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Being born close to three months early, Washburn senior Shawn Bryant was at risk for complications.

Born June 13 rather than the ex-pected due date of Sept. 9, Bryant end-ed up diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy at birth. While Bryant has “one of the mildest cases in the record books,” the condition prevented necessary oxygen to his brain, causing paralysis, which means a complete loss of muscle func-tion in one or more muscle.

More severe cases can cause men-tal retardation and a shorter lifespan. But Bryant does not expect a shorter lifespan himself because of the dis-ability

Growing up, Bryant didn’t live his life much differently because of it.

“For me it was really different in comparison to stories I hear now with young people with disabilities,” said Bryant. “I didn’t notice any difference between myself and my friends. My parents were very active in my child-hood and my upbringing. There were of course times where I felt different, but never any times where my peers made me feel less than them because I was different.”

A Leavenworth native, Bryant came to Washburn in 2006 and origi-nally planned to pursue an education degree. However, Carnegie Hall pro-vides little access for students with disabilities. This didn’t sit well in his thought of an education department’s message.

“I challenged [my major] because Carnegie is not accessible and I don’t want to learn like that,” said Bryant. “It was just very different for me to say ‘yes, I’m an education major and I’m not able to get into the classroom that I’m supposed to learn to teach other people to learn from so that I can learn.’ It was just really surreal to me.”

Bryant, now majoring in politi-cal science, would like to work with international advocacy groups to raise awareness for people with disabilities. He described a tribe in Ghana where children with disabilities are thrown out into wildlife, because they aren’t considered to have a contribution. His idea is to change that thought process.

But perceptions of himself are fairly average according to Bryant, because of the way he has learned to carry himself.

“I think it’s all about your per-sonality and how you present your-self and who you define yourself as,” said Bryant. “If you define yourself as a disabled person, then that kind of says who you are. But if you define yourself as a person with a disability, putting yourself first instead of the dis-ability, then that says a lot about your character and who you are as a person.

People will notice you before they no-tice your impairment.”

Marsha Carrasco Cooper, director of Washburn Student Activities and Greek Life, has known Bryant the last four years. The two originally met at an annual leadership retreat for Wash-burn students, where she wanted to know more about him and his disabil-ity so she could better accommodate to him at the retreat.

Bryant then got involved with the Campus Activities Board, which Car-rasco Cooper advises. He was part of a community relations aspect, which is no longer a designated title with the organization. Bryant worked to bring a disability awareness day to cam-pus, allowing for high school students with disabilities to be partnered with a Washburn student for a day.

They now have a strong friend-ship and Carrasco Cooper knows he is someone who does not let anything stop him. But she sometimes has to re-mind him of constraints as well.

“As long as he’s able to live the life that he wants to live, then I think that that’s great,” said Carrasco Coo-per. “But I think that sometimes too it’s important to know your limitations and how to take care of yourself. I get on him a little bit when he’s outside walking in the ice. I trip and fall on the ice all the time. He just needs to be ex-tra special careful.”

When a Living Learning Center elevator caught fire on Oct. 18, 2008, Bryant’s room was right next to that ignited elevator. According to him, the rule is that fire alarms mean that eleva-tors aren’t meant to be used, but that was the only option for Bryant. But with his closest elevator on fire, Bry-ant was put in an awkward position.

He also coupled this story with a tornado experience in the Washburn Village, stating that when students were sent down a flight of stairs to the basement for shelter, Bryant had no access due to inaccessibility in a wheelchair. Bryant didn’t have many options given since he couldn’t go down the stairs.

“The solutions given to me were to stay in my room and put my mat-tress over my head in my bathroom, to move back up into the LLC, or to sit in the [Village] lobby by myself,” said Bryant.

An electronic ramp can’t be in-stalled on the stairwell because it was too narrow, according to him and a problem for the university may be suf-ficient funds.

However, Carrasco Cooper does think Washburn’s heading in the right direction with accommodations, de-spite Bryant’s original struggles with Carnegie.

“I do remember him mentioning that [Carnegie provided insufficient access] and I encouraged him to tell

our student services office,” said Car-rasco Cooper. “I know that there are other issues with that building as well. I think slowly, but surely, we are up-dating all of our buildings and unfor-tunately, Carnegie’s one of our oldest and last to be updated, but I have no doubt that we are going to be able to [update].”

Bryant knows in the grand scheme of things, he’s just attempting to live life the way he wants to and does not identify himself by his Cerebral Palsy. In fact, he advocates people do just the opposite.

“I think we are in a society that we like to throw ourselves to pity parties and that’s boring and that’s not attrac-tive and that’s not cute,” said Bryant.

Furthermore, Bryant just wants to be recognized by the fact he’s living much of the way others do, not that he’s so much more extraordinary than others. He challenges others to look at everyone a fairly consistent way.

“People ask me these types of questions about my lifestyle and I’m thinking ‘I’m doing everything you’re doing,’” said Bryant. “I’m going to school, so what? You’re going to school. I’m going to a party, so what? You’re going to a party. I don’t think there’s anything extraordinary I do, so it does kind of surprise me. But if me living my everyday life and trying to live my best life inspires someone, then so be it.”

And when Bryant leaves Wash-burn, Carrasco Cooper knows he’ll be missed.

“He’s going to create a vacuum for sure,” said Carrasco Cooper. “There’s going to be a void when Shawn Bryant is no longer on campus. I can hear him coming down the hall from like ten miles away, so I prepare myself before he walks in my office, because I know we’re going to have a great time and talk for a long time. I have seen him mature a lot over the last few years.”

The blaring tornado sirens told Washburn students and Topekans to take cover.

With no way to place himself among his fellow students in the base-ment of the Washburn Village, Bryant sat among a few Residential liv-ing staff in the lobby, not sure if the situation was safe at all.

Since then, some have won-dered if any im-provements have been made for the evacuation of students with disabilities since the incident.

According to staff at the Washburn Resi-dential Living office, the com-mon area in the Village where Bryant had been located during the storm was, in fact, safe.

“The fire department and emer-gency personnel have cleared that as a safe place for someone to stay in case of an emergency,” said Mindy Rendon, director of Residential Living at Washburn. “So in the instance that somebody is wheelchair bound, they would be able to be at that location and be safe.”

Bryant still isn’t satisfied with the way the university handled the situa-tion. After writing an article about the incident in 2007 for the Washburn Re-view, Bryant said he called the Univer-

sity a year later to ask what happened down there in the Washburn Village.

“I was living back in the Living Learning Center,” said Bryant. “And they told me don’t worry, because you’re not going to be living [in the Washburn Village].”

For now, residential living and student services at Washburn say that

prior arrange-ments and pre-cautions will, and have been made, for students with disabilities living in the residential halls.

R e n d o n said she cannot speak on behalf of Washburn University as a whole, but all residents living on campus have a safe place to go in case of a tornado or emergency.

“It was a safe facility, but they

just hadn’t approved that as a place to stay [yet],” said Rendon. “It has been since.”

Bryant said he still plans on revis-iting the school to see if any plans or changes have been made to improve the situation for future students.

“I don’t think anyone would con-sider sitting at the top of the stairs to be a safe place during a tornado,” said Bryant. “I think that it’s a huge liabil-ity for Washburn.”

Standing Strong: Shawn Bryant, senior, was born with Cerebral Palsy. Bryant, though, has minimal stoppages due to his disability. His attitude of perserverance and strength has propeled him to accomplish many feats so far in his life.

Bryant fighting for freedom

I was living back in the Living Learning Center and they told me ‘don’t worry, because you’re not going to be living [in the Washburn Village.]

- Shawn BryantSenior, Washburn University

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Kelsie O’Connell is a freshman mass me-dia major. Reach her at kelsie.oconnell@washburn.edu

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The Bod Beat News • Wednesday, November 3, 2010

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alendarCBrown Bag international lectureInternational House12 p.m.

Nall Speak OffRoom 100, Henderson 6:30 p.m.

WU string orchestra concertWhite Concert Hall, Garvey Fine Arts Center7:30 p.m.

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Thursday, Nov. 4

Friday, Nov. 5

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Hello Everyone!

I hope that everyone’s semester is wrapping up smoothly! Make sure that you take some time and enjoy some of the ac-tivities that will be going on this week!

Join the men of Kappa Sigma Fraternity as they celebrate their philanthropy ‘Livestrong Week!’ Stop by their table in the Union over the lunch hour to get an awesome shirt for $10 or a wristband for $1. Thursday is their volleyball tournament at the SRWC at 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. (must be registered by 1pm).

