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The students’ voice since 1901 • Vol. 110 No. 9 • Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010 • Emporia State University

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ESU Distinguished Alumni to accept awards K enzie T empleton templeton@esubulletin.com For Edward Flentje, coming to ESU helped him develop the leadership skills and confidence that prepared him for graduate school and his eventual career.

“I graduated from a very small high school and ESU gave me the chance to transition into a bigger world and created an opportunity for me to be involved in a variety of educational opportunities,” Flentje said.

Flentje, along with Robert Gress and Omar Rogers, will be given the 2010 Distinguished Alumni awards at annual Alumni Celebration Dinner at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow night in the Memorial Union Ballroom. This award is the highest honor Emporia State

has to offer its graduates.

“I have observed over many years the individuals who have been honored like this, and it’s really an exceptional collection of people – I’m humbled and honored to be a part of this,” said Flentje, a 1964 bachelor’s degree in education and mathematics and physical science graduate.

Flentjesaid his fondest memory of ESU occurred when he was visiting various campuses at the age of 17. He said that Winston Cram, then chair of the physical science department, encouraged him to attend Emporia State. “(Cram) told me that if I ever had any difficulty, I should come talk to him and his words were very reassuring to a high school kid that was on – what was

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Welcome, Freshmen

Mid-Term Mindset: The second in a series following ESU freshmen during the 2010-2011 school year

FLENTJE

ROGERS

Karr, Longbine vie for senate seat C harlie H eptas heptas@esubulletin.com Replacing Dr. Jim Barnett for the seventeenth District State Senate seat will be no easy task, but candidates Jerry Karr and Jeff Longbineare running for the seat in the November election. The upcoming General Election has many State offices up for reelection,including Governor, Attorney General and State Senate seats.

A focal point of the election is the education budget, and the budget’s allocation to the two components of schooling, K-12 and higher education.

“It’s constitutionally required that we come up with suitable financing, equitable and fair, so every student has an equal opportunity,” Karr said.

Karr said this constitutional requirement is part

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Campus revises smoking policy E ric H emphill hemphill@esubulletin.com Freshman biology majors Caroline Murray and Meghan Murray talk about their experiences so far at ESU Wednesday afternoon in Union Square. Kellen Jenkins/The Bulletin.

A lex P edersen pedersen@esubulletin.com Fall break has come and gone, midterms have been taken and students are back at the books again. For sophomores, juniors and seniors, it means that they are one step closer to their goal of graduation.

But for freshmen, it is the half-way point for their first semester of college.

Some may be stressed with the strain of too much schoolwork and others may be empowered by finding out that they are on top of things. Whatever situation students find themselves in, many lives are different from when they first came to Emporia State. We continue to follow three freshmen, Meghan Murray, Caroline Murray and Will Smith, as they forge onward to finish their first semester.

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Meghan and Caroline Murray, twin sisters from Olpe, are finding that they are enjoying their college experience so far. They are happy with the independence of living in Emporia and the campus itself.

“I like how it’s big enough to where you don’t see everyone every day, but it’s small enough to where you don’t know where everything is,” Meghan said.

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“And you can get to class in, like, three minutes,” Caroline said.

“Not really, like, four depending – ” “Depending on the classes.”

“Yeah,” Meghan said. “The library is really far away from the dorms, that’s the only bad thing.”

Meghan is still pursuing a biology major and Caroline is also working for a biology degree before she pursues a career in speech pathology and, so far, they are well on their ways.

The sisters were very happy with their miderms, as they didn’t have very many and those that they did, they received high grades in. For fall break, the sisters went back to their home in Olpe.

“We went home for a night then we went shopping in Lawrence with our mom,” Caroline said. “Some of our friends came back from community college or whatever schools they were out, so we went back to Olpe for a while.”

Both of the girls want to become ambassadors for next semester’s incoming students and they also recently joined the Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority.

“A lot of the girls in our sorority live on our dorm floor,” Meghan said. “And we met some girls through the LEAD institute that we’re still friends with.” Caroline said.

“They actually joined the same sorority we

did, so that was kind of cool,” Meghan said.

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Will Smith, criminal sciences major, is also having a good freshman year so far. He has been taking plenty of general education courses, training with the cross country team and competing in a few track meets as a walk-on member. “(I will run) at places like K-State and some of the Emporia ones we have here,” Smith said. “I’ve ran at two cross country meets so far…I think I was satisfied, it was the best I’ve ever done long-distance wise.”

For fall break, Smith went back to his home state of Texas to visit family, friends and his girlfriend, who goes to school at Tarleton State University in Texas.

“It’s been kind of hard,” Smith said.

“We argue here and there, but it’s not that bad. We’ll make it through.”

Smith has met “a ton” of friends during his time here at ESU and seems to enjoy living in the dorms, where he has a co-ed floor.

“My floor is pretty fun to be around,” Smith said. “We’re all in active living so everyone is awake until two in the morning just talking. It’s a good floor, the dorms are a pretty good way to make friends.”

With a revised smoking policy on campus, students who smoke within 10 feet of a university entrance could face fines. President Michael Lane signed the policy on Oct. 1, which states that smoking is prohibited within 30 feet of any university building or facility.

The new policy also includes the state law that no person is allowed to smoke within 10 feet of the access point, open window or air intake of any “university facility, enclosed area, public place, public meeting or place of employment.”

According to Mark Runge, director of facilities at ESU, the new policy has not changed

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Are you participating in Homecoming activities?

“I am going to the play and the Ghost Tours tonight.”

“I am going to the Ghost Tours and the football game.”

Tamera Ridenour, Junior Elementary Ed. Major

Hannah Bain, Sophomore Elementary Ed. Major

A sign on the ESU campus dictates campus smoking policies. Erica Cassella/The Bulletin

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Police Reports Reports given to The Bulletin from

ESU Police and Safety Department October 15, 2010 Officer stopped KS UBY794. Verbal warning for unsecured load/littering at Riley and Whittier.

Officer provided lock out assistance for KS 618ACW in Sector 3.

Officer secured the trunk of KS 178AFJ in Sector 2.

Officer admitted Lixiao Huang to King Hall, room 210.

Officer responded to Intrusion Alarm, WAW Library. Found to be due to human error.

Officer provided lock out assistance to KS 846AJX at 1525 Rural St. Officer admitted Lixiao Huang to King Hall, room 210.

Officer checked the President’s Residence.

Officer admitted Harmony Tasler to Beach Music Hall, room 323.

Officer admitted Donnie Hanson to King Hall, room 210.

Officer provided lock out assistance to KS WJW153 at 1210 Cottonwood St. Officer assisted Emporia Police Dept with a 911 hang up call at 1839 Merchant St. No contact made, call came from elevator phone.

October 16, 2010 Officer admitted Sha Zhanxin into Science Hall Room 245.

Rhodes Officer admitted Josh Taylor into King Hall room 214.

Officer admitted Matthew Hoelscher into King Hall room 105.

