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Authentic, genuine and purple: Bosco gives his Last Lecture at Kansas State

BAILEY BRITTON THE COLLEGIAN

With his retirement only a few months away, Pat Bosco, vice president of student life and dean of students, spoke to students and faculty Thursday in the Leadership Studies Building as part of the Last Lecture series. All speakers for the Last Lecture series are given the following prompt: If this was your last time speaking to K-State, what would you say? Bosco had a lot to say about being authentic and genuine. He said it started at his first job as a paper boy. “When I was a paper boy, my mom suggested writing my name and home number on a paper to give to the customers if there were problems with the paper,” Bosco said. “If it was wet or late, they would have a direct contact to me.” That practice followed him through his career — Bosco is famous for giving out his phone number to parents at orientation and enrollment, so if any problems arise, they have a direct way to contact him. He answers calls, texts and emails as quickly as he can. Bosco also learned some

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Pat Bosco, vice president of student life, explains how he met former president Richard Nixon during his Last Lecture on Thursday in the Leadership Studies Building. Bosco will retire in July. tips from his dad about authenticity, and it started with a boxing lesson. “I remember being in the pool hall he owned when I was 12,” Bosco said. “It wasn’t busy that day, so my dad asked if I wanted to learn how to box, and I said, ‘Sure.’ After a few minutes, he said, ‘Let’s give up boxing and teach you how to make people like you; let’s learn how to

shake hands.’” Bosco said his dad had a very firm handshake, and his dad told him you can tell a lot about a man by his handshake — you can tell how sincere he is, and if he genuinely is in the moment. Kansas State University, Bosco said, is built on being genuine and sincere. “What makes our school special?” Bosco asked. “What

Kelly-Spencer campaign broke SGA election rules, hearing determines

causes students to raise money for other students? Why do we have so many donors? Why do our students spend so much time in student publications, in student government, in Panhellenic organizations? They show what makes us special.” Student leaders, Bosco added, are one reason why K-State succeeds. Bosco himself was student body presi-

dent when attending K-State, and he said he admires the work done by student leaders today. He added that what makes K-State leaders so great is being authentic. “Authentic leaders are in the moment, and they give everything they’ve got,” Bosco said. “We [the leaders] need to make sure that we listen. We need to not be the smartest in the room. We need to understand that maybe someone else has a better idea and be vulnerable.” Bosco added that no one is perfect, but he said he believes that at this school, people are pretty close. “We need to be vulnerable and committed to being better,” Bosco said. “We are that kind of school where we can. We are real and genuine. It shows in our ability to roll up our sleeves and be better. “When we make mistakes, we need to say we’re sorry right away,” Bosco continued. “I would add that I know psychology and sociology. During my 50 years here, I’ve developed my own study — Boscology, the study of being genuine.”

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OPINION: Pros and cons of long-distance relationships

NEWS

Warm weather makes for mild Valentine’s Day, but it won’t last by Rafael Garcia It has been a strange month of weather so far, to say the least. In the first two weeks of February, temperatures have fluctuated between sub-zero lows and mild highs in the upper 60s, and Manhattan is seeing yet another temperature swing this weekend. While the weather outside on Valentine’s Day was pleasantly mild, temperatures are already starting to drop. Manhattan saw its expected high of 56 degrees at noon Thursday, but with snow on the way, it will be a frigid Friday with an expected high of 19 degrees and low of eight degrees. Saturday isn’t looking much better, either. Manhattan will also be under a winter weather advisory from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday. “Roads are likely to become snow packed and slippery,” the advisory says. “The snow is expected to be the heaviest between 6 a.m. and 2 p.m., and could make the morning commute difficult.” East central, north central and northeast Kansas could see between two and five inches of snow on Friday, and although much of last week’s ice has melted, remnants of the packed ice are still visible in corners of campus. As far as a possible school cancellation goes, there’s no telling what to expect from Kansas State University, as the university is notoriously reluctant to cancel classes for weather-related reasons. The weekend will be warmer, but only slightly, with highs in the mid-20s on both Saturday and Sunday. Students waiting in line for Saturday’s men’s basketball game at 3 p.m. might want to bring a blanket or two.

