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The students’ voice since 1901 • Vol. 110 No. 25 • Thursday, April 14, 2011 • Emporia State University

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Vogts, Cheray win ASG election with 418 votes K enzie T empleton news@esubulletin.com The new president and vice president of Associated Student Government are Ashley Vogts, junior integrated studies and preoccupational therapy major, and Jennifer Cheray, junior marketing major, respectively.

At approximately 5 p.m. last night, the election results were posted outside of the Center for Student.

“It’s feels good – we’re excited,” Vogts said.

“We’ve both been involved in ASG for five years between the two of us and we were ready

to take that next step and become a bigger leader within ASG. We have a passion for ESU and ASG.” According to the election results, 755 students voted in the online election. Vogts and Cheray received 418 votes. The voting started Monday and ended at 4 p.m. yesterday. The total number of students voting increased by 66 from last year’s election.

“We really want to stick with our platform that we were running with – establish, solidfy and unite and kind of build upon those three words and the plans we’ve set forth,” Vogts said.

Vogts said they want to establish face-toface relations between organizations and their representatives in ASG, solidify what ASG already has in terms of internal structure and unite students with the faculty. They also want Senators to be known on campus.

“There’s the Faculty Senate and the Student Senate and we really want to bridge that gap and become that liaison between students and faculty,” Vogts said.

Cheray said the toughest part of the campaign was sending their message to as many students as possible.

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Breaking the Mold THE SECOND IN A SERIES THAT EXPLORES THE CURRENT STATE OF ESU’S ARCHIVES “It’s the university’s fault if they lose their records. We’ve done what we can. But, don’t let them hurt your health. Why don’t you… come back over here, and breathe some fresh air while you’re outdoors.”—Heather Wade, university archivist in an email K elsey R yan editor@esubulletin.com

Next week: the history and possible future of the Anderson Library

“The archives are in your hands.”

That’s what Heather Wade, university archivist for Emporia State, wrote to the dean of University Libraries and Archives in a June 2008 email following water intrusion and mold outbreaks in the archives stored at the Anderson Library, on the old College of Emporia campus. The archives housed in aging library include over a hundred years’ worth of historic photographs, academic journals and archived issues ESU’s student newspaper and yearbook.

But in addition to dealing with the mold clean up itself, employees have also had to deal with the possibility that the mold has impacted their health. The archives were moved to Anderson Library due to renovations William Allen White Library. The decision to move them there was made under the Glennen administration, said Ray Hauke, Vice President of Administration and Fiscal Affairs.

Wade declined to give specific health concerns in a recent interview with The Bulletin: “I’m just going to speak in general terms because I think it would be a HIPPA violation if I told what really, you know... but just in the most general terms, it depends completely on the type of mold that you’re dealing with.”

Wade recited a litany of health problems mold can cause.

“Mold can cause migraines. Mold can cause urinary tract infections. Mold can cause a lot of respiratory illnesses. Mold can cause cancer. Mold can cause neurological disorders. It can cause all sorts of things, so depending on the type of mold that we’re exposed to over time, we could potentially have had health issues, anyone exposed to

A picture of Stemonitis, a type of mold.

Photo from links in employee emails released through an Open Records request by The Bulletin A student employee demonstrates how to use a HEPAfiltered vacuum on a book from the Historical Children’s Literature Collection.

Photo courtesy of Heather Wade, university archives

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Sleep in a Box raises funds, awareness for homeless

Junior Jennifer Cheray and junior Ashley Vogts hug after seeing that they had won the election Wednesday night in the Memorial Union.

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Greeks unite for campus tradition

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Fraternities and sororities took part in several activities across campus this week for the annual Greek Week including several sporting events and award presentations.

“Greek Week is like the sacred week when everyone who can call themselves Greek can get together,” said Jake Tannehill, junior English major and member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. “We wear our letters proudly, but we also put them aside and embrace the entire Greek community.”

This was Tannehill’s third Greek Week.

He participated in the tug-of-war as well as the Greek Talent Show.

The Greek games took place at 5 p.m. on Tuesday. The games kicked off with a canoe race on Wooster Lake. Contestants were to row their boats out onto the lake, around the fountain and back to the starting point.

The Sigma Pi fraternity and Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority team won first place.

During one of the races, a boat flipped, but the occupants were unhurt and the boat was recovered without incident.

Following the canoe races, participants moved to Welch Stadium for the remainder of the Greek games which included a tugof-war, a three legged race, a “Skittle Run” and a “Snake Slither.”

The Greek Talent Show was also held on Tuesday after the games. Various fraternities and sororities performed acts in the gymnasium of the Student Recreation Center. The Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority won first place overall for their dance routine.

“Showing off – showing off what you got,” said George Jeng, junior communications major and member of the Sigma Pi fraternity, when asked what Greek Week meant to him.

Jeng performed in the talent show doing a comedy magic trick act. He also judged the tug-of-war contest.

On Wednesday there was the “Dunk-

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Freshman elementary education majors Lauri Wise and Kelsey Mueller organize and begin to set up their boxes for Didde Catholic Campus Center’s Sleep-in-a-Box Friday night on Merchant Street.

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From April 8-10, students from Emporia State slept in cardboard boxes in front of the Didde Catholic Campus Center in order to raise both money and awareness for homeless individuals.

“A big reason why we do it is to raise money for the Emporia Rescue Mission…and also to raise awareness for the homeless issue,” said Molly Campbell, junior elementary education major. Campbell organized this year’s event.

This was her first Sleep in a Box that she has been able to actively participate in.

Different groups set up box

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Members of Alpha Sigma Alpha compete in tugof-war Tuesday night at Welch Stadium.

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Briefs

Laps 4 Landon to help fund cure for cystic fibrosis Next Tuesday from 6 p.m. until dark, Emporia State Health Promotion majors will sponsor Laps 4 Landon: Taking Steps to Find a Cure for CF at the Welch Stadium on campus. The event is free and open to the community. All proceeds will help fund the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to find a cure and new treatments.