Officer attempted to assist Emporia Police Department with a lock out at 2000 Industrial. Officer did not find the vehicle.

Officer provided lock out assistance for KS 179CCW at 2000 Industrial.

Officer checked Trusler Sports Complex. West exterior and room 201 to Hannah clubhouse were ajar.

October 17, 2010 Officer admitted Levi Howe into the Art Annex.

Officer admitted Stephanie Crosby into King Hall Room 2.

Rhodes Officer admitted Steven Pollard into Plumb Hall Room 409 to retrieve property for the debate.

Officer admitted Catherine Garbrino into King Hall Room 109.

Officer admitted Gary Rice into Visser Hall.Sadowski Officer admitted Lixiao Huang into Visser Hall Room 224.

Officer provided lock out assistance for KS 830CNF at 1607 Merchnat St. Officer admitted Xin Guo into Cremer Hall Room 410.

Officer admitted William Hanna into the Art Annex.

Officer shut off lights in President’s box in Pavillion.

Officer admitted Lixiao Huang into King Hall Room 210.

Officer admitted Kristen Harper into King Hall Room 111.

October 18, 2010 Parking Enforcement immobilized KS 399COF in the Pavillion meters.

Officer provided lock out assistance for KS 668CSW at 2301 Industrial Rd. Walmart.

Officers were out at Science Hall to review new additions to building alarm system.

Officer was flagged down by the operator of KS 040ARN at 15th and Merchant. Subject asked for directions to Tyson Meats.

Officers assisted Emporia Police Dept. with a domestic dispute call in 1100 Constitution.

Officer admitted Matt Cook into King Hall Room 210.

October 19, 2010 Parking Enforcement immobilized NE RNI070 in Sector 2.

Parking Enforcement immobilized KS 201CBP in Lot 7.

Parking Enforcement removed immobilizer from NE RNI070 in Sector 2.

Officer provided jump start assistance for KS 769BZT in Kellogg Circle.

Officer admitted Cameron Schneider into WAW Library Writing Center.

Officer stopped KS QSE631 at 11th and Mechanic. Verbal warning for a one-way violation at the same location.

Officer attempted to assist Ashley Hensley in retrieving her keys from the elevator shaft in Cremer Hall.

Officer admitted Zhixuan Li into King Hall Room 7.

Officer contacted operator of a pizza delivery vehicle and advised not to park in roadway at 15th and Wooster Dr. Officer stopped a vehicle with an obstructed license plate at 12th and Merchant Subway.

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This year is the 150th anniversary of American Association of University Women (AAUW) and the 90th anniversary of Emporia branch of AAUW. “We are going to celebrate all year,” said Lynette Olson, the president of AAUW Emporia branch.

In order to celebrate the Emporia branch’s 90 continuous years of service, there will be three events about the group’s history: “William Allen White Women” on Nov. 13, “North Lyon County Tour” on Feb. 12, 2011 and a historical speech called “The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle, Cradles the Rock,” date to be announced.

Olson said anyone interested in promoting education for women and equality for women can join in the group.

“It is a group of like minded women who have the same goals in terms of education and promoting women’s rights in U.S.,” Olson said.

The group is now trying to reach out and bring students in as members

because it is important to the continuation of this project.

“It introduces students to the ongoing concerns that had been in the U.S. that a group of like minded women can make a difference and change influence of politics,” Olson said.

There are over 1,000 branches of AAUW in the U.S. and 22 branches in Kansas.

Sharon Cox, recording secretary of AAUW Emporia branch, said the local branch was created and then separated during World War II. “The Emporia branch was founded in 1920, but disbanded during the war years,” Cox said.

Mary Mingenback, treasurer of the AAUW Emporia branch, said Emporia State students can join for free because of the university’s association with the group.

“ESU is a corporate university partner of AAUW,” Mingenback said.

Olsen said people misunderstand it as an organization meant for just women. There are mostly women in Emporia branch with one male member.

Alumni...from page 1 to me – a very big campus,” Flentje said.

Flentje has been a professor at Wichita State University since 1979 and served as interim city manager for the City of Wichita in 2008. He also served in the cabinets of two Kansas governors, Robert Bennett and Mike Hayden, and worked for U.S. Senator Jim Pearson.

“These were huge learning experiences for me as a political scientist and each of those individuals were huge parts of my life – I hold a high regard for all three of them,” Flentje said.

Rogers graduated in 1969 with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education. He said the atmosphere on campus continues to be “warm and inviting” and the faculty and staff have always concentrated on helping students achieve their goals.

He received Bowling Green Technical College’s staff administration award of excellence in 2009 for his leadership and significant achievements as former director of the Adult Education program, where he still works part-time.

The Ross Natural History Reservation, owned by ESU’s biology department, was Gress’s favorite classroom. He earned his bachelor’s degree in biology in 1974, and graduated with his master’s degree in environmental biology in 1976.

Gress completed his master’s work at the reservation and spent several years there working on a study involving cotton-tail rabbits.

“I had a strong interest in natural history, and the professors at ESU provided me with the diversity of classes and experience I was looking for,” Gress said.

Currently, Gressis the director of the Great Plains Nature Center in Wichita, where he oversees and coordinates a staff of employees responsible for nearly 1,900 different programs and special events each year.

He has also co-authored five books, one of which was recognized as a 2009 Kansas Notable Book, and he has contributed wildlife photography to more than 40 publications.

Since 1960, the award has recognized ESU’s most esteemed alumni. The recipients are selected from a pool of nominations by a committee representing alumni and faculty, while the Alumni Association Board of Directors approves the final vote.

Smoking...from page 1 substantially, but has simply been modified to reflect the new state law. “(The new policy) falls into line with the new state law.

The university policy includes the area 30 feet around any building. With the new policy, it includes a fine for anyone smoking inside 10 feet from any building,” Runge said.

Police and Safety was contacted about the possible amounts students could be fined, however they were unsure of the amounts at press time.

The university’s tobacco usage policy states “police and safety shall enforce smoking prohibitions as required by law.”

Harrison Mulvihill, junior elementary education major, who has smoked for about five years, said he thought the new policy was okay.

“I think it’s better actually. I mean, we’ve gotten yelled at for being about 50 feet (from a building) and it’s kind of silly,” Mulvilhill said.

Colin Kennedy, junior computer science major, also a smoker, agreed about the new policy.

“We don’t mind getting out of peoples’ way, but we don’t want to go too far out of our own way either, so I think (the new policy) is okay,” Kennedy said.

AAUW Emporia branch sends out paper and radio notices and Buzzin announcements to inform more people about the organization. It also provides two scholarships for female students at Emporia State, one for sophomores and the other for nontraditional students.

Olson said it is not only a big celebration this year, but the AAUW Emporia branch also faces big changes including updating records online and getting more students to join this year.

A program on “Online Information Resources for Kansas Residents” was on Oct. 7 at the Emporia Public Library.

