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ASG passes line item requests, increases student fees B y S arah S haw S taff W riter

“Is now an appropriate time?” Many senators asked this of group representatives whose requests for increases in funding for their organizations were heard at the Associated Student Government meeting last Thursday.

After much debate, all three of the requested line item increases were passed, which will add a total of $5.43 for full time students and $0.56 for part time students to student fees starting

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Since the 25 percent drop that Emporia State’s Foundation suffered in its endowment last spring, the fund has seen an increase of 8.7 percent as of Feb. 28.

“We’re seeing improvement just like the heaSley economy,” said Judith Heasley, director of the ESU Foundation. “We’re slowly recovering along with everybody else.”

The endowment hit an ultimate low of less than $44 million less than a year ago but finished out Fiscal Year 2009 at $49 million. The endowment currently rests at $53.7 million which is closer to its total from the beginning of FY2008, July 1, 2008, of $57.5 million.

“It has a direct correlation with the economy,” said Trisha Ott, chief financial officer for the ESU Foundation. “As you see the Dow going up, our investments will also go up. We have recovered some and I do anticipate that it will gradually keep going up.”

As of Dec. 31, 2009, 19 percent of the funds that are used to give scholarships are underwater, which is up from 36 percent on Dec. 31, 2008.

“The good news is, it’s only 19 under,” Heasley said, “but it’s better than 36 under. That shows that we are slowly rising. This is close to being as bad as it was in 1929. To recover in 12 months is (not going to happen).”

Funds that are underwater cannot pay out scholarships unless the original donor can give an additional gift to pay the scholarship amount.

“When a fund is underwater, our options are to not make an award or to ask our donors, who are only in a position to make an outright gift, if they would consider making a donation equal to what their scholarship normally is,” Heasley said in a previous interview. “If a scholarship normally is a $500 scholarship and the fund is underwater so it’s not going to pay out, (we would ask that donor) would they be willing to contribute $500 to us so that it could be allocated directly to financial aid.”

The exact amount that will be available for student scholarships is still to be determined.

“That number is changing as we are (giving) donors calls and asking if they are able to give an outright gift for those that are underwater,” Ott said. “We’re still trying to gather unrestricted scholarship funds. We’ll have a better idea on May 1.”

Donor contributions are an important part of the scholarship monies that students will receive.

“Last year we came very close to what our average allocation was to the institution” Heasley said, “because of the generosity of the donors.

We are shooting for the same type of result.”

Ott said that money is only being solicited

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Jonathan Rivers, chair of the fiscal affairs committee and junior secondary social sciences education major, said that despite economic hard times, senate voted in favor of the organizations, all were publications, because of what they heard from their constituents.

“Even though our economy is tough right now, some services are indispensable,” Rivers said. “One of those, I think Emporia State students felt was the press, and they stood behind that.”

Ali Jordan, junior secondary English education major and President of Quivira, ESU’s literary magazine, requested an increase in hopes to gain more funding for conferences, speakers and to expand the magazine.

“The journal right now, the printing costs are increasing for us,” Jordan said. “We’ve only been able to print 150 journals a year. We’d like to have more pages in them, just because we’d like to be able to print more of the submissions we get.”

Printing costs were also a concern with the

other publications. The Bulletin’s printing costs doubled this year, which, according to Kelsey Ryan, Editor-In-Chief and junior political science major, is why it is distributed once weekly, versus twice a week as in the past.

She said that other measures have also been taken to remain fiscally responsible.

“We will not be doing a Bullshit edition this year, that is one way we are trying to be fiscally responsible as far as printing costs go,” Ryan said. “And Clint (Gorton) has been doing an

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ASG elections preceded by candidate debates Voting set for Monday, ends Wednesday at 4:30 p.m.

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Facing a crowd of about 30 students, Associated Student Government presidential and vice presidential candidates took to the podium for a debate on the Main Street of Memorial Union Monday night.

Five questions predetermined by a moderator and others offered by student spectators were asked to presidential candidates Jonathan Rivers, junior secondary social sciences education major, and Joey Dempewolf, junior marketing major, who were coupled with their vice presidential candidates, Ashley McCullough, senior communications major, and Luke Drury, freshman political science major, respectively.

Though she already knows who she’s voting for, Nicole Smith, senior early childhood education major, attended the debate with an open mind. “(The debate) gave me a more clear understanding of the issues that both parties want to address,” Smith said.

“It just defined everything and laid out what they are passionate about and what they want to get done.”

For Emily Schmar, freshman pre-engineering major, the debate allowed presentation of both candidates.

“Actually, I’d only heard of one of the parties and I knew that there were two, but I had never heard or seen the other one around,” Schmar said. “But now that I have heard from both parties, I really know who I would like to vote for.”

After listening to both par-

Jonathan Rivers (left) and Joseph Dempewolf (right) debate Monday evening on the Memorial Union Mainstreet. Voting will begin April 5 and continue through April 7. Photo IlluStratIon By erIca caSSella/the BulletIn. ties, Smith realized that each has a plan to address the issue that is her biggest concern.

“I’d heard a lot of the points before,” Smith said. “But I think the most important thing is that they are going to address the funding issues. I really feel like that is the most important issue.”

Schmar was interested to hear the candidates view on the communication issue between ASG and Recognized Student Organizations, which

both candidates address as a main goal in their campaigns.

“I really enjoyed the idea of having meetings with the RSOs and having senators going to visit with different RSOs because I didn’t really understand how ASG works, I thought it was kind of like, they put on events, like UAC I guess,” Schmar said. “But now I really understand a lot more and hope that senators will go out and if they show their face more then RSO will under-

stand what’s going on more.”

Rivers and McCullough announced that one way they will improve communication is by adding three staff positions to ASG. “What we’re looking to do is create several new positions to help bridge the communication gap that we feel exists here at Emporia State,” Rivers said. “Generally, we are wanting to increase communication between not only ASG and the

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“I’ve Been FollowIng electIonS a lIttle BIt, maInly when I’m here In the unIon, the candIdateS aPProached me. I’m goIng to vote, I voted laSt year, too. I vote juSt BecauSe I thInk It’S kInd oF eSSentIal to what goeS on around

camPuS. It gIveS the StudentS kInd oF a Say In what’S goIng on.”

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Last June, the Emporia State Alumni Association agreed to a partnership with Liberty Mutual, an insurance company based in Springfield, Mass., to exchange alumni mailing addresses for a portion of the profit Liberty Mutual makes from alumni using their insurance programs.

According to Judith Heasley, executive director of university advancement and the ESU foundation, the ESU Alumni Association provides the mailing addresses of alumni who have agreed to be contacted about

“I don’t know who’S runnIng thIS year, I’m Student teachIng, So I haven’t Been on camPuS, But yeS, I wIll vote aFter I get InFormatIon aBout the candIdateS.” -laura Falk, senior elementary education major

these partnerships and special offers. “(Liberty Mutual) sends a letter out to alumni on the Alumni Association’s behalf, who have agreed to be contacted… If (alumni) decide to use Liberty Mutual, we get back a source of revenue for the Alumni Association,” Heasley said.

Heasley said the exact amount that the Alumni Association will receive in revenue from Liberty Mutual has not yet been determined because promotion to alumni started in January.

Heasley addressed the accusation that

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Drum workshop today Master Drummer Bird Fleming will host a Brazilian drum workshop today from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Beach Hall room 205. The event is sponsored by Emporia State’s Capoeira Club, an Afro-Brazilian folk and martial art club, and is free and open to the public.

Groundbreaking ceremony held tomorrow

The groundbreaking ceremony to mark the beginning of the Memorial Union renovations will be held 1:30 p.m. tomorrow near in front of the east entrance of the MU. Members of the Kansas Board of Regents and state government will be present to commemorate the occasion. A reception will be held on MU’s Main Street following the groundbreaking.

The project is expected to be completed in fall 2012 with an estimated budget of $18.5 million. The union was opened in 1925 in honor of WWI veterans.

Winners of student art contest to be displayed

The winning pieces of student art previewed by an external judge will be displayed in an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. on April 6. The reception will take place in the Bruder Theatre lobby in King Hall.