Laps 4 Landon is named after four-year-old Landon Dody, son of Blythe Eddy, associate director of the Memorial Union, grandson of Tom Eddy, professor of biology, and nephew of Laura Eddy, director of admissions.

Music, games, prizes and snacks will be provided along with a silent auction for items like tickets to KU, Royals and ESU sporting events. The auction will close at 8 p.m. Anyone who donates a minimum of $10 will be put in a drawing for an iPod nano.

Please contact Jennifer Thomas at 341-6160 or jthomas@emporia.edu for more information.

Wong to present one-woman comedy show

Kristina Wong, nationally recognized solo performer, writer, actor, educator, culture jammer and filmmaker, will perform her act “Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” next Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Union Ballroom.

Wong’s one-woman show examines the high rates of anxiety, depression and mental illness among Asian-American women and features short and full-length solo performance works, outrageous street theater stunts and pranks, subversive internet installations and sketch comedy. A question-and-answer session will follow the performance.

The event is hosted by Multicultural Affairs and admission is free. For more information contact Ariel Robello at arobello@emporia.edu or go to www.kristinawong.com.

PRIDE Week promotes LGBT tolerance Tomorrow’s National Day of Silence marks the first event of PRIDE week at Emporia State. A table in the Union will prompt students to write down instances of bullying to be used at Monday’s Breaking the Silence bonfire from 7:30-9 p.m., where the papers will be tossed into the fire at Wilson Park.

Wednesday is Movie Night from 7-9 p.m. in SH 072. Throughout the week, the PRIDE table will take religious questions to address at the Religious Discussion Panel from 6-8 p.m. on Thursday in SH 072.

The men will dress as women and the women as men at the Alternative Beauty Pageant from 7-9 p.m. on Friday in Albert Taylor Hall. The winners will be crowned Mr. and Mrs. ESU. The PRIDE Prom, a costume ball, will be held from 8-11 p.m. on Saturday at Wilson Park.

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lu@esubulletin.com For many Emporia State students, last Saturday was a day to give back to the Emporia community. About 80 students participated in the Big Event, a community service event hosted

by Associated Student Government, Community Hornets and Greek Life.

Jonathan Rivers, acting president of ASG, said there were “tons” of students to help with the project, ranging from sophomore to the graduate levels, despite several other events in Emporia that day.

“It was a good way to meet other students,” said Kayla Flanigan, community service coordinator. “It was a fun event to be involved with – we had free donuts (and) we gave away free T-shirts and water bottles. We also did a raffling for some $50 gas cards, thanks to ASG.” The volunteers participated in different service activities including organizing clothing items at the Salvation Army, sorting recyclables at the Recycling Center, doing yard work at the William Allen White House, spray-painting storm drains and park clean up, Flanigan said.

The student volunteers were split into groups that were assigned to each activity – the biggest group had 27 people who spray-painted “no-dumping” signs beside storm drains in designated places around Emporia, Flanigan said.

“I went to the Salvation Army. In the back of the store, there is a huge room with a mountain of clothes. We did a lot of orga-

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houses on the front lawn of the Didde Catholic Campus Center, ranging from small and simple, to large and elaborate. One group, mainly comprised of members of the Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity, brought hundreds of boxes and even the giant ‘Rock ‘em Sock ‘em’ robot from their Homecoming float earlier this year.

“It’s always fun to come out here and hang out with everybody, build houses out of boxes… and it’s just great to raise mon-

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nizing for them, even though we were only there for two hours, they were really grateful we were there,” Flanigan said.

Lainie Harber, senior communications major and the coordinator of Service Corps, helped with yard work for the William Allen White House.

“The man who runs it was so appreciative and so grateful for our work, he even gave us a tour of the house for free,” Harber said.

Flanigan said preparations for the event began in early February and that the main objective was to educate students on the idea that it is easy to get involved with the community.

Rivers said the Big Event helped break down the wall between the university and Emporia community.

Last year, Community Hornets conducted several surveys with the community.

“Many (community members) felt there was a big split between the university and the town,” Flanigan said. “If we could work together, it could be a stronger community.”

Harber said community service offers a chance for students to do something bigger than themselves and created a tie among the university, community and students.

“Community service offers students a lot of things, firsthand experience, resume builders and a lot of benefits that come from there that you won’t know right away,” Flanigan said.

Flanigan said the student involvement in community service was better this year and she hoped it could continue to grow because “there is always a need.”

ey to help people that are in more need than we are,” said Clinton Self, junior business administration major and executive vice president of Alpha Kappa Lambda.

This was Self’s third year working on and participating in Sleep in a Box. His group managed to accrue boxes from several different sources such as local businesses and a random citizen who simply drove by and asked if they wanted some boxes.

Participants had to take cover inside the Didde building due to the weather.

Police Reports

April 7 Officer assisted Josh Case in Morse Hall Room 245 for an electrical problem. Breaker was changed.

HPER zone 55 fire trouble. Smoke detector basement hallway by Room 6. Mechanical error.

Officer disposed of a dead bird in Lot 11.

April 8 Cremer Hall Zone 46. Fire trouble. 2nd floor smoke detector

by Room 203A. Mechanical error.

WAW Library zone 72 fire trouble. Smoke detector Room 209. Mechanical error.

Fire Trouble Alarm in Physical Education Building Zone 55.

No problem was found, officer resest alarm April 9 Officer stopped KS 317CHT at 1829 Merchant St. Citation issued for stop sign violation at I-35 and Merchant. Officer contacted bus in Sector 3 and advised it where to park.

Memorial Union Zone 83. Smoke Detector in basement.

Mechanical Error, Reoccurring problem.

Officer took an incident case report for male resident at 1201 Triplet Drive.

April 10 Physical Education Building Zone 55. Smoke detector in basement near track weight room. Officer reset panel. Mechanical error.

Toilet in restroom at Police and Safety is not working.

Cramer Hall smoke detector 2nd floor by room 203A. Mechanical error.

