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Blood drive collects 60 pints, needs 69 more today for goal

Students learn marching band skills at Leadership and Auxiliary Camp

KYLE HAMPEL

THE COLLEGIAN

Kansas State’s summer semester blood drive will conclude at 3 p.m. today after two days of collecting blood donations for the American Red Cross. Jan Hale, external communications manager for the Red Cross, said the K-State Blood Drive hopes to collect 129 pints of blood over two days. The total collected on Tuesday was 60 pints, meaning that 69 pints are still needed to reach the goal today. Donations are being collected in the Student Union ballroom. A variety of free snacks and beverages, including cookies, are available to donors after giving blood. The Red Cross issued an urgent call for blood donors Tuesday due to a lower number of donations during the Fourth of July holiday week. “Whether you’ve never donated or give a couple of

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times a year, you’re needed to give as soon as possible to help save patient lives,” said Cliff Numark, senior vice president of the Red Cross, in a press release. “Yours may be the donation a patient is counting on.” The K-State Blood Drive is held every semester, including the summer semester, and is primarily run by volunteers. If you would like to donate blood before the summer blood drive ends, walk-ins are encouraged in the Union. You can also schedule an appointment ahead of time by calling 1-800-733-2767 or visiting the Red Cross’ website at redcrossblood.org.

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DENE DRYDEN

Over one hundred high school students arrived on Kansas State’s campus Sunday afternoon to attend the 2018 Leadership and Auxiliary Camp, hosted by K-State Bands. For this band camp, ending today, the signature squeal of horns and flutes could not be heard, as the attendants represent drum majors, drum line members, color guard members and other leaders in their high school marching bands. K-State’s Leadership and Auxiliary camp focuses on teaching students leadership fundamentals, conducting and performance techniques for marching band. Several K-State band staff and students facilitated workshop sessions for the drum majors, leaders, percussionists and guard members, spearheaded by Alex Wimmer, assistant director of bands. Wimmer said there are 114 students at the camp, representing 41 high schools in five states. Campers started their Monday morning by listening to Wimmer speak in All Faiths Chapel about how K-State’s marching band is successful. He said the KSUMB is about business. “We have fun doing it,” Wimmer said, “but it is business.” He gave the campers an acronym — PRIDE — and broke down each leadership trait defined in PRIDE: patience, re-

spect, initiative/integrity, discipline/diligence and excellence. Throughout Monday and Tuesday, campers attended small group sessions on skills like conducting, marching fundamentals and rehearsal expectations. The camp schedule also allowed for some recreational excursions at the K-State Challenge Course, City Pool and City Park for the Manhattan Municipal Band’s weekly outdoor concert. “I’m really looking forward today for the Challenge Course that we’re going to do, and I really enjoy the food,” said Jennifer Cardona, a student from Crete High School in Crete, Nebraska, on Monday. “So I look forward to breakfast, lunch and dinner.” Cardona and Logan Capek, also a Crete High School student, talked about what they wanted to learn at Leadership and Auxiliary Camp. “One of our band teachers actually is from K-State, and we heard that K-State was a good band camp for first-year drum majors,” Cardona said. Capek said he is also a firstyear drum major. “I’m hoping to take away that I can be put into a crowd of people that may not know who I am, and I can take lead of that group of people and make sure that everyone understands what they’re doing, so to speak,” Capek said. Kortnee VanDonge, student at Holton High School in Holton, Kansas, said she was looking forward to meeting new people at the camp and experi-

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High school students from across the state came to K-State for the Leadership and Auxiliary Camp. encing K-State life “as a band person.” “My [director] really encouraged me to come here just so I could be a better drum major and better leader overall, learn new techniques and how to work with the rest of my band,” VanDonge said. “I’m really hoping to learn better communication skills and just to be a better, more outgoing leader.” Jessica Brummel, senior in music education, is one of the camp leaders. She said she and Blake Moris, graduate student in transportation engineering, were hired by K-State Bands to

work at the camp since they were drum majors for the KSUMB last season. “Jess and I have been with the non-experienced conductors, so like first-time drum majors, people who aren’t really comfortable with being in front of a group conducting,” Moris said. “So it’s just been amazing to see the strides that they’ve taken in just the couple of days we’ve been working with them.”