Also, the women of the Delta Gamma have their annual pancake feed November 3 (Wednesday) from 6 p.m.-9 p.m. at their house on 1915 S.W. MacVicar Ave. In addition to their pancake feed, they will be hosting an ‘Anchor Splash’ at Hum-mer Sports Complex at 6 p.m. on Saturday, November 6.

Join the Bod Squad tailgate at 12 p.m. for Saturday’s 2:20 p.m. football game against Emporia! It is also Family Day!! I hope to see everyone out there with their families!! :)

Have a good week!

Lucas MullinVice PresidentWashburn Student Government Association

Lady Blues soccerMoore Bowl, Yager Stadium4 p.m.

Exhibition debate: WU debate team vs. British National debate teamRoom 100, Henderson7 p.m.

Crane Observatory open houseFourth Floor, Stoffer Science Hall7:30 to 9 p.m.

WATUP! Ceramics throwing nightRoom 120, Art Building4 to 8 p.m.

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5K Fun run/walkOutside of Mabee Library9 a.m. (registration begins at 7:30 a.m.)

Family Day picnicWashburn Room, Memorial Union11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Inflatable and carnival gamesMemorial Union Lawn11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Mulvane Art Lab Family Day eventArt Lab, Mulvane Art Museum1 to 4 p.m.

Football (Family Day and Senior Day)Yager Stadium, Moore Bowl2:20 p.m.

Delta Gamma’s Anchor SplashHummer Sports Park pool6 to 8 p.m.

WU Celebration of CulturesWhite Concert Hall, Garvey Fine Arts Center7 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 7

Monday, Nov. 8

Novel Writing Month presentationRoom 105, Mabee Library5 p.m.

Fast Forward InsidersTopeka Civic Theatre and Academy, 3028 S.W. 8th Ave.5:30 to 7:30 p.m.

The British National De-bate team, Lewis Iwu and Mary Nugent, will debate two members of the Washburn Uni-versity debate team at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, in room 100 of Henderson Learning and Re-source Center.

This marks the second time that Washburn University has hosted the British National De-bate team.

The night’s exhibition de-bate will center on the follow-ing resolution: “This house be-lieves that universities should not allow extremist speakers to come to campus.” The debate is open to the public and will take about one hour and will be followed by a chance for audi-ence questions and comments.

The British National De-bate team is selected annually from scores of applicants in the United Kingdom. This year’s national team has been busy

debating teams from schools across the United States since the middle of September. The British National Debate team will wrap up their tour of the U.S. in the middle of November at the National Communication Association conference in San Francisco.

Iwu graduated with degrees in philosophy, politics and eco-nomics from Oxford Univer-sity. While at Oxford, Iwu won the 2008 World Universities Debating Championships held in Thailand.

He also served as president of the New College Student Government and later served as president of the Oxford Univer-sity Student Union. Currently at law school in London, Iwu will join corporate law firm, Slaughter and May, in 2011. He is also a member of the Institute for Public Policy Research’s advisory council, a centre-left think tank.

Nugent graduated from the

University of Cambridge with a degree in social and political sciences. She was the director of debating at the Cambridge Union Society where she coor-dinated all of Cambridge’s de-bating activity and represented Cambridge at competitions in the U.K. and abroad.

Nugent won four national intervarsity competitions, in-cluding the U.K.’s women’s-only competition, and she was ranked among the top 10 speakers at the English Na-tional Mace. She has spoke about, adjudicated and taught debating on an international level-visiting countries in Eu-rope, Asia and North America, as well as twice judging at the World Universities Debating Championships.

She is originally from Her-eford (near the Welsh border). Nugent will work for a member of Parliament in London when she returns to the U.K.

WU flute choir concertWhite Concert Hall, Garvey Fine Arts Center7:30 p.m.

Washburn hosts British debaters

No Tricks, Just Treats: Sydney Spyres, freshman, hands out some sweets last Wednesday at the Living Learning Center for “Trick or Treat Off the Streets.” It was sponsored by the Washburn Residential Council.

The United Way of Greater Topeka met with students and faculty at Washburn University on Oct. 27 to discuss the topic of “What is your vision of To-peka?”

The meeting, which was hosted by Student Human Resource Management, took place in the Shawnee Room of the Memorial Union.

Attendees did not have to be a mem-ber of Wash-burn’s SHRM organization in order to participate at the meeting. In fact, Dan Schultz, presi-dent of Wash-burn’s SHRM, encouraged attendees to invite other students and faculty.

“I am a part of Washburn SHRM on campus. I just joined this semester,” said Erica Strathman, a student at Wash-burn. “I think it’s valuable to learn things about different or-ganizations and how they run.”

Both students and faculty attended the meeting in hopes of learning more about the United Way. To begin, Schultz started the meeting off with a

brief introduction on behalf of the guest speaker, Miriam Kre-hbial, CEO and president of the United Way of Topeka.

Krehbial began by asking attendees if they have ever heard of The United Way. Although a majority of hands were raised, Krehbial soon discovered that not many people knew what the United Way actually does.

According to a handout re-ceived by each participant, the

mission of the United Way is to create posi-tive sustain-able change in the Topeka communi ty. Although the speaker spoke on the efforts of the United Way, the floor was open for d i s c u s s i o n and sharing

any thoughts on the organiza-tion were encouraged.

Krehbial said she’d heard many answers to the ques-tion of what United Way does. Among many, one person had once said, “No I’m not going to give to United Way. They actu-ally lost my luggage once.”

This example gave par-ticipants in the seminar a laugh and also a comforted feeling of knowing they are not alone when it comes to misunder-

standing what the United Way does.

The United Way works and partners with organizations to raise money for important causes, as determined by the volunteers. Working with or-ganizations like the NFL, the entire idea of the United Way is centered around the volunteers who do work.

“All of the decisions on who gets money and how much is all done by volunteers,” said Krehbial. “As staff, we are not paid to make those decisions. What we’re really paid to do is help our volunteers meet the mission of the organiza-tion and be successful. None of our work would be able to take place without our volunteers. That is something that will nev-er change.”

Being involved is a key concept in changing the vision of Topeka and also determin-ing that vision, according to discussion held at the meeting. Through open floor discus-sion, members threw out ideas on how to get involved and to make a difference.

The next meeting will take place on Feb. 23, 2011 at the Vogel Room with William Beteta, executive director of Heartland Visioning.

The Washburn Student Government Association was confronted with the results of a campus diversity study, and the imbalance between feelings of minority students to the student body as a whole.

Kim Morse, associate pro-fessor of history, spoke in front of the WSGA on Oct. 27 about diversity at Washburn.

She said that this is the first time Washburn has done a diversity study in the last 144 years. Morse was happy with the response rate of the survey. There were 1200 responses, and reflected very closely the diver-sity climate that is currently ex-ists at Washburn.

Morse did find some questionable parts about diver-sity at Washburn. One of the findings was 75 percent of students felt like they were part of the larger community, but only 46 percent of non-white students felt like they were part of the larger community.

She said that this can be a problem not just for minori-ties at Washburn but the student body as a whole, since 25 per-cent of people feel like they are not part of the larger commu-nity at the University. She said this was an issue at Washburn that needs to be solved.

WSGA senator Ivan Moya expressed that a cause of hid-ing identity may come from the shift of the culture of a stu-dent’s hometown to the culture at Washburn, and feel like they have to adjust to the predomi-nant mindset of other people.

Morse also found that 41 percent of non-white students reported feeling like they had to hide some part of the culture in order to fit in, however only 25 percent of all students reported the same. Morse also stated that students who do not feel like they belong are much less like-ly to be able to succeed.

One comment on the study said the individual did not feel that diversity is taught at Wash-burn, and the individual didn’t know how truly diverse Wash-

burn is. Another com-

ment on the survey read, “...these guys act like they’ve never seen a living

breathing black person.” When confronted with the

question of what should be done to help decrease these problems of diversity, the main response from the WSGA senators was to help facilitate discussion about what diversity means, and help to make students feel like they belong.

Envisioning a new TopekaTimothy Lake is a freshman mass media major. Reach him at timo-thy.lake@washburn.edu

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- Miriam KrehbialUnited Way of Topeka

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In the case of the man who leads the vision and future of Washburn President Jerry Far-ley comes from the same humble back-ground that so many at Washburn can as-sociate with.

He recently spoke to IS 100, otherwise known as Col-lege Experience, courses at Washburn to help further wel-come new students to Wash-burn.

Farley was the first in his family to go to college and pursue an education after high school. Coming from a small town had its challenges when attending the University of Oklahoma.