April 11 Parking Enforcement reported a verbal altercation between a male student and a female student at 12 W 18th. Officers contacted subjects.

April 12 HPER Building Fire Trouble in basement hallway by room 6 weight room. Mechanical error.

Officer assisted KS 827DBF with a tire problem at 1201 Triplett Dr. ESU PD recieved report of a leg injury in Welch Stadium.

Female student was transported by private vehicle to Newman Regional Health.

The blue light above the emergency telephone at Wooster Dr. and Highland is burned out and needs replaced Officer stopped KS 084BNG in 300 E 12th. Citation for speeding in 200 E 12th, expired license plate and no POI.

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“We had to go inside Didde for a little while during the tornado watch, and we played card games and things like that,” said Kelly Roberts, sophomore speech and theater major.

Awards were also given out at the end of the event for such things as having the box house that was mostly likely to withstand a storm, the prize for which was two ponchos and a copy of Twister. Roberts’ group earned the “No Box Like Home” award for the most “homey” box house.

any kind of mold can have health issues, but I can’t give you any specifics.”

In response to an Open Records request by The Bulletin, the university released more than 200 pages of emails from employees. The emails revealed that some employees have experienced health issues they attribute to the mold. The emails show how employees feel, both physically and emotionally, about the mold.

The Bulletin has removed the names to respect the privacy of individuals.

In November 2010, one employee wrote, “I got into that bad mold. Oh man… even with this mask on (one with a button) I am having drippy stuff and my nose and throat burn. I know my allergies have been acting up (hayfever) but I do think this is the mold.”

Earlier in September 2009, an employee wrote: “It seems like we have a full on break out…. I am worried we’ll just keep finding it. It scares me. I wonder what we can do to help prevent this? (That does not cost money)….My allergies are out of control and I am taking Zyrtec-De, Flonase and using Optive eyedrops. Maybe we should go to wearing scrubs to work!”

An email from October 2009 said, “We’ve located another large mold bloom at Anderson… could we arrange to have these materials removed and discarded? And, is it possible to have this done pretty soon? The mold is very wet and smelly, and causes eyes to sting (portion of email redacted by University General Counsel Tracy Greene).”

In July 2010, one employee wrote, “Seriously I could just sit and cry my eyes out right now… it feels so helpless to not be able to do more about it… and I am seeing all of this happen before my eyes… the conditions have only gotten worse… it feels like its too late and there is not anything we can do… we are just paddling like mad to keep up and its pointless… the collections are literally rotting away.”

In response, Wade wrote: “It’s the university’s fault if they lose their records. We’ve done what we can. But, don’t let them hurt your healh. Why don’t you… come back over here, and breathe some fresh air while you’re outdoors.”

An email to Cynthia Akers from Wade in September 2009 said: “It’s a tragedy, but we saw it coming way back when the U stopped maintaining Anderson in 2005. Bad decisions made this happen, and we in the Archives are physically paying the price to have to work in such an environment. It’s the most demoralizing thing I can think of :( But, I work with a team of troupers, and all will end OK. ;)” Air Quality Standards There are no regulatory guidelines or regulatory issues on mold at this point by Environmental Protection Agency or Occupational Safety and Health Administration, said Mark Runge,

director of university facilities, but they will provide personal protective equipment to employees who feel that they need it.

“There are literally hundreds of thousands of different types of molds,” Runge said. “We’ve done several tests on buildings around campus where if mold shows up, we can address it, but the only way you can address mold is if you find the water source and stop the water source. But we also do some air tests, and every one of our air tests in the past 5-10 years has proven that the air inside the building is considerably healthier than outside the building. Quite a bit.”

There seems to be a correlation between allergy season and mold complaints, Runge said.

“People with allergies, I feel so sorry for them because, you

“It’s a tragedy, but we saw it coming way back when the U stopped maintaining Anderson in 2005. Bad decisions made this happen, and we in the Archives are physically paying the price to have to work in such an environment.”

—Heather Wade, university archivist know, the complaints on building environment will come at the same time as all the spores and the count will pop up outside,” Runge said. “But really a lot of buildings, when working properly, will filter out a lot of that and the air inside a building is considerably healthier. But we don’t disregard issues. We want people to tell us when the mold is there and allow us to do remedial actions on them.”

According to the Lyon County Health Department, there are no indoor air quality standards that relate specifically to mold.

Wade said that ESU is supplying the surgical masks for employees to wear while inside Anderson Library, but that they don’t filter out everything and that unless people go to their doctors and get fitted with a type of respirator mask with filtered canisters, the masks are only prophylactic. People fitted with the respirator masks will undergo a “banana test” where the doctor will spray a banana scented fume, and if the person can still smell bananas, the mask isn’t working.

“The masks that we use are reducing particulate intake by 99.7 percent, but unless you go to the doctor and have that special kind of mask with special kinds of canisters, and your doctor fits you to it and does the banana test, you don’t know what’s getting through the mask,” Wade said.

Precautions have also been taken for employees who are directly handling the mold while cleaning the archives.

“In the lab in this building we set up to vacuum up the things brought over from the Anderson Building, we don’t want to mix the air over there, so we have this room set up with piles of smocks and masks and gloves, so every day, people go in and suit up and start handling the mold,” Wade said.

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The Cleaning Process The university has opted to support cleaning the archives in-house, as opposed to the more costly outsourcing of the materials. Wade told Sheridan in a December 2010 email that the archives staff had enough funding for vacuums to run 65 project hours each week in the spring 2011 semester, and that in terms of mold remediation, it amounts to cleaning about 10 inches of paper per week.

“At this projected rate, it would take more than 50 years for us to clean all of the paper using in-house resources. This estimate does not include work to remediate severely molddamaged items from the Archives, which will require professional conservation.”

The in-house treatment could also have an effect on the other services the archives staff provides. In an email to the University Archivist at Kansas State, Anthony Crawford, Wade wrote: “We’ve been expected to handle the treatment of the mold in-house, which has drained all of our resources. Now we have to cut back out research service, which currently is must like yours except we use SLIM and history students and staff to do the research. We have been fielding about 600 requests per year – up from only 64 the year before I started at Emporia. That number is destined to drop drastically.”