Winning pieces will be on display until April 30.

Ahn Trio performs at Granada

Hailing for Seoul, South Korea, the Ahn Trio will perform at 7:30 p.m. on April 7 at the Granada Theatre, 807 Commercial St. The sisters are graduates from the Julliard School and have the toured the world. The trio is composed of cellist Maria, pianist Lucia and violinist Angella.

A limited number of tickets will be free to students in the Memorial Union ID office. Regular tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for youths.

Police Reports

Reports given to The Bulletin from ESU Police and Safety Department March 23

Theresa Corbino requested to speak with an officer by telephone in reference to a missing persons report.

Student requested to speak to an officer in reference to the possible location of a stolen bicycle. Officer checked serial numbers on bicycles in the HPER bike racks but none matched.

Officer provided lock out assistance for KS WOZ125 in Lot 5 Officer provided lock out assistance for KS 260BBE at 918 Grand.

Officer stopped KS 136BBE in 1200 Highland. Citation for speeding in 100 E 12th.

Officer assisted Kansas Highway Patrol with a car stop in 1100 Market.

Officer stopped KS UTL963 in 1100 Union. Citation for speeding in 100 E 12th.

March 24

Officer provided lock out assistance for KS VAF106 in Sector 2.

Parking Enforcement immobilized KS UIQ043 in Lot 3.

Officer provided lock out assistance for KS UOG947 in Sector 3.

Tanner Epperson telephoned ESU PD HQ and requested to speak with an officer in reference to a missing laptop.

Officer provided lock out assistance for KS VYN762 in Lot 3.

Officer provided lock out assistance for KS QCW962 in 1100 East-Eastwood Lake Apt. Officer assisted Emporia Police Dept. with a call at 737 Rural.

Officer stopped KS 314AOS in 400 W 12th. Verbal warning for defective headlight.

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Kansas Master Teacher Awards held yesterday B y S i S i h uAng s taff w riter

The 2010 Kansas Master Teachers were honored were honored yesterday in a day full of activites for their contributions to education.

They winners are Eleanor Browning, special education reading coach at Mary Herbert Educational Center, Kathy Doussa, first grade teacher at Northwest Elementary School in Dodge City, Michael Dunlap journalism teacher at Blue Valley West High School in Overland Park,Lou Ann Getz, clinical instructor at Anthony & Eisenhower Middle Schools in Manhattan, Sheila A. Lewis, instructor at Tecumseh North Elementary School in Topeka, Andrea SaylerSiefkes, science teacher at St. John High School in St. Johns, and Kassie Shook, first grade teacher at Sunflower Elementary in Lawrence.

The winners were selected from more than 90 candidates who were nominated by their schools or colleagues.

“We have a selection committee consisting of professors and faculty from different areas,” said Lori Mann, professor of Elementary teacher education.”We set up standards according to the (Kansas National Education Association)statement and webelieve we select someone who represents his or her professions, meanwhile, those candidates must have more than five years teaching experience to be nominated.”Mann said.

The Kansas Master Teacher award was established in 1953. The award is presented annually to the teachers who best exemplifies thegood qualities of inspirational people working in schools to help change lives for the better and who devote lifelong time making important and worthwhile contributions toeducation.

As part of Kansas Master Teacher Award, a seminar on teaching reading was held at Visser Hall 330, Jones Conference Center.

Kansas Master Teachers Award winners gathered together to share good practice and excellent experience.

Browning, graduated from Emporia State University, has been teaching for 46 years.

“For me, the best rewarding thing is to help the kids to be the best they can be.”

Browning said.

Doussa has been teaching for over 13 years “I hope my classroom can become a second family for the students to learn something new,”Doussa said. She earned aread-

Guests gather for the Master Teachers Award Dinner Wednesday evening in Webb Lecture Hall.

Seven recipients were given the 2010 Kansas Master Teachers Award. ericA cASSellA/The BulleTin. ing specialist endorsement from ESU in 2002.

Over Dunlap’s 20 years, he appreciates his everyday connections with his students.

“It offers me a chance to connect with them and get to know the individual, and that is really my favorite part of teaching,” he said.

Lou Ann Getz has been teaching for almost 30 years. She believes in recognition, relevance and relationship building with her students.

“When you make connection with individual kids and bring your love to the kids,”Getz said. “You know you are making a difference.”

Sheila Lewis has been teaching at Tecumseh North Elementary School since she graduated.

“I think a lot of kids need us to listen to them with patience and I am always keeping that in mind during my classes,”Lewis said.

Andrea Sayler-Siefkes said there was always one more thing to do as a teacher.

“When you saw a student was growing and getting better understanding and to be more comprehensive, it is time to encourage them to plan to the next step and goal,” Sayler-Siefkes said.“For me, all those little moments has already rewarded me.”

Kassie Shook has been teaching for 15 years. She emphasizes the importance of building the relationship with kids and cherishing the friendship with your peers.

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Heasley said that while many of the improvements can be attributed to the stock market, donor gifts have also played a role.

“There is a decline in giving this year,” Heasley said. “People are being more cautious with their dollars and they’re not giving as much. They may still be giving but the amount of the do-

Increases...from page 1 excellent job as our advertising manager – his collection rate is up to 94 percent.

That is, as far as I know, the highest it’s ever been in the history of the paper, at least as far back as anyone can remember.”

An increase was still necessary to bring employee salaries to what they had

Megan Van Ann requested to speak with an officer at the ESU PD HQ. Officer assisted KS 038BMZ in Sector 1 with a flat tire.

Officer provided lock out assistance for KS 044AFJ in Lot 3.

Officer provided lock out assistance for KS 43463 at 1829 Merchant.

Officer checked TX FSS770 in 1600 Center. Alarm was going off but reset. No other problem was found.

Officer checked welfare of a bicyclist on Kellogg Circle. He hit a curb and lost control of his bike. No problem was found.

Officer assisted Emporia Police Dept. with a burglary call at 12th and Lincoln.

March 26

Shelia Marcowitz reported KS 384BIK rolled out of stall in Sector 2. Owner was contacted to move vehicle.

Officer issued a citation to a student for urinating in public in the Twin Towers Complex loading zone.

Residential Life staff requested to speak with an officer at Twin Towers Complex, reference to an aggravated sexual battery.

March 29

Officer provided lock out assistance for KS WKD670 at 136 W 12th.

Officer assisted the Emporia Police Dept with a search for a missing child in 400 Sylvan.

Officer provided lock out assistance for KS 928ANR at 10th and Sylvan.

Officer stopped TN 041610 at 12th Union. Verbal warning for a stop sign violation at 12th and Exchange.

Officer assisted Emporia Police Dept. with a domestic dispute in 200 Exchange.

nations are lower. They still love us. They still want to give to us but they don’t have the disposable income to be able to make that gift on the level that they used to.”

The good news of a basketball championship, Heasley said, can bring additional donors.

“It creates an interest in ESU,” she said. “Our alumni office was getting emails from alums because (the alumnus) are so excited. Any type of interest, any good news out of ESU helps us fundraise.”

been before a 30 percent cut three years ago, which will help with staff retention and equalization with other on campus jobs, Ryan said.

Lindsey Gentry, editor of The Sunflower and senior business major, noted similar reasons for requesting an increase.

“These increases will go towards printing as well as salaries,” Gentry said.

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“We want to show teachers how important they are and to be recognized with tremendous honor.” Mann Said.

DarlaMallein, associate professor of social sciences, has been organizing the Kansas Master Teacher Seminar for the past ten years.

“You can hearfrom seven top teachers in Kansas, to share their experiences and give their advice, which is helpful to shape students into the best teachers,”Mallein said. “I think it is a chance for our young students to be inspired because teaching contains a lot of hard work. I hope after today, they could find their motivation and a positive power to make a difference,” It is not just about your success in the classroom, but also you need to get involved in the professional organization, get involved in the community, and impact the students.”

The seminar attracted more than 100 people and family members of the award winners to attend.

“I think it is interesting because these teachers have been teaching for a long time, their experience and information gathering here will be so helpful for the further teachers,” said Bristi Snow, senior elementary education major.“I think it is very rewarding for teachers to be master teachers. Cause they have a lot of good experience to give us, and we can walk away with these ideas of how things go and to be progressive teachers.”