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Manhattan Public Library aims to help K-Staters RACHEL HOGAN THE COLLEGIAN

With Hale Library down for the count for the foreseeable future, the Manhattan Public Library hopes to step up to the plate to serve students as well as the community. “If there’s some way we can be of service to students, we’re glad to be here,” Linda Knupp, the library’s director, said. “We won’t have the types of journals they have physically, of course, or even those online subscriptions, but we can always look at the options for helping people to get the information sources they need at this time.” While the Manhattan library may not offer the same student-centric services as Hale at a campus location, students may find comparable and other valuable resources between its shelves and online. In December, Knupp said the library might open up its meeting rooms and open areas to students for “exam cram.” Also, the library’s Creation

Station offers software similar to that provided by Hale’s Media Center, which is temporarily located in the K-State Student Union. Also through the public library, users can access reference publications, current issues of The New York Times, local resources and streaming services. “We’re open 73 hours a week, but technically we’re open 24/7 with all of those online resources,” Knupp said. However, Knupp said a library card is “critical” for access to all the ever-expanding resources the Manhattan library has to offer. “People still see books as our brand, for sure, and it still is an important thing,” Knupp said. “It’s probably still the number one thing. More people check out books out of all the things you can do, but that’s changing and expanding.” Beyond software, free Wi-Fi and seating, Madison Ogle, the library’s public relations coordinator, said students can find something else at the public library: a stepping stone to the Manhattan community at large.

“As a former college student at K-State, I used Hale quite often for the late hours, but whenever you would come to Manhattan Public Library you’d be able to meet people from the community that you might not be able to see when you’re fully doused in the campus culture,” said Ogle, who graduated in December 2017 with a degree in agricultural communications and journalism. “Being able to step out of there and into the public library … it’s nice to be able to say that this can be a central point that we can connect everyone that could be at K-State, but also people that are in the community who are here all the time.” While recovery and restoration efforts continue, the public library will support Hale through interlibrary loan and book return. “I think that this is going to be a good way to engage the student population that is at K-State and continue our solid relationship with Hale and make sure that we provide any support that we can in this transition,” Ogle said.

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A decorative sculpture adorns a doorway in the Manhattan Public Library. The library offers several features to Manhattan community members for free, including a children’s library, a story time room, a technology center with public computers and meeting rooms. The library is located in a large brick building at 629 Poyntz Ave.

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Tomorrow marks the first of five opportunities for Manhattan residents to give their ideas on what will be ongoing improvements to revive the city’s trails in the face of a $2 million budget set aside for that purpose. The $2 million is a percentage of the $27.5 million the city will take in over a 10year period from the new recreation and trails sales tax that took effect April 1. “We’re going out to the community and seeing what they want in their trails,” said Melissa Kirkwood, Parks and Recreation community rela-

tions officer. “We’re trying to improve connectivity, make trails longer and better for people. But we want to hear from them, so we we’re going to be having neighborhood meetings all through July and August.” The first of these Trail Talk Thursday meetings is tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. at the Manhattan Fire Department. It will cover trails surrounding the neighborhoods of Anthony Middle School, the K-State campus and its neighborhoods and Bluemont Hill. Chuck Klutho, intern for Parks and Recreation who works with city trails, said anyone who is interested in improving current trails and discussing new trails around

the neighborhoods specified on each event is welcome, not just residents of those areas The trail updates, two new recreation centers near Eisenhower and Anthony middle schools and improvements to CiCo Park will be paid for by the quarter-cent sales tax approved by 60 percent of Manhattan voters in November. Manhattan shoppers have not seen a change to the 8.95 percent citywide sales tax rate, however, because it replaced an old “quality of life” sales tax that cost the same.