At the meeting, members were introduced to the new AAUW national level website, www.aauw.org. Olson explained new differences on the website and informed members of the online resources for Kansas residents, such as the Emporia Public Library Website, the Emporia Public Library Online Catalog and Kansas Databases.

“It shows websites that people can go to, things that can be downloaded free,” Mingenback said.

More intellectually disabled youths go to college WARRENSBURG, Mo. (AP) — Zach Neff is all high-fives as he walks through his college campus in western Missouri. The 27-year-old with Down syndrome hugs most everybody, repeatedly. He tells teachers he loves them.

“I told Zach we are putting him on a hug diet — one to say hello and one to say goodbye,” said Joyce Downing, who helped start a new program at the University of Central Missouri that serves students with disabilities.

The hope is that polishing up on social skills, like cutting back on the hugs, living in residence halls and going to classes with non-disabled classmates will help students like Neff be more independent and get better jobs.

In years past, college life was largely off-limits for students with such disabilities, but that’s no longer the case.

Students with Down syndrome, autism and other conditions that can result in intellectual disabilities are leaving high school more academically prepared than ever and ready for the next step: college.

Eight years ago, disability advocates were able to find only four programs on university campuses that allowed students with intellectual disabilities to experience college life with extra help from mentors and tutors. As of last year, there were more than 250 spread across more than three dozen states and two Canadian provinces, said Debra Hart, head of Think College at the Institute for Community Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts Boston, which provides services to people with disabilities.

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FACULTY PROFILE: DANNY KENNETT

The Guy with the Pipe L auren L au

lau@esubulletin.com Having taught at Emporia State for 36 years, Danny Kennett, associate professor of accounting and information systems, is known on campus as a pipe smoker with a big moustache.

“I am addicted to smoking a pipe, and it has been over 30 years since I started to smoke a pipe,” Kennettsaid.

However, Kennett himself said that it is a bad habit, but it looks funny when someone smokes a pipe. Kennett owns four pipes, and mostly smokes Captain Black tobacco with his pipe.

“I just enjoy a pipe and don’t like cigarettes because they smell awful,” Kennett said.

Kimberly Massoth, administrator specialist of accounting information systems,said a lot of students will go out to visit with him when he goes outside to smoke his pipe.

“It is interesting and I have never seen anybody smoke a pipe but him,” said Cassondra Boston, graduate student in accounting and graduate assistant of accounting and information systems department.

Kennett has had a moustache since 1971 and Boston said it is another thing that makes him unique. Kennett said keeping a moustache is just a habit.

“My wife has never seen me without a moustache,” Kennett said.

Kennett is from Pittsburg. He received his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in accounting from Pittsburg State University and his doctorate from Mississippi State University.

After being a graduate assistant at Mississippi State University for two years, Kennett taught at Peru State College in Nebraska and Mississippi University for Women and Southern Illinois University. After that, Kennett came to ESU in 1988.

Emporia is close to his home and also his wife’s in Parsons, which is one of the reasons he chose to stay here for so long. According to Kennett, Emporia is a small town, but he enjoys his life here.

“I like small towns, I hate big towns. I just don’t like to be around all those people, all those cars, all those buildings,” Kennett said.

Loving the university, the town and the students, Kennett said he feels it is enjoyable and rewarding to be around students who want to learn. Kennett even takes his own tests.

“He will sit down at the table in the hallway of the department and take his own test, just to make sure his students can understand the questions,” Massoth said. “He is always jokeing around about if he would pass or not.”

Currently, Kennett teaches Intermediate Accounting II, Cost Accounting and Accounting Information for Management.

“I read textbooks a lot, and after I retire, I will read anything I like. I do enjoy reading,” Kennett said.

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Kansas doctor and wife sentences in ‘pill mill’ case WICHITA (AP) — A Kansas doctor who ran a clinic linked to dozens of overdose deaths was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison while his wife got 33 years in a case the judge said was an “avoidable tragedy motivated by greed.”

Dr. Stephen Schneider looked grim and his wife blinked back tears as their sentences were pronounced in U.S. District Court in Wichita.

The couple were convicted in June of unlawfully writing prescriptions, health care fraud and money laundering. Jurors convicted them of a moneymaking conspiracy that prosecutors linked to 68 overdose deaths.

U.S. District Judge Monti Belot told the Haysville physician that the evidence showed that he earned and deserved the nickname “Schneider the Writer” for his reputation in the community of freely writing scripts.

“For whatever reason, Steven Schneider failed to live up to his oath to do no harm,” Belot said.

Wichita substance abuse program, Parallax, to close WICHITA (AP) — The closing of a substance abuse program in Wichita was prompted by deep financial problems, not an ongoing state investigation, the president of the program’s board said.

Officials with Parallax announced Monday that the taxsupported program will close Friday, according to the Wichita Eagle. The program has operated for nearly 40 years.

The closing comes less than a week after Parallax founder and CEO Milt Fowler retired, and three weeks after the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services said it was investigating Parallax.

The program is deeply in debt and needs to hire new staff, said Danny Bardezbain, president of the Parallax board.

“The decision we made is totally independent of the investigation,” he said.

Bardezbain said the Parallax inpatient building needs several hundred thousand dollars in building repairs, more staff is needed to improve patient ratio, and the nonprofit is carrying a high debt load.

Parallax, which receives state and federal funds, provides inpatient and outpatient services to clients from across Kansas. This year, Parallax has served 368 clients, 267 of which have

been funded by the Addiction and Prevention Services division of SRS. It employs about 50 people.

The announcement came less than a week after Parallax founder and CEO Milt Fowler resigned amid the state investigation. SRS officials have not said what allegations are being investigated.

Bardezbain said the investigation “caused the board to look at the whole of Parallax, and our decision (Monday) was based strictly on financial considerations.”

The state social services agency said Monday that the closing will leave “a significant gap” in addiction treatment services in south-central Kansas.

The Substance Abuse Center of Kansas will help current clients “immediately with their transition to another treatment center so that they can continue their progress toward recovery,” a board statement said.

Clients and staff were obviously upset by the news, Bardezbain said.

Carol West, a 47-year-old counselor’s assistant at Parallax, said she was once a client of the program, which helped her get a driver’s license and go to college. Her sobriety allowed her to have a relationship with her children and grandchildren.

Police kill NY college football player from Massachusetts THORNWOOD, N.Y. (AP) — State police have joined the investigation into the killing of a 20-year-old college student by officers outside a suburban New York bar.

Mount Pleasant Police Chief Louis Alagno, who previously called the shooting “horrendous,” said at a news conference Monday that the major case unit of the state police and Westchester County crime scene experts have joined the probe.

Danroy Henry of Easton, Mass., was killed early Sunday after police were called to a disturbance at a bar in the hamlet of Thorn-

wood.

Henry’s car was parked in a fire lane outside Finnegan’s Grill.