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Engineering students hold mixed opinions on proposed engineering course fee increase RACHEL HOGAN THE COLLEGIAN

Faced with a fee proposal lacking in openness or clarity, members of the College of Engineering tuition committee held a student forum on Thursday to inform students of the fee’s details and gauge their reactions. Krista Long, senior in biological systems engineering, said she did not know about the proposed course fee increase until she heard about it from the college tuition committee. “I think there’s also been a lack of transparency about this fee,” Long said. “Most people don’t even know about it. ... That’s something I wish, too, overall that all students were more aware that

this was going on and were able to hear where their money was going to be going towards.” The College of Engineering raised its course fees by $15 per credit hour last year, and a new proposal would raise fees by an additional $15 per credit hour for the coming school year. The College of Engineering’s current fee is $99, the highest at Kansas State University, on top of the university-wide credit hour cost of $312.50 for in-state students. If the fee proposal is successful, the College of Engineering’s course fees will raise to $114 per credit hour. Despite this, Long said she sees need for it in the college, and so do others. The fee, which will be used to pay for graduate teaching assis-

tants, will free up money from the University Engineering Initiative Act for lab renovations. A student in computer science said during the meeting that the department is pushing its servers to the limit with their age and limited capacity. “Servers, if you get five years out of them, you’re lucky,” the student said. “The fact that we’re still running off of eight-year-old servers, that kind of thing, that runs a very high risk of failure at that point.” Already, some computer science classes have been canceled or almost canceled due to server troubles. Long added that she wants to see the planned lab upgrades begin as soon as possible. “I would expect to see lab

spaces being improved very quickly,” Long said. “I would want to see that money put where people said it was going to be put right away.” Other students were less supportive of the proposed course fee increase. “I hope it fails just because — I’m not trying to be selfish — I just don’t see any benefit for myself or my department,” Drew Goddard, sophomore in biological systems engineering, said. Goddard also said the $15 credit hour surcharge increase will put substantial financial strain on him, about $8,000 over the next two years (by his estimates) on top of his out-of-state tuition. “This fee makes it really hard to even come to school here,” Goddard said.

Kelly-Spencer violated SGA campaign rules PETER LOGANBILL THE COLLEGIAN

On Thursday morning, a Student Governing Association election hearing was held, determining that the Kelly-Spencer campaign committed a second minor violation in regards to non-reported donated services. The first violation was related to the campaign video and was heard on Sunday. An appeal

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The message the next generation needs, Bosco said, is that people are watching — and when people are watching, that is where the rubber meets the road and you need to own up to your mistake and apologize. “My message is to be genuine and better,” Bosco said. Bosco said a big part of K-State’s legacy is being the first

was filed by the campaign, but the initial ruling was upheld. The second was related to some campaign photography donated to the campaign. The hearing was initially scheduled to deliberate the complaint filed by Kristen Schau, elections commissioner and sophomore in political science and communication studies. The complaint had two concerns of violation. The first was related to the failure to include necessary

expenses in the expense report. The second was under suspect of a "deliberate submission of false or misleading information or deliberate omission of information," which would have been a major violation. The Kelly-Spencer campaign was found in violation for the first concern, but "[the] board determined there was not sufficient evidence that any information provided by the Kelly Campaign was deliberately omitted or

used to mislead." Some of the photos posted on the campaign’s Instagram account tagged the photographer account @at.visuals. The account appeared to do photography for a commission as indicated by a permanent Instagram story which states "dm for pricing and info."

land grant university. It is a legacy of teaching and service which he didn’t understand when he first arrived here, but he does now. There is a culture of diversity and numerous activities planned every week. “Rodeos and drag shows — where else are you going to find that in America?” Bosco asked. “We have this variety and commitment to culture any given weekend.” This culture of commitment to being genuine and sincere shows in K-State students, Bosco

said, and he wants it to continue. “I want to make sure that schools of medicine or law or education continue to look at our graduates and think that something is different,” Bosco said. “They have an experience that is singular. They roll up their sleeves and solve problems. They have had an experience in and out of the classroom that singles them out to be different.” Bosco said K-State is a family bigger than themselves, and students genuinely have a chance to make a difference here.

