1. CLIMATE CHANGE
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A mother hopes other parents will
teach their children to not stare at
others who are different from them
and ask questions instead. Jen
Reeves writes about parent advoacy
and her 8-year-old daughter, Jordan,
on her blog. Page 2A
PUMPKIN FARM
Whether carving or cooking, many
indulge in pumpkins during the
autumn months. Although pumpkins
can be difficult to grow, most people
take their availability in the fall for
granted. Page 4A
NEW CHIEF OF
STAFF NAMED
Zora Mulligan, the executive director
of the Missouri Community College
Association, has been tapped to
serve as the next chief of staff for the
University of Missouri System. She
will start Oct. 20. Page 3A
TODAY’S
WEATHER
Today: Sunny.
Temp: 73°
Tonight: Partly
cloudy. Temp: 51°
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INDEX
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Lottery 2A
Opinion 5A
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U.S. DEFENSE 1033 PROGRAM
KENDRA JOHNSON/Missourian
Ryan Terranova, Columbia police officer and SWAT team member, works out with 45-pound dumbbells Friday. The Columbia Police Department received the exercise
equipment from the Department of Defense’s 1033 Program.
Surplus supports training
Columbia Police receive non-tactical items from military program
MU presents
construction
projects to
commission
More than 30 buildings
need to be replaced or
remodeled on campus
By ETHAN COLBERT
news@ColumbiaMissourian.com
More sounds of construction equip-
ment soon could be echoing off the
limestone and brick walls of MU’s
buildings, according to an MU vice
chancellor’s report to Boone County
commissioners Monday afternoon.
Gary Ward, chief operating officer
and vice chancellor of operations for
MU, outlined a 50-page MU master
plan that details possible construc-
tion projects across the 1,262-acre
campus.
In the past year, MU has completed
renovation of Mark Twain Residence
Hall and the construction of a hydro-
chiller in East Campus that regulates
the temperature of University Hospi-
tal. It also has renovated the baseball
team’s Taylor Stadium and its tennis
facilities, and it has expanded Memo-
rial Stadium.
Boone County Southern District
Commissioner Karen Miller said she
was glad to hear about MU’s plans.
“We work together economically,
and so it is nice to hear where they
are developing their facilities,” Miller
said. She added that this was the first
time the campus master plan had
been presented to the commission,
and that she would welcome Stephens
College and Columbia College to do
the same.
Ward said there are several proj-
ects awaiting the release of money by
Gov. Jay Nixon.
More than 30 buildings need to be
replaced or remodeled, but Ward said
the lack of money is holding the cam-
pus back. Ward described it as “one of
the biggest issues facing MU.”
Ward said MU’s long-term plan is
to line East Stadium Boulevard with
“beautiful, state-of-the-art (athletic)
facilities,” financed by private dona-
tions.
Here are the projects Ward out-
lined, by category:
Athletics
n Building a Mizzou Tiger Wel-
come Center at the southwest cor-
ner of Stadium Boulevard and Mick
Deaver Memorial Drive. Ward called
it a “really cool building site” for the
expansion of the Tiger Team Store
and second-floor meeting space. A
consultant is working on cost esti-
mates.
n Getting rid of the Hearnes Cen-
ter. “Eventually, this facility will need
to go away,” Ward said. MU wants to
replace the aging structure with a
smaller Olympic-style venue for vol-
leyball and wrestling but won’t make
a move for at least three years.
n Creating a “human performance
By KOUICHI SHIRAYANAGI
news@ColumbiaMissourian.com
It’s a cool Friday morning, and Officer Jeff
Forck, a training coordinator of the Columbia
Police Department’s SWAT team, is leading
four new SWAT members in weight-training
exercises.
Working in a small storage room of a park-
ing garage near the police headquarters at
Sixth and Walnut streets, the rookie SWAT
officers are warming up for a long day of
hostage-rescue drills.
A stereo beating AC/DC music gives the offi-
cers, clad in workout clothes, a rhythm. The
room has black rubber floor mats, a punching
bag, a pink medicine ball, exercise benches
and 41 different dumbbells ranging from five
to 100 pounds. There’s no treadmill, though,
and no bench press with barbells.
