the incredible resources meant to educate on this issue, the sad truth is that there is still a culture of victim blaming that permeates MU and countless other college communities across the nation. Although it no doubt seems an insolvable problem at times, as students, you and I can have immense influence in shaping the opinions of our peers and promoting a safe environment if only we learn to speak up.
Rape is rape — not only when a sexual advance is forcible, but any time one party says "no." There have been no convictions borne out of the accusations discussed this past week, but to think that any student would want to shut out serious concerns about whether an awful crime was committed for the sake of athletics is incredibly disappointing. This shows that even though we have made great strides in dealing with sexual violence and violation, we still have a long way to go.
Much of this conversation about assault has played out over social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. And although it's important to call out victim blaming where ever it takes place, we have a habit to overlook dangerous sentiments about rape in the classroom, the residence hall and across MU on a face-to-face basis. Although a Tweet can provide an obvious and (because it's on the Internet) permanent representation of victim blaming, it's the casual comments made in-person that can be most damaging — offhand remarks that play down sexual assault as something people "should just get over," something "not that serious."
When you hear comments like this, even when you overhear comments like this made by classmates, say something. Failing to challenge that behavior allows for an environment in which survivors are afraid to come forward, lest they look like they're "blowing things out of proportion." It is our civic and personal responsibility as Mizzou students, staff and faculty to take a stand on issues like this. When victim blaming occurs, another victim is less likely to report.
We have so many phenomenal students, staff and faculty on this campus who work every day to improve this environment at MU. MSA/GPC's Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention (RSVP) Center is just one stellar example of an organization that can offer valuable information and resources on how you can help make MU a safer place — one where people take sexual assault seriously, as an issue that deserves attention and public discussion. The Green Dot program is one of the best collegiate programs in the country, and we hope that it can continue to help survivors.
To the survivors of sexual violence, please don't be afraid to report. There are people on this campus that care and want to help. If you want to talk to anyone, please visit the RSVP Center in G210 in the lower level of the Student Center and ask for Ms. Danica. We can help shape this conversation, but that requires speaking up and calling out the trivializing of sexual assault and victim blaming in all its forms.
For empowering through advocacy,
Xavier Billingsley,
Missouri Students Association President

I got this email this morning from msa@missouri.edu. (No, I'm not a student, don't know why it was sent to me.) In any case, I thought this might be of some interest to RMN re: our recent discussions about Dixon. I also have made it clear I don't want to talk about it in our watercooler thread (that's your own prerogative if you do, but I don't), hence the new post.

Anyhow, here it is.

Athletic department expenses as percent of MU expenses

jschooltiger — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:32:25 -0000

This keeps coming up, most recently in a thread over here. I finally did some research. FWIW:

Note: UM System and MU are, of course, different entities but I could only find UM System revenue and expenses. I could only find MU revenues. So FWIW:

Total revenues for the UM System last year were about $2.62 billion, with expenditures and transfers of $2.64 billion

PDF link: https://uminfopoint.umsystem.edu/media/fa/budget/operating/FY2012BudgetBook.pdf

I can’t find an expense detail, but Mizzou was responsible for about $2 billion of that total:

Link links to a PowerPoint: http://mubudget.missouri.edu/presentations.php

The athletic department had revenues of about $64.14 million and spent $64.16 million:

PDF link:
http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2012/07/07/20/24/11asHp.So.81.pdf

So if you say that the MU athletic department spends $64 million out of revenues for the overall U of $2 billion, that’s 3.2 percent of the Mizzou’s overall revenue, or 2.4 percent of the UM System’s revenue. And it doesn’t take into account the amount of the AD revenue that’s self supporting, which from a cursory reading of the Star link is nearly all of it.

This keeps coming up, most recently in a thread over here. I finally did some research. FWIW:

Note: UM System and MU are, of course, different entities but I could only find UM System revenue and expenses. I could only find MU revenues. So FWIW:

Total revenues for the UM System last year were about $2.62 billion, with expenditures and transfers of $2.64 billion

PDF link: https://uminfopoint.umsystem.edu/media/fa/budget/operating/FY2012BudgetBook.pdf

I can’t find an expense detail, but Mizzou was responsible for about $2 billion of that total:

Link links to a PowerPoint: http://mubudget.missouri.edu/presentations.php

The athletic department had revenues of about $64.14 million and spent $64.16 million:

PDF link:
http://media.kansascity.com/smedia/2012/07/07/20/24/11asHp.So.81.pdf

Dish vs. DirecTV question

jschooltiger — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 21:23:42 -0000

Hi, my dad just sent me a question I'm not sure about. He apparently wants to get either Dish or DirecTV for our place at the lake in the fall and (naturally) wants to make sure they have access to SEC games. I'm not particularly familiar with either (we just have plain old cable at home). But:

1) Neither is a local network per se, right? In other words, we'd get national CBS/ESPN/whatever games without having to worry about what the Springfield station is putting on the air? Or do they do blackouts for some games? Obviously we'd be in Missouri so our main interest is seeing the Tigers.