Bosco will be retiring in July. William Carter, senior in computer science and member of the Mortar Board Senior Honor Society, said he helped organize the Last Lecture as part of Mortar Board Week 2019. “We do one lecture a semester, and it gives the speaker a chance to speak about something that they wouldn’t be able to at any other time,” Carter said. “Since Dr. Bosco is retiring, he seemed like a good fit for this one. He also exemplifies our ideals: scholarship, leadership and service.”

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LETTER: Raising fees a slap in face to engineering students This letter to the editor was written by Jonathan Cole, student senator. If you would like to write a letter to the Collegian, send us an email at letters@kstatecollegian.com or visit kstatecollegian.com/ contact. When I ran for student senate in the spring of 2018, I sought to fight against the onslaught of fee increases set forth by Darren Dawson, the dean of the College of Engineering. His recent comments are a blatant disregard for the voice of the students and should alarm everyone on our campus. At $99 per credit hour, the College of Engineering charges more extra fees per credit hour than any other academic unit on campus. It is empirical that higher costs of education ultimately hurt the state of Kansas by making education unaffordable. Dawson has threatened that “if [the increase] doesn’t pass next year, we will bring it back the next year and we will continue to bring it back all the

way until the end of the [University Engineering Initiative Act] cycle.” This is a slap in the face of students, particularly undergrads. Kansas State University has a shared governing system to combat this dogmatic rhetoric, and the dean should be ashamed to even think in this manner. I will always fight for education to be accessible and affordable. I am calling upon College of Engineering students everywhere to stand up against Dawson. In addition, I am calling upon President Richard Myers, Provost Charles Taber and vice president of student life Pat Bosco to take action and stand up for students. Finally, I demand that Dean Dawson apologizes for his remarks. Closed mouths don’t get fed, Wildcats. We need to take action on our education. Jonathan Cole is a student senator and senior in mechanical engineering. The views and opinions expressed in this letter are those of the author.

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K-STATE K-State women fall to top-ranked Bears 71-48

ANALYSIS: Height difference shows in K-State’s loss to No. 1 Baylor at home Wednesday night

NATHAN ENSERRO

CODY FRIESEN

THE COLLEGIAN

The Kansas State women’s basketball team was run out of Bramlage Coliseum by the topranked Baylor Bears Wednesday night. The Bears shot down the Wildcats 71-48. Early in the game, K-State abandoned its usual 2-3 zone defense in favor of a compacted man-to-man defense. K-State collapsed into the lane to try to take away Baylor’s significant height advantage, sometimes as many as four Wildcats were in the lane. This allowed the Bears to get any shots they wanted outside of the paint. “We were trying to get a lot of help to the post,” Jeff Mittie, K-State's head coach, said. “It allowed [senior guard Chloe] Jackson to walk into her 15-footer probably way too many times, it allowed [junior guard] Juicy [Landrum] to get loose a little bit.” The Bears found easy twopoint shots at the free throw line over K-State players throughout the first quarter. K-State trailed Baylor 21-9 at the end of the first. Baylor shot 64 percent from the field in the period. K-State shot just 24 percent and were 1-9 from threepoint range. If there was one thing K-State did very well in the first half it was shut down six-foot-seven senior center Kalani Brown, who scored just three points in the first half. “They just congested the paint and made it hard for me to get touches on the ball, they made it hard for my teammates to pass me the ball,” Brown said. Landrum picked up the slack for Baylor though. She scored 13