The gym might not be much, but it’s more
than the SWAT team had three years ago.
That’s when it tapped the U.S. Defense Logis-
tics Agency’s 1033 program to acquire 1,875
pounds worth of worn dumbbells, some
chipped and bent, that helped them equip the
workout room.
While police departments around the coun-
try have taken advantage of the 1033 and other
federal programs to procure mine-resistant
Humvees, sniper rifles, grenade launchers
and other types of surplus military equipment,
the Columbia Police Department has taken
a more low-key approach, choosing instead
to procure binoculars, night vision goggles,
sleeping bags, dumbbells and other non-tacti-
cal items.
Public records from the Missouri Depart-
ment of Public Safety show that on two occa-
sions, November 2011 and April 2012, the
Columbia Police Department acquired a lim-
ited amount of surplus supplies from the
Defense Logistics Agency’s 1033 program.
Previously the department tapped into the
1033 program for 10 computers and five com-
puter monitors in 2010 and 2006.
The more recent items included the dumb-
bells, valued at $1,000; two older sets of night
vision goggles worth $6,000 apiece; several
bayonet knives worth $25 each; four heavy-
duty sleeping bags that would have cost the
department $259 each and four units of chest
ammunition worth $44. The total value of the
surplus military supplies from the federal
government acquired by the Columbia Police
Department has been $40,280.
Members of the U.S. Senate’s Homeland
Please see POLICE, page 6A
Please see PLAN, page 6A
‘For officers, there is no
compensation from the city to
stay in shape. We can get a 10
percent discount on some gym
memberships if we let the city
withhold from our checks and join
gyms as a group.’
JEFF FORCK
Training coordinator of the Columba
Police Department’s SWAT team
Residents hold local climate rally
About 35 people visited
city hall to urge action
for clean energy sources
By ROBERT SHUTT
news@ColumbiaMissourian.com
As the United Nations met in New
York for a week of talks on climate
change, about three dozen people
gathered Monday in front of the
Daniel Boone City Building to urge
action on the issues. It was the sec-
ond rally on the issue in two days.
Nate Irvin, a Democrat who is
running against two-term Rep.
Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., said there
needs to be more funding for ener-
gy-efficient technology — but wide-
spread awareness needs to come
first.
“There needs to be a culture
shift,” he said.
Monta Welch, founder of People’s
Visioning and a member of the
Columbia Climate Change Coali-
tion, touted the energy-efficient
Please see RALLY, page 6A
NEETA SATAM/Missourian
Dawn Zeterberg listens to a speech delivered by Clenora Hudson-Weems at the climate
change rally held Monday outside the Daniel Boone City Building. Approximately 35
people attended the rally. “If this is achievable, we should not be building any other
buildings to a lesser code or standard,” Monta Welch, founder of People’s Visioning and
a member of the Columbia Climate Change Coalition, said.
Businesses pressing for
green climate agreement
Companies worry that
global warming threatens
long-term investments
By JONATHAN FAHEY
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Hundreds of cor-
porations, insurance companies and
pension funds are calling on world
leaders gathering for a U.N. sum-
mit on climate change this week
to attack the problem by making it
more costly for businesses and ordi-
nary people to pollute.
The idea — long advocated by poli-
cymakers, economists and environ-
mental activists — is that the world
can’t hope to slow the heating of the
planet until its cost is incorporated
into the everyday activities that con-
tribute to it, such as using gas- or
coal-generated electricity, driving a
car, shipping a package or flying
around the globe.
Business leaders representing
trillions of dollars in revenue and
retirement savings say they worry
that global warming threatens the
long-term value of their investments,
and they want world leaders to adopt
policies that would provide a finan-
cial incentive to people to clean up
their act.
That could include a tax on car-
bon emissions, a cap or some other
mechanism.
“There’s a market failure that
needs to be fixed,” said Anne Simp-
son, senior portfolio manager and
director of global governance at
the $300 billion California Public
Employees’ Retirement System, the
largest public pension fund in the
U.S.
Despite a broad consensus that
something needs to be done, it has
been impossible so far for global
Please see SUMMIT, page 6A