“Last year, our funding was cut in half and so we’re trying to bring it back up to where it was.”

Next Thursday, ASG will host representatives of over 60 Recognized Student Organizations at its meeting where SB09055, a bill concerning RSO allocations for fiscal year 2011 will be debated.

When passed, the allocations will also contribute to student fees.

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STUDENT PROFILE: Mohamed Abdalla

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“In the Middle East, there are many cultures, I consider myself Muslim, Egyptian, Arabic, Middle Eastern and African,” said Mohamed Abdalla, graduate student in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and the only Egyptian student at Emporia State.

Abdalla is from Giza, Egypt, and there his full name is Mohamed Aly Abdellatif Abdalla Ghoneim. Arabic is Abdalla’s first language.

“Carrying these rich cultures and history with my two cases and my dream, it was hard for me in the beginning to get inside the melting pot, so I remained observing and looking up at the new culture and keeping my roots,” Abdalla said.

When talking about the culture difference, Abdalla believes people all over the world share the same desire for peace, the same quest for justice.

“I believe the core of life is the same everywhere, but the styles are different,” Abdalla said. “I think the life style in U.S. is more depth, but it’s more breadth in my culture.”

Other students could see Abdalla’s culture resonating from him.

“I can see how proud he is for his home culture,” said Linxiang Guo, graduate student of TESOL and psychology. “Abdalla is enthusiastic in spreading his culture, whether it is through the lecture series about Arabic culture as a speaker or in a casual chat in which he explained the complicated things about religions to me.”

This is Abdalla’s second year studying TESOL. “Last year, I was a Fulbright Scholar at ESU, where I taught Arabic Language and other culture courses in English under the Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant program,” Abdalla said.

The Fulbright scholarship goal is to build mutual understanding between people all over the world.

Abdalla said the best thing about teaching at ESU is that it also involves learning from the diversity of students here.

“My goal of teaching is to give students the box which would help them to think out of and this box frames the essential informa-

tion they need,” Abdalla said.

With broad interests in reading, especially about cultures, history and politics, Abdalla also likes to write poetry, coach wresting and volunteering.

Besides Abdalla’s educational and teaching commitments at ESU, he remains involved in various on-campus activities. He mobilized the Arabic Club, and served as adviser of grappling club and volunteering as a wrestling coach for the same club.

“Abdalla is a helpful person who dedicates himself to what he believes in,” said Abdelmonem Shebani, Arabic language instructor.

According to Shebani, Abdalla is doing a great effort to help out at the Arabic Language and Studies Club.

“He is a knowledgeable person with a fighting spirit,” Shebani said.

The motto of Abdalla is “regard every defeat as an opportunity.”

“I believe if each person has discipline, synthesizing, creating, respectful and ethical way of thinking and behaving covered with his or her religious beliefs, then this would

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result in the kind of people able to change, heal and repair the world through education, sacrifice and patience,” Abdalla said.

Abdalla will graduate in May and plans to start studying for his PhD. “I think the person who will leave in May 2010 is different than the one who came in September 2008,” Abdalla said.

If you have a suggestion for a profile, please call 620-341-5201 or email us at news@esubulletin.com Alumni...from page 1 the Alumni Association is selling Alumni names through these partnerships.

“We do not sell our alumni lists, we have conflict of interest and donor confidentiality policies here in the Alumni Foundation and Alumni Association,” she said. “We never sell our lists, ever. If (an alumni) doesn’t want to receive something, they can let us know, and they will be put on a ‘do not contact’ list in our database.”

Though Heasley is unsure at this point how much money the affinity partnership with Liberty Mutual will produce, she stated she was excited

about the contract, and hopes more affinity partnerships will become available in the future.

This “affinity partnership,” according to Heasley, is aimed at providing benefits for ESU Alumni, as well as generating more funds for the ESU Alumni Association.

Some students thought targeted benefits after graduation were a good idea.

“We spend so much money here that it is good to know they offer something for us after college,” said Lacey Bishop, freshman psychology major.

Heasley explained the nature of the relationship between ESU and part-

Elections...from page 1 students, but also the Emporia community and ESU as a whole.”

Dempewolf and Drury said that one important thing that should be openly communicated is information about Memorial Union renovations.

“Last year we said ‘Put the ‘U’ in the Union.’ Well this year, we’re saying we’d like to ‘Keep the ‘U’ in the Union’ by keeping you guys up to date and ensuring that you know what’s going on with the Memorial Union renovations,” Dempewolf said.

Students are encouraged to vote online on April 5-7 through a link that will be sent to their BuzzIn email account.

Meet the Candidates Rivers and McCullough

With a goal of unity, Presidential Candidate Jonathan Rivers, junior secondary social sciences education major, and Vice Presidential Candidate Ashley McCullough, senior communications major, built their campaign on the slogan “Creating the Link to make ESU in Sync.”

“There are so many things that I love about Emporia State and basically I feel like I want to share that with the students and I feel that I can do that in the capacity of president,” Rivers said.

Rivers has been a member of Associated Student Gov-

ners like Liberty Mutual.

“Affinity partners are partners that we (partner with to) offer as many services that we can give to our alumni,” Heasley said.

The Alumni Association sends emails to alumni to promote these affinity partnerships.

According to a Liberty Mutual Brochure, 650 institutions nationwide have some type of partnership with Liberty Mutual. As stated on Alumni Association Web sites for Regent institutions, Kansas University, Kansas State University, ESU, Fort Hays State University and Pittsburgh State University have affinity partnerships with

Liberty Mutual.

“These affinity partnerships are very normal in higher education,” Heasley said.

Because the ESU Alumni Association does not charge annual dues for members, Heasley said that other sources of income become essential to the association because of increasing statewide budget cuts.

“We all know what’s happening with state funds—they’re being cut. So in order to operate the association, we do need to have some partners and do need to be bringing in money,” Heasley said. “The Liberty Mutual contract is great… and it’s a nice discount (for

ernment for three years and serves on the Memorial Union Renovations Board, the Budget and Tuition Committee and is currently the chair of the Fiscal Affairs Committee. In addition, he has been a member of the Gospel Choir and last year studied abroad in West Africa.

His study abroad experience prompted his goal to create the position of International Affairs Director in hopes of better communication between international students, ASG and the campus in general, if he is elected.

“From my own experience I know what it’s like to be in a different country and not know exactly what’s going on, what opportunities there are,” Rivers said. “There are maybe 500 international students on campus already, and if we’re not paying attention to their concerns, we’re doing a huge disservice, not only to them, but to this university as a whole.”

Rivers and McCullough also plan to add two other positions, a Multicultural Affairs Director and a Local Affairs Director.

In addition, they would like to plan two “Big Event” days for next year versus the one this year to allow Recognized Student Organizations another service opportunity and provide an opportunity for students to further give back to the community.

Also, they plan to host a Presidential or Executive Forum monthly where RSOs can meet with them to ask questions and express concerns.

“I honestly think our goal is just communication, period,” McCullough said. “We have so many outstanding groups on campus and I feel if maybe they became a little more connected, they would be able to produce more events and be able to recruit more students and just bring everybody together because right now I feel like a lot of things are really departmentalized and bringing everybody together on the same page will really help ESU.”

alumni).”

Heasley did not give an exact amount for discounts that alumni receive.

Through Liberty Mutual, ESU alumni are offered car, life, short-term medical and renter’s insurance at discounted prices. According to the Alumni Association Web site, other affinity partnerships with ESU include GoNext, a company offering travel opportunities, the Emporia State Federal Credit Union and a partnership with the Kansas Department of Motor Vehicles, which offers Emporia State themed license plates to alumni and friends of the university.

calling a “three prong campaign” with the slogan “Helping your Wallet, Helping your Future.”

“We really feel like the best way to represent the students is to help them out financially and help them out with their future,” Dempewolf said.

The first prong of their platform is to ensure that Memorial Union renovations continue as planned.

“We really feel that it was the student body that voted for the renovations so we want to make sure that they are represented and that we’re keeping students up to date on what’s going on,” Dempewolf said.