When an officer knocked on the window, the car accelerated and the officer wound up on the hood, police said. The car then hit another officer, and shots were fired. Henry was pronounced dead at the scene. A passenger in his car suffered a minor gunshot wound.

The injured officers were identified Monday as Aaron Hess, of the Pleasantville Police Department, and Ronald Beckley, of the Mount Pleasant town force.

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The Bulletin |October 21, 2010

STAFF EDITORIAL

Home is where the Hornet is Homecoming is one of the most celebrated events in the collegiate system.

The nature of the event is in the name. It is about returning to a place that, for four or five years, became a home for each student.

Emporia State’s homecoming is being celebrated this week. Alumni from all over Kansas and the U.S. will be coming to Emporia to reminisce about their college years and take part in the festivities planned on campus.

However, what seems to be the major problem with homecoming week is that many students do not see the need to take part in the celebratory spirit of homecoming. Apart from a few on-campus organizations and clubs, there never seems to be a very large part of the student body represented during this week.

The Bulletin staff sees this as a huge problem. This is one of the few times where ESU students and former ESU students can come together to support the school and show some gratitude for the experiences offered at ESU. ESU alumni have gone on to do many things after graduation. Nearly every possible career path has been taken by ESU grad-

uates and these people have good insight and advice for current students. Homecoming, being one of the only times former and current students are conveniently put in the same place, is a wonderful opportunity for students to meet some ESU alumni and talk with them about their time at ESU and also what their lives were like after graduation.

The world is a big place. Students at ESU can learn a lot from those who have come before them. Every opportunity for advice or guidance should be taken, especially in today’s job market, where more and more graduates are finding out how hard the “real world” really is. Homecoming is one of these opportunities.

Numerous events will take place this week to celebrate homecoming. Among these is the annual homecoming musical, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” which will be performed today through Sunday, an alumni celebration to be held in the Memorial Union Ballroom on Friday and several events held on Saturday, centered around the ESU sporting events happening that day.

Homecoming is an opportunity to be on meet with some former ESU students. The campus, enjoy the events being held and Bulletin staff urges students to participate in

Pro-Choice is not Anti-Life So it seems like society has decided that the issue of abortion is split into a dichotomy of pro-life and prochoice, as if they were mutually exclusive. But with a name like “pro-life,” haven’t people considered that everyone falls under that category? I therefore propose that it is common for people to be both pro-choice and pro-life and rare for people to be anti-life.

It seems like it’s a language issue, like people feel they can persuade others to be on their side by finding a name for their belief that either no one can disagree with, or that villainizes the opposite belief. When people call themselves pro-life they are falsely implying that people who do not share their beliefs are anti-life.Obviously, you don’t want people thinking that you don’t value life, when just about everyone does. No one wants to be considered an evil babykiller. So when you think about it, that simple title is, in a way, very manipulative.

Even in the recent election for the first congressional district between Tim Huelskamp and Alan Jilka, the language used when discussing abortion was biased. Apparently, the word “abortion” is too coarse to even mention on their websites. They categorized it under “Life Issues,” as if to say that they either value life or do not. So, when one reads their stance, it’s no surprise that they are both against abortion.

Please, just give me a pro-choice, choice. What’s the point of having a Republican and a Democrat if they’re going to share similar stances on the few issues I care about?

This language is also visible on campus, in the form of the new anti-abortion student organization known as “Emporia State University Students for Life.” It makes me want to start an organization called “Emporia State University Students for Breathing Air,” or “Students for Food.” I find it that silly.

Because of the silly pro-life title, I feel that I fall un-

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Online Commenting Policy E llen W eiss , weiss@esubulletin.com der both categories. Abortion is not an event to be taken lightly, and should be avoided at all costs. I love babies, they’re adorable. I love life, it’s awesome. I, however, would never,ever deny a woman the right to have control over what happens to her body. An unwanted pregnancy is just that, unwanted, and can be detrimental, if not deadly, to the life of the woman having it.

It seems that, because of this, the pro-life title is even more misleading. When the mother’s life is at risk because of a pregnancy, pro-life advocates are not pro-life at all.

Rather, they are choosing the life of the fetus over the life of the mother. This just seems backwards to me, to decide that a woman has lived long enough, and that her fetus is better off growing up an orphan.

Even if I did believe that abortions were morally and/or ethically wrong, I wouldn’t force my beliefs onto others, or demand that it become law. To those of you who do think that way: I refuse to be guilt-tripped into any belief. My advice: so-called pro-lifers should find a new, less manipulative name that does not apply to everyone. Perhaps something more accurate… like “anti-abortion” or “anti-choice.”

Campus Confidential: Custodians I have been walking around campus thinking about things that need to be addressed on campus. One such thing that I have come up with is that the people who make up the backbone of this campus are not recognized as much as they should be. The people who make this school run smoothly on a day- to-day basis deserve to be thanked for the hard work they put in to make our campus operate.

I proceeded on to the Union to find a custodian to talk with. I came across Kathy Bastin, who was more than willing to chat with me about her position with the school. I asked her what she felt was the most important part of her job.

“It all comes down to the students. Being able to be around this college-age group of people is invigorating,” she said.

Talking with Kathy more on the topic, she told me that the vast majority of the people she works with feel the same way. They are always more than happy to help someone find their way if needed. I believe this to be true.

There has been more than one occasion where I have been turned around, not just in the Union, but in the other buildings on campus, and had someone helpfully point me in the right direction. It is nice to see that there are still good people in the world.

Kathy went on to tell me that there are some troublemakers around campus, but in her opinion, there is not much to be done about those who do cause trouble for her and her colleagues. To her, we are still young and mischievous.

She told me with a smile on her face, “You guys are here

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A manda M c C all , mccall@esubulletin.com to go to school. That’s all that matters…without the students, I wouldn’t have a job.”

Personally, I find it quite touching that even though custodians in general do not get recognized as much as they should, they still feel this way about the student populace.

Having talked to a few of them, I believe it is safe to say that without these people, this campus would not be nearly as comfortable (or clean) as it is.

So my challenge for you, the reader, is to have a conversation with one of these people. Ask them how their day has been. After all, they would do the same for you.

You may be surprised by some of the things you learn from them. Everyone has his or her own story to tell. All it takes is someone to listen.

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The Bulletin | October 21, 2010

Hornets spell “B-E-E”

C hris H opkins hopkins@esubulletin.com The Broadway musical “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” is coming to Emporia State’s Albert Taylor Hall Oct. 21-24. The musical is the university’s 38th Homecoming Scholarship Musical. Proceeds from the production will provide scholarships for ESU theatre students. Two Tony awards were given to the Broadway show in 2005 including best book of a musical.

“It’s such a charming tale that has the drama of a spelling bee, involves a great deal of audience participation, and shows the innocence of children,” said Jim Ryan, director of the production and professor of communications and theatre. “The spelling bee serves more of a backdrop as the audience really gets to know the life stories of the participants in a funny, but insightful look at human nature… It’s filled with moments of self-relevation.”

