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ASG seeks to implement huge funding cuts

When is an email a meeting?

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Associated Student Government may have violated their own policy by deeming an email blast, which informed organizations that their line items were facing proposed funding cuts, a meeting.

In the email, sent out at 10:40 p.m. last Wednesday, several organizations, including The Bulletin, “The Sunflower,” “Quivira” and the Performing Arts Board, were informed that their groups were up for funding cut proposals at the allocation meeting the next day, March 29.

According to Article IV of the Senate Line Item Policy, “groups will be advised of this desire to decrease a line item amount and will meet with the Fiscal Affairs Committee to discuss the proposed changes.”

“A ‘meeting’ shall be conducted in one or all of the following manners: (1) email; (2) in-person; or (3) over the phone,” according to Article II of the same policy.

The emails count as the meetings with the organizations and follow ASG’s policy guidelines, McReynolds said.

“A blast email is not a reasonable interpretation of a policy that seems to require

an interactive communication,” said Max Kaustch, a media law attorney based in Lawrence, Kansas. “It’s an extremely loose interpretation of the policy and flies in the face of good faith negotiations.”

Katustch is the Media Hotline Attorney for the Kansas Press Association and has represented The Bulletin.

However, the ASG committee met in person with Blythe Eddy, director of student activities and community service, who oversees the Union Activities Council and the Special Events Board. Neither of those line items are receiving any proposed cuts to their budget.

“The reason we met with Blythe Eddy specifically was because her line items, when we looked at the budget, we didn’t have a clear understanding based off of numbers of where we were going,” McReynolds said. “We wanted to make sure, from our numbers standpoint, we could understand and fully comprehend a full picture view of what it looked like, because they are smaller line item and receive smaller funds and so we wanted to make sure that that was an adequate representation of it.”

Megan McReynolds, president of ASG, speaks to the senate during an ASG meeting March 15. McReynolds originated several bills that propose line item cuts to several student organizations on campus. The Bulletin Archives

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Associated Student Government has proposed massive line item cuts to student organizations for the upcoming fiscal year and beyond.

Student publications and the Performing Arts Board face the largest cuts.

The proposed cuts are: • The Bulletin: 12 percent each year for the next four see EMAIL page 2 years, which would result in a total funding decrease of near-

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ly half by 2023.

• The Performing Arts Board: 40 percent for next year.

• “The Sunflower” yearbook: 8 percent per year, which would total 32 percent over four years.

• “Quivira:” a 60 percent cut for next year.

• Sports Clubs: 17 percent cut.

• ASG: 7.5 percent.

• Center for Early Childhood Education: 6 percent.

Of the line items that ASG

oversees, only five are not up for cuts. The Educational Opportunity Fund, Union Activities Council, Special Events Board, Visual Arts Board and the Athletic Band Stipend are not facing any decreases, or increases, to their funding.

The cuts to The Bulletin are following this semester’s aggressive coverage of sexual assault on campus. In a series

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Some of Schrader’s students ‘disappointed,’ leaving ESU incident.

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That was my goal, was ‘How next year.

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Students spoke during Faculty Senate Tuesday in the Skyline room, calling for the senate to vote in favor of a bill that would require faculty to put a diversity, equity and inclusion statement into their syllabus, as well as in favor of a bill that would modify the non-activity week policy to include an official “stop day” for student activities.

“The experiences and feelings of marginalized students while at Emporia State University are real and valid,” Kayla Gilmore, senior political science major, read from a prepared statement. “We deserve teachers who have been trained properly to deal with microaggressions in the classroom. We deserve faculty who can actually articulate and introduce inclusive practices and education in their classrooms.

We deserve this diversity statement that Faculty Senate is discussing today.”

The letter was in response to a situation that a black student faced in a classroom at ESU, when a professor read aloud “On Watching a World Series Game” by Sonia Sanchez and

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continued from page 1 of stories that rocked ESU’s campus, The Bulletin reported that Brian Schrader, a tenured psychology professor, had taken “Jane,” a Korean undergraduate, to a storage room near his office in Visser Hall, touched her inappropriately and tried to kiss her. The reporting resulted in community discussions, town halls, and a student protest.

Schrader was placed on administrative leave last week and a new investigation was announced by President Allison Garrett.

ASG denies that the cuts are punitive or related to coverage in any way.

“We understand that it could be seen that way, but it’s not our intent behind it,” said Megan McReynolds, ASG president and junior sociology major.

According to Max McCoy, adviser to The Bulletin and professor of journalism, the proposed cuts might not be punitive in nature, but the optics for The Bulletin aren’t good.

“The proposed cuts would force a reduction in staff, mean fewer print issues, and significantly weaken the newspaper’s ability to cover those stories that mean the most,” McCoy said.

“Regardless of intent, the cuts would have a chilling effect on The Bulletin’s award-winning investigative reporting.”

“To save a few dollars, it would be unwise to diminish the most vigorous and sometimes outrageous voice for students at Emporia State,” McCoy said. “Whether you agree or disagree with the editorial content of The Bulletin, it is undeniable that the campus conversation would be poorer for its loss. The paper is staffed by brilliant and hard-working and sometimes difficult young people who—to borrow a phrase from Walter Lippmann—speak the truth and shame the devil.”

‘Financial Constraints’

According to McReynolds, all of the proposed funding cuts are related to financial constraints of the university.

“We know that our univer-

repeatedly read a racial slur found in the poem, according to Gilmore.

