The document summarizes several local news stories from a newspaper: 1) The city is holding a flag design contest and the winning design could become the official city flag. The university is also improving Title IX training and procedures but may prioritize mental health later. 2) A local high school student is running for homecoming queen and raising money for Alzheimer's while describing how much she loves her grandmother who has the disease. 3) An engineering firm has been approved to design replacements for two aging sewer projects in the Flat Branch watershed that currently overflow after heavy rain.

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CITY FLAG CONTEST
Artists have an opportunity to create
history by entering the city’s flag design
contest. The winning flag could be
adopted as the official city flag.
Page 3A
TITLE IX TRAINING
The University of Missouri System is
working with a risk management firm
to improve Title IX training and proce-
dures, but mental health may become
more of a priority later on.
Page 3A
FROM READERS
Tristen Shaw is a senior at Hickman
High School and is running for Home-
coming queen. She is also raising
money for the Alzheimer’s Association.
Shaw describes how her grandmother
is the most loving person she knows.
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INDEX
Abby 7A
Comics 7A
Life Stories 2A
Lottery 2A
Nation 8A
Opinion 6A
Sports 1B
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Designer for
Flat Branch
sewers
approved
City Council approved
plans to replace two
of the four Flat Branch
watershed sewer projects
By SAMUEL HARDIMAN
news@ColumbiaMissourian.com
Downtown Columbia’s aging and
occasionally overflowing sewer sys-
tem is one step closer to improve-
ment.
On Monday night, the Columbia
City Council approved bids from
Engineering Surveys and Services
to design replacements for two of the
four Flat Branch Watershed sewer
projects. The city will pay the com-
pany $811,500 for designing both
projects.
The Flat Branch sanitary sewer
system has figured prominently in
the occasionally contentious approv-
al of student apartment projects
downtown. The swell of those devel-
opments has maxed out the system’s
capacity; the sewer overflows some-
times after heavy rain.
More apartment buildings have
been proposed downtown, according
to the city’s request for proposals,
“but the area lacks adequate sewer
capacity.”
Flat Branch Project #1
Flat Branch Project #1 addresses
the main sewer line’s capacity. The
overall replacement cost is estimated
at $3.1 million.
Engineering Surveys and Services
will be paid $443,000 to design the
gravity sanitary sewer, which will
stretch just less than a mile under-
neath MKT Trail and Providence
Road.
By ANNIE REES
news@ColumbiaMissourian.com
Jane Goodall travels more than 300 days a year and has been doing so since
the mid-1980s.
“I don’t like it at all,” she said. “I wish I could be an animal with fur and not
have to worry about clothes, I really do.”
What she does like about her globe-hopping is having friends all over the
world and unwinding with a glass of wine or “a little tot” when the day is final-
ly done.
Goodall is speaking in Mizzou Arena at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. In a phone
interview Sept. 2, she said that whether she is speaking at colleges or confer-
ences, her message stays largely the same.
“The gist of all my talks is that here we are, the most intellectual creature
that has ever walked on the planet, and yet we’re destroying natural resources
of this planet, and if we continue at this rate, then it will reach a point of no
return,” she said.
“If you think about the extraordinary intellectual abilities that we have ...
there seems to have been a disconnect between our very clever brain and the
human heart, in the poetic sense — love and compassion — and it’s very impor-
tant that we learn to operate the heart and head together.
“That’s what’s gone wrong,” she said, “and we have to put it right, somehow.”
Advocating for animals
Jane Goodall to deliver lecture Wednesday about environmental conservation
Photo courtesy of MICHAEL NEUGEBAUER
Jane Goodall spends time with Freud, a chimpanzee at Gombe National Park in Tanzania. Goodall will speak about her new book and her life’s work Wednesday at
Mizzou Arena.
Please see GOODALL, page 4A
Please see COUNCIL, page 3A
Ancient Italian artifacts loaned
to MU in massive research deal
By MICHAEL ALVEY
news@ColumbiaMissourian.com
In an unprecedented agreement between
MU and the Italian government, Italian antiq-
uities older than Christendom have been
loaned to the university for research.