Senior English and theatre major Tommy Govert said the show is different than anything he has done before.

His character is William Barfee, one of the contestants in the middle school spelling bee.

“To me, the biggest challenge was being 22 and trying to play a character that is only 13,” Govert said. “It was difficult to remember what it was like to be at that age, and then play that part on stage.”

Ryan has worked in the business for well over 30 years. Out of all the shows he has done, he says that this one is by far his smallest cast. The cast is made up of nine students that audi-

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Cast members of the Putnam County Spelling Bee rehearse Wednesday afternoon in Albert Taylor Hall Alissa Miller/The Bulletin. tioned two nights back in August. Ryan said that the total crew of 27 members put what he estimated to be about 160 hours of work into the show.

“It really is amazing the amount of hours some of these people put in,” Ryan said. “We are fortunate to have a great, hard-working crew from everybody from the choreographers to our designers and all the way down the list.”

The crew got their first taste of a live audience on Wednesday with an estimated 250 to 300 high school students attending an afternoon showing. Junior theatre major Mike Koetkemeyer, who plays vice principal Douglas Panch in the play, was relieved to finally perform for a live audience.

“It’s a show that relies heavily on audi-

ence participation, so it really boosted the energy up and helped the timing to perform it for the first time,” Koetkemeyer said.

“They were fantastic, and I can’t wait to see how the audience responds this weekend.

Overall, I think it went very well for the first run through.”

Ryan says that the music in this production might be very different than what students are use to when they go to a musical.

The play uses a modern day, contemporary style of music for the show.

Times for the show are set for 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 21-23, with a matinee at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 24. Tickets are $8 per person and can be purchased at the box office. If interested in reserving tickets, call the box office at 620-341-6378.

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For engraving professor James Ehlers, the Faculty Art Show is an opportunity to see evidence that professors are working artists and a motivating factor for students in their own work.

“I remember when I was an undergrad and I would see the faculty show, it kind of gave me something to aspire to,” Ehlers said.

This year’s show opens on Nov. 2 with a reception from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Eppink Gallery in King Hall. The exhibit will feature work created by Emporia State faculty as well as three Emeritus faculty members. Professor of sculpture and gallery coordinator Roberta Eichenberg said there will be art of all mediums, including paintings, drawings, print-making, glass, sculpture and ceramics. The show will run until Dec. 10.

“I invite the entire faculty, and not all of them participate, but they are definitely all invited,” Eichenberg said.

Ehlers said the show is exciting for him because he gets to see what other faculty members are working on.

“I’m curious to see what’s going on. Everyone gets so busy you don’t really have time to see what other people are doing and every once in awhile there is a surprise,” Ehlers said.

Glass blowing professor Patrick Martin also said the opening reception is an opportunity for the faculty to get together because they don’t always get a chance.

“It’ll be a nice event, a lot of times we’re all spread out working, so it’s nice to kind of come together and see where we can get together and see the work,” Martin said.

This year, Martin is putting the third installment of his “flipflop” series, which plays on the political term, in the show. His flip-flops are made to look like the shoe, with the bottom part as glass and the straps made out of metal. Martin used figures George Bush and Larry Craig in the past, but for this piece the politician is Louisiana Senator Trent Lott. “(Flip-flop) is such a Republican terminology and such part of their propaganda, I tend to use Republicans, though I am looking into working on Democrats, but I’m not really sure yet,” Martin said.

Ehlers said his work is centered on “death and decay,” with a subject matter of an animal carcass surrounded by foliage. The two pieces he is putting in the show are a wood-cut print and a relief- engraving print.

“I mainly make prints. One of them is a relief engraving, so

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Associate professor Patrick Martin works in the glass blowing studio Tuesday afternoon at the Art Annex. Alissa Miller/The Bulletin. the plate itself is engraved and then I pull the print off of it, so I’m squeezing the engraving in there,” Ehlers said.

Martin said that because the gallery is open for about a month, people have the opportunity to come in any time and see the work.

“I think it’s a great opportunity to see the talent here at Emporia State, that there are many faculty members full-time and part-time that work really hard and do an excellent job at teaching and, for many students, they don’t get to see their work in person,” Martin said.

Movie Review: “Jackass 3-D” The crew of bizarre stunts is back…in 3-D! After four years, the MTV stuntman gang from the hit TV show, “Jackass,” is back in action, continuing to do what they do most: be stupid, get hurt, and doing disgusting things. You may think this will just be another experience of laugh-outloud aerobatics. Well, it is. But this time, with the use of technology, it is experienced in eye-popping 3-D. Coming back for a third installment of the movie series is the whole crew who started all. We see familiar faces such as Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Weeman (Jason Acuna) and the rest of the “Jackass” members.

The movie’s idea hasn’t changed since the first two movies. You’d think that these guys have been doing this for so long, they may have run out of ideas on how to get hurt and how to make audience members gag from their vile and disgusting stunts. But no, these guys, who have possibly suffered some brain damage after being hit in the head constantly, still have enough brainpower to think of new and fresh ideas.

The problem with some of these stunts is that they get so sickening, it is impossible not to gag at the things they do. You watch this movie and see how you react when Steve-O has himself a fresh glass of a sweat-suit cocktail. Yummy.

What separates this third installment from the first two films is the use of 3-D technology. For a “Jackass” movie, the 3-D is quite impressive, looking clean cut and not overused scene by scene. However, most of the 3-D moments may not be so pleasant to some audience members. Then again, it’s “Jackass,” what do you expect?

From the back of a jet plane that can throw you back, to playing a game of tetherball full of bees, to experiencing what it is truly like to grab the bull by the horns, “Jackass 3-D” is nothing more but another film featuring a few guys doing nothing but doing stupid stunts… and being so hysterical at doing it.

For some gross, 3-D popping action, seeing the gang back in action is a MUST SEE.

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ESU to begin recycling program in effort to reduce refuse costs E ric H emphill

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ESU is currently planning to expand the amount of recycling being done on campus through a new pilot recycling program beginning in the spring.

According to the Facilities Council minutes from the Sept.

9 meeting, ESU is currently spending $90,000 a year on refuse and the program will attempt to reduce that cost.

Mark Runge, director of university facilities and chair of the facilities council, said the pilot program is being used to gauge how difficult the task of an extensive campus-wide recycling program will be.

“There are many, many steps. So, the reason we are going with the pilot program is to see how much time and how much effort it is going to take. It’s going to take a cooperation from everybody—students, faculty, staff and visitors,” Runge said.

The pilot program will start in Plumb Hall and, according to the minutes of the Facilities Council’s Sept. 9 meeting, will include the recycling of “white paper, bottles, cans, magazines, catalogs and books.”