“Faculty Senate has an opportunity to be on the right side of history and progressive action,” Gilmore said. “I hope they decide to take it.”

The bill would require faculty to include the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion statement in course syllabi to foster inclusiveness within the classroom and acceptance of other worldviews, according to the bill.

“The intent of this bill is that the indented statement should be placed into all syllabi,” said Brenda Koerner, chair of Academics Affairs Committee and associate professor of biological sciences. “There is nothing stating that a faculty member cannot have an additional statement in their syllabi, but this particular statement would be required.”

There would be no enforcement, but it’s intended to help change the culture at ESU towards one of inclusivity, Koerner said.

Dan Colson, assistant professor of English, modern languages and journalism, expressed concern that it would discourage faculty from doing more to make their courses

inclusive.

“My concern about this is that I find this to be a very tepid endorsement, honestly,” Colson said. “I personally don’t want an inclusive environment, I want an anti-racist, I want an anti-sexist environment. So my concern is if this will, somewhat unwittingly, discourage people from going further in their syllabi.”

Colson suggested allowing faculty to add much stronger statements to the required one.

He did not see a problem with the bill, as long as faculty were able to go further, he said.

“When you’re a student in a class and you feel targeted, it’s not your choice to be targeted and you need somewhere to go and some kind of legal binding document between yourself and that professor about what your rights are as a student,” Megan McReynolds, ASG president and junior sociology major said. “This is a starting point, but I feel that we need much more language, that’s much more pointed and specific about what the steps are.”

Faculty Senate also discussed FSB 17011, which would create a stop day that keeps professors from issuing exams or assignments worth

10 percent or more of the final grade during non-activity week, until expressly identified in the syllabus during the first week of classes, according to the bill.

According to members of Faculty Senate, the wording of the bill was ambiguous and did not apply to all circumstances.

Ceara Shaughnessy, instructor of counselor education, gave an example of how she presented one of her class-

es with an option to change a huge group research paper due in the final week of class to a reflection paper in order to lower their stress levels.

“With this policy, I wouldn’t have been able to make that change, but that benefitted my students,” Shaughnessy said.

The bills were on first readings during this meeting and will go up for second readings April 12.

with” and their primary duty was to fund departments for events, specifically diversity events, McReynolds said.

“We felt that to stay consistent with Goal Five of the university, we wanted to make sure we’re promoting diversity,

equity and inclusion on Emporia State’s campus,” McReynolds said. “So we didn’t want to (cut their funding). We already only have two positions at Emporia State that promote diversity and inclusion that are permanent positions and so

we wanted to make sure that we were consistent with that goal.”

No other line item were given an in person meeting with the Fiscal Affairs Committee.

According to McReynolds and Shelby Marten, chair of

the Fiscal Affairs Committee and senior physical health education, the email sent out to the line items was the only communication the organizations received regarding their proposed cuts prior to the allocation meeting.

sity, like all the universities in the state of Kansas since 2008, the cost of attending a four year university has gone up by 20 percent, so to do our part in making college affordable for students...we wanted to see if we could kind of be a leader in the way of showing how students don’t have to be complacent in the process of looking at tuition and fees,” McReynolds said.

“Our mission was just to try to decrease the cost of attendance at Emporia State, as we are under fiscal constraints of the state,” McReynolds said.

When asked how much the student fees would decrease by, McReynolds declined to give an answer, saying that because it had not gone through senate she did not want to give an incorrect amount.

“Our goal is not to, you know, really emphasize a dollar amount that it’ll decrease for our student fee,” McReynolds said.

If all of the proposed funding cuts were passed by ASG, it would result in a decrease of $13.45 for full time students and $2.76 for part time students in the student activity fee, according to The Bulletin’s calculations.

According to McReynolds, these decreases may seem minute in the grand scheme, but they make a large difference to students struggling to attend ESU. “We know that people here are really fighting to be able to stay here and I think that that’s the narrative that’s often lost in this conversation is that there are students that, you know, have to choose between paying tuition and fees or getting a textbook for their class,” McReynolds said.

the funding cuts to the fiscal affairs committee. The members of the committee who voted on the proposals are Shelby Marten, chair of the committee and senior physical and health education major, Brady Lund, graduate business major, Arianna Williams, sophomore chemical engineering major, Chukwunenye Nweke, senior psychology major, and Madison Orrange, sophomore accounting major.

They did not hold individual meetings with each line item, however, Marten sent out an email on Wednesday night that informed the organizations of the proposed decreases.

The email constitutes as a meeting with each organization, and is concurrent with ASG policy, which states that a meeting can be be conducted in person, on the phone, or over email, according to McReynolds.

Even with the current allocated amount, the Performing Arts Board is unable to fully fund all of the proposals that are requested, Thomas said.

“If we get cut by that amount, we would be funding proposals at a much smaller rate,” Thomas said.

every student,” Comstock said.

‘Proposal Process’

Their process for determining which line items to decrease included looking at their budgets, the services provided to campus and the charge of each line item, McReynolds said.

The fiscal affairs committee is responsible for hearing the proposals and voting on whether or not they will go forward to the full senate.

McReynolds and Drake Rapue, treasurer and junior accounting major, proposed all of

‘Significant Cuts’

In the 2019 fiscal year, the Performing Arts Board is proposed for the largest budget cut.

Currently, they receive $23.85 from full time students and $4.03 from part time students, which amounts to $189,270 from student activity fees, according to information that Brent Thomas, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Science, received from the budget office.