Second, Dempewolf and Drury plan to continue the “campaign for higher education” that Jonathan Krueger, current Associated Student Government President and senior political science major, started this year.

The third platform issue stressed in their campaign is ASG visibility and accountability.

“We really want to focus on accountability here because we kind of feel like ASG is about representing the students,” Dempewolf said. “But they don’t know who to go to when they have a particular problem. They don’t know who their senator is for their RSO or for their school, so they kind of just let the problems continue and they don’t tell the right people.”

They plan to increase visibility by having senators’ pictures posted in their respective program buildings and distributing a weekly newsletter to let constituents know what ASG is currently working on.

Dempewolf said his past two years on ASG and service on the University Affairs, Student Rights and Special Projects and Senate Operations committees will help him better serve as president. He is also involved in Phi Beta Lambda, a business organization, and is a member of The College Republicans, which Drury, chair of the organization, reintroduced to campus this semester.

“There are a lot of things that make ESU great,” Drury Dempewolf and Drury Presidential Candidate Joseph Dempewolf, junior mar- said. “But I think that there are a lot of things that ESU keting major, and Vice Presidential Candidate Luke Drury, can improve on and I think that Joey and I will be able to freshman political science major, summarize what they are help ESU reach that next step and further its potential.”

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OUR VIEW

It’s No Joke: No Satire Issue Planned for April Fool’s Today, hundreds of college (and commercial) newspapers will share in the fun of April Fool’s Day editions, filled with satirical pieces poking fun at local news, politics and organizations. It’s an opportunity for many journalists to take a break from hard news and learn to be a bit creative and maybe even funny.

However, this year, there are several reasons our staff has decided not to produce the annual Bullshit edition. These reasons include fiscal responsibility and the mentality that producing a satire issue affects the credibility of the newspaper as a whole. We want our readers to trust our front page and the information we provide, regardless of the day of the year.

At the beginning of the school year, The Bulletin switched from a twice a week publication to printing once a week. The reasons for this switch involved our doubling printing costs as we moved to a new printer at The Lawrence Journal-World. Our former printer, The Emporia Gazette, had decommissioned its presses.

Since our primary goal as a paper is to provide accurate news to the campus and the community, we decided we could not, in good conscience, replace our usual weekly issue with The Bullshit edition.

For as long as anyone we’ve talked to can remember, The Bullshit has come out on April Fool’s Day. It is a collection of satirical news articles, photos and opinion pieces entirely made up by our staff. The issue pokes fun at recent cam-

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pus and local events and provides a refreshing sense of humor you don’t normally see within our paper.

We are certainly disappointed that we will not have the chance to publish The Bullshit this year. It is an Emporia State tradition and easily one of our favorite events of the year. But in this economic climate, and with print editions already limited, it just didn’t seem right.

We are currently tossing around ideas to include satire pieces in the regular edition of the paper in the entertainment section, which we have done in the past.

We are not the creators of this style of reporting either. Anyone who says this kind of jour-

nalism has no place in society should look into publications like The Onion or The Harvard Lampoon. Both of these are comical reviews that poke fun at everything from religion to politics to journalism itself.

In the past, The Bullshit has been a reminder not only to the campus community but The Bulletin staff as well to not take ourselves too seriously. To poke a little fun at ourselves. To give ourselves a break.

As always, we welcome your input on our decision, as it can help us make decisions in the future that reflect the will of the student body.

And who knows, perhaps someday The Bullshit will make another appearance.

Your support was awesome at the NCAA Division II National Women’s Basketball Tournament held in St. Joseph, Mo. last week over 288 other Div. II teams. It was a beautiful sight to witness the ESU band, cheerleaders and over 200 students pulling together as one, to cheer the Lady Hornets on to a National Title on National T.V. What energy, what enthusiasm!! Every group was well-behaved and gave their heart and soul to the Lady Hornet’s team.

You will cherish those memories the rest of your life.

Many, many thanks from a proud local alumnus and the other 56,000 other ESU alumni throughout the U.S.A. You helped to make history.

Robert D. Chatham B.S. ‘57 M.A. ‘61

COMMENTARY

Cities Should Not Cater to Big Business When I first read the headlines I was shocked. I had to double check that I wasn’t reading something written for The Onion.

But no, the news was not part of some satirical joke, it was real: for the entire month of March, Topeka had changed its name to Google, KS. This was done as a marketing ploy to attract the attention of one of the biggest companies in the world. Apparently, Google is trying to find a city to test out its new fiberoptic network that could revolutionize Internet use as we know it.

Topeka (we’ll call it by its proper name to avoid confusion) is the perfect size for this experiment, so they thought changing their name would give them a leg-up in the competition to be selected.

The technology is nothing new: the citywide optics have been in full swing throughout Asia for years. What is newsworthy, however, is the idea of changing a whole city’s name to appease a corporation.

The change was only for the month of March and our capitol has gone back to its real name. Topeka hopes this act will prove they are the perfect town for Google to test their latest billion dollar idea.

What this act proves to me is that cities are willing to do just about anything, no matter how debasing or embarrassing, to gain the attention (and thus money) of any

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I have no problem with their intentions. I think the technology sounds amazing, and I would be proud to have my state capitol be one of the first cities in the country to adopt the program.

My problem lies in how they are going about being selected. I am sure there are more professional, respectable ways to go about competing for the prize. I feel this act reeks of desperation.

Like the kid in middle school who would eat paste just to get noticed, I feel like Topeka will do anything to get its name in the paper.

Don’t believe me? Few of us are old enough to remember, but during the anime craze of the late ‘90s, Topeka changed its name again, this time for only one day, to cash in on the popularity of Pokemon. What did it change its name to, you might ask? ToPikachu. I rest my case.

Midwestern cities have to be on the defense anyway. America tends to think less of the Mid-

west; we get dismissed as being backwards, slow, old fashioned, unhip, etc. Just read any of the national news articles that were written about the name change. I challenge you to find one that doesn’t make at least one “Wizard of Oz” joke.

This issue goes beyond the simple “not in my backyard” argument. (By that I mean disliking it simply because it’s in my state) I would feel the same way regardless of where it happened.

As a concerned citizen, it worries me to see a city so willing to bend over backwards to satisfy a large, multinational company. It announces to the world that cities have price tags.

We were lucky it was Google this time, a company with a reasonably solid reputation.

What if Viagra asks to rent out our city’s name next month? Or Hustler? Or wealthy individuals? Would you want your state capitol to be renamed Miley Cyrus, Kansas? (Though she’d probably buy land in Montana, for obvious reasons).

I don’t blame the city for what it’s doing.

I know times are tough and cities have to do what they can to stay afloat. But we have to have some morals don’t we?

What I draw from this whole experience is that cities are becoming so desperate they are willing to forsake their own namesake to please the highest bidder.

COMMENTARY

We Need Internet Rehab

We are a generation of electricity junkies.

Every time I go into the library, I see at least a few people surfing Facebook, writing messages to their friends and stalking for potential ones. I see people reading news and playing games online. Even today before writing this article, I took a test online.

The internet is all around us and can be incorporated in nearly everything we do.

Our generation will “Google” something before they will use a book to research it. Hell, even the capitol of our state was named Google for a month.

And, as with any new dominant form of media, it has changed our view of the world. Our use of the Internet has shaped our generation into something quite different than any before. The Internet has made us lazier, more prone to distraction and more self-absorbed.

It should be remembered that the Internet has affected more than our generation, but ours is the one that has latched onto and revolutionized it. Younger generations will be the same, but they may even have their own technological advancement that trumps ours.

To analyze the importance of the Internet to society, we first have to look at the past. Marshall McLuhan was an English professor at the University of Toronto who came up with the theory of media ecology.

Media ecology is the idea that all of

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The four ages are the tribal age, the literate age, the print age and the electronic age.

The according dominant mediums of the ages were acoustic music, written word for the few, print word for the masses and finally radio and television.

McLuhan died before the debut of the Internet, so we can only guess what he would have thought of it. Some who have studied his work would say the internet would create a new age and others would lump it into the electronic age.