points in the first half. K-State trailed 40-22 at halftime after a 19-13 second quarter. Although it didn’t show up on the scoreboard, the Wildcats closed the shooting percentage gap. Through halftime, junior forward Peyton Williams paced K-State with seven points. Senior guard Kayla Goth had six points. In the third quarter, K-State resorted to a full-court press to try to force Baylor into mistakes. They turned the Bears over six times in the quarter. Baylor had just eight in the whole first half. Despite the improved defense, Baylor shot 71 percent in the third quarter and stretched their lead to 61-34. K-State was outscored 21-12 in the third and shot just 17 percent. The Wildcats were out-rebound 33-29 in the game. The Wildcats forced Baylor into 20 turnovers in the loss. “There weren’t that many good shots available, we couldn’t execute well enough,” Mittie said. Baylor shot 58 percent and were 2-4 from three-point range. K-State 4-24 from three and 27 percent overall. “I thought we were outstanding beginning the game and throughout the game defending the three-ball,” Kim Mulkey, Baylor head coach, said. Williams led K-State with 11 points, pulling down six rebounds. She also had three steals. Goth’s three assists tied her with Shalee Lehning for first place in assists in a single season at 229. She scored seven points for K-State. K-State’s next action will be at No. 15 Texas in Austin on Sunday at 4 p.m. The game will be broadcast on the K-State Sports Radio Network.

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The Kansas State women’s basketball team struggled against No. 1 Baylor on Wednesday night. The Lady Bears played like the No. 1 team in the nation should, dominating K-State 71-48 and nearly all other factions of the game. The height difference showed in the matchup. Six-foot-seven senior center Kalani Brown and six-foot-four junior forward Lauren Cox dominated the post all night long for Baylor. The duo would combine for 24 points, Brown with ten and Cox with 14. The pair also combined for 21 of the 40 total rebounds for Baylor. Brown entered the game leading the team, and fifth in the Big 12 in scoring with 16.6 points per game. The Wildcats managed to stop Kalani Brown in the first half with three points in the first half. Brown did manage to get seven points in the second

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Senior guard Kayla Goth looks to pass the ball to a fellow teammate while Baylor center Kalani Brown attempts to defend against her. The Wildcats faced off against the Baylor Bears and lost 71-48 at Bramlage Coliseum on Wednesday night. half, but the Wildcats still held her to below her average, a slim win for K-State. The Bears used the length to out-rebound the Wildcats defensively 33 to 17. K-State did have more offensive rebounds with 12 compared to Baylor’s seven. K-State attempted to

shut down Brown by double-teaming her with senior guard Kayla Goth as the help defender, which created plenty of open shots that Baylor hit all night. This left the Bear's point guards with plenty of opportunities. “We were really trying to get a lot of help to the post,”

said head coach Jeff Mittie after the game. Senior guard Chloe Jackson led all scorers with 16 points the majority of which came wide open shots. “You pick your poison a little bit with them in that we don’t have the size to rebound with them and nobody in the county does really so you’ve got to get extra help in there which allowed Jackson to walk into her 15-footer probably way too many times," Mittie said. Shooting 27 percent in the game did not help K-State against the number one team in the nation. “We have shown that when we don’t shoot the ball very well, we are going to struggle to score and tonight it was a matter of there weren’t many good shots available," Mittie said after the game. K-State went 16-60 from the floor tonight and shot 17 percent from three. K-State will go on the road to face Texas, a team that they upset earlier in the season, on Sunday at 4 p.m.

K-State vs. Iowa State preview: Wildcats could lead the Big 12 by three games JULIA JORNS

THE COLLEGIAN

The No. 18 Kansas State men’s basketball team has won its last nine Big 12 Conference games, and the Wildcats are getting ready to host No. 23 Iowa State inside Bramlage

Coliseum on Saturday. After winning their eighth straight conference game, the Wildcats jumped to No. 18 in the national rankings, and then they had their ninth straight win against Texas on Tuesday. K-State’s record is 19-5 overall, 9-2 in the Big 12. Iowa State, meanwhile is 18-6 overall

and 7-4 in the Big 12. When these teams last met up on Jan. 12, senior guard Barry Brown’s layup with four seconds left in the game put K-State up 58-57, giving the Wildcats their second Big 12 win of the season over Iowa State. On Tuesday night, the

Wildcats traveled to Austin, Texas, to take on the Longhorns and attempt to split the season series 1-1. They succeeded and kept their spot at the top of the Big 12.