In order to properly clean the documents and get all of the mold spores off of them, Wade said that items that have mold on them must be separated from others and dried out. Once the mold is flakey, it can be vacuumed using a HEPA filter vacuum cleaner.

“In order to kill the mold bloom, you have to get the humidity level down to 25 percent or lower, and that kills the mold bloom and once it’s killed and dried and crusty, then you can vacuum it,” Wade said. “If you try to clean it while it’s still wet, you’re not doing anything, just shoving it around.”

The archives staff also keeps a clean room within William Allen White Library where they clean documents before they are stored into the compact shelving.

“We don’t want to put things that have been exposed to the dreaded cocktail into that room, so we take the time to clean them before we put them in there,” Wade said.

Wade wrote in one email last summer to John Sheridan, dean of Libraries and Archives who was appointed last year, that she looked forward to working with him and that the archives staff has been “so focused on the practical and downright grungy aspects of our jobs – renovations, building, mold, moving – that it will be undoubtedly a positive experience to be reminded of the passions that led us to our respective careers. I think that your enthusiasms could improve morale tremendously.”

There are nearly 300 of the 4,500 linear feet of records that have been affected by active mold bloom. The university hopes to have the archives out of Anderson Library by the end of this semester or in early summer, Runge said.

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Publish or Perish STAFF EDITORIAL

In January, a bill was introduced in front of Emporia State’s faculty senate in regards to reviews of administrative personnel by others employed by the University. Throughout this semester, this bill has been debated and amended in various ways.

There is one part of the bill that has been discussed in depth regarding who is allowed to see the results of these reviews. The current version of the bill maintains that the administrative personnel being reviewed have the right to decide whether or not these reviews are made public.

This should not be an issue. These reviews absolutely should be published so that the ESU community can see how these administrative officials are performing. There should not be a choice if the laws of the state of Kansas are followed.

Two staff editorials in March editions of The Bulletin dealt with the importance of open records laws in the U.S. and ESU more specifically.

The issue of administrative reviews is a perfect example of a time when we must look to these laws to solve the problem. In order for anyone to have a complete understanding of how the current administration is performing, these reviews should be available to the general public.

Provost Tes Mehring was reviewed this semester and should be commended for her willingness to make her individual administrative review results available on the faculty senate’s website.

But there are still certain individuals in the administration who have not as of yet followed Mehring’s actions by allowing their own reviews to be published on the faculty senate website.

These individuals’ inability to work with the faculty senate and the ESU community in order to promote administrative transparency undermine the relationship between the administration and the faculty, staff and students. It could culminate in an atmosphere of distrust on campus.

There is no reason these results should not be published, and the unwillingness of certain members of the administration to comply with laws mandated by the government of Kansas is a serious matter.

There is, however, a quick and easy fix to this entire situation—publish the results immediately. Publication of these results is not only an act of good will by the administration, and something that could help to further an atmosphere of honesty and transparency at ESU, it is a government mandated law under the Kansas Open Records Act. Administrative officials are public figures.

They are paid by the state using government funds. As such, they are subject to a different standard than individual citizens in regards to privacy. Therefore, the right to privacy cannot be the reasoning behind not publishing the results of ESU’s administrative reviews.

Hopefully this issue will be solved in a timely

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manner so that ESU as a whole can move forward using the results of these reviews as a template for the future.

Don’t hate the skate The other day, a friend of mine came up to me and asked me to write an article about how skateboarding shouldn’t be banned on campus. It’s towards the end of the semester, so of course I’m eager to take any idea for articles that comes my way. The only reason why I hesitated was because I, like most people, associated skateboarding with hoodlums and saggy pants. Which is, of course, a stereotype.

After looking past the stereotype, I assumed skateboarding was banned because people would damage campus property with their tricks and “grinding,” which is when the boards skid along a ledge or rail. The more I think about this, the sillier it seems. Skateboards have the potential to cause damage, but so do a million other things.

For instance, if I had to name of giant source of campus harm, it would be smokers. On the same day my friend approached me about getting in trouble for skateboarding, I saw some guy walking toward Union Square and puffing away. To my amazement, when he was done, he just threw it in on the ground. I nearly lost it. How rude can you be?

I realized that this guy would never get in trouble, just because his crime was so small and is so hard to be caught doing.

It’s well known that smokers very rarely get in trouble for their litter. Honestly, I’ve never heard of someone being ticketed for violating the few rules smokers have on campus. Why do we make exceptions for people who are so disrespectful, and then punish students who aren’t actually doing anything wrong? Answer: because there’s something wrong with the system.

If a college-aged person rides by with a backpack and is on a skateboard, I can almost guarantee you that this person isn’t on their way to destroy school property. Let’s get real. They’re

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Online Commenting E llen W eiss , weiss@esubulletin.com innocent. They have the potential to do something wrong, but so does everyone else. They’re simply using this vehicle to get to class faster.

Some people don’t have cars. Some people don’t have bikes. Some people aren’t cool enough to have those little Razor scooter things. These people need to get to class, and we should encourage anything that helps them do it. You have to admit that skateboards are an economical and convenient form of transportation. They are just as legitimate as any other vehicle.

I know it’s late in the semester, so let’s get the ball rolling for next year. If you know someone who has the authority to get rid of the ban on skateboarding, let’s end this. This is a rule entirely based on the bias of the administration. We’re wasting the campus police’s time by making this act an offense. Support your local skateboarder.

Poetry: The Language of Life In this country, where we are ruled by flashing computer and movie screens and our leisure time is spent flipping through channels to watch trash like Teen Mom 2, My Super Sweet 16, 16 and Pregnant and lots of Jersey Shore, something like National Poetry Month often goes by unnoticed, except, apparently, by literary nerds.

It’s true, April is National Poetry Month and it is something to be celebrated. If you already write poetry and share it openly, then revel in your expression and be proud, organize a poetry reading amongst your friends.