I personally think that while the internet isn’t the dawn of a new age, it is a stepping stone between two. We are, at the very least, exiting the electronic age and entering the digital age.

So what does that mean? To me, it shows a dangerous future. McLuhan himself said that the electronic age is a part of society’s push to go back to the tribal age, saying that we have become a global village. This is because of the instant communication available to us allows us to communicate across the globe before you could even hand write it.

What it really has done is allowed us total personalization to a completely unnecessary degree. It has increased our overall inflated idea of individuality to make us narcissistic.

This is evident by looking at most of our peers’ Facebook pages and at every single old abandoned MySpace page.

The very nature of the internet tends to make us flighty and unfocused. It isn’t very easy to concentrate on writing or researching when your favorite tower defense game or any number of random YouTube clips is just a click away. And that ease also leads to procrastination, a disease that plagues us college students all of the time.

If we keep going on this road, we will only become more and more absorbed into the digital world. We already text things to people who are with us in the room, how long will it be before we text message someone instead of physically talking to them all of the time? Our drive for closeness to others only leads us to go through the easiest possible route, which is a path of depersonalization.

So perhaps the next time you’re checking your Facebook, maybe you’ll think to put your face in a book instead.

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Ben Williams, senior theatre major, has been one of two students to win national recognition at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in the last three years.

The other winner is former student Susan (Samuelson) Williams, May 2009 Emporia State graduate. Ben and Susan were married last summer.

The first place winning design was for the two one-act plays, “Lone Star/Laundry and Bourbon.”

He will compete in national festival in April with an all expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. Williams’ set design was set up as an ally stage, where the audience was positioned on both sides of the set.

“The space in which I designed in is a black box theatre, so I could set up the seats however I want,” said Ben Williams said. “Because of this, I chose to do something less common.”

The ideas were a collaboration of other designers of Theatre Department and Williams.

“Ben’s design was one that was developed over several months and was very well thought out and executed,” said Jim Bartruff, director of Theater. “What that says about Ben is that he works very hard and he has great problem solving skills.”

Before the idea was decided, Williams came up with several different design ideas for the show. Working with two directors made the choosing a design that they both liked a little more difficult.” “(Ben) did a lot of research about the set design,” said Amada Devine, senior theater major. “He is very good at set design, and always kind to help other students for learning.”

Devine said that Williams’ miniature model of the set design was very realistic and very detailed.

In addition to his first place performance, Williams was also the runner-up set design competition for “Into the Woods.”

Last year, Williams also entered the festival with his design.

“When I went to the festival last year, all the designers seemed better than mine and I had no chance of winning,” Williams said. “So winning one first place and one second place is quite an improvement.”

Williams now is preparing for the trip to Washington D.C. for the National Festival in April where he will explain his display and go to workshops.

“I have never been to D.C. so it will be an experience in itself,” Williams said.

Williams thinks it is true that “great minds think alike.”

Susan Williams was the winner of the costume design of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in ESU’s region last year. She presented her costume design of ESU’s production of “Rabbit Hole.”

“I spent nine months devoted to that one production,” Susan Williams said. “I thought about winning (the regional competition) before it happened. At the awards assem-

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With a $5 cover charge and drink specials of $2 wells and $3 bottles, America’s roots were brought to the Granada Theatre in the form of bluegrass music when the Basement Pickers Association and The Skirts performed on Friday.

“It was fantastic. I’d never seen either one play before, it was a good time,” said Scott Goering, senior computer science major. “I had a blast and everybody had lots of energy.”

The Basement Pickers opened with their nine piece ensemble including an upright bass, ukulele, mandolin, three acoustic guitars, fiddle, banjo and a variety of other instruments including harmonicas and a washboard. The band wore Hawaiian shirts that coincided with their cover of John Prine’s “Let’s Talk Dirty in Hawaiian.” The band covered traditional and contemporary “fiddletunes,” as well as other bluegrass hits.

The Skirts is a three piece, all female group out of Cottonwood Falls made up of bassist Sarah Bays, dulcimer and percussion instrumentalist Melissa Tastove and guitarist Elexa Dawson.

All three women contributed vocally, harmonizing and taking on solos. They performed original songs and covered songs like “The Way I Am” by Ingrid Michaelson, “No Rain” by Blind

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Ben Williams, changes the scene layout in his model of the shows “Lonestar” and “Laundry and Bourbon” Tuesday afternoon in King Hall. Williams received several awards for his scene designs from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival on January 17-23.

JonAThAn ellioTT /The BulleTin bly, I squeezed Ben’s hand the entire time. That was the longest two hours in my life.”

Before last year, she had no experience with Costume Design Competitions and she had been to the same festival for acting, but never for design.

“I was really happy to win because this is the first ‘real’ design I had ever done,” Susan Williams said.

With the experience of last year, Susan Williams helped her husband prepare for the festival by giving him another look at the design.

“She also had pictures of the national festival that helped me prepare for it,” Ben Williams said.

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Bays said that The Skirts had played in Emporia before at Natasha’s and Beer:30, but they want to do more since they’re only 20 minutes away.

“We kind of had a lull there for a little bit where we were just kind of hanging out, working up some new stuff and now that the weather’s getting warm and people are out doing stuff again, we’re looking to play some more shows,” Bays said.

Dawson said she was impressed by the atmosphere of the theater and that someone in the audience said it felt like they weren’t in Emporia.

“In here you forget that you’re still in Emporia,” Dawson said. “I think Emporia’s doing a great job supporting the arts council and supporting the Granada Theatre.”

Bays, Dawson and Tastove have been playing together since May 2009, when Elexa and the Hitchikers, a band that Dawson and Tastove had worked with, broke up.

“We all just started playing together over at (Dawson’s) house, jamming and hanging out and eating food and got a chance to play at a family BBQ and that went really well and then just kind of went from there,” Tastove said.

Bays, who went to K-State as a voice major, said she began playing bass not even a year ago and Tastove said she’s played her instruments for about 2 years. Dawson has played guitar off and

on since she was 12 years old.

“I got nails put on for junior prom, so I didn’t play the guitar again for like four years or something until I was 20 and I went to Winfield and picked up the guitar that I’d learned on and then started playing again,” Dawson said.

Tastove said the people that inspire their music are people they cover like Neil Young, Jonie Mitchell and The Beatles.

“Well, Elexa writes most of the songs. A lot of the other songs we do are just cover songs of, you know, just bands that we like or just songs that we really like,” Bays said.

Tastove said the best part about playing together is that they all love each other and have a lot of fun. Dawson said there are a lot of “That’s what she said” jokes. As far as playing music in general goes, Dawson described it as an out of body experience.

“I think that it is able to convey messages that words alone cannot,” Dawson said.

Bays said that as far as long term goals go, the band is just looking to make a c.d. and get their music out there “We’re not in it to get big and make lots of money,” Bays said. “We’ve all got our day jobs and we all love our lives and what we do and we want that to stay the same, so we’re not looking to go on tour or anything like that, just produce a CD and be able to share our music with people.”

It seems likely that most around ESU have heard of Chat Roulette, it has been featured on CNN, The Huffington Post and certain late-night Comedy Central shows, which is definitely where it belongs.

For those of you who haven’t heard of it, here is the low-down: chatroulette. com is a kind of social networking tool, in the same vein as Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz and any of the countless others which have sprouted up following Facebook’s large and mostly warranted success. Chat Roulette is different, though. Instead of adding friends for the purpose of keeping in touch or sharing ideas, Chat Roulette connects the user with another random user via video chat for the purpose of…

Well, actually, I’m not really sure what the purpose is.

Anyway, when a friend and I logged on to Chat Roulette to do some “research” for this story, what I found was… eye-opening, I guess.

I decided that simply logging on to the site probably wasn’t enough to get an accurate picture of the viral leviathan that was Chat Roulette, so I decided to play a game I first heard of through a stumbleupon link: Chat Roulette Bingo.

By logging on to chatroulettebingo. net, one can generate bingo cards and download them in PDF form. In Chat Roulette Bingo, a person logs onto Chat Roulette and attempts to find the things listed on the Chat Roulette Bingo card.

We decided that the loser had to pay for dinner.