Through “The Hidden Treasures of Rome”
project, previously unstudied artifacts that
have been stored in Rome will be researched
by MU students and
scholars until Dec. 31,
2017.
Although the Capitoline
Museums in Rome, from
which the antiquities
come, have done many
temporary international
loans of art, this is the
first time that a long-term
international research
project has been devel-
oped, and it is the most
vessels ever loaned.
With such a large scale of unstudied art,
the program allows the Capitoline to out-
source some of its artifacts for analysis and
gives international students the opportunity
to study the art for the first time.
MU is the pilot program for the project,
which is intended to be replicated by universi-
ties across the United States. The first round
of art, which arrived over Labor Day week-
end, consists of 249 vessels of black-gloss
pottery dating from the fourth century B.C.
to the first century B.C.
Officials from MU and the Italian govern-
ment were on hand Monday at the Reynolds
Alumni Center for the formal, public signing
of the project agreement. Also there were
representatives of Enel Green Power North
America, a renewable
energy company that is
the funding partner for
the project along with the
Cultural Heritage Super-
intendency of the city of
Rome.
MU Chancellor R.
Bowen Loftin and
Maurizio Anastasi, direc-
tor of the Superintenden-
cy, signed the agreement.
Although the announce-
ment was made Monday, negotiations had
been in the works for more than a year. The
artifacts’ journey has been far longer.
Italy and art go together like linguini and
wine, and antiquities such as the black-gloss
pottery are part of an art continuum that
reaches to the likes of Leonardo da Vinci and
Please see MU ITALY, page 8A
By SAMUEL HARDIMAN
news@ColumbiaMissourian.com
A few minutes after 7 a.m.
Monday, Midwest Service Group
demolition workers broke the
glass of the Crazy Music Store in
preparation for its demolition as
Opus Development Co. began the
early stages of work on a student
apartment project in downtown
Columbia.
By 10 a.m., the building that
formerly housed Chong’s Ori-
ental Market had been knocked
down, and a backhoe continued
to clear debris from the site
throughout the afternoon.
Opus’ senior director of real
estate development Joe Downs
was on site as work began Mon-
day morning. He declined to
talk in detail about the project
because of the pending litigation against it.
Betty Wilson and Michael MacMann, allege
in their lawsuit against the city of Columbia
and Opus that the city issuing permits to
Opus on Wednesday was arbitrary and capri-
cious. The company wants to build a six-story,
259-bed apartment building for students.
The city’s Community Development
Department said in a news release Mon-
day afternoon that Opus also would begin
sewer and stormwater work on the site. That
will require traffic to shift lanes on Seventh
Street between Locust and Cherry streets
and on Locust between Seventh and Eighth
‘Our students will be on the
ground floor of a project
that will be a model for
other institutions.’
SUSAN LANGDON
Chairman of MU’s Department of
Art History and Archaeology
Change of judge sought
as Opus begins demolition
ABBY CONNOLLY/Missourian
Midwest Service Group demolition workers break the glass of the
Crazy Music Store on Monday. Opus Development Co. began the
early stages of demolition after a temporary restraining order was
set aside Friday afternoon.
Please see OPUS, page 3A
More online
City Council Budget
Fee increases and popular programs
are cemented in the city’s budget.
College Avenue Median
A proposal to build a concrete median
with a fence on top down the middle
of College Avenue between University
Avenue and Rollins Street has been
approved, 5-2.
To read more about Monday night’s City
Counci session, go to Columbia
Missourian.com.
J “If you think about the extraordinary
intellectual abilities that we have ...
there seems to have been a disconnect
between our very clever brain and the
human heart, in the poetic sense —
love and compassion — and it’s very
important that we learn to operate the
heart and head together. That’s what’s
gone wrong, and we have to put it right,
somehow.”
JANE GOODALL