But if you don’t consider yourself a poet, then maybe it’s time to try it. In fact, many people (perhaps even you) write poetry in private to get some emotional catharsis out of a particularly charged situation.

You want to woo someone, so you write them a love poem. You want to get over your last break-up, so you write an angry poem just so you can get it off your chest. You’re bored, so you write a funny little poem about a bumbling ninja.

But all too often, that powerful emotional energy that was recorded is lost, long forgotten, hiding in a dusty notebook at the bottom of your bookcase. I think this is wrong. Poetry is not something to be forgotten about.

Even if you do not feel comfortable sharing it with the public, you still have taken the time to write it down, so it must be worthwhile to you, at the very least.

Poetry is pure life freshly squeezed from your soul. Whether it is combined with music or not, it is the verbal form of artistic expression. It is like taking all of the swirling emotional energy you have and defining it with language, making it able to be under-

It’s not exactly publish or perish because there is no leeway on this one. The only option available is to publish.

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A lex P edersen , opinion@esubulletin.com stood and comprehended.

And of course, poetry would be purely masturbatory without an audience, so support poets by reading their work.

William Stafford is one of the most famous poets from Kansas and was also United States Poet Laureate. He is a fantastic poet and has several books available at the WAW Library. And I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, the Poet Laureate of Kansas.

Poetry is all around us and we must learn to appreciate it, whether it is your own work or not. It isn’t hard do this, write some poetry or organize a reading. I personally am planning to have one with some of my friends this Friday and it isn’t that hard. All that is needed is a space, some people and open minds.

Roses are red, ice cubes are cool, it’s poetry month, so don’t act a fool.

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Artist Walk showcases talent in Emporia C harlie H eptas

heptas@esubulletin.com The Emporia Main Street Association hosted the eighth annual Artist Walk last Saturday, with artists doing their work on Commercial Street all day in tents and on the sidewalk.

“We have tried to bring the artists out to the community so people realize what we have available for art in Emporia, and this event gets people out for the first spring event,” said Casey Woods, executive director of Emporia Main Street.

Artists from all over the area including Wichita and Topeka were out to showcase what they do and all that the local community has to offer in the way of art.

Art of all sorts was sold from oil paintings and engravings to metal work and weaving. Live music was also played. Emporia State art students also were out to show their work, including Luara Pinon, junior engraving major, who showed some of her prints.

“It’s a good opportunity for Emporia artists to show off their artwork,” Pinon said.

Emeline Fuller, an artist from the area, also showed some of her work, which included paintings as well as illustrations. She said she enjoys using mixed media for her work such as a charcoal drawing on a 100-year-

Left: Assistant professor of art James Ehlers engraves on a cell phone during the Artist Walk Saturday afternoon on Commercial Street. Chris Franklin/The Bulletin.

Above: Laura Pinon, junior engraving major, paints during the Artist Walk Saturday afternoon on Commercial Street. Chris Franklin/The Bulletin.

old book cover. Fuller drew art for free for people that had been walking by. She particularly enjoyed getting to do drawings for children.

“There have been a lot of really cool people just stopping by and chatting, and it’s really nice

to draw something for someone and see them absolutely thrilled,” Fuller said.

Dave Edwards and Scott Miller, local artist blacksmiths, did some metal work under an overhang. They showed cold work by hammering metal in a vice into

leaves. Most of their work used a furnace but the method they were showing was the most suitable for outdoor work.

“We don’t do very many demonstrations but this was a fairly easy one to do so they always talk us into it,” Edwards said.

Edwards said an artist blacksmithing is currently a small field with only about three groups in Kansas running full-time shops.

Edwards and Miller both were regulars at the event in their “fourth or fifth year” showcasing their blacksmithing.

Glass Blowout showcases visiting artist’s talent C harlie H eptas

heptas@esubulletin.com The Emporia Glass Guild hosted their annual Glass Blowout last Saturday, an all-day event providing community members the opportunity to see live glass blowing with two demonstrations, as well as a barbecue dinner and a bluegrass band.

There was also an auction of glass work from local artists and students from Emporia State as well as alumni of ESU’s glass program. This portion of the event was a fundraiser for the Glass Guild, raising around $7,500 for the group.

“All the money from the auction goes to the glass guild which in turn is used for equipment, supplies and educational trips, such as the Glass Arts Society conference, which is in Seattle and we’re sending 14 students for that,” said Pat Miller, associate professor of art.

Miller said that the event was a great opportunity to see former students and other glass artists, referring to the event as a “big reunion” for the Glass Guild.

The blowout was a culmination of a week-long event where the glass students were able to learn from a professional glass artist, Jason Johnson from Bow, Wash. Johnson also performed live demonstrations with help from some of the students.

Johnson works with his wife in a collaborative effort to create glass art. His wife was unable to attend.

Kaila Mock, senior art major, said she enjoyed the opportunity to work with the visiting artist. Johnson made a banjo, a sword, a dog and a guitar during the live demonstrations.

“He’s an excellent teacher, very calm, very helpful, and he can tell us what to expect when we graduate

how to find jobs and what we can do to get in the field after graduation,” Mock said.

Mock said she also enjoyed the barbecue and the opportunity for students to get to show the community what they do.

Kevin Miller, senior art major and shop tech for the glass department, was excited for the opportunity to work with Johnson. He was also glad for the opportunity to show the community what happens in the glass shop.

“It allows us to show the community what we do down here, we’re kind of hidden away down in the corner of the campus, so there’s a lot of people who don’t get to see this quite often,” Miller said.

Pieces made by Jasen Johnsen and other artists were auctioned off at the end of the day with all the proceeds going to the Glass Guild. Chris Franklin/The Bulletin.

Artist Jasen Johnsen creates a glass dog for a demonstration during the Glass Blowout held by the ESU Glass Guild Saturday afternoon at the Art Annex. Chris Franklin/The Bulletin.