ASG is proposing a 40 percent decrease to their funding, which would drop full time students to $14.40 and part time students to $2.50, according to the line item proposal. This reduction will cut PAB’s budget to an estimated $114,943, which is over a $70,000 cut, according to Thomas.

PAB received their first line item increase since 2002 last year, according to Thomas.

McReynolds attributed that increase to misinformation and a misinformed senate, but did not provide any specifics.

“That’s a pretty significant cut if that were enacted,” Thomas said. “As it stands right now, each year the Performing Arts Board receives proposals from different areas across the performing arts, and then the members...review those proposals and then they make decisions about allocating these student fees.”

Kayla Gilmore, senior political science major, reads from a statement about the importance of the diversity, equity and inclusion bill presented for first reading in the Faculty Senate meeting Tuesday in the Skyline Room in Memorial Union. The bill would require faculty to include a diversity statement in their syllabi. Xiangru Chen | The Bulletin

Cutting ‘Cultural Outlets’

The Performing Arts Board is responsible for funding music, theater, debate and creative writing. While each department receives money, none of that money goes towards funding activities like plays, summer theater, the Marching Hornets, debate travel or the short play festival. All of that funding comes from proposals submitted to the PAB. “The music department, along with theater, is one of the most important cultural outlets for students at ESU,” said Allan Comstock, chair of the music department. “We put on dozens of concerts every year and we have literally hundreds of students involved in the ensembles and the performances, as well as untold numbers of hundreds of students who attend the concerts.”

The money that comes through PAB influences all students who attend ESU, Comstock said. It is divided up among 17 areas, including the marching band, orchestra and the choir.

It goes towards purchasing music, which can amount to hundreds of dollars, the cost of putting on concerts, travel to conferences, instructors for color guard, Stingers, the drumline and covering the cost of the Hornet Revue traveling to MIAA conference games, Comstock said.

“Not having access to this money could severely limit, for example, what pieces students could play and that’s really detrimental to students’ learning,” Comstock said.

According to Comstock, there are donors who give considerable to the university based on music and theater.

“If our ability to present concerts and theater productions and send students to conferences...is compromised, then we run the risk of alienating that constituency and that impacts

Diminishing ‘Quality and Quantity’

For the theater department, the proposed cuts could result in cutting a production and no longer sending students to the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, according to Jim Bartruff, director of theater.

“It’s discouraging to think about what that means in terms of the opportunities our students have both to experience art at the highest level we can perform it, but also to work in an environment where you are working at its highest level,” Bartruff said.

The arts are not cheap, Bartruff said.

“The costs of maintaining an opera company or a ballet company or a repertory theater company are phenomenal,” Bartuff said. “We are, in reality, doing a repertory theater company on a shoestring budget.”

PAB funding goes towards the costs of putting on a production, which begins with purchasing the rights. For some productions, such as musicals, that cost could be thousands of dollars.The proposal funding also helps pay for costuming and materials, according to Bartruff.

“Any diminishment of the funding capabilities of these would diminish both the quality and the quantity of the performances that we’re able to do,” Bartruff said.

If the proposed cuts were passed, the theater department would have to find funding elsewhere, and would have to consider putting on less productions.

“It will be a challenge but we’ll find a way to continue to provide opportunities to our students and for the community to enjoy what we have to offer,” Bartruff said.

‘Students’ Voice’

Student publications are facing funding cuts for the upcoming year, as well as resolutions that would annually decrease their funding over the next four years.

The Bulletin’s funding, if the

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Alpha Psi Omega will host a variety show at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Frederickson Theatre, located in Roosevelt Hall.

There is no fee to watch this show, however there is a suggested donation and all of the proceeds will go to a Kansas dog rescue, Second Chance Animal Refuge Society, according to their facebook page.

“Our purpose behind the Variety Show is to return to the organization’s roots, provide entertainment in times of stress, and raise money for a local organization in order to give back to our community,” said Cassidy Tilden, president of APO and senior English and theater education major.

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continued from page 2 proposal passes, would be cut by 12 percent each year for the next four years, which would result in a total funding decrease of almost half by 2023.

“We know that it takes a financial investment for students in any major to prepare themselves for the future and their career and when students who are gaining life experiences working on student media face certain budget restrictions that will reduce staff, they will have less time to devote to important investigative projects,” said Stacy Sparks, associate professor of journalism and program coordinator for convergent journalism at Southwestern College.

“The Sunflower” is facing a similar funding cut, with a proposed 8 percent cut each year for the next four years, which would result in a total funding decrease of 32 percent by 2023.

“It’ll cause us to have to restructure our budget to try to adjust to the new amount, which could mean fewer people on staff, more work for those on staff,” said Kristy Dekat, adviser for “The Sunflower” and assistant professor of journalism. “In the future, it’s going to be a real challenge...We’ll be back to where we were allocation wise ten years ago and so it’s going to really be a challenge at that point because you have to consider the inflation in the last ten years and the upkeep of computers and that sort of thing.”

A ‘literary tradition’

ASG has also proposed a budget cut to “Quivira,” ESU’s student literary journal, to decrease their funding by 60 percent. Currently, full time

ferent acts performed by current and potential members of Alpha Psi Omega. Alpha Psi Omega is the theaters honor society at Emporia State.

This variety show will allow students to share their talents: singing, acting that is from student written scenes, stand up comedy and drag.

“I will be performing in drag as my alter ego,” said Andrew Ralston, member of Alpha Psi Omega and junior theater major. “It will be such a fun time for all to enjoy!”