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Moris said their group of campers had never done a conducting pattern before camp. “But today [Tuesday], we were getting into cues and crescendos, and they’re ready to conduct their bands, whether they think they’re ready to or not,” Moris said. “They have the

tools ready, so they just need to find the confidence, and it’s getting there.” Brummel said no matter how passionate students are about music and being in a community, marching band “impacts the whole.” “Everything that you learn and do in marching band can be applied to the real world and real life,” Brummel said. “It’s not only making great marchers and great musicians, but it’s making great

people and great contributors to society.” The Leadership and Auxiliary Camp wraps up today with a public performance of the campers’ marching, guard and conducting skills at 4 p.m. in All Faiths Chapel.

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Professor shares trials, miracles in her journey as a sexuality educator DENE DRYDEN

THE COLLEGIAN

In one of Angela Towne’s classrooms, a person is bound to find two things: a large sheet of paper filled with class guidelines and an educator who listens intently, ready to learn from her students just as much as she teaches and influences them. Dr. Towne is a visiting assistant professor of Kansas State’s gender, women and sexuality studies department. She teaches

the department’s introductory course, GWSS 105, as well as classes like Feminist Thought and Human Sexual Behaviors. Her interest in sexuality research and education brought her to K-State, but before she could teach at the university level, she had to attend college herself. Towne’s path to becoming a professor started when she was 23 years old, a graduate of a private, college preparatory high school working as a waitress, an occupation she held for 18 years of her life.

“I honestly thought I was not smart enough to go to college,” Towne said. “I had that impression.” A friend eventually convinced Towne to enroll in a course at a community college, which she found to be easier than her high school classes. She finished her associate’s degree at community college before studying health psychology at Bastyr University of Natural Health Sciences. “What was interesting about [the program] ... was looking

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Angela Towne, visiting assistant professor of gender, women and sexuality studies, converses with a Collegian reporter at the Radina’s Coffeehouse in Aggieville on June 26, 2018.

at how the mind, body and the spirit connect together and affect health,” Towne said. “It was really unique in that interaction between the mind and the body, which I’m still fascinated by and is still a big part of what I do.”

STARTING OUT IN TUCSON

Upon finishing her undergraduate studies, Towne knew she wanted to be a sexuality educator, but was unsure how to move forward. While continuing to wait tables, she developed a sexual education curriculum on reproductive health, gender roles, decision making and defining personal values. “It sat there,” Towne said. “It was like, ‘What do I do with this?’ I was volunteering at this place called Spirit of Service, and they do complementary alternative medicine for people with low income. And I was talking about it, and the CEO there was like, ‘Oh, we’ll fund you. We’ll fund you to teach this class.’ “So I put out flyers,” Towne continued. “I ended up getting one student, so the class didn’t happen, but what I did realize was there might be some support for it. There might be a market for it.” She began making unsolicited calls to agencies near Tucson, Arizona, to find a place to teach her sexuality course. “I ended up cold-calling agencies saying, ‘If you pay for copies, I will come and teach for free,’” Towne said. “So I taught — I was still waiting tables — for the next two years. I just taught whoever said yes.” In that time, Towne said she taught her course to homeless mothers and pregnant women, to young adults aging out of the foster care system, at STI clinics and a juvenile hall near a Navajo reservation. During that time, the deferment on Towne’s student loans ended, leading her to become a case manager aide at a behavioral health center called CODAC. Soon after she started working there, Towne said, a miracle happened. About two weeks after training, the vice president of the company and my supervisor and then

the site director all wanted to talk to me, and I did not know why at all,” Towne said. “They just said they wanted to meet with me at the end of the week. Apparently I had stood out in some training with the vice president, and she took a look at my resume and saw all of this volunteer work. So she asked me to come and teach my curriculum at their drop-in center. She ended up creating a position

health resource center coordinator in an inner city high school, taught at Planned Parenthood and worked with the Philadelphia condom project, an initiative to combat the stigma against condoms. Towne decided to pursue her education further and earn a Ph.D. Her dissertation adviser said she was not required to be on campus, so