Kansas filmmaker tells story of KC’s once segregated hospitals KANSAS CITY (AP) — Black doctors once posed as janitors to train at Kansas City’s whitesonly hospital. And black nurses sometimes used an underground tunnel to discreetly transport their sickest patients into the better-equipped white hospital next door.

Kansas filmmaker Kevin Willmott tells their stories in a new documentary, “From Separate to

Too True

Equal: The Creation of Truman Medical Centers.” He has examined racial division previously and perhaps is best known for his Sundance entry, “CSA: The Confederate States of America.”

The faux documentary examines the racist nation that might have resulted had the South won the Civil War. Willmott, a professor at the University of

Kansas, stumbled across the subject of his latest film when he came across a timeline of Kansas City and health care in the area while touring Truman Medical Centers. During the height of Jim Crowe, Kansas City operated General Hospital No. 1 for whites and General Hospital No. 2 for minorities.

“There was no double speak,” he said in an

interview with The Associated Press. “Today you can laugh at it because it’s so absurd and crazy.”

The two-tiered hospital system grew costly to operate and General Hospital No. 1 and 2 merged in 1957. In the 1970s, Truman Medical Centers opened to serve the city’s neediest and as a training ground for medical students from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

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Fraternities and sororities took part in several activities across campus this week for the annual Greek Week including several sporting events and award presentations.

“Greek Week is like the sacred week when everyone who can call themselves Greek can get together,” said Jake Tannehill, junior English major and member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. “We wear our letters proudly, but we also put them aside and embrace the entire Greek community.”

This was Tannehill’s third Greek Week. He participated in the tug-of-war as well as the Greek Talent Show.

The Greek games took place at 5 p.m. on Tuesday. The games kicked off with a canoe race on Wooster Lake. Contestants were to row their boats out onto the lake, around the founA Sigma Sigma Sigma member rows with a member of Kappa Sigma during the canoe races Tuesday afternoon on Wooster Lake.

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An Alpha Sigma Alpha member competes in the Skittle Run Tuesday night at Welch Stadium. Jon Coffey/The Bulletin.

Alpha Kappa Lambda members compete in the tug-of-war Tuesday night at Welch Stadium. Jon Coffey/The Bulletin.

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Women on campus ditch makeup to build confidence K enzie T empleton news@esubulletin.com An initiative by Seventeen Magazine for women to go makeup free yesterday prompted two Emporia State students to extend the idea to ESU women. Rachel Marshall, freshman communication and theater secondary education major, and Paige Moeder, freshman elementary education major, created a Facebook event to spread the word about Beauty Peace Challenge Day, and they also have plans to create an on-campus group called B.U.I.L.D. Beauty aimed at building confidence and undoing negative views on beauty.

“It’s a cool way to show our unity as women,” Marshall said. “It’s a reminder that we are beautiful no matter if we’re wearing makeup or not and it’s a celebration of who are.”

Marshall was inspired to bring Beauty Peace Challenge to ESU after reading an article in the magazine about a high school in Texas whose members of the Redefining Beauty Club go makeup-free every Tuesday.

Marshall said 118 girls signed up to participate on the Facebook page.

A 2008 report called “Beauty at Any Cost” by the Y.W.C.A., an organization dedicated to empowering women and eliminating racism, found that U.S. women spend approximately $7 billion per year on cosmetics and beauty products.

Nicole Casey, undecided freshman, went makeup-free yesterday, although she said she usually only wears eye makeup like mascara.

Casey also said that she rarely buys makeup.

“I thought it would be interesting, and it doesn’t bother me to not wear makeup,” Casey said. “I forgot that I wasn’t wearing makeup so it hasn’t been any different than any other day.”

Marshall said a lot of girls on campus have said that they already do not wear makeup on a daily basis, but for some girls, going makeup-free is tough.

“I’m a makeup wearer and last week – I think it happened for a reason – I left all of my makeup at home so I went makeup-free the entire week,” Marshall said.

Marshall said it was a challenge to go without makeup for the week because she usually wears it every day and it makes her more confi-

dent.

“I think we lose our inner confidence because we rely on makeup to make us feel pretty when we should feel pretty without it,” Marshall said.

Marshall and Moeder plan to have elections for the club by the end of the semester and to launch the group at the beginning of the fall 2011 semester. A bill for B.U.I.L.D. Beauty is currently being reviewed by Associated Student Government.

According to the Y.W.C.A. report, “40 percent of newly-diagnosed cases of eating disorders are in girl 15-19 years old, but symptoms can occur as young as kindergarten.”

“We want to first build on ourselves and work on our strengths and poise and confidence and just becoming more confident in our own skin,” Marshall said. “Once we established ourselves (on campus) we want to work with middle school and high school girls in the Emporia area.”

Marshall said middle school and high school can be competitive for girls and some can even lose their own identity. B.U.I.L.D. Beauty will act as role models for these girls.

“It’s a good opportunity for girls

ASG... from page 1 “We were trying to reach a diverse group of students, not hitting the same students, so that was definitely the hardest things for us to reach outside of the box and hit multiple groups of students,” Vogts said.

Vogts said the first thing the two hope to accomplish next year is the “solidify” component of their campaign. At the beginning of each fall semester, ASG has a retreat, and Vogts said the main focus for the next one will be the different roles for Senators.

Cheray said the retreat has always been about what specific committees Senators are involved with, so members only focus on one area of ASG rather than every aspect.

“We want to focus on broadening their knowledge of ASG as well as how to better communicate that information with their organizations,”

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Freshman communications and secondary theatre major Rachel Marshall and freshman elementary education major Paige Moeder are starting the B.U.I.L.D. Beauty club and hope it will be in full swing soon. They kicked it off with a Beauty Peace Challenge yesterday where girls around campus were asked to go a day without makeup.

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just to build their character overall and I think it will help with building self-confidence if they learn that others girls are doing it too,” Moeder said.

“It’s not all about the outer

Cheray said.

Vogts said another goal is to improve communication between faculty and administrators and students on campus.