“I grew up in a town of about 1,000 people, so every-one knew each other,” said Farley. “It made coming to the [University of Oklahoma] a dif-ficult transition.”

Farley admits that when he was a young man, he didn’t have the slightest idea about college. Through the encour-agement of a friend, Farley took the standardized tests that could determine his academic future.

“I liked taking tests,” said Farley. “You could call me a little bit of a ‘nerd’ when I was younger and even still today a little as well.”

Upon gaining acceptance to OU, Farley began attending without knowing what he want-ed to do in school. Through his time at OU, he would change his major four times as he at-tempted to navigate his way in college.

A few keys that had served him in life to that point came to be a mantra that Farley still be-lieves is the path to success at college.

“I’ve always felt that if you did three things in college you could be a great success,” said Farley. “First is go to class, be-ing there is the quickest way to success. Second is to do your homework because applying what you learn is one of the big-gest steps to success. Third and maybe sometimes not thought of as much, ask for help. Wash-

burn is filled with people who want you to succeed during your time here.”

Though Farley has pursued his education to the highest ex-tent, gaining a doctoral degree in higher education administra-tion, he still feels that getting an education can take more than one form. Speaking to his au-dience, he urged all students to become active on campus and serve the Washburn community in some form.

His last and perhaps more emphatic point was that run-ning Washburn is a team effort and being what he termed “the big boss” is more a misnomer than anything else.

“Washburn attracted me because I believe we have an opportunity to create leader-ship for our community,” said Farley.

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Robert Burkett is a senior mass media major. Reach him at robert.burkett@washburn.edu

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Last week a seedling tree was planted that, like the man it is dedicated to, will grow with Washburn over the years to come.

Donovan Cook, a profes-sor in the education depart-ment, taught at Washburn for 22 years, passed away this past June.

The memorial was an op-portunity for friends, family and students to come and re-member him and to dedicate the Colorado Spruce tree that was planted in front of Carnegie Hall in his honor. At the ceremony, his family and some former students shared stories and memories of Cook.

All of his family and the students that had him as a teacher told how much he loved teach-ing and that he had truly found a career that he loved. That was shown by the fact that he was chosen as the na-tional sponsor for National Educa-tion Association and had received emeritus sta-tus last year.

“My dad found a profes-sion and a school that he loved. I would tell him that not many people can say that they would choose to keep working rather than retire,” said Jennifer Cook, his daughter, during her speech. “It was a sign that dad had chosen to dedicate his life to a career that he truly loved and enjoyed.”

His son, Geoffery Cook spoke similarly of his father

and his passion for teaching. “[Donovan Cook’s] love

for showing others a new way to think about life and show then a new skill they could use for the rest of their lives,” said Geoffrey Cook.

Cook also cared about his students, a fact that was made evident through the memories and stories shared by his former students and his family.

“No one was a stranger to him,” said Sheri Cook, his wife.

“His students would invariably become his friends many of whom kept in contact with him no matter how far away they moved or how many years may have passed.”

His daughter also talked about how much Cook loved his students.

“I hope his students will bring his kind spirit, optimism and dedication with them,” said Jennifer Cook.

The tree was provided and planted by the education

department faculty, staff and students. There will also be a plaque hung outside his office in his honor.

“He would be so honored, and for me it’s such an honor that they’ve done this for him, this is such a wonderful tribute to him,” said Sheri Cook.

The tree, will remain as a silent testament that will re-mind people of Cook and the memory and legacy he left at the school.

“I am excited to see how it will grow, and it will be a part of this landscape, a part of this school like he has been and will al-ways be [a part of],” said Geoffrey Cook.

Sheri Cook ended her comments expressing what she felt Cook would have been feeling at the ceremony.

“Donovan truly loved all of you and I know he is watching us today and his heart is so full of happiness and joy because of the honor you have given him by plant-ing this beautiful spruce tree in front of his beloved educa-tion building,” said Sheri Cook. “Many of us will pass this tree on a regular ba-sis and remember who it was planted for but as the years go by others will

simply pass by and see a tree but we will remember, we will know that this tree was planted in honor of a wonderful man we had with us for a very brief mo-ment in time”.

At the end of the ceremony, Carmen Cook, Donovan’s sis-ter, got up and sang “Amazing Grace,” in front of the tree.

With the midterm election dust settled, one of the ques-tions that the new and returning politicians will have to face is the question of immigration.

The Topeka Center for Peace and Justice and the Washburn chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the history honor society, sponsored a debate to address some of the issues. The event was titled “Border Crossing: The Immi-gration De-bate in Con-t e m p o r a r y Politics,” and was hosted T h u r s d a y, Oct. 28.

The ma-jor topics d i s c u s s e d i n c l u d e d the conflicts over border fences, undocumented work-ers, national security and the costs of immigration as experi-enced in Kansas. Presenters at the event included Kelly White, ESL instructor for the Jackson Heights USD 335 District; Kim Morse, associate professor of history at Washburn and Lalo Munoz, director of El Centro of Topeka.

Morse was the first to pres-ent, and she discussed the his-tory and demographics of im-migrants primarily in Kansas. Morse discussed the effects of Hispanic immigrants to Kansas and their contribution to the state. Our Lady of Guadalupe was founded in 1914, which hosts the annual Fiesta Mexi-

cana, a massive event that at-tracts hundreds of Topekans.

“By the 1920s, Mexican Americans established institu-tions of business throughout the state. Mexican American’s are Kansans,” said Morse, as she showed photos from the early to mid 1900s of immi-grant workers in Kansas. The number of Hispanics in Kansas grew from 63,339 in 1980 to 263,307 in 2009.

“These are productive, entrepreneurial Kansans, not

fringe Kan-sans, who are integral parts of our com-munity and have been for almost a century,” said Morse.

W h i t e then spoke on how the majority of Hispanics in

Kansas have proper documen-tation and those who do not are willing to work to improve their lives.

“In Holton, we have a small meat packing plant. The personnel manager at Holden’s does not target this population,” said White. “He puts an ad in the paper and it’s open to any-body that will apply. Guess who applies? The Hispanic, the Lati-nos, they are willing because of their situation in most cases, to work longer hours, to work for lower wages, not to complain, because what resources do they have? If they are here without proper documentation they are kind of stuck. And, if they do cause any trouble how many

guys are waiting in line to take that job?”

He also spoke about how the government has made it a long process to come to the United States legally. Those who decide to come to the country without proper docu-mentation are provided with work because their employers don’t have strict enough laws for documenting workers.

“They also come, in my opinion, because current immi-gration laws don’t really punish people that come,” said White. “Worst case scenario is depor-tation. If you are deported your plane ticket is paid for, you go back with your family, and if things don’t work out what do you do? Does the ten year ban mean anything? If you came in without legal documentation in the first place, then probably not. You come back and do it again.”

The last speaker was Mu-noz. El Centro helps Hispanic immigrants with the documen-tation process as well as trans-lation work. Munoz told stories of immigrants who wanted to come to the United States but their wait period was 10-18 years.

“We do work to make sure that Latino issues and concerns are heard,” said Munoz.

His insight provided a hu-man touch to the issue, discuss-ing how difficult it is for His-panics to legally immigrate.

After all three presenters spoke, the audience joined in on the discussion.

Friends of the Topeka Zoo invite the community to an Arts and Crafts Fair on Sunday, Nov. 7 from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The event, held at the Big Gage Shelter House next to the zoo, will feature over 20 local and regional craftsmen and ar-tisans displaying an array of crafts including stunning jew-elry, handbags, insect art, cy-press knee Santas, magnificent artwork and photography and exceptionally crafted glass. Fair guests will find some-thing for almost every taste and pocketbook, ranging from af-fordable gift-giving to heirloom investments.

Friends of the Topeka Zoo will be on hand to showcase unique zoo gift ideas including memberships, bricks, benches,

and more. In addition, they will be featuring artwork made by the animal residents of the Topeka Zoo.

Original paintings by Tem-bo and Sunda, the zoos resident elephants as well as kisses by Tucker, the Nile Hippo will be available for purchase. In addi-tion, guests will be able to see rare elephant dung artwork.

The craft fair will serve as the kickoff to the holiday sea-son. Special “HOPE” holiday greeting cards have been cre-ated by the Topeka Hallmark plant with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the zoo. Cards will be available for pur-chase at the fair and throughout the holiday season at the Leop-ard Spot Gift Shop located in-side the zoo.

“We are very excited about this event,” said Karen Taylor,

coordinator for the show and a member of the Friends of the Topeka Zoo Board of Direc-tors.