I had a space on my card that read, “Dude who looks like Jesus.” The gotee’d man wearing a robe who I spoke with briefly after first loading the site worked great. Another space read “inappropriate sign,” and a piece of notebook paper ordering me to show my private areas seemed to fit in that category.

This went on for about 45 minutes before I clicked the next button, and a large man with no shirt on devouring what looked like a whole calf’s leg between two slices of bread engulfed my screen. At this point, my buddy rose out of his chair with glee, and yelled “BINGO” at the top of his lungs. Apparently, his bingo card called for an overly comfortable man showcasing his unique talents to the world.

That was it. I had lost the game, thanks to one very hungry man and the wonders of Chat Roulette. After nearly an hour of contorting my face into odd expressions of confusion and laughter, I had nothing to show for it. Except perhaps a better view of how many people are comfortable with themselves to the point where I felt very uncomfortable.

There was one conversation I had on Chat Roulette which seemed to redeem the Web site, at least in my eyes. I talked with a fully clothed, socially adept girl from New York for about five minutes before my buddy told me we had to move on so he could get his free #2 with pulled pork from Bobby D’s.

The conversation was normal: name, age, birthday, location, and then, of course the usual jokes about not being in Kansas anymore, but I think that conversation is the most probable point of Chat Roulette. Meeting new people and talking about normal things, experiencing different lifestyles. Making connections.

Sure, the large majority of people on Chat Roulette are just in it to mess with people, but the conversation I had with that New Yorker humanized the entire experience for me. For that, I thank her and the makers of Chat Roulette, who seem to have hit the nail on the head in terms of Internet randomness, and the subtleties of the human condition.

Eric Undercover is a weekly Arts and Entertainment article in which Eric experiences a different facet or interesting aspect of society and life at ESU. Email Eric Undercover suggestions to entertainment@esubulletin.com

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I’m an ESU student and...

‘I like to tan’

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For Tricia McKenzie, senior nursing major, when the sun comes out, tanning becomes a part of her routine.

McKenzie started tanning as a high school student who was preparing for the prom.

“Now I (tan) about two times per week,” she said. “I usually tan in the spring and the summer.

Usually in the fall and winter I don’t tan as much.

I’m a lot busier and the sun’s not out. There are days when I want sun and I will go but it’s not a regular thing for me to do in the winter.”

When McKenzie does tan, she doesn’t use any additional bronzers.

“I usually a tanning lotion from the salon that I go to,” she said. “It’s just a moisturizer. It has silicon and cocoa butter so it’s really good for your skin.”

McKenzie said that the average tanning beds allow for 12-15 minutes of ultraviolet rays.

“I usually go for 12 minutes but there are 15 minute beds,” McKenzie said. “I’ve been going for quite a while but I just can’t go the (entire 15 minutes). I just get too tired in there. The first time I ever tanned I started out with five minutes so I wouldn’t burn.”

That extra time serves as down time for McKenzie.

“It’s just time for me to relax and get away,” she said. “If I’m feeling kind of depressed, when I go to tan, I come out feeling refreshed. It could be the people at the salon that I go to or it could be that I get that warmth. I just feel refreshed.”

While in the tanning bed, McKenzie can usually fall asleep but is not concerned with getting burned.

“If I feel asleep and stayed in there for 45 minutes, the bed would turn off after the scheduled amount of time,” she said.

She never worries about the down sides for tanning.

y mom recently got a Kindle as a gift.

For those of you not in the know, the Kindle is the latest in the line of e-readers: devices that allow you to electronically download and read books, magazines, and newspapers.

My mom has always been a big reader, so she was weary of this device that was supposed to take the place of her books. But within the first week she was hooked and now does almost all of her reading through her Kindle.

Around the same time my dad decided to sort through his massive CD collection to see what he could sell. Out of his 400 CDs or so he eventually decided to sell more than half of them. He said there was no reason to hold onto them since all the music was stored on his Itunes.

Both of these events were extremely surprising to me. First of all, I couldn’t believe my parents owned Kindles and iPods and I didn’t. More importantly, I was surprised to see my parents so willingly give up items that were so near and dear to them, their books and CDs, in exchange for their electronic counterparts.

Besides the obvious argument that any new technology is good technology, the leading reason most people support the transition from print media and material goods to the digital realm of the internet and iTunes is because it saves resources, and thus is better for the environment.

Paper isn’t turned into books and plastics aren’t wasted on CDs and covers. Not to mention the amount of energy put into transporting, stocking, selling and repairing these things.

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I can say that I have been blessed to have What about the amount of energy some great friendships in my brief time of beneeded to create the machinery, the Kin- ing alive. Whenever I watch a movie, or read a dles or iPods? Certainly there is a decent book, I tend to compare the characters within amount of water, oil, and other resourc- it to the people around me. There have always es used in that process. And then there been those pairs in fiction that make me evaluis the energy used to power those items ate my own relationships. Am I the loose canand to keep them charged. non cop sporting a mullet, or the aging profesA Kindle might need charged every sional that is just getting too old for this shit? Am two and a half days and requires so much I the goofball, or the straight man? To give all of energy per charge. Compare that to a pa- you readers a brief road map to what I view as perback book: once the book is created it the best dynamic duos of fiction, here are Josh’s requires no further energy, and can last a Top 5 “Fictional Duos.” hundred years if properly cared for.

5. Cory Matthews and A Kindle, even kept in the best conTopanga Lawrence from dition, has a shelf life of maybe 10 years.

“Boy Meets World” – ABC And even that is a stretch with the way Broadcastings gift to the ‘90s technology is constantly being updated. known as “TGIF” gave us the And then there is the matter of waste. television series “Boy Meets Books, though full of precious resources World” in 1993. The series (or maybe because of it) have one advantage: they will degrade much faster covered the events in the tight knit family of a than any electronic waste. Electronics boy named Cory Matthews and his ordeals that degrade at a much slower rate especially he faces as your everyday American kid. Topanif they are not disposed of in the proper ga Lawrence began the series as one of Cory’s friends and confidants, and in later episodes fashion.

Our society does not have a great blossomed into Cory’s love interest. The two system in place to deal with electronic were eventually married after almost seven seawaste, and as we continue to progress sons of friendship and high school drama. These towards a more digital world we need to ‘90s lovebirds represented all that a friendship keep this in mind. We must adapt to our could be for TGIF viewers. new consumerist habits and learn how 4. Conner and Murphy MacManus from to properly manage our waste whether “The Boondock Saints” – Never has religiously it’s natural or digital.

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“I know that most skin cancers like melanoma are actually more in people who don’t get enough sun,” McKenzie said. “Tanning is okay in moderation. I don’t go excessively or every day.

As a nursing student, she does understand the medical aspects of tanning.

“Being in the health care profession, I’m more aware of (health risks) and it makes me more skeptical,” she said. “I don’t want to listen to media because they sometimes only say one thing. But I also don’t want to just listen to people who tan because they only say one thing. So I do my own research, look at studies, stuff like that.”

As the warmer times of year are approaching, more and more people are going to the tanning salon.

“I don’t typically see the person they show on TV with the wrinkly (leathery) skin,” McKenzie said. “I’m sure they are out there. They weren’t aware when tanning started back in the ‘70s that it wasn’t as safe. They continued unsafe practices.”

While the sun bathing may be a viable option for those who want to tan, McKenzie said that indoor tanning offers benefits as well. “(Employees of tanning salons) do a skin type (test) to find out how easily you burn,” she said. “If you go outside to tan, you don’t know how much actual exposure you’re getting. If you fall asleep outside the sun isn’t going to shut off. It’s going to be there constantly and you are more likely to damage your skin when you are outdoors.”

Josh’s Top 5 “Fictional Duos” fueled vigilantism been conducted with such style and dark humor then in the tattooed hands of Conner and Murphy from “The Boondock Saints.” For those of you that haven’t seen the film, the Irish Catholic brothers are fraternal twins that receive a divine calling to clean up the streets of gang infested South Boston with all the guns, knives and Irish stereotypes at their disposal. Notable deeds of the saints include shooting pornstar Ron Jeremy as he’s whacking the weasel, holding up a courtroom to execute a mob boss and killing a Russian gang member with a toilet.