I just taught whoever said yes. Angela Towne

VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR for me.” As an educator at CODAC, Towne taught classes on life skills, pre-employment training and sexuality. She later took a job elsewhere to focus on sexuality education, but CODAC brought her back with a full sexuality education program, plus a large raise. Towne said she taught 53 courses there, all focusing on aspects of sexuality or gender equity. She often used art as a method of learning in her courses, a learning activity she practices at K-State, too. Then, Towne hit a ceiling — to move up to a higher position at CODAC, she needed a graduate degree. She applied to Philadelphia’s Widener University, the only U.S. school with a nationally accredited human sexuality graduate studies program at the time. “I decided within myself, ‘If they don’t accept me into this program, I am going to apply again next semester, and I’ll apply again next semester, and I’ll apply again next semester,’” Towne said. “Before I was accepted, I packed up my crap and moved to Philadelphia. I was quite determined.”

THE HARD ROAD TO A PH.D. While completing her master’s degree at Widener, Towne said she worked as a

Towne returned to Tucson. Unfortunately, a problem lay waiting for her there: the apartment she moved into had a bed bug infestation. Towne left that apartment after only six weeks. “To make a long story short, I ended up getting rid of literally everything I owned … because they can live anywhere,” Towne said. “Things that I couldn’t replace I put in storage, because bed bugs can live for 18 months without eating. It was really intense. “I went to Wisconsin — which is where my sister lived — got off the plane, my sister-in-law brought an outfit and shoes and everything that I had ordered online,” Towne continued. “I took a shower, threw everything I was wearing in the trash, and put on new clothes and literally all I had on me was … just my driver’s license and my flash drive that all of my stuff from my laptop was on. Everything else was completely gone. That happened. That was pretty devastating.”

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‘It always changes’: An inside look at MHK’s city animal shelter LEAH ZIMMERLI THE COLLEGIAN

From cats and dogs to rabbits and parrots, and on one memorable occasion, alligators, the small staff at T. Russell Reitz Regional Animal Shelter works to care for the animals of Manhattan and the greater Riley and Pottawatomie county area. This time of year is the shelter’s busy season, with wildlife abundant and kittens even more so. The city-run operation serves the public as an open admission shelter, meaning that they don’t turn any animal away if it is from their jurisdiction. “People find wildlife babies, little birds and bunnies,” shelter technician Stephanie McCall said. “Though they’re best if they’re just left alone, people bring them in. On top of this, there are cats and puppies coming in regularly, which is why we promote spaying or neutering your pet.” For one reason or another, animals wind up at the shelter. Typically, it is because people move or they selected pets that don’t match their lifestyle. “You have to be honest with yourself about how you live when you’re adopting a pet,” McCall said. “Often we get animals that aren’t given the time they need to adjust to a home and learn the rules or just don’t match how their previous owners lived their life.”

Animals that arrive at the shelter go through a process before they move on to their next step. By state law, animals must be kept at the shelter for at least three days, but within Manhattan city limits, the minimum they must be kept is five days. During this time, the animal is evaluated for health issues and temperament and waits for their owner to pick them up if they have one. If nobody comes forward to pick up the animal, the animal becomes the property of the shelter, and the shelter makes decisions on what to do with the animal. Healthy, sociable animals will be spayed or neutered and put up for adoption. If the animal has fixable issues, the shelter then contacts rescues across the United States to care for the animal and find it a home. “Our cat placement rate runs about 75 percent. About 85 percent of dogs will be placed,” McCall said. “Placement includes pets being reclaimed, adopted or transferred to a rescue.” According to McCall, the placement rate for cats is lower because the shelter takes in feral cats that cannot be placed. “[Feral cats] are not pets,” McCall said. “They don’t like to be around humans. We don’t have a barn cat option for them.” But for severe cases of illness, injury or aggression, the animal will be euthanized. “We try to fight the dark dungeon image,” McCall said.