“It offers us an opportunity to collaborate with a number of artisans while at the same time showcasing some unique arts and gifts available right here at your Topeka Zoo. If you are looking for a unique gift for a special someone in your life, you will find it here.”

Admission to the arts and craft fair is free as is parking. Those attending will receive a special buy one get one free ad-mission coupon to the Topeka Zoo which they can use the day of the fair. Money raised through booth rentals as well as through the Friends of the To-peka Zoo booth will benefit the Topeka Zoo.

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Topeka Zoo hosts free fair

Farley educates new students

Jaimie Luse is a freshman busi-ness major. Reach her at jaimie.luse@washburn.edu

Christina Butler is a freshman mass media major. Reach her at christina.butler@washburn.edu.

In Honor: Donovan Cook, professor for the education department, passed away this past June. An honorary memorial was held last week, with a tree planted in his name.

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Photo by Tesa DeForest, Washburn Review

Cook plants a memory in Washburn

A Learning Session: Dr. Jerry Farley, President of Washburn, recently spoke to students in Washburn’s College Experience course. He told students his story of how he came to be the university president.

FARLEY’S STORY

Washburn hosts immigration debate

We do work to make sure that Latino issues and concerns are heard

- Lalo MunozEl Centro, Topeka

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Apparently, a baseball team won a very important game Monday night. Most baseball fans know that, but it appears the media doesn’t.

When the San Francisco Giants beat the Texas Rangers in Game 5 of the World Series, they became the first Giants team since the organization moved from New York to San Francisco 52 years ago. In an essence, it was everything that was right in sports two ragtag teams making it past the Yan-kees, Red Sox and all of the other traditional baseball dy-nasties to play for a champion-ship title. However, on ESPN.com’s front page Tuesday, the top story wasn’t about the un-believable game that took place Monday night.

Instead, it was about Randy Moss’ release from the Minne-

sota Vikings after only a month. It was about Moss’ bad attitude and his bizarre press confer-ence in which he disrespected the team he played for, how he freaked out in the locker room one day because someone had food delivered that he didn’t like, and how ultimately how some other team would be “re-warded” with his presence not to mention his $16 million sal-ary. Basically, everything that is wrong with sports.

While the Minne-sota Vikings saga cer-tainly has many of the newsworthy values that journalists evalu-ate stories from timeli-ness, unusualness, prominence, conflict it still shouldn’t out-shine the Giants’ championship moment. It tarnishes everything that the team has been working for all year that the most promi-nent sports news agency in the world would rather feature the

release of a wide receiver who, quite frankly, hasn’t made that much of an impact on the field this season to begin with, aside from causing problems.

Fans are already sick of hearing about the Vikings this season, even Vikings fans! Brett Favre has been a constant source of media coverage, es-pecially after news broke about his alleged sexting escapades with former Jets employee Jenn Sterger. Head coach Brad Chil-

dress has made things worse by allowing the Brett Favre situa-tion to get out of hand in the offseason. Now many of the Vikings

players seem to be turning against Childress in the media, so the “new” news is that Chil-dress is on the hot seat. Just let a bad team die already.

Instead, let’s glorify the teams who have success. The San Francisco Giants are a

great place to start. Give them the credit and hoopla they de-serve for their unprecedented World Series championship. Start giving more coverage in the NFL to teams that actually deserve it for coming together as a team, like the Kansas City Chiefs (5-2), the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (5-2) and the Ten-nessee Titans (5-3). Don’t just muckrake around the Vikings’ locker room all day. I realize ESPN is a 24-hour news net-work and needs to fill the air with something, but there are plenty of other big stories to talk about besides Moss’ food dislikes and what an “unnamed source” has to say about Moss.

A4 Opinion • Wednesday, November 3, 2010

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By the time this paper hits the streets the polls will be closed and we will know the results of the elections.

However, it seems that an election-lecture is still appro-priate. This morning my mom called to remind me to vote because I forgot my absentee ballot. That lady is dedicated to our civil rights, because she drove the forty minutes from my hometown to take me to a voting site and drove me back.

Not everyone’s mothers are so dedicated. The point is, had I not this mother, I would probably not have voted. Since I did, I feel morally superior to

most of my compa t r i -ots, who did not vote. All of them

had “valid” college kid excuses for not voting, but most of these excuses can be shot down rath-er quickly:• My vote doesn’t count (I am not from Kansas)

This one is outrageous be-cause, firstly, the last governor was a democrat. Secondly, of course your vote won’t count if you don’t actually vote.• I don’t know where to vote

You can go to your state’s web page, type in the address where you sent your registra-tion from, and find out where it’s at. Generally the voting site will not change from election to election, so if you found it once, you can do it again.• I am not registered in To-peka, and it’s too far away to vote where I am registered

This is not a valid excuse because all you do is go to a public office in your home county, like the library, and get an application for an absentee ballot. You fill it out, mail it in, and in a week or so they send a ballot to you. This won’t work if you are being extremely lazy.• I don’t know the issues or candidates

Google them. Not hard.• I think all of the candidates are *expletives*

You may be right. How-ever, this has been the case since the invention of the poli-tician in Rome. Many people circumvent this by voting for what they assume is “the lesser of two evils,” or by utilizing the write-in boxes. I have voted for my non-political brother-in-law a time or two in this scenario. • I don’t have time/ I slept in/ I don’t care

Alright, this is the bottom of the barrel. If you don’t care, then the next time you complain about taxes, health care, the cost of living, the governor’s hair-cut, Hollywood, or anything re-motely related to politics at all, please remind yourself that any issues in the system are, in part, your fault.

The only good excuses to not vote are: the register’s of-fice lost your absentee ballot, you are under 18, you live in a country in which you are not allowed to vote, you are being held prisoner, or you are one of those other unfortunate citizens that the government denies from voting (people in prison, or people with mental illness).

In review (pun intended), learn your lesson, next election please vote or forfeit your com-plaining rights.

Sportscenter covers Moss drama over World SeriesYou get what you vote for

FROM THE EDITOR

Hi everyone. I am writ-ing this in regards to the great amount of responses I received from the article that was pub-lished in October about students with disabilities and I would like to clear up many things that were left unanswered from the article.

First, yes, I do have a dis-ability but I am not disabled. I will not let it rule my life, or ruin it for that matter. Second, I am human. I always have been and always will be. People who are born or who come into situations where they have ac-quired their disabilities do not want to be treated “special” or different since no one is any different from anyone else. As we get older, there are a rising number of people with disabili-ties in society who do have the right to a “normal” life as much as anyone else. No one asks to be born with any certain trait or genes, yet it happens. It is not a punishment for anything par-ents have done or we ourselves have done. We are created in our own beings to accept and teach one another. Uncondi-tionally.

Another common question that has been asked and I will paraphrase this: “What did your parents do to make you this way?” My answer will always be that my parents did not do anything wrong, I am me and I am the way I am for unknown reasons. I might be here to edu-cate my peers with a little com-passion. I might be here to learn

from society or even possibly to make a difference in the sys-tems to better serve our future generations with disabilities.

As I was growing up in the school system, kids could be cruel and said/did things that could hurt and could follow us through life; it’s how we choose to forgive as humans those who have taunted us. I do not blame my peers, I lay the blame with the adults at that time within the homes and school system for not teaching the methods of it being okay to be dif-ferent inside and out.

I was in high school in the latter part of the 1980s and there was still a close-minded way of how to educate students with physical disabilities. They were placed in the Learning Disabled class with students who have mental disabilities. I was told to think of it as study hall with credit. I was so bored in my high school classes because I was never challenged to my full educa-tional capacity such as given so many free rides like never taking Algebra or such classes that are beneficial for college credits. I bring this up to clarify that yes the school system did have me in classes. That was only option available within the main stream high school systems at that time, but in my opinion these classes do not open the option of challenging students who wish to transition to college or even the reality of life beyond high school. How can anyone be ready for real-

ity if they are kept apart from society?

How can any student or young adult become a person of great horizons if being told there are only grey skies in their back yard? I was always told I will never drive, or go to col-lege. Fortunately I am one of the people who take that infor-mation with defiance to prove to me that YES I CAN!!!!