Ralston will be doing a drag performance to Ke$ha’s song “Die Young.”

“I’ll be in the full garb, makeup, corset, wig, the whole shebang,” Ralston said. “My drag name is named after the greatest female singer/songwriter of all time, Carole the Queen.” students pay 25 cents and part time students pay five cents.

The cuts will drop their funding to 15 cents for full time students and two cents for part time.

“It’s a literary tradition, it’s a torch that’s been passed for many years, and so I do feel like it’s our obligation to continue to have that exist,” said Amy Sage Webb, professor of English. “We will do it in whatever way we can, we have some carry forward, we can survive, but it’s not just something we can decide not to do.”

The carry forward fund was discovered in 2015 when “Quivira” applied to have a Quivira Club, which does not request RSO funding, as well as a line item, according to Webb.

In the fund, “Quivira” has approximately $16,000 in carry forward, available for the journal.

“It would be a challenge with the cost of the journal anyway,” Webb said. “It’s disappointing at this particular time because “Quivira” has started doing high impact activities with local schools, which I think are incredibly valuable to be able to work with schools and to produce chapbooks with those students and to engage in this kind of outreach is really valuable for the community.”

The cut is more painful now than if it had come a few years ago because of these activities, Webb said.

“You can’t fault them (ASG) for that, they’re trying to do something positive, and they are looking at the piece of the pie that they control,” Webb said. “I can’t fault them for that, for wanting to do right by students, you just want to see it done as equitably across the board as possible.”

In celebration of the return of the ducks, the Office of the President along with the ESU Ducks social media accounts, hosted a welcome back party last Thursday on the deck of the Memorial Union. Duck themed music, such as the Duck song and the Ducktales theme, played to help set the mood and duck shaped cookies were provided for attendees to snack on.

“I’m really happy that there are people who love the ducks as much as I do,” said Kathryn Jackson, freshman pre-med major and creator of the ESU Ducks page.

Although the event was held in the afternoon, the ducks actually returned to campus earlier that day. They were released into Wooster around 9:30 a.m., according to Patrick Renfro, building systems technician and caretaker for the ducks over the winter.

“The ducks integrated with the rest of the group pretty well and we had no problems,” Renfro said.

Over the winter, the ducks were kept in a large pen and if the weather was decent they were allowed to free range, Renfro said.

“I hope we have a better summer this year and hope a lot of people keep their dogs on leashes this year,” Renfro said.

The local Aflac insurance agency provided stress balls shaped like ducks to help ad-

Bobbi Rookstool, freshman English education major, wears a duck costume and takes a duck shaped cookie during the event welcoming back the ducks

by Wooster Lake. At the event, songs about ducks played and Kathryn Jackson, freshman pre-med major and creator of the ESU Ducks social media pages, spoke to the participates. Abigail Ponce | The Bulletin

vertise the event, according to Gwen Larson, assistant director of media relations.

“I love seeing the ducks,” Jackson said. “It calms me down when I go to class or whatever. It’s just a little stress reliever of mine.”

There is a plan to have another welcome back party for the ducks next year. Any suggestions on how the welcome back party can be improved can be made to Jackson through either the ESU Ducks Facebook or Twitter page.

Submit your abstract for Research & Creativity Day! Sponsored by the Research and Grants Center, the Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities Committee, and The Honors College, Research and Creativity Day is set aside to highlight a wide range of student and faculty research and creative activities.

Research and Creativity Day will be Wednesday, April 25.

The morning will begin with oral presentations by undergraduate and graduate students and the poster session will take place in the afternoon. A Three Minute Thesis (3MT) contest will also take place in the morning for graduate students. Students interested in the Three Minute Thesis are also eligible to submit poster abstracts.

Visual and performing artists are also encouraged to participate. A separate room for performances and the visual arts will be available if there are faculty or students interested in participating. The award ceremony will take place during the luncheon, which is free to all participants. Participants and attendees will be able to participate in People's Choice Awards this year.

Please go to www.emporia.edu/research/rcd.html to submit your abstract. Students may submit abstracts for both an oral presentation and a poster. Faculty are encouraged to participate in the poster session.

Submissions are due by Tuesday, April 10, 2018.

This is an excellent opportunity for faculty and students to share with the campus community their research, scholarly, or creative work.

Free lunch for all participants Free t-shirt for all participants People’s Choice Awards Door Prizes The Guidelines for Presenters site contains information on poster equipment and tips on developing posters. All participants are encouraged to visit http://www.emporia.edu/research/guidelinesfor-presenters.html. Contact Pam Fillmore at pfillmor@emporia.edu or at extension 5351 if you have questions.

Don’t wait – submit your abstract now!

4 Last week, The Bulletin was shocked to learn that the Associated Student Government will vote soon on a bill that would, over the course of four years, reduce the working budget of The Bulletin by 48 percent. That is one of the largest line item cuts, in terms of dollars, proposed for any group on campus; by 2023, it would mean a loss to the newspaper of about $50,000.

Is it a coincidence that The Buletin is slated for these crippling cuts the same semester that we put out an investigative series that revealed an undergraduate student was likely sexually harassed by a tenured professor and the university attempted to silence the student with a non-disclosure agreement?

There seems to be no other reasonable explanation.

This is a transparent attempt to muzzle student voices and student journalists on campus.

This is the only conclusion to be gathered because of the

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lack of transparency leading up to this cut.

ASG should not be taking their lead from Wichita State’s student government.