“I can understand that image, but we do our best to help the animals we can but some are beyond help.” The decision to euthanize an animal is not one that is done lightly, and the animal often stays between two to three weeks before the decision is reached. “The last thing I want is for an animal to suffer, so we can do the kind thing and help them move on,” McCall said. “We see animals that have been neglected and starved for so long that they would have a very hard time recovering. At that point we want to act in the best interest of the animal, we want to think about if the animal will have a good life when they leave the shelter.” Some animals are unadoptable because they are extremely aggressive and pose a danger to other animals and the people who care for it. “Many animals come to the shelter because of behavior issues, mostly because they’re untrained and never taught how to properly interact with humans,” McCall said. “It is almost never the animal’s fault. It is always the humans that failed them. Our duty is to the public safety and health of our community.” For the shelter staff, it is difficult to part with the animals they’ve cared for.

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OPINION: The ‘pro-life’ movement needs a more honest name KYLE HAMPEL

THE COLLEGIAN

According to the most recent edition of the Associated Press stylebook (the book that reminds newspaper editors how to spell), the “pro-life” movement should not be referred to as such. “Anti-abortion” is the preferred term, with “pro-abortion” replacing the similarly colorful term “pro-choice.” Why is this? I’m no AP editor, but I think the answer is simple: hypocrisy. I don’t exactly endorse abortion — as my mother always says, “No one is smiling after they abort their child” — but the “pro-life” movement has nothing to do with life as we know it. I understand why abortion is a controversial subject. It’s the ultimate conundrum in moral philosophy: is abortion a form of murder? More generally, does preventing something

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Towne stayed with her sister for a brief time, before moving to a friend’s couch in Portland, Oregon, where her resilience paid off a few years later, as Towne said another miracle happened. “I was dating somebody who was talking about me to their therapist, and their therapist was on their board of directors at Pacific University and knew that they were looking for an adjunct faculty in their gender and sexuality studies program and told me to call,” Towne said. “So I did, and they offered me a position. It wasn’t advertised.” Towne learned that there was only one student in the gender and sexuality program at Pacific, and she was also the only staff member who taught exclusively in that program. Towne said other gender and sexuality professors came from

from starting carry the same weight as stopping it? I personally think calling abortion “murder” is way too harsh, especially for the women who have to go through it, but the “pro-life” movement has turned vilifying people for their choices into an art form. In 2015, a self-professed Christian man named Robert Dear killed three people and wounded nine others in a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado. In fact, anti-abortion violence has been so common in the past few decades that there’s a list of incidents on Wikipedia over 100 entries long, with most of the crimes taking place at Planned Parenthood clinics. Members of the anti-abortion movement obviously denounce this kind of violence, but I find that very hypocritical considering how much the movement has railed against Planned Parenthood to this very day. According to the Wash-

ington Post, only about 7 to 14 percent of Planned Parenthood visits are for abortions, depending on how you estimate it. This would indicate that the major-

are abortions. The organization, and others like it, also hold frequent rallies to defund or abolish Planned Parenthood and its “radical abortion agen-

Even babies, those precious little bundles of joy, seem to lose their importance after they’re born. Why aren’t there more news stories about “pro-life” organizations pumping money into adoption centers? Sex education doesn’t seem like a concern either, and single parents are out of luck. Veterans, immigrants, the homeless and the poor all seem like groups of people who are alive and in need of assistance, but the “pro-life” movement isn’t rallying for their lives. It’s about fetuses, nothing more. Maybe they should call themselves “pro-birth” instead.