3. Sherlock Holmes and Dr.

Watson from “Sherlock Holmes” – Whether you’re referring to the film portrayals of Watson and Holmes, or their origins as the fiction of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the pair of super sleuths represented the original “buddy cop” formula. Holmes played the unpredictable and eccentric genius that could either be solving a murder case or indulging in opium use. Watson was the straight laced assistant whose “elementary” observations and mature nature balanced out the often socially awkward Holmes. Their perfect partnership had its ups and downs, and showed how a working partnership could also be a great friendship.

2. Han Solo and Chewbacca from “Star Wars” – This duo was so famous for always accompanying one another in the iconic Millennium Falcon that an alternative to the shotgun rules called “Chewie” has

been developed by geeky guys just looking for a good time. Han and Chewie were space hot rod cruising, blockade running, gun toting badasses who gave a roguish charm to the Star Wars universe. Han Solo was a Corellian smuggler portrayed by the still suave Harrison Ford (seriously, if you’re Indiana Jones and Han Solo you get to do whatever the hell you want) who found his calling to help the Rebel Alliance while chasing the tale of future wife Princess Leia.

Chewie was the furry co-pilot of the Falcon from the planet Kashyyyk that can rip the arms off of people that upset him.

1. Snoopy and Woodstock from “The Peanuts” – These iconic “Peanuts” characters top off the list of duos. Debuting in 1950, Charles Schulz demonstrated the strength of friendship through Snoopy and Woodstock’s fictional adventures. Snoopy was the dog of Charlie Brown, the prematurely bald boy next door. Woodstock was a small bird who was originally a baby bird that was left in a nest that had been built on Snoopy’s stomach. His trademark chicken scratch filled speech bubbles were only understood

by Snoopy. The two had adventures as the “World War I Flying Ace” and his co-pilot, golfing buddies and trivia rivals. Their friendship is perhaps the most pure, innocent and long running friendship on this list. Their keen understanding of one another shows that even if the rest of the world thinks you’re a lazy dog, or can’t understand anything you say, there is always that person that will stand next to you.

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Alpha Kappa Lambda As a diverse group of 35 young men who hold a common goal of developing into mature individuals, Alpha Kappa Lambda is one of the largest fraternities at Emporia State. Meanwhile, it also holds the award of the top scholastic fraternity and the most members running leadership roles in campus.

Alpha Kappa Lambda was established by a group at University of California, Berkeley, in 1914. AKL’s motto is “The truth and the word.”

AKL commits to develop a brotherhood, who, guided by its “Five Ideals,” Judeo-Christian Principles, Leadership, Scholarship, Loyalty and SelfSupport, share a lifelong undertaking to it and are dedicated to holding leadership roles and rising to the challenges and assuming responsibilities of life. “(We’re) basically a group of guys that share the same ideas, stand for what we believe in and get involved in leadership opportunities that makes me met a lot of people and participated in campus activities,” said Russell Medley, active member of AKL, senior Physical and Health education major.

Shedding an overview on campus, AKL provides leadership.

“I would like to say that confidently, we have vice presidents of the Environment Club, the president of Associated Student Government, four RAs in the dorm. So our members are just everywhere on campus,” said Drake Foster, recruitment chair of AKL, junior secondary education social science major. “If you have good character as a model, you are making a difference.”

After being recognized as the Student Organization of the Year and the overall winner of the Greek Week competition of 2008, AKL received the scholarship trophy for achieving the highest GPA in 2009.

“We have maintained our academic potential and achieved the highest GPA of any fraternity again this year,” Foster said.

AKL has a strong commitment to make contributions to community service.

“We put in actual efforts and care about the university. We will not exist without Emporia State University,” Foster said. “We regularly hold

activities to raise money and awareness for SOS women’s shelter in Emporia. Moreover, we enter the Adopt-A-School program and devote our time to set an example for young children.”

AKL offers many opportunities to shape you into the one you want to be in the future.

“The networking I did with a lot of people has made me develop myself a lot,” Foster said. “The people and friends I met here can become lifelong brothers, whenever I need help I know where to turn to get advice.”

To many students in fraternities, participating and enjoying Greek Life means you can share experiences and know friends whom may sit beside you on graduation day or even become your friends for life.

“You can trust the men here,” said Bo Moddelmog, pledge of the chapter and freshmen political science major. I am glad in getting to know them and learn about great character from them. It practices my political mind and offers leaderships roles that meet a high level in Emporia.”

Sigma Pi

Though operating without a fixed location, the Sigma Pi chapter in Emporia embraces the mission of Sigma Pi Fraternity. Internationally, their mission to build and support chapters and alumni organizations for the purpose of maintaining a fellowship of kindred minds united in brotherhood.

Founded in 1897, headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn., started as Tau Phi Delta, Sigma Pi challenges members to advance truth and justice, to promote scholarship, to encourage chivalry, to diffuse culture and to develop character in the service of God and man.

George Jeng, junior information systems major and recruitment chair for Sigma Pi, says that Sigma Pi is special in that “our brotherhood is so close and it gathers upon lifelong friends throughout the community. The leadership and community service opportunities are provided every month and our members are very proud of being fraternity men and to be able to make contributions.”

“Joining Sigma Pi is an wonderful experience which offers me training, guidance and innovative opportunities to undertake unique responsibilities,” Jeng said.

The Sigma Pi chapter is led by Chris Bartlett, junior secondary education in social studies major, who emphasized its unique achievement- giv-

ing back to the campus “We make efforts to better the campus. We hold bikeathon activities and donate time and efforts to fundraise money for national organizations on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism,” he said.

“Now we are working on our philanthropy, the Altruistic Campus Experience project coming in April” ACE combines thousands of volunteer hours to offer service to campus when and where there is a need.

“Through the ACE project, we are trying to find a way to make the campus better,” Bartlett said.

Sigma Pi promotes men to reach their full potential.

“It help me improve myself a lot here.” Bartlett said, “Sigma Pi tells me a lot about social communication skills. I want to become a coach in the further, the experience I gained here lets me know how to lead a team.”

The ACE project not only improves the campus but also helps Sigma Pi members tailor their experiences to best fit the mission as well as their own developing objectives, and leave a positive legacy for the future.

“The last ACE project we did was renewing some campus areas,” said Matthew Summers, treasurer and scholarship chair of Sigma Pi and senior finance major “Basically ESU has given us so much, our ACE project is designed to give back to show our appreciation.”

Some members think that they gain a different experience than most other fraternities.

“I think the not being able to pinpoint what we are is kind of a real nice thing,” said Jack Sampel, junior secondary education in social sciences major. “I do not like the idea of how you join a fraternity and you automatically become one of those remaining comfortably within the bounds of their own experience. (Here) you can take different approaches to socialize.”

Summers believes that Sigma Pi brothers are kindred minds and kindred spirits.

“Getting involved, that is a quick way to meet a lot of people,” he said. “Make the most of what you can to enjoy your life at the university. If you hold that power, you do not need a (fraternity) house to live up to your values and ideas.”

Budget Committee passes recommended fee increase for athletics B y S ArAh S hAw s taff w riter

After a report by Athletic Director Kent Weiser, and much debate, the Budget Development and Tuition Committee passed a four percent recommended increase for athletics, which will add a projected $5.20 for full time students and 60 cents for part time students starting to student fees next semester.

Though the Athletic Department had requested a six percent increase, the committee negotiated the four percent increase, which 11 members voted to pass and one opposed.

Weiser presented information detailing steps that had been taken to cope with budget cuts after the department did not receive an increase in funding last year such as the ceased printing of media guides for all sports, hosting soccer games on campus instead of renting a more equipped facility, and decreasing travel, among other things.

“I know conducting an athletics program is expensive,” Weiser said. “But I very much believe that we are getting a pretty good bang for our buck and we’re stretching things quite a ways with who we compete with and what is expected of us and what we expect of ourselves.”

A major expense and concern of the Athletic Department is the ability to provide students with athletic scholarships.

“That basketball player is also a marketing major or a history major, and so on,” said John Rich, faculty athletic representative.