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K-STATE Olivia Bergmeier COLLEGIAN MEDIA GROUP

(Left) Junior forward Jasauen Beard attempts to shoot the ball while the Bears’ junior forward Lauren Cox goes to block the shot. The Wildcats faced off against the Baylor Bears at home and lost 71-48 in Bramlage Coliseum on Wednesday.

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(Right) Kansas State women’s basketball head coach Jeff Mittie watches intently during their game against Baylor in Bramlage Coliseum on Wednesday. The Wildcats fell to the Bears 71-48.

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Women’s basketball players Jasauen Beard, Peyton Williams, Rachel Ranke, Christianna Carr and Kayla Goth huddle together to discuss their next move. The Wildcats faced off against the Baylor Bears and lost 71-48 in Bramlage Coliseum on Wednesday.

Against the Longhorns, the Wildcats netted 54.9 percent of their field goals. K-State kept the scoring balanced between its starting five players, which did not include sophomore guard Cartier Diarra. Unfortunately for Wildcat fans, Diarra sustained a hand injury that will require surgery and keep him off the court indefinitely. The starting five for K-State all scored in double digits in the team’s 71-64 win over Texas. This was also the third straight win over the Longhorns in Austin. Looking ahead to the game against the Iowa State Cyclones, the Wildcats will need to keep up the tough defense they showed in the second half against Texas. The Longhorns were held to just 25 points in the second half, and K-State re-

corded 19 defensive rebounds. Junior forward Xavier Sneed had a team-high eight rebounds in just under 30 minutes of play. Without Diarra’s offensive contributions on the court, every starter was able to step up, but one player to point out is junior forward Makol Mawien. Mawien saw 35 minutes of game action and shot 5-7 from the field, totaling 11 points for the Wildcats. When looking at the rosters, both K-State and Iowa State match up pretty well height-wise. Still, one player to keep an eye on for K-State is senior forward Dean Wade. After missing six games during conference play, Wade is back at full strength now, which will help the Wildcats on both ends of the floor. Wade leads the team from the free-throw line, shooting 79 percent, and he is second in average points scored per game with just under 14. For Iowa State, redshirt

senior guard Marial Shayok is one of just two Big 12 players named to the Naismith Trophy Midseason 30 Team, averaging 19 points per game. K-State will want to keep Iowa State’s senior guard Nick Weiler-Babb at bay. Weiler-Babb led the Cyclones with 11 points when K-State won in Ames, Iowa, earlier this season. The Wildcats and the Cyclones will tip off at 3 p.m. on Saturday inside Bramlage Coliseum, and it’s guaranteed to be a loud one. The ‘Cats will need every fan available to help cheer them on to keep their spot at the top of the Big 12. If students show out like they do when K-State takes on Kansas in Manhattan, who knows what will happen against Iowa State? If the Wildcats win, K-State will have its 10th straight Big 12 win this season and have a chance to be three games ahead of the rest of the conference in the standings before the Big 12 Championship.

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Q&A: Miss Rodeo K-State talks about rodeo culture on campus SARAH MOYER

THE COLLEGIAN

Bailey Jo Jeffries, the 2018 winner of Miss Rodeo K-State, will pass along her rodeo queen title on Saturday at the Kansas State University College Rodeo. Jeffries graduated from K-State in December 2018 with a degree in animal sciences and industry, and she sat down for a Q&A session with the Collegian to discuss rodeo culture. Sarah Moyer, staff writer: “Why do young people get involved with rodeo, and what are its benefits?” Jeffries: “I would say that the first reason why people get involved with rodeo would probably have to be their love for horses, mainly. ... Then there’s the competition side of

it ... and then I think once they get into it and are around the atmosphere and the rodeo culture, the family atmosphere is kind of what gets them really hooked."

lege rodeo, it doesn’t pay out as much. ... So I would say that it does increase the want to ... do it a lot more if they get paid to do it. And some people make their living [in rodeos].”

