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By KATHLEEN BUHRMANN/Missourian  ¦   Mayor Darwin Hindman shakes hands with Suk Ryul Yu, senior adviser for the Korean Alumni Group, while chancellor Brady Deaton looks on.

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By CATY SMITH/Missourian  ¦   Wayne Leal uses broken pieces of clay and sand to create a new work in his Circle Cycle series. Leal uses raw, organic materials including chopped rubber, stone, sand and bark to create his relief sculptures.

Wayne Leal’s “Waterfall” is made of plaster and coated in iron oxide. He creates textured art with rubber, plaster, fabric and other materials that inspire him.

Made of rusted nails and iron oxide-coated sand, “Circle Cycle XI” exhibits Wayne Leal’s signature shape. Nearly every piece in his display at the Perlow-Stevens Gallery incorporates a circle.

“Circle Cycle VIII” is made of plaster, sand and iron oxide.

By CATY SMITH/Missourian  ¦   Wayne Leal uses broken pieces of clay and sand to create a new work in his Circle Cycle series. Leal uses raw, organic materials including chopped rubber, stone, sand and bark to create his relief sculptures.

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By LESIA TATARSKY  ¦   Karl Kimbel, owner of Klunk Bicycles and Repair, repairs brakes on a used bike Thursday. Incoming students keep Kimbel busy with 12-hour workdays

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Alan Loshbaugh, who plays bass for the Columbia bluegrass band Ironweed, and Jake Clayton, the band’s fiddler, play to a crowd in Laiyang, China.

By RYAN GLADSTONE/Missourian  ¦   Bill Clemons opens the blast valve, sending a propane-fueled fireball into his hot air balloon on Friday at the Columbia Balloon Invitational. Clemons, who owns a ballooning business in Des Moines, Iowa, named this balloon "Color My World" after a Chicago song that he and his future wife danced to at his high school prom.

By RYAN GLADSTONE/Missourian  ¦   Kristine Clemons olds onto a line while her husband, Benji, vents air from their balloon.

By NICK BONEY/Missourian  ¦   Ernie Timbrook Jr. maps out the course for the Missouri Lottery team at the Columbia Balloon Invitational.

By PARKER MICHELS-BOYCE  ¦   Adam Crossett made changes to his punting style in the offseason.

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By RYAN GIBBONS/Missourian  ¦   Dominic Grooms slips by and eludes the Missouri defense at practice Thursday.

By RYAN GIBBONS/Missourian  ¦   Missouri Tigers quarterbacks Dominic Grooms, a redshirt freshman, and Chase Patton, a redshirt junior, take a moment’s rest during an intra-squad scrimmage at Faurot Field on Thursday. The Tigers take the field against Illinois on Sept. 1 in St. Louis.

By Katie Barnes/Missourian  ¦   Before shutting down Westran on Thursday, Hickman junior Taylor Cowan threw a no-hitter in the season opener.

By Sheila Johnson/Missourian  ¦   Rock Bridge senior Elizabeth Worsowicz steps in front of senior teammate Whitley Zitsch to make a return in doubles play against Hickman on Thursday.