I am here at Washburn University and I hear almost the same thing every semes-

ter many things like Washburn doesn’t have the on site im-mediate services for the blind and deaf who need interpreters to succeed in classes

on campuses. I have also heard that students would like to live in the dorms but are unable to due to the issues of residential advisors not being trained or skilled to communicate in sign language. This university does have a good student services program but, as others have stated and I myself believe, Washburn needs an individual department for students with disabilities to go to for walk-in tours on campus, mediations between professors and students as well as residential advisors and students. Student services does provide accommodations for students whom have dif-ficulty in the classrooms with testing and note takers that are peers and that is not always a reliable source either as peers can become sick or other obli-gations or miss classes.

Where does that leave the student with the needs? I also have observed that enrollment rate has fluctuated and I believe a solution to that is to draw more students from other towns such as Olathe. There is a high school there that is for the deaf and hearing impaired, that might be interested in Washburn if Washburn could accommodate students in the dorms and walk in tours with the interpreters at any time as part of coming to college means moving on and leaving the “home nest.” Does Washburn have smoke alarms in the dorms fitted for the deaf?

I have some thoughts to growing up in the society where I am neither here nor there where my hearing level is concerned. All I can say is, it has been one heck of a ride in life. I was fortunate enough to learn how to read lips early in life with persistence of my mother. For that I am forever grateful as people come to me and say “I would have never known you wear a hearing aid. You talk so well.” I even love to pull stunts of reading lips just to get a laugh out of people in life.

Overall, there are rising numbers of young people fin-ishing high school that do have a right to come to college, to re-ceive fair and equal education and succeed in life no matter where it takes us all.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

The views expressed in this letter are not necessarily the views of the Washburn Review.

Talking back: Cote responds to ‘disabled’ questionsJulie Cote

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The Washburn Ichabods basketball team fell in its first exhibition game of the season Tuesday night, mainly because of a “Phog” advisory.

The Bods traveled to Lawrence’s Allen Fieldhouse to battle the No. 7-ranked University of Kansas Jayhawks. Washburn fell behind early as KU started out with a 5-0 run, which included a three pointer by senior guard Tyrel Reed and a pair of free throws by junior guard Tyshawn Taylor. Kansas increased its lead to 11-0 before sophomore forward Bobby Chipman scored Washburn’s first points on a turnaround jump shot.

After another basket by Chipman, KU went on another 11-0 run before senior forward Logan Stutz hit a free throw on KU’s fifth team foul.

At halftime, the Jayhawks led 51-27. Chipman led the Bods with 10 points, while

junior forward Marcus Morris led the Jayhawks with 16 points and six rebounds, followed by Taylor’s eight points. The shooting stats were fairly similar, with Washburn going 10-for-23 from the floor, while KU was 13-for-23.

However, free throw shooting would prove to be the biggest factor in the game as KU hit 92 percent of its shots compared to WU’s 50 percent at halftime.

In the second half, Kansas outscored Washburn 41-35 to seal the victory at 92-62. KU’s success from the free-throw line continued, as the team went 32-for-35 for the game, breaking the 90 percent mark.

Chipman led the Bods with 14 points and four rebounds, and Stutz chipped in 12 points. Senior forward DeAndre Washington struggled on offense, commiting eight turnovers and scoring only seven points.

Marcus Morris had a game-high 28 points to go along with his seven rebounds, and his twin brother Markieff added 12 more points with eight rebounds and three steals.

Washburn’s next exhibition game is Nov. 7, against Kansas State in Bramlage Coliseum.

The Washburn University Lady Blues checked off another win this past Friday against the University of Central Missouri, defeating the Jennies 3-2. Though the Jennies won the first game, the Lady Blues quickly rebounded, winning the next two. UCM won the fourth game, forcing WU to win the tie-breaking fifth game.

“That was good volleyball,” said Chris Herron, head Lady Blues volleyball coach. “Anytime we play them, it’s going to be that way. It’s

just a battle. They got really good players. We got really good players, and the intensity level’s high.”

The win came a match after the Lady Blues defeated the University of Nebraska-Omaha in Omaha. The Blues lost there the previous two seasons but were able to beat the Mavericks 3-0.

Going into the match against the Jennies, Herron knew it would be a fight, just like it always is.

“It’s nothing that we didn’t expect,” said Herron. “We knew that it was going to happen. Thank God that we came out on the good end.”

Herron was quick to praise the Washburn team’s great deal of intensity as the cause of their hard-fought victory and claimed a lack of intensity led to a rough first game.

“Well, I though Jessica Fey was terrific,” said Herron. “I thought our middles offensively were really good. I thought their middles were pretty good, offensively, also. I thought Hillary Hughes had a good overall game. Molly Smith dug probably another 30 balls, so I mean, she just keeps rolling.”

Junior middle and right-side hitter Mollie Lacy agreed that the team picked up steam that was lacking in the first game as the match went on.

“Everyone was hitting really well,” said Lacy. “Our defense really picked it up after the first games. That’s what we struggled with in the first.

“One area we really need to come out and practice hard is blocking in the middle. I really struggle with that tonight, and Central’s a good team. They always put up a good fight, and

we came ready to play tonight and fought hard, so we’re really proud of that.

Lacy was unfazed by the close match and looks forward to the remainder of the season.

“We just have to stay focused,” said Lacy. “We can’t have any letdowns like we did against Northwest [Missouri State University] or any other teams, because anyone can get us at any time. We’re fighting to win a conference championship and do well in regionals.”

Senior defensive specialist Molly Smith was elated after the game.

“Awesome!” said Smith. “I think to beat them twice and to beat them on our home court is awesome. I think we played with heart. I think we played as a team so well. I think we left it all on the court.”

The Blues returned to action Tuesday night in Lee Arena to face the Lions from Missouri Southern. Washburn started off strong, winning the first set 25-13.

The Blues jumped off to a 10-2 start, with freshman setter Abby Wittman setting up several Blues players for kills and getting one herself. Missouri Southern then scored three straight points, followed by six straight points by Washburn. Wittman had 11 assists in the set.

In the second set, Washburn continued its dominance by outscoring the Lions 25-21. The Blues led 22-21 in the waning moments of the set, but scored three straight points off of a kill by Hillary Hughes, an attack error against MSSU’s Haley Martin and a kill by Fey.

The Blues finished out the third set with another victory, this time 25-16.

Hughes led the Blues with 12 kills and nine digs. Junior setter Amanda Guess had a double-double with 20 assists and 12 digs, and Smith added 20 digs of her own. For the Lions, Ashlee Russell had 14 kills and Elin Skel led the way with 17 assists. Jenna Feldman had 13 digs.

Washburn will travel Nov. 5 to Bolivar, Mo., to face Southwest Baptist, then Nov. 6 to Pittsburg State. The final home game of the season is Nov. 9 against Fort Hays State, then the Blues head to Emporia for the final regular season game Nov. 12.

Photo by Mike Goehring, Washburn Review

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review sportsLady Blues atop MIAABlues beat No. 7 Central in five-game thriller, climb into tie for first place

Mean streak: The Washburn Lady Blues volleyball team stretches its winning streak to five games Tuesday night as they beat Missouri Southern 3-0. They have won 15 of their last 18 sets.

Sam Sayler is an undecided sophomore Reach him at samuel.sayler@washburn.edu.

Ichabods still alive in quest for playoffs

The Washburn Ichabods’ (5-4, 4-3) postseason dreams are still alive following a 45-12 victory last Saturday against Truman State (4-5, 2-5).

The embattled gridiron gang returns home with a winning record, set for a 2:20 p.m. revival of the oldest rivalry in Division II football Saturday against Emporia State (5-5, 3-5) for Senior/Family Day. While its record may pale in comparison to the expectations the team set for itself at the beginning of the season, Washburn hasn’t taken the easiest of roads to get to the Turnpike Tussle this weekend. In fact, the Ichabods’ schedule has been rated the toughest in the nation.

With all four losses against nationally-ranked opponents, and by a total of only 22 points, the Ichabods desperately needed a win in Kirskville, Mo., against TSU to salvage any shot at postseason play.

The Bods fell behind early as the Bulldogs drove 84 yards on their first possession to score on a two-yard rush by Phillip Davis. The next possession, junior quarterback Dane Simoneau connected with freshman tight end Tore Hurst for a 26-yard touchdown to tie the game. The Bulldogs registered a safety after a bad snap went over fifth-year senior punter Austin Hills’ head and into the end zone, bringing the score to 9-7 before Washburn scored 14 points in the final 2:02 of the half.

In the second half, the Bods continued to roll on offense, scoring 38 unanswered points before Truman State ended it with a field goal with three minutes left in regulation. Sixth-year senior receiver Joe

Hastings, after catching four passes for 108 yards, become the first Ichabod receiver since Sam Sissom in 2004 to go over the 1,000-yard mark in receiving yards. Junior defensive end Dakota Palan-Johnson, named MIAA Defensive Player of the Week, recorded a career-high 11 tackles and a sack, helping hold the Bulldog offense to only 194 total yards.