“We talked to some faculty members and administration members and one thing that really stuck out was that they want student input, student relations with faculty members,” Vogts said. “That is a huge need here on campus. Sometimes students’ voices get lost.”

Vogts and Cheray said some of their biggest supporters were family members, classmates and their sorority sisters. Vogts is a member of Chi Omega and Cheray is in Alpha Sigma Alpha.

“Be looking for ASG (next year) – we’re open for any students to come to us for opinions, ideas, concerns, positive things too,” Vogts said.

beauty.”

For information on how to get involved, email Marshall at rmarsha1@emporia.edu or Moeder at pmoeder@emporia. edu.

Kansas board rejects objection to Obama on ballot by birthers TOPEKA (AP) — A three-member panel on Monday rejected a Wichita engineer’s request that President Barack Obama prove he’s eligible to be on the 2012 Kansas ballot by showing a birth certificate.

Dave Shultz had asked the State Objections Board to compel Obama to produce a valid birth certificate to prove that he meets the citizenship requirements to run for president.

“I’m not accusing the man of anything,” Shultz said. “Until now, the system seemed to suffice.”

The board — Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Attorney General Derek Schmidt and Caleb Stegall representing the lieutenant governor — denied his request, saying that because Obama hasn’t filed paperwork to be on the 2012 ballot the board lacks jurisdiction to question his eligibility.

No one from the Obama campaign attended Monday’s hearing.

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April 8 is the deadline for entries for oral presentations and poster exhibits for Research & Creativity Day, scheduled for April 21. This year the annual Research & Creativity Forum is being combined with the undergraduate Research & Creativity Day, to include undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. Undergraduate and graduate students may submit abstracts for an oral presentation or a poster, or both. Faculty are invited to submit entries for a poster or other exhibit for the poster session.

Oral presentations are approximately 15 minutes in length and will be scheduled for the morning of April 21. The poster session will be held in the afternoon at the Sauder Alumni Center, beginning at 1:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided for all participants.

Awards will be given for student posters, faculty posters, and collaborative posters. An award ceremony will follow the poster session. All student participants will receive a t-shirt.

This event is being sponsored by the University Honors Program, the Research and Grants Center, and the Undergraduate Research and Creativity Committee. All abstracts, including those for posters, should be submitted at the following web site: http://emporia. edu/honors/rcd.htm. We are excited by the opportunity to combine these two events into one Research and Creativity Day. This is an opportunity for the campus to celebrate the excellent research, creative and scholarly activities being conducted by our students and faculty. Please encourage your students and colleagues to participate, and don’t forget to mark your calendars for April 21.

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Softball splits 2 game series with Bronchos B randon S chneeberger sports@esubulletin.com

Emporia State sophomore Katie Huffman hits a double against Central Oklahoma Tuesday afternoon at Turnbull Field.

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After a weekend sweep of both Lincoln and Truman, the Emporia State softball team returned home to face the Central Oklahoma Bronchos in a doubleheader. The Hornets won the first game 7-1 but lost the second 5-4 in extra innings.

“They’re a really good team,” said Catcher Amanda Self. “I’m not happy about the loss, but I mean it’s a good team to lose to. We get them next week, and we’re going to work on it and come back and get them.”

In the first game, the Bronchos struck first scoring a run in the first inning, but three homeruns to left field brought in seven unanswered Hornet runs.

Right Fielder Alyssa Miller hit a

three run shot followed by Self ’s and Second Baseman Angela Mahan’s two run homeruns in the third and fourth innings.

“I felt really solid in it,” Self said of her homerun. “I had Abby Hughes at second base, kind of tell me inside and out, and that helped a lot. I was just looking to get a base hit, move Abby, maybe even score her. The homerun was just the cherry on the cake.”

Once again, it was the Bronchos who got on the scoreboard first in the second game. Right Fielder Kacie Edwards hit a three run homerun in the first inning to give the Bronchos an early 3-0 lead.

In the second, First Baseman Katie Huffman hit an RBI double putting the Hornets on the board. However, the Bronchos responded with a run in the fifth to keep a three run lead on ESU.

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Shaun Vandiver expresses his excitement about being named the new head coach of the Emporia State men’s basketball team Monday afternoon at the Sauder Alumni Center. Vandiver said that he has ties to Kansas and is glad to be back once again. Kellen Jenkins/The Bulletin

Euler said. “He’s been a part of it, so you can tell he knows what he’s talking about.”

Despite taking over a team that loses a number of players, Vandiver is ready to start work as a recruiter.

“It is a mixed blessing,” Vandiver said of inheriting a team that loses eight seniors. “But, at the same time, it’s a challenge we’re ready to take.”

ESU Steals Home to Seal Sweep of Missouri Western Holding their number one MIAA conference ranking, the #4 Emporia State University baseball team swept unranked Missouri Western State University on Tuesday, winning the double header, 5-2 and 11-7.

“They’re doing great. It’s an unbelievable club. I don’t know if we have the most talent in the country, but we’re finding ways to win,” said Head Coach Bob Fornelli. “They always believe they’re going to win games and then they do that.”

Winning game one smoothly, the first Hornet run was from a triple by senior Parker Amos. After that, the Hornets scored three runs in the third inning and one more in the sixth.

The Griffons attempted a comeback scoring one run in the seventh and loading the bases, but left each runner stranded at the end allowing the Hornets were able to come away with the win.

“At times, we may get laid back a little too much,” said Senior Outfielder Dillon Hazlett. “But we always rein it back in and get the job done.”

The second game was a little rockier, with the Griffons threatening from the

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Three weeks after former Head Coach David Moe’s resignation, Emporia State named former Boise State assistant coach Shaun Vandiver as the Hornet head men’s basketball coach.

“I’m very excited to be coming back to Kansas as the head coach at Emporia State,” said Vandiver. “This is a state with some great memories for me – I met my wife here, our first child was born in Kansas, and I was part of a national championship team at Hutch.”