Their strategy is certainly working. On Monday, Planned Parenthood announced it would be closing a clinic in Fort Wayne, Indiana, due to immense backlash from “pro-life” groups. This particular clinic didn’t even perform abortions. The medical profession-

als who work at each and every Planned Parenthood clinic face an unbearable amount of harassment from the “pro-life” movement just for doing their jobs. I wonder where violent extremists get their ideas from, then? While the topic of abortion does deserve nuance and moral debate in its national conversation, the numbers don’t lie. Planned Parenthood is a non-profit resource center for people with concerns about their reproductive health because pregnancy is terrifying and we all know it. You might even say it’s for people who want to plan out their parenthood, hmm? “Pro-life” and “prochoice” are just political buzzwords used by people who want to make you feel bad for not agreeing with them. Despite its name, the “pro-life” movement in particular has shown a lack of interest in the lives and wellbeing of pregnant women.

ity of Planned Parenthood’s patients are there for contraception, prenatal services and other health concerns that aren’t related to abortion. Yet the Susan B. Anthony List, a “pro-life” non-profit organization, has spread the claim that 94 percent of Planned Parenthood’s services

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other departments like anthropology, psychology and history. The gender and sexuality program was set to close one year after Towne was hired. She said she thought students just did not know about the program, so she taught a course on using multimedia to promote gender equity and sexual health. Students’ projects doubled as advertisement for the program, as everything included the gender and sexuality studies program logo. “Two newspapers ended up covering the class, somebody from the community ended up donating to support the class and fourteen students, by the time I left, were majors and minors in the program,” Towne said. “So the program went from about to close to solid.” During her time as an adjunct professor, Towne also worked graveyard in-home health care shifts and in retail to make up for what she lost to the bed bugs. “I knew that I needed to appear to be a certain socio-

economic class in order to be a professor, so I could earn free clothes at this job,” Towne said. “So that was an intense time. Working three jobs and trying to finish a Ph.D. was super intense.” Towne earned her Ph.D. in 2016, a process that spanned five years and four states. “In 2016, I graduated and I was looking for something full-time, and I was offered a position at K-State,” Towne said. And to the Little Apple she came.

organization FIRE. ”I went and yelled down the street about equality in a lot of different ways — trans equality, racial equality, things like that,” Towne said. “I felt really satisfied doing that, and there was an opportunity, it was already organized. ... I just had to show up. Being a body

showing up makes a difference, because the more people, the more bodies that we have showing up protesting, it matters.” Towne mentioned the importance of figuring out how much you can contribute to a cause and following through with your action. In Tucson,

she said she knew people associated with CODAC who were recovering from severe mental illness who took shelter dogs on walks when they were able.

Sex education doesn’t seem like a concern ... and single parents are out of luck.

ENGAGING IN EACH COMMUNITY

Towne has a long history of volunteer work; she began teaching as a volunteer and continued to volunteer in other capacities while in graduate school. She said there is “no shortage” of volunteer opportunities and ways to participate in activism. She referenced the “Take Back Our Lives” rally and march on April 30, organized by the K-State student

Kyle Hampel is the opinion editor for the Collegian and a senior in English. The views and opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Collegian. Please send comments to opinion@kstatecollegian.com.

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OPINION: 3 fantastic albums to accompany your fantastic summer JASON ISBELL - THE NASHVILLE SOUND

MICAH DRAKE

THE COLLEGIAN

Now that we’re over the hump, summer break tends to be one of two things: either scrambling to get your rest and relaxation done before fall comes, or the lazy satisfaction that you’ve done all you wanted to do and that all you have to do now is relax and order textbooks. In either case, the last thing you need is to worry about what music will accompany you. Here are my humble recommendations to carry you until the fall semester.