Ellen Hansen and the sustainability committee, a faculty committee committed to creating and maintaining sustainable practices at ESU, will be in charge of the program and will work alongside various other groups to help manage the

Senate...from page 1 of the reason so many cases arise in the need for spending in education. The requirement does not apply to higher education, however, and such schools receive around 13 percent of the budget, resulting in higher tuitions and more heavy dependence on outside donations for scholarships.

“We’ve decreased (the state’s) contribution to the total cost and some states have almost privatized their public education,” Karr said.

This setup does not allow the broadest opportunity to all students and Karr wishes to see that changed. While the recession is lessening, giving rise to an increase in revenue from sales tax, Karr said the state is not out of the woods yet. This better revenue flow allows for increased opportunities to give in to the higher education budget In order to grow the economy Longbine advocates improved infrastructure, such as the recent Emporia roadwork, to make the area more attractive to the public and in more businesses creating more jobs.

“We need to grow state incomes… when that money comes in we need to dedicate

program.

Hansen said the pilot program is a good start towards achieving the sustainability committee’s recycling goals.

“There is already quite a bit of recycling going on on campus. What we wanted to do was to expand that recycling to include all the stuff that doesn’t get recycled in the offices and classrooms and the dorms,” she said.

Recycling bins will be situated at various strategic locations inside Plumb Hall to ensure easy access and close proximity to Plumb Hall traffic. Material to be recycled will then be compiled, separated and sent to the Emporia Recycling Center.

Hansen said the process of creating the pilot program began last spring when President Michael Lane created the sustainability committee. Hansen said that recycling was one of the first issues the committee wanted to deal with.

“We are starting with the pilot project to see how this works and to get things adjusted,” she said.

Hansen also said that starting in Plumb Hall was the best way to begin a campus-wide recycling project.

“We just need to change our culture. We need to change our way of thinking about this and I think that starting (in Plumb Hall) is a good way to get an idea of what that would require because we have faculty, staff and students (in this building),” Hansen said.

some of that money to higher (education),” Longbine said.

Longbinesaid approximately 53 percent of the state budget is put towards K-12 education “With that kind of investment I think we need to look for productivity so that we can get the best bang for the buck,”Longbine said.

Longbine is advocating for more flexibility in the spending of the assets to get more equality in the various school departments and more involvement by the local school boards to decide how the money is allocated.

Voter participation is also an issue in nonPrimary election years and with the shortened campaign time for the two candidates increased awareness has been a goal.

“We’ve been trying to encourage people who tend not to vote in non-presidential years… to apply for advance ballots,” Karr said.

According to the Kansas Secretary of State’s website, 72.3 percent of the registered state voters participated in the 2008 General Election, which the site said is a better turn out than most surrounding states.

The General Election will be held on Nov. 2.

Infographic by Ellen Weiss

Marijuana growing operations on rise in Kansas says DEA HUTCHINSON (AP) — Large-scale marijuana growing operations have been turning up more frequently in Kansas, as part of what authorities say is a move by organized crime to the region.

Drug Enforcement Administration statistics show the number of outdoor marijuana operations found in Kansas and neighboring states has increased over the past couple of years, and the number has doubled in some cases.

“We’re seeing it all over the U.S., but operations are moving to areas in the Midwest where they think we don’t have adequate law enforcement,” said Rod Page, a special agent with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, told The Hutchinson News. “They’re looking for backwoods areas where they think they won’t be caught.”

A large marijuana operation found Oct. 7 in rural Reno County near Haven is one of eight marijuana plots reported this year in Kansas, according to a report in the Hutchin-

son newspaper.

Page said it’s the fourth such plot found in the past two weeks. He said each site had between 3,000 and 4,000 marijuana plants.

In most cases, those who oversee the crop also live on the property, creating a danger for hunters and landowners who are most likely to stumble upon the plots.

“The West Coast has been seeing these types of operations, particularly on state and government ground and forests,” Page said.

“But it’s coming to the Midwest.”

In Kansas, 12 outdoor marijuana plots and 1,463 cultivated marijuana plants were eradicated in 2008. Last year, that statistic jumped to 29 plots and 24,478 marijuana plants, including two 10,000-plant operations in Kingman and Sedgwick counties.

Both Page and Dave Mizell, assistant special agent overseeing DEA operations in Kansas, said organized crime groups running the operations move out of areas where there is pressure from law enforcement.

Homecoming Activities

Guests learn about hauntings around the ESU campus during the Ghost Tour Wednesday night. Jon Coffey/The Bulletin.

Students wait to have their trash weighed for the chance to win prizes at Trash Bash Wednesday evening in Union Square. Jon Coffey/The Bulletin.

Goat that killed Washington hiker known as aggressive SEATTLE, Wash. (AP) — A mountain goat that fatally gored a hiker, then stood over the man and stared at people trying to help, had shown aggressive behavior in the past, Olympic National Park officials said Monday.

Robert Boardman, 63, of Port Angeles, died Saturday after he was attacked by the goat while hiking on the subalpine Switchback Trail in the park. The trail is popular with residents of nearby Port Angeles, which is about 85 miles west of Seattle.

Park rangers later found the goat, observed blood on it and shot the animal.

Rangers have been tracking the goat and others for the past four years because they have followed people or approached hikers without backing down, said park spokeswoman Barb Maynes.

“It has shown aggressive behavior, however, nothing led us to believe us it was appropriate to take the next level of removal,” she said. “This is a highly unusual. There’s no record of anything similar in this park. It’s a tragedy. We are taking it extremely seriously and doing our best to learn as much as we can.”

Park officials have posted signs at trailheads warning hikers to be watchful of all goats and to stay at least 100 feet

from the animals. Hikers are also warned not to urinate on or near the trail, because goats are attracted to the salt.

A necropsy, or animal autopsy, was conducted on the goat Sunday night by a private certified veterinary pathologists. Park officials are awaiting test results of blood and tissue samples, which may take a couple weeks, Maynes said.

“We’re looking for anything to indicate any presence of diseases, which might shed light on the animal’s extremely strange and unusual behavior,” she said.

Boardman was hiking with his wife, Susan Chadd, and their friend, Pat Willits, and had stopped for lunch at an overlook when the goat began acting aggressively toward them, the Peninsula Daily News reported.

Boardman urged the others to go ahead while he tried to get rid of the goat, according to the paper. The two heard him yell and ran back to help.

Hikers who came upon the group radioed for help. But it took nearly an hour before rescuers could reach Boardman because the goat stood over him as he lay motionless on the ground, according to the Seattle Times.

“The mountain goat was terribly aggressive,” Jessica Baccus, who was hiking with her family, told the Times. “It wouldn’t move. It stared us down.”

She and her husband, Bill Baccus, a park scientist, tried to lure the goat away by pelting the animal with rocks, shouting at it and using a silver reflective blanket to distract it. It finally moved away, and Jessica Baccus tried to give Boardman CPR until a local doctor who came upon the group took over, she told the Times.

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter airlifted him out of the park.