For the ESU basketball program, Vandiver brings a resume that includes six years of professional basketball overseas in Italy and Spain as well as a 1991 first round draft pick by the Golden State Warriors.

Originally from Bolingbrook, Ill., Vandiver attended Hutchinson Community College leading them to the 1988 NJCAA National Championship before transferring to the University of Colorado where he was the 1989 Big Eight Newcomer of the year as well as a two-time First Team All-Big Eight selection.

After his days at Colorado, Vandiver was selected 25th overall by the Golden State Warriors before playing six years of professional ball in Europe.

He has been in the coaching profession for the past ten years working as an assistant coach for Division I programs such as the University of Wyoming and most recently Boise State University.

ESU Director of Athletics Kent Weiser noted that after a plethora of applicants for the job, the Hornets found what they were looking for in Vandiver.

“I think the thing that made him stand apart was the personal experience he had playing basketball at such a high level, and the fact that he made his living with that,” said Director of Athletics Kent Weiser. “I’m just very anxious to see him bring those lessons to the college game today.”

From the start, it was clear that recruiting the right type of student-athletes would be a focus of Vandiver’s future at ESU. “In my mind there’s nothing like going out and going into young men’s homes and recruiting and connecting with them, and convincing them to come all the way out to Emporia, Kansas and see them have success, see them graduate and win,” Vandiver said.

Along with recruiting comes hard work for the current Hornets. Vandiver said that they should be prepared to work hard for the upcoming season.

“You guys are with me,” Vandiver said to the current Hornets. “We’re going to work. We’re going to get after it, and win some games and try to bring a title.”

One of those current Hornets, sophomore Taylor Euler, commented on his excitement for the upcoming seasons with the former first round draft pick.

“Anytime you can play for a guy with that experience, that has been around basketball like he has – he’s seen a different kind of basketball than I’ve ever seen,”

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Central Oklahoma decided to help the Hornets out in the fifth after two wild pitches ended in a pair of runs for ESU. Mahan and Center Fielder Jessica Brewer both took advantage of the opportunity and scored the runs.

With two outs to go in the sixth, Left Fielder Andrea Piezuch drove in Designated Hitter Abby Smith to tie the game up at four runs a piece. The game would go into extra innings in which the Bronchos would pull away for good and win the game 5-4.

“Obviously, you always like to win every single game,” Bredbenner said “You know, I thought we made a great effort of coming back in that game.”

ESU is now 31-8 overall and will prepare for the MIAA Crossover this weekend in Kirksville, MO before returning home to take on Missouri Southern at 4 p.m. on April 22.

first inning, making one run. The Hornets had a rough start with starting pitcher Derek Brooks throwing 38 pitches and the Hornets making two errors. The Hornets offense came out, however, and took the lead with two runs in the first.

“Whenever (Brooks) is not down in the zone, he struggles a little bit,” said Senior Catcher David Allbritton. “But when he is down in the zone, no one can hit him.”

Brooks improved his pitching for the next three innings only allowing two hits and shutting down the Griffon offense.

ESU then went on a hitting drought for three innings, allowing the Griffons to tie the game.

“We’ve got to come out and do a better job of closing the game,” Allbritton said.

“Instead of giving up a few runs… but we got lucky and had built up more runs on them.”

Hazlett opened up the Hornet scoring by hitting a double and stealing third before stealing home on a wild pitch. The Hornets then had a five run eighth inning that giving them a little cushion going into the ninth that the Griffons could not overcome.

“We found a way to battle through it,” Fornelli said. “It’s a big opportunity for us to win two games, and we were able to do it.”

Emporia State senior J.D. Herman throws for an out at first base in the first game of a doubleheader against Missouri Western Tuesday afternoon at Glennen Field. Kellen Jenkins/The Bulletin

In an event that saw nearly 1,000 collegiate athletes compete, Emporia State set two school records, had 12 provisional qualifiers and had two automatic qualifiers in the ESU Relays at Witten Track.

“I’m just very happy with the meet,” said Head Coach David Harris. “In fact I’m elated that we were able to run this many competitors through a meet in one day at Emporia State. I believe we did a good job. I was very happy with our team. They came to work and help, and, of course, they came to compete.”

Josh Schuler tore things up for the men, winning the 100m dash as well as tying an ESU record of 10.29 seconds in the event. Schuler also won the 200m dash and helped the 4x100 relay team win with a time of 40.79 which is second best in ESU history.

“I was a little disappointed with our time,” Schuler said. “But I mean it was a good day to run, and our hand offs were good, so I felt great about it. I thought we ran faster.”

Derwin Hall, Ryan Dickson and Shjuan Richardson were also responsible for the first place finish.

“I felt like we had a good race,” Hall said. “Everybody’s hand offs looked really crisp and solid. I think the wind kind of bothered us a little bit. But we still ran the same time we ran last week, so that’s good.”

Other top performers for the men included Josh Honeycutt in the triple jump and long jump in which he finished second and sixth respectively.

Briar Ploude (first place) and Marcus Calleja (fifth place) earned provisionals in the high jump as Kevin Roulhac in the hammer throw (third) and discus (fourth) also earned a provisional. Bret Gross earned a championship for ESU finishing first in the pole vault.

For the ESU women, Jennifer Robinson and Deja Jackson both earned provisionals. Robinson earned hers placing second in the high jump with a jump at 5-07.00. Jackson threw for 143-08 and placed fourth in the discus to earn hers.

“Certainly on the women’s side, we had two seconds (Robinson and Katie Mona) that did really well,” Harris said.

“Two seconds in a meet like this is a good performance.”

Katie Mona was the other second place finish with her time of 4:40.47 in the 1500m. Mona placed second in the event behind Kansas State’s Sara Stoakes. After leading down the stretch, she lost to Stoakes by just .51 seconds.

“I had been drafting off of her for awhile, so once I actually got the wind, it felt a lot harder, and I just didn’t have enough at the end, the last 100,” Mona said.

The Hornets look to continue their success this year on Thursday and Friday at Witten Track as they compete in the ESU combined Multis.