Following the victory against TSU, Washburn now sits in a three-way tie for third place in the MIAA. Missouri Western (6-3, 4-3), and

Nebraska-Omaha (4-5, 4-3). In the first football Division II regional rankings

of the year, released Monday, Washburn was ranked No. 10 in the Super Regional Four behind Central Washington (6-3, 5-2 in Division II) and Humboldt State (7-2, 5-1 in Division II). By all accounts, it appears the Ichabods’ tough schedule may be working in their favor with the NCAA Division II Football Committee, and perhaps with enough luck they would still be able to squeeze into the top eight and make the playoffs. Other MIAA schools to crack the Top Ten in the region were Central Missouri (2), Northwest Missouri (4) and Missouri Western (7). Abilene Christian, which handed Washburn its first loss of the season, is ranked No. 1 in the region with a 9-0 record.

Following Washburn’s matchup with Emporia State, which airs on the MIAA TV Network (Cox 22), the Ichabods hit the road one more to take on Missouri Southern Saturday, Nov. 13, at 2 p.m. in Joplin, Mo.

Josh RouseWASHBURN REVIEW

this is the last opportunity to get your picture taken for the yearbook...

seriously, though...this is the last one.

Nov. 4 • 11-2 at the corner storethe 499th person to get their picture taken gets a $25 gift certificate to Applebees

Josh Rouse is a senior mass media major. Reach him at joshua.rouse@washburn.edu.

Dominating performance: Ronnell Garner, right, runs for yards after the catch. The Ichabods won 45-12 against the Bulldogs.

Photo courtesy of Gene Cassell, Washburn SID

ICHABOD FOOTBALL

Bods fall to No. 7 Jayhawks in hoopsJosh RouseWASHBURN REVIEW

Josh Rouse is a senior mass media major. Reach him at joshua.rouse@washburn.edu.

Washburn at Kansas 1ST 2nd FWashburn 27 35 62Kansas 51 41 92WU Statistical Leaders Points: Chipman (14)Rebounds: Stutz (5)Assists: Allen (4)

KU Statistical Leaders Points: Mc. Morris (28)Rebounds: Mk. Morris (8)Assists: Reed (3)

Team FoulsWashburn: 27Kansas: 17Technical: WU 0, KU 1

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The Lady Blues soccer team played two games this past week. The team beat Emporia State 1-0 in the second overtime on Thursday by a shot from Markie Gallagher with an assist from Leah Talley. The Lady Blues fell to Truman State 0-2 on Saturday.

“I think that if you look at the stats, and everybody who went to the game knows that we played a better game against Truman State this time, even though it wasn’t reflected in the score,” said Tim Collins, head soccer coach.”

Collins is positive going into the team’s next games

against Southwest Baptist and Central Missouri.

“I know, against Southwest Baptist, it’s senior night,” said Collins. “I know we’d all like to have a positive result. We’ve done well these past few weeks, but we haven’t had the same success as these last 3 years. Our seniors are the backbone who the teams looks to.

“I think we dominated against ESU,” said Ashley Klone, senior goalkeeper. “We had the ball a lot more than they did. We had a lot of opportunities, but we just didn’t capitalize.

For redshirt senior punter Austin Hills, sometimes being the man behind the scenes is just as exciting as being the star athlete.

In his five years at Wash-burn, Hills has made quite an impact with his leg, kicking the ball a total of 5,356 yards, just over three miles. While he has never had the opportunity to in-dividually score, he has set up a handful of safeties and touch-downs by positioning the ball near the goal line.

“Special teams are pretty vital in the game and that’s why coaches really take pride in the special teams. All coaches do,” said Hills, a native of Burling-ton, Kan. “We set up every-thing. Special teams set up field positions in punting and kick-ing and returning. Also with field goals, being able to score. Sometimes a lot of people over-look it just because from time to time it gets used but all the coaches are in the same boat

with it being high up there in priority.”

While Hills certainly hasn’t been the most celebrated athlete at Washburn, he’s had his fair share of success. In 2008, Hills was named to the MIAA’s Aca-demic Honor Roll and earned all-MIAA honorable mention after booting a career high of 64 punts at an average of 39.7 yards per attempt, including a school-record 87-yard punt against Nebraska-Omaha. He made the school’s Top 10 list for three statistical single sea-son categories: punt attempts, punting yards and punting aver-age. The following season, Hills averaged 38.8 yards per punt, which was the fourth best in the MIAA. His net punting average was even more impressive, as his 35.5 yards per punt led the MIAA and was the fourth best number in the nation.

“I attribute that to my coaches for being able to stick with me and give me a chance to show what I can do,” said Hills.

Hills said the punting pro-

fession is an odd one, indeed. While other players are looking to have the best stats, he said punters often would prefer to stay on the sidelines as much as possible.

“The punters never want to be out there a lot during the game, but we’re out there working for the defense,” said Hills. “I guess any time you’re out there on the field, it doesn’t matter how many times, your job is to just exchange field po-sition. It’s nice to know that the coaches rely on me to do that if we are put into a tough situ-ation.

“If we’re in fourth and short they may go with me instead of

going for it because they know I can get good position for the defense and we can try again. It’s a real different position, I’d say, just because you don’t want to be the star athlete but you’re kind of the guy behind the curtains that helps things out in times of need.”

Hills, who is majoring in athletic training, said that after he graduates he plans to find an internship somewhere or pursue a graduate aprentiship in athletic training at a gradu-ate school. But before he can do that, he still has business to take care of on the field.

“I want to just finish out with a strong attitude and stay

strong-legged, as well,” said Hills. “Just doing the best I can when I’m put in the situa-tion to do it. Finish the season with a good average and good net and hopefully stay healthy, as well.”

Outside of football, Hills enjoys camping, hiking, snow-boarding and playing basket-ball, as well as spending time with his family, though he is often teased by friends about the nickname he gives his fa-ther, Jim.

“I get made fun of a lot be-cause I call my old man ‘dude’ all the time,” said Hills. “We just call each other dude. I don’t even call him ‘dad’ anymore.”

Hills said he wouldn’t be where he was today without a great deal of support from his faith, his family for the way they’ve raised him and the coaches for giving him an op-portunity to play. He had one word to describe his senior sea-son: inspirational.

“Just kind of looking back, you know senior year, your last year, you look back at the sea-sons you had and where you started and where you are now and being able to put it all to-gether.”

A6 Sports • Wednesday, November 3, 2010

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Josh Rouse is a senior mass media major. Reach him at joshua.rouse@washburn.edu.

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Sam Sayler is a freshman unde-cided major. Reach him at samuel.sayler@washburn.edu.

The Washburn Art Team of United Potters hosted their first ever Halloween party last Sunday, Oct. 31. Included in the spooky festivities were a pumpkin carving contest where contestants got to use artistic tools to decorate their pumpkins, and a costume contest. The costumes were judged for creativity, scari-est, and funniest. Costumes ranged from Minnie Mouse, to Where’s Waldo, to a giant banana.

Monette Mark, faculty ad-visor for WATUP and pottery professor at Washburn was unsure about the size of the crowd because this is the first Halloween party they have ever hosted. There ended up being several students and non-students who were dressed up and ready to participate in all the Halloween inspired activi-ties WATUP had planned for the night.

“I think it turned out well,” said Mark. “It was good for our first [Hal-loween party] because we didn’t know how many to plan for. Hope-fully everyone here will be able to come to the throwing party on Friday.”

Mark was satisfied with how the party went and used the opportunity to promote their next event, a throwing day where the public can learn how to use the pottery wheel.

Participants will get a

chance to learn some tech-niques on the pottery wheel, and make their own pot. The pots will be fired after the

event. Around Thanksgiving, p a r t i c i p a n t s will be able to return and glaze their piece. Those who would like to dontate their pottery to WATUP will be contributing to a fundrasier sale on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 where people will have an

opportunity to buy pottery from WATUP.

The pumpkin carving contest had seven entries with various forms of artwork. A puking pumpkin, and a ninja were among the creations. Throughout the night con-testants had their chance at

carving jack o’ lanterns with various pottery utensils, not the average pumpkin carving hardware.

“It is a lot more fun than [carving pumpkins] at home,” said Emily Kaberline, junior. “You can add a lot more de-tails with these different tools.” Emily was dressed up as Wario and carved herself on her pumpkin.