Boardman, a locally-known musician and diabetes educator, was an avid hiker who also worked for years as a nurse for the Makah and Lower Elwha Klallam tribes, according to the Peninsula Daily News.

About 300 goats graze the park’s alpine meadows and roam its rocky peaks. The animals are not native to the park and were introduced in the 1920s, before the park was established.

Maynes said the park had a two-year live capture program in the late 1980s to remove the goats by helicopter because of the damage the animals wrecked on the park’s fragile alpine areas and soil. That program was ended after two years because it was determined to be risky for operators and was less effective, she said.

Wild animals are unpredictable, and thus dangerous.

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ASG senators talk during the ASG meeting Thursday afternoon in the Kanza Room of the Memorial Union. Megan Gartner/The Bulletin.

Emporia State’s Associated Student Government approved a $3,635.22 in funds for the Sociology Club, Chinese Student Association and MBA Association during their fourth meeting of the year on Oct. 7.

“We were really looking forward to it. It’s the first thing our organization has really done like this. I think it would be a good learning experience for our group,” said Andrea Schmidt,president of MBA Association.

Schmidt said the funding from ASG is really important to help pay for the MBA Association’s trips, especially the one they planned to St. Louis over fall break.

“We were trying to keep it inexpensive and that’s why we got so many people to go. With that it could really make this a pretty inexpensive trip for all they were doing,” Schmidt said.

In the revised Senate Finance Policy, the student activity fee increased from $474 to $511. The $137 increase was mainly caused by a $123.75 increase in Student Union Improvements fees, which were $9.25 before the change.

The Policy also adds new rules and procedures concerning the Recognized Student Organization (RSO) fund allocations, including that no RSO may use the funds for national dues, refreshments for meetings or any food pur-

Service group sponsors alternative break C harlie H eptas

heptas@esubulletin.com For Lainie Harber, senior communications major and Service Corps Coordinator for the Community Hornets, this coming spring break offers more than just an opportunity for some sun and fun.

“I’m really excited about (Alternative Spring Break), but we’re trying something new this year… we decided to get student input,”Harber said.

Alternative Spring Break, led by the Community Hornets, is taking students to work on a project for Habitat for Humanity. According to the Habitat for Humanity website (www.habitat.org), the program intends “to develop communities with people in need by building and renovating houses so that there are decent houses in decent communities.”

“It’s the perfect blend of Spring Break. You’re going to have that college Spring Break flavor because in the evenings you have them free… but during the day you’re doing service and you’re giving back,” Harber said.

Habitat for Humanity has many different sites to work on so the students that pay their $100 deposit before Oct. 27 get to decide where the trip

goes. There are 19 different sites to choose from all over the country. Student input is very important to Alternative Spring Break and Community Hornets, as the service experience does happen during a time when most students will be out having a good time.

Improving the Emporia community as well as fostering a sense of service nationwide is important to Community Hornets.

“Community Hornets helps plan events and get students to come help out their foundations,” said Blythe Eddy, the Associate Director of the Memorial Union.

While this is the first year for the program, Alternative Spring Break is not the first activity available to help others. Last month the Community Hornets organized and helped out on the United Way Day of Caring. Coming up at the end of October is Haunted Trails at Camp Alexander just outside of Emporia.

“People can help set up the trail, and they can help scare (the children),” Harber said.

The Community Hornets is looking for more volunteers with monthly projects around the town. The meeting to decide on the destination of Alternative Spring Break will be at 4 p.m. in the Center for Student Involvement.

chases, office supplies (exempting ASG), food on trips, taxes, sports organizations, prizes and clothing.

“Actually these policies, we’ve been doing it, but we haven’t actually put them into our policies,” said Ashley Vogts, fiscal affairs chair for ASG. “Because it’s state funded... so it’s not really our doing, it’s more like the state budget and what we are allowed to give money for.”

Jonathan Rivers, president of ASG, reported from the open forum last week and the plan for next month.

He also gave the updated information about the Kansas Commitment, a newly approved $50 million investment plan for Kansas higher education.

Aaron Koch, senior health promotions major, was elected the new senator to represent the Teacher’s College.

“I am here to represent what’s said in the Teacher’s College, the elementary teachers, high school teachers, whatever they would like to see happen,” Koch said. “I could be the person to bring it here. We can make that change.”

Lynn Hobson, the assistant vice president for student life, formally announced that Whitney McGinnis, who was the graduate adviser for ASG and RSOs, resigned from her position because she has other things to take care of before graduating this December. No new adviser has been announced.

Colleges more diverse, but racial minority gaps persist While U.S. colleges have grown more racially diverse in recent years, minority students — especially Hispanics — still lag behind on key measures of academic progress, a new report says.

Those findings were released Wednesday in a biannual report card on minority educational attainment by the American Council on Education, with financial backing from the GE Foundation.

Overall, postsecondary educational achievement has flat-lined, meaning today’s young adults are no better educated than the baby-boomer generation, the report concludes.

“Equality in education for all Americans remains a somewhat elusive goal that we must strive to reach,” said ACE president Molly Corbett Broad.

The report pays special attention to the nation’s estimated 47 million Hispanics, including what it describes as an overlooked population in education policy — Hispanic immigrant adults.

Hispanics made the largest gains and narrowed gaps with whites and blacks on high school completion from 1988 to 2008. Report author Mikyung Ryu called it “impressive progress.” Yet Hispanics still have the lowest high school completion rates of any group, at 70 percent.

When it comes to college, the Hispanic record is similarly mixed. In 2008, 28 percent of traditional college-age Hispanics were in college, up from 17 percent two decades earlier.

But other racial groups made greater gains, and an enrollment gap that has whites ahead of Hispanics has widened.

Young Hispanic men are lagging farther behind young Hispanic women.

“I appreciate it isn’t a doomsday piece, like we see so much in data, like a crisis,” said Deborah Santiago, vice president of policy and research for Excelencia in Education, which advocates for Hispanic college success. “But it does start to articulate where we really need to act.”

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PLAYER PROFILE

Daniel Webb leads Hornets

The Sprot Authority

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Defensive lineman Daniel Webb leads the defensive line in warm-ups Wednesday afternoon at Welch Stadium Kellen Jenkins/The Bulletin.

C hris H opkins

hopkins@esubulletin.com

Defensive end Daniel Webb’s family is hardly one that lacks an athletic background. Both his father, a linebacker for Stephen Austin University, and his grandfather, a high school coach in Texas, have ties to football. Now, Webb is a big reason why ESU is enjoying one of the best seasons in years.

“I grew up playing all kinds of sports, but hockey was always the biggest one for me,” said Webb, a senior integrated studies major. “It wasn’t until eighth grade that I turned more to football, and it’s been that way ever since.”

Webb was born in Greenville, Texas, but was raised from third grade on in Fort Collins, Colo. In high school, Webb participated in both football and track. During his senior season, Webb won several awards, including his team’s awards for MVP, defensive MVP and inspirational player.