“They are students that are in our program, they are not just student athletes. Athletics brings students into our program that would not otherwise be here if it weren’t for the athletics money that funds their scholarships.”

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MVP Volkens takes Elite Eight by storm B y s hAne W ilson S portS E ditor

With a trip to the National Championship game on the line and only 45 seconds on the clock, senior forward Alli Volkens knew what it would take to overcome the #1 team in the nation.

“I think it was just a matter of, ‘If we lose, we’re done,’” Volkens said.“We just put it all out on the court.”

The stakes were ultimately high. The ESU women’s basketball team was facing #1 Gannon, whose record was an impressive 37-0, in the Final Four.

Words turned into actions as Volkens, with the help of her teammates, scored the final four points in regulation. The pair of baskets tied the game, sending it to overtime.

The ball was in Emporia State’s court.Senior guard Lacy Corker knew that the team was in good hands on the low block.

“She’s so competitive,” Corker said.“She wanted it so bad. When it’s a big game like that, it was important for her to go out and do it and she did.”

The Hornets went on to defeat Gannon 9794.Volkens scored an impressive 20 points off of 6-7 shooting from the field. ESU marched into the National Championship game and won that one too, with Volkens scoring 16 points, pulling down 15 rebounds while also adding five blocks.

Volkens, a native of Reinbeck, Iowa, put together a stellar six-game run in the postseason that earned her the NCAA Division II Elite Eight Most Valuable Player award and the utmost respect from her teammates.

“Alli’s a great player,” said Cassondra Bos-

ton, senior guard. “She definitely stepped it up for the whole NCAA Tournament. She’s capable of doing that. She’s half the reason why we won the whole thing because she just really stepped her game up and played hard and played her heart out.”

Corker shared Boston’s sentiment.

“Alli really stepped it up at the end of the season,” Corker said. “I told the press conference people that she showed it in her eyes, and I felt she wanted it so bad and it showed in her game…no one could really stop her.”

Throughout the early part of the season, Volkens had flown under the radar. A nagging injury was partly to blame for her less-thanspectacular performance early on.

“Earlier in the season I was still kind of hurting a little bit from my knee surgery,” Volkens said. “It took me awhile to get over that. With the adrenaline rush of the postseason tournament, it (the pain) kind of went away a little bit.”

The expectations have always been high for the 6’2” junior.

“Coming in as a freshman I was kind of expected to do a little bit, then each year just build upon that,” Volkens said.

She has done just that. Coming off of a freshman campaign where she averaged 5.8 points per game in spot minutes, Volkens averaged 7.5 points per game in her sophomore season. In continuation of incline, Volkens nearly doubled her average this season with just over 12 points per game.

A mere five days after winning the National Championship, Volkens has her eyes on the prize again for next year. While the team loses four seniors who played a critical part in the championship run, Volkens is still confident

Alli Volkens greets fans Tuesday night at White Auditorium. Volkens was named MVP of the NCAA Division 2 Women’s Elite Eight.

Kellen JenKins/The BulleTin. that the Hornets can repeat.

“I think a lot of our younger players are going to step up next year and have just as much success regardless of how many players we lose each and every year,” Volkens said. “My freshman year we lost (Michelle) Stueve, last year we lost Ida (Edwards), this year we lose (Cassondra) Boston, so I don’t see why not.”

Hornets celebrate victory at White Auditorium

Top:Head Coach Brandon Schneider talks about the Lady Hornets journey to the Championship Tuesday night at White Auditorium.

Top Right: Fans gather for autographs from the Lady Hornets Tuesday night in White Auditorium.

Right: Senior guard Lacy Corker thanks the audience for their support through out the season Tuesday night at White Auditorium. phoTos By Kellen JenKins/The BulleTin.

For more coverage, see the special edition in today’s issue.

Kansas’ Cole Aldrich leaving early for NBA KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Cole Aldrich, fighting back tears, said Monday he’ll skip his senior year at Kansas and head for the NBA. The 6-11 center, who averaged almost a double-double for the Big 12 champions, is projected by most experts as a high first-round pick.

“The last three years have been pretty special,” he said.

Blessed with a wingspan greater than most men his height, Aldrich averaged 11.3 points and 9.8 rebounds for the Jayhawks, who were the overall No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament before they were upset by Northern Iowa.

He also set a team record with 125 blocks.

The Jayhawks are still waiting for a decision by freshman swing man Xavier Henry, their secondleading scorer.

It would have been a surprise if Aldrich had elected to remain in school. His father, Walter Aldrich, is a construction worker who’s been put out of a job by the recession.

“We’ve known this was going to happen since last year,” said coach Bill Self. “To be real candid with everybody, and I think Cole would agree with this, I would strongly discourage him from coming back.

“I think he paid his dues here and I do think it is time for him to move forward into another chapter. He has made a lot of sacrifices — his family has — to come back in a time when he didn’t have to.

We’re all very proud of him.”

Aldrich, a native of the Minneapolis area, said he planned to hire an agent soon.

“First of all, I want to thank everybody just for the opportunity I’ve had here,” said Aldrich. “It’s been a fun one.”

Aldrich referred to his paternal grandmother, who died during this past season after a long illness.

“I don’t want to get choked up or anything, but the last three years have been pretty special. It’s been a lot of highs, a few lows with my grandma...”

He paused and looked down.

“It’s been a special time for me and my family. I’ve talked with them extensively. We went through somewhat of the same process last year in figuring out what I wanted to do. I think my time has come in my life to change the chapter and go from one great chapter to hopefully start another great chapter in life.”

Aldrich and senior guard Sherron Collins, who are close friends, made a joint decision last spring to return this season and pursue an NCAA championship. But that was thwarted when Northern Iowa upset them in just the second round.

SPORTS COMMENTARY

Who would have thought?

They did it.

The Emporia State women’s basketball team, in epic fashion, took home the crown jewel of the nation – the National Championship trophy.

I’ve said it in the past, believing myself for the most part, but it turned out to be true. This team had the potential to do extraordinary things, and they did just that last Friday night in St. Joseph, Mo. Big time players come up with big time plays late into March, and that certainly was the case for this Emporia State team over the course of the six-game 2010 postseason. Brittney Miller, Cassondra Boston and Alli Volkens all made the Elite Eight All-Tournament team, with Volkens capturing the MVP award.

Each player contributed something special to ESU’s magical run to the National Championship. Miller provided excellent on-ball defense and, with her ability to create around the basket, allowed her team to score in more ways than usual. Boston, the natural leader of the team, was nearly lethal when driving to the hoop – something those who have followed her throughout her tenure as a Hornet will surely miss. Boston’s efforts throughout the season earned her several All-American selec-

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S por tS E ditor tions from various outlets across the country.

Volkens was on an entirely different level.

She was in the zone. She was a forced to be reckoned with on the low block. After looking at her stat sheet (and the MVP award), it’s hard to argue that even her presence in the paint changed the course of the game.

Volkens was unreal.

Needless to say, these three women couldn’t have done the job alone. A truly gifted supporting cast stepped up and made big plays when they needed to in every facet.

For instance, Rachel Hanf’s three consecutive three-pointers all but sealed the deal for the Hornets on their way to defeating Ft. Lewis in the final game of the season. While Boston was forced to sit on the bench due

to foul trouble, Lacy Corker provided steady production and reliability at the point. Even Jocelyn Cummings, who had seen sparse minutes throughout the season, came off the bench and provided a spark for the Hornets when they needed it in both the quarters and the semis.

It should also go without saying that the key players and the supporting cast couldn’t have gone as far as they did without leadership and a great game plan from the head coach. In the Elite Eight, Brandon Schneider coached three masterpieces in a row – always knowing when to substitute, who to substitute, who to call on for a big play. It was evident that Schneider’s experience and preparation with this team paid off in a big way.

The Emporia State faithful even played a significant role in the domination of Ft. Lewis.

The Civic Arena in St. Joseph was packed with ESU students, faculty, alumni and just plain fans of the game to see the Hornets win.

The place was so loud due to the fans’ chants and cheers, rants and raves that I think both teams got the message: Emporia State isn’t leaving Missouri without a championship.

I think we know how the rest goes.