This sets a bad precedent.

“The Sunflower,” our campus yearbook, and Quivira, the campus literary journal, and the Performing Arts Board are also on the block. “The Sunflower” would be cut 8 percent for the next four years, Quivira is being cut by 60 percent

for next year, and the PAB is being cut 40 percent for the next year.

It seems that the humanities are under fire during this round of budget cuts by ASG. There are no senators on the Fiscal Affairs Committee from the Liberal Arts and Sciences. They are making decisions without hearing the voices of the people they’re representing.

In the past, attempted

student publication cuts have been excused with, “Well, no one really reads the campus newspaper.”

That sure as hell isn’t the case this year.

Every campus club and organization is worthwhile but, we must ask ourselves, what really matters?

In this era of fake news, is it really the time to be cutting the one source on campus that has proved itself to be worthwhile?

The student press is important, now more than ever.

Without The Bulletin breaking “Jane’s story” about the undergrad who filed the sexual assault complaint, the issue may have gone unresolved and unknown of for years.

We can only change the things we know about, and the student press is in the business of making sure you know what’s important to you.

In this age of #metoo, the student press is vital.

This bill comes up for a vote on April 12. Please, stand with us and express your support for The Bulletin as we are coming under fire for our investigative and aggressive journalism.

If you believe Jane, and you love truth, now is the time to speak up for the student press.

It may be now or never.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Next year I will be the faculty adviser of both the “Sunflower” yearbook and The Bulletin newspaper, and I am concerned about the impact of ASG’s proposed decrease in allocations. I question if they thought of the potential repercussions of their decision.

If the proposed allocations are passed, it will be a struggle for both publications to survive. The publications will have to reduce the number of students hired for positions, and this will not allow as many students to have the real-world experience that both “The

Sunflower” and The Bulletin provide. This is unfortunate considering several professional journalists in the field today got their start on a student publication staff here at ESU. ASG’s infographic shared on social media justifying the cuts to “The Sunflower” stated that many universities are using a preordering format. What that statement overlooks is that students at those universities are paying a higher cost for their yearbooks, and many schools across the country that went to this model had to dissolve

their yearbooks due to the decline in sales. Those universities who stopped producing yearbooks have lost

book, to some, may reduce waste and cost, but will they be readily available in five years? Ten years? Over the decades, yearbooks have attempted to break into newer mediums: beta tapes, floppy discs, CD-ROMs. How many of those can you easily access today? How many will you be able to access in the future?

Printed publications have proven themselves over and over, and will continue to do so. A tangible, hardbound copy of the yearbook will always be more valuable than a digital file or a website.

Not to mention, ESU as an institution lauds itself for “higher impact learning,” or in simpler terms: real world experience. The positions I’ve held at the yearbook have given me more career experience than I could have ever expected. I’m able to work in the publica-

tion industry while still being within the realm of my college education, and this same opportunity is granted to every single employee on our staff.

Cuts to the yearbook not only negatively impact the

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the historical records the yearbook once provided.

ASG justified the cuts to The Bulletin because it receives a larger allocation than other university papers in the state. This

implies that the newspaper could receive funding from other sources- such as advertising. Emporia State differs in geographic location compared to the other state schools (K-State, KU, Wichita State and Washburn) in the infographic ASG posted. These schools are all in larger cities compared to Emporia, which allows these publications to generate funds from ad sales. In Emporia there are a variety of groups and organizations throughout the community that are fighting for advertising funds from limited sources- compared

to that of a larger city.

The student government also does not realize that students are receiving a deal with The Bulletin newspaper costing students approximately $12 a semester. A six month subscription, to the Emporia Gazette is $54; this is approximately as many months The Bulletin is distributed during both the fall and spring semesters.

Simply because numbers look good on paper, the reductions can potentially have an irreversible impact.

A responsible organization needs to also consider the repercussion those cuts.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Emporia State’s Associated Student Government has determined that “The Sunflower” yearbook deserves to have nearly a third of its budget cut over the next four years. They suggest that other state universities are following suit, that printed yearbooks are “wasteful,” and that many are reverting to pre-sales as opposed to student fee funding. However, as the editor-in-chief and a member of the yearbook for over four years, I have to disagree.

The yearbook, first and foremost, serves as a historical archive and a long-standing tradition at Emporia State.

In our office alone, we have copies of yearbooks dating back to 1916. Yearbooks exist to provide more than memories, they exist as a vital historical resource.

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University (a school similar in full time students, but changenrollment and tuition to ESU) ing to individual sales could produces their Kanza year- cost anywhere from $40 to book off of student fees, and is $100 per book. With this price a recipient of numerous state- increase, student demand wide and national yearbook decreases, and this could even awards. Kansas State Univer- potentially result in losing the sity’s Royal Purple yearbook yearbook entirely. was recently the recipient of Despite ASG’s stance, “The the Associated College Press Sunflower” yearbook is valuC hloe S oetaert Pacemaker award, one of able, vital, and absolutely necthe highest honors in college essary in its print form. The Editor-in- Chief journalism. yearbook holds student memoo f t h e S u n f lo w e r When yearbooks are ries, photos, and stories, and reverted to pre-sales, they are most importantly: an incredprinted in lower quantity, and ibly vast historical archive for book itself, but also affect the thus, cost more to each student. Emporia State. Student journalreal people behind the publi- Our yearbooks currently cost ism, as well as our published cation. Budget reductions can $12.90 out of student fees for history, deserve to live on. mean fewer staff members, and in turn, less high impact learning.