Senior defensive tackle Casey Finlayson said that Webb has been a big reason for the change in mindset on defense this season.

“The guy is just constantly making plays,” Finlayson said. “He is

a great leader both on and off the field that always puts the team first.”

Defensive line coach Matt LoPorto has seen Webb grow since arriving in 2006 when LoPorto was still playing. LoPorto has seen Webb grow from a great role player to a fifth year senior leader of this team.

“He was a crazy little kid coming in,” LoPorto said. “It’s amazing how much better he understands the game now. The guy just has a non-stop motor, has as much heart as any player, and plays every snap like it’s his last. A guy like that is irreplaceable because he is such a great example of why you play football.”

Currently Webb leads all MIAA players in tackles for a loss and sacks. However, Webb said that he doesn’t focus on personalize accolades, and the success of the season will only be measured by how the team ends the season.

“I just want to go out with a bang for my senior season whether it be by a bowl game or the playoffs,” Webb said.

Webb, who plans on moving back to Fort Collins as a fire fighter or smoke jumper, is planning on attending Hutchinson Community College after graduation.

As for football, Webb hasn’t ruled out playing after this year.

“It’s something where if the right situation presented itself, I definitely would at least be interested,” Webb said. “Right now we are just taking it one game at a time to hopefully make a postseason push.”

Behind the Scenes: The First in a Series

Trainers contribute to athletics B randon S chneeberger

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Though they may not score the gamewinning touchdown or run a 16-minute 5K, trainers are an intricate part of team sports. Blais Kriley is the assistant athletic trainer at Emporia State in charge of football, men’s basketball and baseball.

“Athletic trainers are involved in a lot of things,” Kriley said. “We’re involved in the prevention of athletic injuries, the immediate care of athletic injuries (and) the evaluation and diagnosis.”

In addition, trainers are responsible for providing the proper amount of water for athletes for hydration purposes as well as organization and administrative duties for the daily demands of athletics.

Senior student-athletic trainer Emily Garcia recognizes the amount of time athletic trainers put into their job.

“Time management is something you really have to work on as an athletic training student. You really have to be flexible with how practice can either run longer or shorter on any give day, and it can even get extended or canceled because of weather,” Garcia said.

As an athletic trainer, Kriley said that

she spends 55 to 60 hours a week during football season helping the team: A hefty workload no doubt, but one that has its benefits.

“The most rewarding part of my job is actually getting to be able to see players that are hurt come back to the field (and) perform at a high level,” Kriley said. “It makes me know that I did my job.”

Kya Brown is a student-athletic trainer working with the volleyball team this fall. As a senior student trainer, Brown said that seniors in the field are required to have 225 hours of training time a semester in addition to the traditional workload.

“I travel with (the team) every weekend and go to all the home games,” Brown said “They have late practice almost every day so getting home at seven, eight o’clock at night doesn’t leave a whole bunch of time for free time.”

Trainers may not be in the limelight like the athletes, but without them sports would not function properly. Whether KRILEY it’s helping out with a major injury or simply filling a water bottle, trainers are a valued part of the athletic department. teams, and being in that atmosphere is awesome “I really like sports a lot,” Brown said. and helping people out at the same time. (It’s) the “So getting to spend time with sports best of both worlds.”

Hornet football falls short at Northwest, 42-28 Two fourth quarter interceptions sealed the Hornet football team’s fate last Saturday as they lost at Northwest Missouri 4228. The Hornets went into the fourth quarter with a 28-28 tie with the #6 Bearcats in Maryville. However, quarterback Tyler Eckenrode was intercepted twice in which both picks resulted in a touchdown. The loss drops the Hornets record to 5-3 on the season with three games left to play.

With two more victories, the team would qualify for a postseason bowl game. If the team were to win out their remaining games, the Hornets would qualify for the playoffs for the first time under Coach GarrinHiggins.

The Hornets are back at home Saturday for ESU’s homecoming game when they take on Truman set to be broadcast as the MIAA Network Game of the Week. Kick-off is set for 2:20 p.m. at Welch Stadium.

Volleyball moves up to #12 ranking Fall break proved an exciting week for Emporia Volleyball. The Hornets swept the volleyball athlete of the week honors. Ting Liu earned her fourth specialist of the week and Brittney Miller earned her first hitter of the week honor. On Tuesday, the Hornets continued the excitement and swept Southwest Baptist University, 25-20, 25-21, 25-19.

This Friday the Hornets faced off against conference rivals and #4 Washburn University. Losing their first two sets 20-25 and 18-25, the Hornets came back to win the next two 25-22 and 25-19. In the tiebreaker set, the Hornets fell to Washburn 11-15, ending their comeback.

Saturday brought better results with a sweep of Fort Hayes State University 25-15, 25-17, and 25-17. Miller, Paige Vanderpool and Brianne Boner all had nine kills, with Bonner picking up three blocks. Meg Schwartz had 11 digs and Jordan Lockwood had nine.

To top off all the week’s action the Hornets moved up in rank from #15 to #12. Washburn moved up to #2, and their next opponent, Truman State University, dropped down one spot to #11.

ESU’s pitch not perfect Moving the Emporia State soccer team to the ESU pitch from the TRYSA complex was a good idea. The benefits of an on campus site are plentiful.

Students have easier access to games, parking is in some cases easier and overall support for team from a campus perspective goes up.

However, something’s missing at our home soccer field, and it can be found if you simply turn on the lights at the pitch.

For those still left in the dark, some clarification: the ESU pitch needs lights. The soccer team at this school is at a disadvantage when it comes to campus support, and that disadvantage is due to the lack of lighting at the pitch.

Think about it. The volleyball team is fortunate enough to have a schedule in which they play every home game at 7 p.m. That gives plenty of time for the average Emporia employer to get off work, pick up the kids from practice, grab a meal and still make a game. Cross country even has a better time frame with their races coming at 5 p.m. And we all know football has great scheduling.

This isn’t meant to harp on the other sports, but to shine some light (pun unintended) on what soccer may be missing out on. Due to having no lights, the soccer team has to play many of their games at 4 in the afternoon, a time when many are working, at practice or still in class. The addition of adding lights opens up flexible scheduling for the soccer team, allowing them to play in “prime time.”

Moving a soccer game to evening hours increases the excitement of going to a game as well.

Everything is more exciting at night. Why else is the matinee ticket always cheaper? Going to a soccer game at night is simply more appealing, just like everything else.

While we’re at it though, let’s not stop at lights. Every other sport has something else too: a scoreboard. Imagine arriving at a soccer game half an hour late and not having to ask what the score is or how much time is left.

A scoreboard wouldn’t just benefit fans, it would more importantly benefit coaches and players. Every other sport offers this to the players; it’s time soccer does the same.

Many traditional readers may think this is a significant part of soccer, trying to figure out the score and the time. I say it’s time to move on, time to finally have lights and a scoreboard, with a clock letting both the fans, players, coaches and, yes, the media know exactly what’s going on.