**Devin Kelsey**
_MU Senior and co-owner of store showcasing student talent_

This January, four enterprising students — including Devin Kelsey, Missouri Students Association Arts and Science senator and senior economics major — founded Quirks, a store featuring crafts handmade by other students.

“We had a lot of friends who make a lot of things,” Kelsey says. “(Yet they) had nowhere to sell them.”

The goal of Quirks, Kelsey says, is “to fill that void… We have artists sharing their creativity with others.”

Kelsey and his coworkers at the entirely student-run shop have the space for a full year.

“A lot of people (have) really appreciated (Quirks),” Kelsey says.

Kelsey, who will graduate in the spring, hopes that other students will step up and keep Quirks running in future years.

**Holly Rondeau**
_Columbia mommy-to-be_

Instead of twerking at the VMAs like a certain celebrity we know, Holly Rondeau was 32 weeks pregnant when she made [a video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyEz2mf-M3A) of herself twerking.

Her video went on to have more than 30,000 views on YouTube and was shown on ABC. Rondeau is only part of the trend of twerking mommas. She said she got the idea to make the video after someone posted Miley Cyrus’s twerking video on a thread on BabyCenter, a popular forum for women to talk about pregnancy and babies.

“A lot of pregnant people were really positive, but some women who hadn’t been pregnant — or men — were like, ‘it’s disgusting’,” Rondeau says.

She says the video wasn’t intended to be viral — in fact she did it in only one take because twerking is tiresome with a baby in your belly.

“Some people have the mentality that pregnant women should just sit at home and be incubators,” she says. “But it’s important for pregnant woman to stay active.”