Officers from WATUP were responsible for judg-ing the pumpkins by creativ-ity. There were two first place winners who received $10 gift cards to Chipotle Mexi-can Grill, they went to Anna Moore for most creative and Patricia Peterson, sophomore Mass Media major, for scari-est pumpkin. All other en-tries received a prize as well, a choice of a piece of pottery from the WATUP ceramic col-lection.

The costume contest had 10 entries and was judged in three categories, “Most Cre-

ative Costume”, “Scariest Costume” and “Funniest Cos-tume”. A tie for most creative went to Where’s Waldo, Jason Zuspann, sophomore, and Ra-chel Johnson who was dressed up as a construction worker. The funniest costume went to Bryce Korf, freshman theatre major, who was dressed in a gi-ant banana costume. The win-ners received $10 gift cards to Chipotle Mexican Grill.

WATUP is a group dedi-cated to learning more about ceramics through the creation of pieces for fundraisers. They use the money to fund demonstrations and trips to conferences on pottery. They meet the first Thursday of ev-ery month in the Art Building in room, 120.

Ceramics group throws Halloween partyTrish PetersonWASHBURN REVIEW

Photo by Candice Morris, Washburn Review

WATUP: Members of the Washburn Art Team of United Potters celebrate Halloween with a pumpkin carving contest. Contestants were able to use a variety of different pottery-making tools for their carvings.

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A group of artists work-ing together to bring awareness through art will see their project in Topeka in spring of 2012.

The collaboration was de-signed to illustrated the plight of those who suffer from four specific conditions.

“The Waiting Room” in-stallation is set to debut at the Catherine G. Murphy Gallery at the The College of St. Cath-erine in St. Paul, Minn. on Nov. 4. The project’s appearance in a seemingly random place could best be attributed to the efforts of Marguerite Perret, assistant professor of art at Washburn University.

“Maybe five years ago I had a show there about ecology called ‘Wonder-land’,” said Per-ret. “At the time, I was also begin-ning to work on this idea about a show that would deal with women’s mental health issues.”

Though de-ciding to move forward with the “Wonderland” exhibit because it better fit with the other artist showing in their connected gal-lery at the time, the College of St. Catherine would not forget about Perret’s idea for a wom-en’s mental health exhibition.

About two years ago, the college contacted Perret about the women’s mental health idea, then titled “The Yellow Wallpa-per” after a short story by Char-lotte Perkins Gilman.

“I hadn’t developed the idea any further,” said Perret. “Then I started talking to the people who I knew who also dealt with similar issues in their work, and it occurred to me that, instead of

this being my perspectives about women’s mental health issues, it needed to be a collaborative ex-hibition with several artists and it needed to focus more broadly on women’s health issues.”

What started as an idea for an art installation focusing on women’s mental heath issues, has evolved into an elaborate statement about society, suffer-ing and healing in reference to breast cancer, dementia, eating disorders and depression.

The broadness and expan-sion of the project has allowed more and more people to be involved, and many of them come from within the Washburn community such as Stephanie Lanter, Catron Visiting Profes-sor at Washburn.

“Stephanie came on right away,” said Perret, “I asked

Stephanie if she was willing to do this one little component of it.”

Lanter ac-cepted a small part in the proj-ect but ended up becoming a principle col-laborator along with Perret, Bruce Schert-ing, and Robin Lasser.

“ B r u c e Scherting is my husband and an artist that I work with a lot on projects,” said Perret. “Robin Lasser is a very feminist ori-ented artist who works out of Oakland, California.”

The number of people in-volved expanded from the ini-tial collaborators to more artists. Washburn students and mem-bers of the Lawrence, Topeka and Salina communities along with the community around the College of St. Cathrine in St. Paul became involved in the creative process.

As the display took shape some items and themes began to

take form.“The most dominant as-

pect is a chair,” said Lanter. “A sculptural chair that has been designed by us collectively.”

Though each member of the principle group has specific strengths, the design and cre-ative ideas seem to come collec-tively. The chairs have a number of design elements to them that originated between the five cen-tral designers. The actual struc-tures were created using both found objects and pieces as well as newly constructed pieces.

“Each one is upholstered with either a fabric with a de-sign that Marguerite created,”

said Lanter. “A lot of them have scientific imagery on them, or healing imagery, so that each chair, besides being really beau-tiful, has this dense layering of information.”

The chairs are very specific to the disorder they are repre-senting. The breast cancer chair, for example, has a bra incorpo-rated into its design as well has some implements of surgical equipment, and the dementia chair has a bathroom support stool dressed up as an ottoman.

“Our goal is both to draw people in to consider what is going on with the condition, but also learn about it at the same

time.” In addition to the chairs

there will also be a crucial gar-ment element to each display.

“Each tableau also has a garment,” said Lanter. “That is also somehow descriptive of the experience of having that condi-tion or of being a caretaker for someone that has the condi-tion.”

The garment making in-volves another Washburn pro-fessor, Sharon Sullivan, an as-sistant professor for the theatre department.

The other major compo-nent to the tableau is the floor. Each floor section will also have

some sort of floor treatment or covering. The floors of both the dementia tableau and the eating disorder tableau have become a way for the community to con-tribute to the art piece.

“For the dementia tableau we asked people to make gran-ny squares which is a traditional crochet pattern,” said Lanter. “Then we created these mats out of granny squares and also found clothing that we found at local thrift stores here and in Lawrence and Salina. There’s, sort of, real life history embed-ded and community contribu-tion in the floor treatment.”

‘Room’ lends voice to women’s health issuesElise BarnettWASHBURN REVIEW

Our goal is both to draw people in to consider what is going on with the condition, but also learn about it at the same time.

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Photo courtesy of Stephanie Lanter and Marguerite Perret

Crochet workshop: As part of “The Waiting Room” local community members crocheted piece to accompany to chair installations. The chairs feature different unique elements to represent different forms of mental illness.

The release of Echo Lake’s new EP “3445 B” is something I’ve been waiting to hear since high school.

The band, originally a four-person rock group from Seaman High School, put on some great shows back in the day, including a student con-cert show that literally rocked the socks off those in atten-dance.

The group has evolved quite a bit since then, though two original members still remain in drummer Matt Mirsch, a senior music major at Washburn, and bassist Scott Stormann. The new mem-bers, guitarist/lead vocalist David Hess, Michael Span-gler on guitar and saxophonist T.C. Gomez, met Mirsch and Stor-mann through the Washburn music department and instant-ly added a newfound spark to the band. The band, which made its name playing mostly rock and ska covers with a few original songs thrown in at lo-cal bars such as the Boobie Trap, found a new sound with the addition of the three new members. On their MySpace page, the band describes their sound as a mix between Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, Galactic, Dave Matthews and Stevie Wonder in his Motown days. After listening to the six songs on the CD, it’s very easy to pinpoint specific parts of each song where each of these references can fit in, yet it doesn’t seem forced at all. It’s just natural music played

from the heart.The band, not known for

taking itself too seriously, de-livers light-hearted music that both entertains and soothes the listener. The funk/blues combination allows for both easy listening and rocking

out, and songs such as “Wreck-in’ Ball,” and the title-track “3445 B” are

quite catchy and will easily get stuck in your head. “Call You Mine” recently received airtime on V100 as the band’s first single, which mixes the classic Dave Matthews acous-tic sound with blues-driven electric slide guitar.

The band manages to find its own unique sound on this CD without the songs blend-ing together too much. The variety in styles between the first three songs shows off the bands flexibility.

Be sure to check them out at www.myspace.com/EchoLake or on iTunes.

Please see EXHIBIT page A8

Echo Lake shows off new sound in ‘3445 B’

Image courtesy of Mike Goehring

New EP: Echo Lake shows an evolving sound on their latest release “3445 B” with the addition of three new members to the band.

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Josh Rouse is a senior mass media major. Reach him at joshua.rouse@washburn.edu.

I think it turned out well. It was good for our first [Halloween party] because we didn’t know how many to plan for.

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Trish Peterson is a sophomore mass media major. Reach her at patricia.peterson@wash-burn.edu.

For the eating disorder flooring they asked various classes around Washburn and in the community to make beaded bracelets to make a pile on around the chair that resembles shag carpeting. The bracelets are a combina-tion of white, red, and blue, though the idea behind them was not meant to be patriot-ic. In fact, the bracelets sym-bolize and attempt to coun-teract the pro-eating disorder culture.

“One of the symbols of someone who might sub-scribe to this sort of men-tality is a beaded bracelet,” said Lanter. “Red ones are for anorexia and blue ones are for bulimia. We also are including white or clear bracelets as more a symbol of healing.”