2) Is there an additional cost to adding CFB packages? I saw an ESPN package on DirecTV but that's presumably if we want more games that aren't on the local network, right?

3) Is there a way to get local stations included? I remember a lot of back and forth on this when the satellite networks first came out, but I don't remember what actually came of it all.

4) Any other considerations? The lake cable offerings are pretty crappy where we are (out west of Camdenton on the little Niangua.)

Thanks in advance. I realize I could look all this up on my own but if anyone's used it/has recommendations that would be great.

thanks, JST

2) Is there an additional cost to adding CFB packages? I saw an ESPN package on DirecTV but that's presumably if we want more games that aren't on the local network, right?

3) Is there a way to get local stations included? I remember a lot of back and forth on this when the satellite networks first came out, but I don't remember what actually came of it all.

4) Any other considerations? The lake cable offerings are pretty crappy where we are (out west of Camdenton on the little Niangua.)

Thanks in advance. I realize I could look all this up on my own but if anyone's used it/has recommendations that would be great.

thanks, JST

Poll

What should we get?

Dish

3 votes

DirecTV

26 votes

Plain old cable

4 votes

HD antenna

1 votes

Television, forsooth. Read a book.

4 votes

38 votes | Poll has closed

Submitted without comment.

jschooltiger — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:11:48 -0000

Submitted without comment.

This is Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night," recreated in bacon. BACON....

jschooltiger — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:50:22 -0000

This is Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night," recreated in bacon. BACON.

http://www.bitrebels.com/geek/starry-night-vincent-van-gogh-painting-recreated-in-bacon/

For those of you who can't get our iPad homecoming app

jschooltiger — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:21:55 -0000

Here are some links to some slideshows that have some of the photos that were in it:

http://www.voxmagazine.com/stories/2011/10/13/name-gallerya/

http://www.voxmagazine.com/stories/2011/10/13/mizzou-fan-gallery/

http://www.voxmagazine.com/stories/2011/10/13/gallery-homecoming-programs/

http://www.voxmagazine.com/stories/2011/10/13/gallery-homecoming-parade/

And, if you have an iPad and want to get the actual app, you should! Go here to download it:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mu-homecoming-100-years-in/id466441287?ls=1&mt=8

Thanks! Bully! M-I-Z! And here's more words to get to 50!

Here are some links to some slideshows that have some of the photos that were in it:

http://www.voxmagazine.com/stories/2011/10/13/name-gallerya/

http://www.voxmagazine.com/stories/2011/10/13/mizzou-fan-gallery/

http://www.voxmagazine.com/stories/2011/10/13/gallery-homecoming-programs/

http://www.voxmagazine.com/stories/2011/10/13/gallery-homecoming-parade/

And, if you have an iPad and want to get the actual app, you should! Go here to download it:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mu-homecoming-100-years-in/id466441287?ls=1&mt=8

Thanks! Bully! M-I-Z! And here's more words to get to 50!

This was recently seen in our magazine office. It's like a certain RockMNation stat nerd has been...

jschooltiger — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:08:10 -0000

This was recently seen in our magazine office. It's like a certain RockMNation stat nerd has been hanging out here ...

Rock M Road Trip?

jschooltiger — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:56:32 -0000

Rock M Road Trip?

Who's with me?

Not surprising -- we're smarter than kU

jschooltiger — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:30:00 -0000

Not surprising -- we're smarter than kU

You'll have to scroll a bit, but Mizzou checks in quite a bit ahead of the Jayhawks.

Thoughts on an odd comment by Pinkel?

jschooltiger — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 12:39:16 -0000

This Pinkel comment from Dave Matter's Trib blog struck me as just a little bit odd:

"These guys are used to winning. Look at how many games these guys have won the last four or five years. Our first four years in the program, we would have never won that game. There’s no way we win that game because kids didn’t believe. These kids know how to win. We're fortunate."

This Pinkel comment from Dave Matter's Trib blog struck me as just a little bit odd:

If you read the whole blog post and look at the comments, it seems there are a couple former players who took umbrage to that comment. (Or self-identified former players; the Trib has anonymous commenting.) I don't really disagree with the content of Pinkel's remarks, but it does seem out of character for him. After all, wasn't this our first last-minute comeback at home since 1958?

Thoughts?

Disclaimer: I'm not meaning this post to bash Pinkel, it's just puzzling.