Moyer: “Unlike some sports, there is prize money involved, so does that change the atmosphere around rodeo? You talked about a family atmosphere. How do those two mesh?” Jeffries: “I don’t think it causes conflict or anything between anyone. I think that it would only increase their drive and their competitiveness. They really want to do well, and it would only make them want to work harder at it, because there’s then prize money involved. "Not all of the associations are like that. Some of them, especially like the col-

Moyer: “Describe rodeo's culture here at K-State. What is unique about it?” Jeffries: “How well everyone works together, like the kind of family atmosphere that I was talking about. I personally haven’t spent a whole lot of time around rodeo in general because I grew up showing cutting horses. … Just in my time here at K-State, I came into the rodeo club and that’s kind of what got me started. ... Here at K-State, since we all have classes together and everything, everyone just gets along really well.”

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A team roping member attempts to slow down a steer caught around the neck while his teammates tumble and chase after the animal with him. The 2019 Wildcat Ranch Rodeo took place at Weber Arena in Manhattan from Feb. 8 to Feb. 10.

Moyer: “If someone finds rodeo to be violent, what would you say to them?” Jeffries: “I would say that it’s not violent at all. In fact, especially people like PETA who are really concerned about the animal welfare part of it, I would say that’s not the case at all. The animals are very well taken care of. “A lot of these people you see in a rodeo arena, most of the time they would put themselves in front of the animal before it got hurt. ... That’s why in some of the events, you get penalized if you injure the animal or hurt it in any way, even if you spur it or something like that. And you can even be disqualified for the rodeo for that in some events, so I would say that animal welfare is a number one priority in the arena at all times for every contestant.” Moyer: “What is the difference between the Wildcat Ranch Rodeo and the College Rodeo coming up?” Jeffries: “So it’s kind of like two different worlds, if you would — completely different events. The Ranch Rodeo is supposed to be all events

that you would do practically outside on a ranch every day, like having to [push down] and doctor a calf or go catch a runaway steer on a ranch. So you also have different competitors in that as well. “So most of these people that are competing in this rodeo are all local ranches that work every single day. All that they do for a living is strictly cowboy. So these events that they’re doing, they do every day versus your College Rodeo, you’re going to have your classic events like you would in like a [Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association] rodeo: bronco riding, bull riding, barrel racing, steer roping, bull dogging … so the events are completely different. Then, of course, in the College Rodeo they’re all college contestants, whereas here they’re older.” Moyer: “Are there still college students who compete at the Ranch Rodeo?” Jeffries: “Yeah! Actually, tonight we have a team of some kids from the K-State College Rodeo team that entered, and they’ve never Ranch Rodeo'd before. They’re actually holding their own.” Moyer: “Is rodeo more of a sport or a lifestyle?” Jeffries: “I would say it’s probably a lifestyle. … When you do rodeo or do anything horseback, I feel like you live it and breathe it every day because you do have animals involved, so you have to take care of them every single day. And just the amount of time you have to work at doing it, I think it’s definitely a lifestyle for sure, because it’s so much more than having a game to go play or something like that.” Moyer: “At most every rodeo, it starts out with the national anthem and a prayer. What does that reflect about the values of the rodeo community?” Jeffries: “I think that says a lot about the rodeo commu-

nity. You go some places like a football game or wherever else, and they’ll just do the national anthem. But as a believer and someone who is very faith-oriented, saying a prayer just means so much to me, and I think it says a lot about the rodeo community as a whole. "That kind of just goes back into that family atmosphere. To be able to have everyone in the arena bow their heads and thank God and pray for the safety of not only the animals but also the contestants before every performance, I think that really says a lot about the community. It just makes you feel really good inside.” Moyer: “Why would you recommend that K-State students attend a rodeo?”