Beyond the visual as-pects, there is also an acous-tic component to each tab-leau.

“You have the sculptural chair and then you have a chair that’s just a basic of-fice waiting room chair,” said Perret. “It’s not embel-lished. It’s just grey and very bland, very typical of what you might see in some ge-neric office space.”

The plain chair is ac-companied by a set of head-phones that play a composi-tion specific to the condi-tion. Made up of stories from sufferers and caretakers as well as music and emotive orchestrations, the tracks add yet another dimension to “The Waiting Room” instal-lation.

After its stay at the Col-lege of St. Catherine, the in-stallation will be moving to the Sabatini Gallery at the Topeka Public Library in 2012. Lanter and Perret plan to expand the exhibit to in-clude four more topics and Topeka playwright Marcia Cebulska composed a work based on the exhibition con-cepts that will accompany the 2012 installation.

Along with the installa-tion, Sarah Smarsh, assistant professor of English at Wash-burn, is helping to create and edit a book about the process of creating the installation as well as containing origi-nal creative works written specifically inspired by “The Waiting Room” concepts and components.

To learn more about “The Waiting Room” and keep up to date with the progress of

the installation visit www.waitingroom.weebly.com or request to join their group on Facebook.

The ledger book has evolved from an organized record of fiscal transactions to an artistic communication tool and is now becoming a source of critical research.

Raylene Hinz-Penner, a member of the Washburn English department, presented her paper on the ledger book at last Tuesday’s meeting of the 2010 Washburn Research Colloquium.

W i t h representatives from various W a s h b u r n depar tments in attendance, Hinz-Penner discussed the history of ledger books and how much insight they have to offer into the history of the tribes and tribe members who drew in them.

Before the ledger book, the native people drew on hide and rock. She showed a picture of a circular motif of tiny pictographs draw on a large piece of animal hide called a winter count. Winter counts were used to keep a record of years with one image added each winter that described what life was like over that year.

When settlers came to the

land toting ideas of manifest destiny and ledger books, they were filled with rows and columns of purchasing records, farming notes, and other monetary transactions. Even after the ledger books made they way into the hands of the native people, you can still see the records made by the settlers.

“This one has a record of farming implements,” said Heinz-Penner, pointing to the faded columns underneath an brightly colored painted horse.

“This was drawn by a man called H o w l i n g Wolf.”

Heinz-P e n n e r discusses in her paper that the ledger books became a collection of images used to illustrate oral stories

and myths that had been passes down from generations to generations.

Heinz-Penner noted that the work of Howling Wolf is often studied because he drew throughout many different periods. His style shifts from traditional ledger drawings to a more intricate and interpretive style while he was imprisoned and then back to a more traditional style during his life on the reservation.

As ledger drawings became popular to those outside of the tribes, the commissioning of ledger art became popular. Though that did not detract from the spiritualness or expression of the work.

“Just because it’s been commissioned, doesn’t mean it’s not still a spiritual experience,” said Tom Averill, professor of creative writing in the Washburn English department.

Even after the native people could read and write, the ledger book was still a popular means of expression.

“It became a way to commemorate and hang on to ritual,” said Heinz-Penner

Contemporary ledger art is often still drawn within the rectangular dimensions of the old ledger books, but has a cleaner, more professional style as artists today are not limited to pencils and crayons.

Though the art form is still thriving and well received, Heinz-Penner believes that much can be learned by a shift in focus from art to historical record.

“It’s become clear to me that oral tradition has become a critical research source,” said Heinz-Penner. “The ledger book has become an interesting, multifaceted document.”

A8 Arts & Entertainment • Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Photos courtesy of Stephanie Lanter and Marguerite Perret

Breaking and making molds: Stephanie Lanter, Catron Visiting Professor at Washburn, prepares molds for production as part of the “Waiting Room” project. A number of Washburn students and members of the local community are participating in the project.

Elise Barnett is a sophomore English major. Reach her at elise.barnett@washburn.edu.

Elise Barnett is a sophomore English major. Reach her at elise.barnett@washburn.edu.

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Ledger books: beyond finance, artElise BarnettWASHBURN REVIEW

Dementia chair: This installation represents dementia, which often takes form in the cognitive impairment of an individual. Each chair in the project is representative of a different mental health issue.

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Students and professors alike are working harder than ever in the Washburn theatre department with the premiere of the Neil Simon comedy “Rumors” fast approaching.

This fun-loving comedy about the confusion, mystery and, of course, rumors, is sure to delight audiences this month.

Stage manager Brenda Blackman has been working diligently to make sure that everything is technically “show ready” and the actors have long since memorized their lines.

The Washburn production of “Rumors” will star Brandon Blick, Jon Rowland, Samantha Heath, Nancy Morgan, Neil Thompson, Tommy Guffey, Arissa Utemark and other talented Washburn students.

“I am excited to work on a comedy,” said Utemark. “It is

stimulating both intellectually and as an actor. It can be easier to get your message across if you have a light-hearted deliv-ery.”

“Rumors,” opens Nov. 12 and follows four couples through an alarming dilemma, as they meet for a dinner party only to discover that their host, the deputy mayor, has shot himself through the ear lobe and various house residents and staff are missing.

Due to their high profile status, they decide to hide the true events from the police and the media. This becomes increasingly harder as they can’t remember who has said what to whom.

“I have worked with a couple of the cast members in previous productions,” said Utemark. “Them [the other cast members] being friends of mine and the script allows us to get along behind the curtain and on stage.”

This elaborate farce is a comedic change of pace from the serious dramas that have graced the Andrew J. and Georgia Neese Gray Theatre in past seasons.

“I get to work with a great cast and a great director,” said Utemark. “It will be a great show.”

With classic Neil Simon wit and Washburn talent, the show is destined to be well worth the $8 ticket price for community members and Washburn students can see the play for free with their student ID.

For more information regarding times, dates, or directions visit the Washburn University theatre department website at www.washburn.edu/cas/theartre and click on the productions tab.

‘Rumors’ comes to WashburnElise BarnettWASHBURN REVIEW

Elise Barnett is a sophomore English major. Reach her at elise.barnett@washburn.edu.

Topeka Best Pets hosted its first pet costume contest this past Saturday. Several costumed animals made an appearance, including a goat. Judges, including special guest KSNT’s Johnny Kane, decided victors for four different categories and one overall winner.

The scariest costume went to a Pekingese named Buster dressed as the devil. Lucy, a Pomeranian dressed as a chicken, was declared to look most like its owner, who was dressed as Col. Sanders. A Jack Sparrow Papillon was awarded the cutest costume, and the most original was a Schnauzer named Baby Jay as Jayhawk.

Winners of each category received a six-month supply of Royal Canin or Science Diet food. The overall winner, a heeler mix named Tasha dressed as a horse, took home a $50 gift certificate to the store.

Employee, Washburn

student, and David Lee Roth supporter Tori Tipton spoke of the genesis of the event.

“It was kind of everybody, but it was mostly [store founder] Maribeth [Hamilton],” said Tipton. “Just because we’re always trying to do really fun, crazy things, just to get people in here. Because, like, we are a relatively new store, and people don’t really know we’re her a lot of times.

“So, just anything we can do to, like, bring people in and have them take look at our store and win sweet prizes is always a good idea. She’s always got those. Pull them out of her sleeve like crazy. She’s like an idea genius.”

Tipton was satisfied with the attendance of the contest. and had ideas on how to improve for next year.

“I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, but there were so many dogs here,” said Tipton. “It was really awesome. It was a great turnout, I think.

“I kind of want to do the same thing, but maybe, like, have more than four categories,

so we can give out more winners, because it was really hard to pick winners. We can only give away five different prizes and there was, like, 50 dogs here.”

Store owner Maribeth Hamilton shed light on the secret origin of Topeka Best Pets.

“[Co-owner] Chris [Hamilton] and I owned Petland in Topeka at Fairlawn for 22 years, and we sold it a year ago, this past February” said Hamilton. “We really had no intention of doing another pet store, but I kind of missed it. This opportunity came up.

“I’ve always lived up north. We haven’t had one lately, a full-line pet store across the river, so it was a great idea. It was a great place. We got a great deal on the place, so here it is. And now all my family is old enough to work here.”

‘The devil’ wins costume contestSam SaylerWASHBURN REVIEW

It’s become clear to me that oral tradition has become a critical research source.

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Sam Sayler is a freshman unde-cided major. Reach him at samuel.sayler@washburn.edu.

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