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Garrett discusses Schrader investigation and creation of task force

Allison Garrett S arah S poon sspoon@esubulle tin.com

Editor’s Note: Emporia State President Allison Garrett sat down with The Bulletin Monday afternoon for a conversation about the second investigation concerning Brian Schrader, tenured psychology professor. Schrader was placed on administrative leave March 28, according to an email Garrett sent to the campus community that day.

The interview was conducted at the president’s office on the second floor of Plumb Hall. In attendance, in addition to Garrett, were Gwen Larson, assistant director of marketing and media relations; Rayna Karst, editor-in-chief of The Bulletin and senior English major; Allie Crome, managing editor of The Bulletin and junior English education major; and Sarah Spoon, Empowered magazine editor and junior Spanish and English major.

Spoon conducted the interview.

A full transcript appears below.

Spoon: You sent out the email Wednesday night about Schrader being put on administrative leave and you said “due to new information.” Can you tell us what the new information is?

Garrett: No I cannot.

S: Okay.

G: And as you understand, there is both Kansas Law and Regulations as well as university policy which say we cannot release confidential information about employment.

S: Does the new information have to do with the complaint Jane filed?

G: I’m sorry, I can’t answer that.

S: Okay. I understand that you can’t give details, but this was apparently serious enough of a situation that you wanted the campus to be aware of it.

G: Right.

S: So can you maybe give us a category? Was this a violation of federal law or state law? Or

ESU policy? Was this potentially a criminal case?

G: I’ll just say it relates to a Title IX issue and the notice that went out to campus not only because there’s been tremendous interest in the matter but also because for the courses that he was teaching, it would mean that he would not be in those courses, so we felt like we needed to explain to the university community why he was gone from campus.

S: So the complaint relates to a Title IX issue, is that what I’m understanding?

G: Yes. S: You announced there was going to be a new investigation. Who is conducting the investigation?

G: We’ve engaged an outside firm to assist us with that investigation.

S: What kind of firm?

G: Law firm.

S: In-town or?

G: No. S: Out of town?

G: Yes. S: Where is it based out of?

G: You know, I don’t know where the home office for the firm is, nor do I know if it is one of these firms that has multiple offices. But they do have expertise in Title IX matters for higher education.

S: What’s the name of the firm?

G: I’ll have to check on the exact name of the firm for you and I don’t know whether our general counsel will be comfortable with me sharing the name of the firm.

Note: The law firm that is conducting the investigation is Husch and Blackwell based out of Kansas City. This information was relayed to The Bulletin Wednesday by Gwen Larson.

S: Was there a crime report filed with any agency based on this new information?

G: I can’t answer that.

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S: Recently you said that the campus community would never had known about the first investigation against Schrader if The Bulletin hadn’t published “Jane’s Story.” So how will the campus community know the outcome of this new investigation?

G: The outcome may be obvious based on whether Dr. Schrader is still employed by the university or not employed by the university. I know that one of the deep frustrations that people feel with respect to this sort of matter is that the university legally can’t share much information. However, in this case because I think this is so high profile, it would seem to be appropriate to let the campus community at least know, at a very high level, what that ultimate outcome is.

S: What will that look like when you say that? Is that a general email that’s like “found innocent or whatever” or is that ...?

G: You know, it’s much too early to say. So often when you begin some sort of investigation, maybe at the offset you think you know the direction things will go and things don’t necessarily go in that direction and so to try to predict today what may be the case two to three months from now is very, very difficult.

S: How long do you expect the investigation to take?

G: That is similarly impossible to predict.

S: Could you ball park maybe? Three months? Three years?

G: I’m confident, well I’m fairly confident, not three years.

So I would say within the next few months.

S: If this new information is found to be credible, will it lead to another panel of tenured faculty deciding his fate? Will it be that same process?

G: You know, it will depend on a number of factors. A faculty member, when presented with a notice of intent to dismiss, has the option, at that point and time to simply leave the university or of demanding this, what is essentially a hearing, it is much like a trial, and if credible evidence is found, if a notice of intent to dismiss is issued, then it is up to the individual involved, whether Dr. Schrader or someone else, to decide whether to simply leave the university or to move forward with the demand for the hearing.

S: So it’s a possibility again?

G: It would be a possibility again.

S: Will the victim be allowed to speak during the panel of tenured faculty, if that comes up?

G: I don’t know the answer to that. I couldn’t speak to that if I were aware. Nor am I involved in the matter because the matter could eventually end up with me, there is an effort to make sure I am not predisposed one way or the other. So I am

not involved in making those kinds of decisions.

S: What will be the standard of evidence used this time? Is it going to be preponderance?

Probable cause? Beyond a shadow of a doubt? Something else?

G: As you know, for dismissal of a tenured faculty member, in our policy manual, the evidentiary standard is the clear and convincing standard.

S: Because of this new information, will you consider granting Jane an appeal?

G: Well there’s not an appeal per-se, from a matter which has been disposed of. How the earlier information and matter relate to this information and matter will be something for the investigators to weigh carefully.

S: So we understand that Schrader’s been placed on administrative leave with pay. To some of the readers, this might seem as a sort of “misconduct sabbatical.” Could you explain why he is on leave with pay, considering this is the second investigation dealing with Title IX against him?

G: Well, my understanding from discussions with our human resources department, is that that is standard practice for this university as well as most others in matters like this.

S: Don’t you have the authority to summarily dismiss?