Jeffries: “I think a lot of people don’t know about it, which is crazy because the K-State College Rodeo is the largest student-organized event throughout the entire campus. … It makes [rodeo organizers] feel very appreciated when we see the stands are full, and every year, they are. Usually people are standing because there is not even any room to sit. "A lot of kids on campus don’t even know that we have a rodeo team, which I think is pretty sad because they do really well. They put a lot of time and effort into it. Our team practices multiple times a week on top of being a student and working and doing all these other things, so I think it says a lot just to get to know the students, like you would the football team or the basketball team.”

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OPINION: Long-distance relationships test you, for better and worse SARAH MOYER

THE COLLEGIAN

Once upon a time, I met a cute boy in the grass lot next to Bill Snyder Family Stadium. We dated for a few months, but then we made a difficult decision. We took a leap of faith with fresh feelings and continued to date while I studied abroad for a semester. No Irish lads for me, I said. Then, he graduated in May 2018 and moved a thousand miles away from Manhattan. The song “I’m Gonna Be (500

Miles)” by The Proclaimers is a little too relatable. A year of long-distance love has taught me four lessons about these kinds of relationships.

1. THE GOOD STRUGGLE

Are you looking for a fast way to know if a love interest is a keeper this Valentine’s Day? Try adding a six-hour time change, and see what happens when the “Goodnight” and “Good morning” texts get muddled together. Sarcasm aside, distance just requires effort because convenience is taken out of the equa-

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Journalism a way to strengthen black community, lecturer says JULIE FREIJAT

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It was a mildly chilly morning in Forum Hall when the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications hosted the 19th annual Huck Boyd Lecture on Thursday featuring keynote speaker Bonita Gooch, editor-in-chief of the Community Voice newspaper in Wichita. Gooch’s lecture, “The Grind: Using Journalism as a Community Builder,” centered around the idea of using journalism as a community builder. She touched on black history and went in-depth on what newspapers have done and can do to strengthen the black community. “While it was certainly important for African-American newspapers to report the news of the day, that wasn’t really their primary role,” Gooch said. “The idea of the African-American newspaper was to give African-Americans the news through the lens of their own eyes, or, as our paper puts it, the news from their perspective.” Gooch also discussed the recent struggle newspaper publishers have had in surviving an increasingly digital America. “This most recent decline has really been tough on the African-American press,” Gooch

said. “Tavis Smiley, who is a black journalist, said that when America gets a cold, black America gets pneumonia. Well, I like to twist his statement around and say, when white newspapers are sick and struggling, black newspapers are almost dead and gone.” The Community Voice is a 25-year-old biweekly newspaper. Although it started in Wichita, it covers the entire state of Kansas and is distributed in multiple cities, with its target demographic being the black community. Gooch has been with the publication for 23 years. She said one of the key components to the paper’s success is demonstrating racial pride to strengthen its readership’s sense of community. “Tell me — or just think, you don’t have to tell me — when you have seen a black boy or black man in your local daily newspaper who wasn’t in a mugshot or who didn’t have some kind of ball in their hand,” Gooch said. “It’s probably rare. I’m not going to say never, but it’s probably rare.” Gooch said when the Community Voice covers crime, they typically look at it from a “solutions” stand point. She said they want to shine a bright light on the positive things occurring among black Kansans.

Other key concepts Gooch mentioned were informing black readers about things affecting them and how the paper goes about addressing the issues and concerns of the community. “First we start by trying to explain it to people,” Gooch said. “Sometimes people assume people know too much, and they start in the middle. We always start back at the beginning and bring our audience up to date. We want to make it clear to them why they should be concerned — what does this mean to you? Then we drive home the point that change is possible.” Gooch said she believes the Community Voice executes this idea well by keeping its eyes and ears open to what is affecting the black community in Kansas. Gooch said their success comes from being in their community and being actively involved in it, and that establishing trust helps them build a following and a sense of loyalty among their readers. “Our slogan is, ‘A trusted voice from the community perspective,’” Gooch said. “What that means is our readers can trust that we’re telling them things that are important to them and, honestly, what it means to them. It is important to have that level of trust with who your news source is.”

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