This is the only country western album I feel comfortable recommending to anyone on the planet. Where many in this genre are trying to find a voice that they can repeat for the next twelve albums, Jason Isbell and his so-called 400 Unit instead address each song as a love letter to one corner of country western or another and prove the band’s mastery in each aspect. “Last of My Kind” is a mournful ballad, while “Cumberland Path” is hard southern

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Editor’s reading list: ‘Lab Girl’ DENE DRYDEN

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I very much enjoy reading nonfiction, particularly memoirs. This is evidenced by the now 3:1 ratio of nonfiction to fiction books in this review series. My latest read was Hope Jahren’s “Lab Girl,” a memoir detailing her life as a budding geobiologist. “Lab Girl” is structured into three parts, referencing the building blocks of both trees and her life: Roots and Leaves, Wood and Knots, Flowers and Fruit. Each segment of Jahren’s life story, from her time as a small Minnesotan girl playing in her father’s lab to when she becomes a parent herself, is often preceded by a plant-derived anecdote of growth and weathering change. In her memoir, Jahren recounts the trials and triumphs of her life thus far, keeping the reader engaged with her quick humor and craft for delicately prompting intrigue. Through the memoir, the reader witnesses Jahren’s development as a person and scientist. Even in instances where life seemed mundane — running lab tests with her steadfast friend Bill, placing hackberry pit shavings under a microscope — Jahren always derives a story, a perspective to learn from. The short stories of plant

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“Nobody likes it,” McCall said. “For us, it’s hard. We’ve cared for these animals for about two or three weeks before a decision is made. It’s not easy to cope with situations that we cannot change for these animals. “Private groups and no-kill shelters are great,” McCall continued. “But our numbers then increase because they get full and can’t take anyone on. Some of those shelters cannot take on any animals that have shown signs of aggression because their

growth that come before many longer chapters elegantly set up the scene for the next part of Jahren’s story. Even if the snippet of plant knowledge does not quite match the events of the chapter, the emotional response and wonder it invokes carries the connection between the two. Though I am keen to memoirs, Jahren’s story captured me in a way that many others have not. Perhaps it was the rootto-rise, chronological path she took when organizing the book? Maybe it was her candidness about the financial tribulations of being a young scientist or her openness with her mental health struggles. Reading Jahren’s memoir felt as if I were picking her brain, asking her to tell me more stories while we sat together on a loveseat. Her writing is that candid, that close to the heart. She managed to capture the danger and fluster of every critical emotional moment of her life without underplaying her feelings at the time. Her prose is refined beautifully so that it reads truly like a reflection without revision of the past. In that sense, Jahren and I conversed on the couch, cupping mugs of coffee. Through her work, friendship, loves and multiple moves across the United States, it is easy to stick with Jahren for the ride. Readers have much to learn from “Lab Girl” with both

liability insurance will not allow them.” Despite the difficulties of her job, McCall, who started working at the shelter as a volunteer in 2004 and has held a paid position since 2005, said she finds joy in her work. “I’m a caretaker, and I love helping the public find a family member,” McCall said. “When they do find a pet at the shelter, it is an amazing feeling.” According to McCall, one woman even crossed the country in a private jet to adopt a dog at the shelter. Stories like that make the job worthwhile. “It never gets old here; it always changes,” McCall said.

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Cover artwork for “Lab Girl” by Hope Jahren.

Jahren’s life experiences and the small knowledge bursts about plants she has sewn into her tale. This is a read I believe anyone can enjoy, but scientists may feel more at home with this novel. Female scientists, people studying to do science, plant and Earth lovers in general: this is a memoir that will fulfill you, a story that will prompt inspiration for your own. Dene Dryden is the Collegian’s editor-in-chief and a junior in English. The views and opinions expressed in this review are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Collegian. “We have all kinds of little stories. We’ve dealt with alligators and goats at large that broke into someone’s home and destroyed it. We also managed to get 26 exotic birds seized from one home placed across the country.” Something new awaits McCall every single day, and that is what she said makes her job special to her. “We have sad stories and super happy stories,” McCall said. “But I really enjoy this job, because I get to see so much joy. I learn a lot from the animals every day. Maybe it’s a calling. I get to be the voice that they don’t have.”

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