G: No I do not.

S: Do you have it in any case? Or just not this case?

shared governance groups will each identify their five.

S: And do the five have to come from within the shared governance groups? Or can they be someone else not involved in shared governance?

G: You know, that’s not something that we had a discussion about. I’m not entirely sure I understand the question.

S: So with the students, I assume that would be ASG, would all of the five have to be from ASG or could a student that -.

G: No, no. They could pick anyone. And the same for the faculty members and the staff members. What is important, I think, is that we have individuals who are well respected, who will work well as a group or a member of a group and will work toward the recommendations that are going to be made. The objective is to be in a position to make some recommendations by the end of the fall semester. It is a huge task.

So I’m hopeful that the end of the fall semester is still realistic.

Once those recommendations come out, if a shared governance group needs to make policy changes, then those policy changes will need to go through that shared governance group.

S: So where did the number 15 come from? That seems like sort of a small number.

G: We were looking for a number, we actually thought

Allison Garrett G: With respect to tenured faculty members, because they are viewed as having a property interest and therefore have the right to due process, before that right can be taken away, there is never a right to summarily dismiss a faculty member.

S: On a bit of a different note, with the faculty senate task force, what is happening with that?

G: Last week I met or visited with the heads of all the different shared governance groups on campus and we are moving toward identifying individuals who will serve on that taskforce. Right now, it appears that we will have a non-voting chair of the taskforce and 15 task force members. They will be appointed, five each, from students shared governance, faculty and staff shared governance and those individuals will be identifying who the task force members will be. So the leaders of the shared governance groups will identify who the task force members will be.

S: The five of each? Or will the five create the total task force?

G: No, the total task force size would be the 15, plus the non-voting chair, and the

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15 was a large-ish number because when you try to get 15 or 16 people together and get all of their schedules to gel, it’s very difficult, but we wanted good representation from every one of those shared governance groups.

S: Has there been consideration for adding professional victim advocates onto the task force? Maybe someone from SOS (a local shelter for domestic violence victims)?

G: So the task force itself will have the ability to engage with people who are experts in particular matters and so that would be left up to the task force and they may want to have people come in and visit with them regarding particular areas of expertise that those individuals have.

S: What are you hoping that the task force will focus on?

G: There really are three big groups of issues. The first set of issues relates to issues of confidentiality, privacy and first amendment rights. The second group of issues relates to issues of process and procedure type issues. And then the third

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Professor who likely tried to kiss student placed on leave, new investigation announced S arah S poon sspoon@esubulle tin.com

The tenured psychology professor at the center of a sexual harassment case that shook Emporia State earlier this semester was placed on administrative leave last week and a new investigation was announced.

The professor, Brian Schrader, was placed on leave “effective immediately,” according to an email statement issued campus-wide by ESU President Allison Garrett at 5:01 p.m. Garrett said a new, formal investigation would be conducted into the incident “as a result of new information that has come to our attention.”

The investigation will be conducted by the Husch Blackwell Law Firm based out of Kansas City. The firm did not immediately respond to The Bulletin’s request for an interview.

It was unclear from the

email what the new information was, and university officials said they couldn’t discuss it.

The university held separate town hall and informational meetings in late February and early March about sexual harassment on campus after the The Bulletin published stories about “Jane,” a Korean undergraduate, who described her frustration with the university after filing a sexual battery complaint against Schrader. Jane said Schrader had taken her to a storage room near his office in Visser Hall, touched her inappropriately and tried to kiss her.

Although university police and human resources found, based on a “preponderance of evidence,” that Schrader was likely responsible, he faced little or no discipline. During the informational meeting in March, Garrett said that a panel of tenured faculty found there was insufficient evidence to fire Schrader. At

the meeting, Provost David Cordle indicated he had recommended firing.

The controversy also prompted a “Justice for Jane” protest March 5 on campus.

The Bulletin withheld the Korean student’s real name and referred to her as “Jane” to protect her against the stigma of reporting sexual misconduct. The Bulletin chose to name Schrader because of the “preponderance of evidence” that indicated he violated the university’s sexual conduct policy, according to the final summary of the investigation.

“Because there was significant community interest in this matter, I am stepping outside of our standard protocols to share this limited information with you,” Garrett said in the email.

Schrader is still on staff, but will no longer be on campus, which means he will continue to be paid, according to Gwen Larson, assistant director of

marketing and media relations. The Office of Human Resources referred all questions to Larson.

Schrader’s employment contract is up May 18 of this year and he is being paid $71,937 for this academic year, which started August 14, according to employment contracts The Bulletin previously received through Open Records requests.

All of Schrader’s classes will be reassigned to other psychology professors, according to Larson.

“I don’t want to see him, so it’s good news for me,” Jane said Wednesday, after learning of Garrett’s statement. “I saw him on the third floor (of Visser) two weeks ago, but even though the event was well past, I was very upset.”

It was unclear at this time when and if Schrader will return to campus and what qualifications need to be met in order for him to return.

“The administration has

as well as every witnesses and the respondents were asked to sign a notice of, what was the exact phrase, Gwen?

Larson: Non-Retaliation and Confidentiality.

G: Yeah, it had kind of a

long name. (They) were asked to sign that document, and everyone who was involved, whether as a complainant, respondent or witness, signed that document. As we all now know, during the pendency

of interest in this matter, the Department of Education has said, ‘Don’t do those any longer.’ There’s obviously, I think, a strong sense that if people want to speak about what’s happened to them, they should

be able to do so. But there are also concerns that there could be retaliation, that there could be opportunities for collusion among witnesses, and so how do you walk that fine line of making sure there’s an appropriate balance for all those involved? Really, that’s what those first issues relate to. One thing that I think may come up as we go through this process is that the department of education has obviously had a strong interest in Title IX and has indicated that there might be a possibility that they might engage in administrative rule making, which would have the rule of law. The way that Title IX has often been dealt with over the last several years has been through the issuance of what are called “Dear Colleague” letters, which are not technically binding, but institutions typically view them as if they are binding. So, it may be that during the work that is being done by this taskforce, there will be some changes that are happening at the federal level, with respect to Title IX which could keep things very lively.

person working hard towards an education and over whom he had power. That is unacceptable on every level.”

Sophie Adams, sophomore nursing major, agreed.

“I understand that firing him will not solve the bigger issue within our society, however if there is nothing done then it continues to negatively affect Jane’s daily life at ESU as well as other students in his classes,” Adams said.

Jaimala Hughes, freshman psychology major, wasn’t sure that termination was the way to go.

“I think Dr. Schrader is a good professor. I don’t know him personally or anything about his character so I can’t really say if he should be fired or not. All I know is he gets his job done,” Hughes said. “That doesn’t go to say I don’t support Jane. I would say I’m sorry for the situation she was put in. I’m glad she took initiative when she felt something wasn’t right.”

Smith and two other students also expressed concern that the incident could be

repeated.

“If he’s done this to one student it is possible he’s done it with others, or if he’s getting away with it, will he do it again? These are things we have to think about if he’s still here,” Smith said. “With these things in mind, how could any psych student feel comfortable sitting in his classes?”

A student expressed concern that the result of how the incident was handled could lead to other faculty or staff members repeating the crime.

“That’s an example to any other faculty member that if I take advantage of my position of power, it’s going to be fine,” said a female student who wanted to remain anonymous. “I wonder what it says to other faculty (that he still works here.) What does that say and represent? That any faculty member can take advantage of anyone because nothing is going to be done about it. What does that say about how faculty and administration respects us as students?”

According to several students, before his classes were

reassigned, attendance and class participation dropped.

“It kind of puts you in a place where you’re like ‘Should I even attend the class anymore?’” said the female student who wanted to remain anonymous. “I don’t want to support him but this is also a credit that a lot of students have to take.”

She said it affected her performance in the class.

“There are certain things you should be able to go to your professor for and ask questions, if you have questions,” she said. “I feel that I can’t go up and ask questions. I feel really uncomfortable and like I can’t do that.”

“It’s really discouraging and scary to know that the university knew what happened and continued to let him be involved with us because before I knew, I had multiple meetings with him alone,” said Ruth Daniel, freshman psychology major. “It also feels like proof that everything that women in our society have been taught is true. We need to be protecting ourselves against these dangers.”

Daniel said she skipped class a few times because she didn’t feel comfortable going.

“I’ve decided I’m not going to come back to Emporia next year,” Daniel said. “I don’t really trust it (the university) anymore.”

Cole Lara, sophomore psychology major, has also considered going elsewhere for school.

“Before all of this came out, I thought ESU was my home away from home,” Lara said.

“I thought I finally found the place I belonged, and then hearing this and seeing how administration has tackled this, it’s a big let down.”

Lara also wanted to express support for Jane.

“I want her to know, as a sexual assault and sexual harassment survivor myself, you are amazing,” Lara said. “You have done something that you had every right to do and because of this you have ignited a fire within a lot of us students and I hope you know how much we appreciate you. We hope only good things for you in the future.”

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continued from page 5 group of recommendations we’re hoping the task force can make has to do with the kinds of training that we provide for various groups on our campus. For example, we have training that we provide to students, we have training that we provide to faculty, how often should we be repeating our training? One of the things we learned during one of the town halls was that adjunct faculty may not be receiving training and so that would be an area where we may have a gap in our training, and so having this task force look at best practices, look at the kind of training we’re doing, how frequently we’re doing that training would be another area of important recommendations to come out of this task force.

S: You mentioned confidentiality and First Amendment issues. What did you mean by that?

G: So there was obviously concern that the complainant,

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which Jane provided.

Schrader has been placed on paid administrative leave as of Wednesday, March 28.

The twelve, who gave separate interviews to The Bulletin, gave remarkably similar answers when asked what the appropriate punishment should be.

“I wish he would be fired,” said Brooklyn Smith, sophomore criminal psychology major. “For the safety of the students and for them to feel comfortable here at school again, and for at least some peace of mind for Jane, I think he needs to be. I don’t think he should be allowed to teach students here anymore.”

Kenton Terry, junior psychology major, said he felt like there needed to be accountability for Schrader.

“Termination is the only thing I’ll personally accept,” Terry said. “It’s not about having his head on a platter...It’s about the fact that he used his authority to take advantage of a

never contacted me,” Jane said. “It’s nice that he’s leaving school after this, but I still hate him.”

It is also unclear how the investigation will be handled.

“As we reflect on recent events that have occurred on our campus, I am grateful that we are able to come together as a community to have meaningful conversations about important issues at ESU and identify the actions we can take to move forward in a positive direction,” Garrett said in her statement. “We will not tolerate inaction or complacency when change needs to be made.”

Schrader did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

Correction: In a previous, online version of this article, it was said that Schrader’s psychology classes would be taken over by tenured psychology professors.

The professors who are taking over are not tenured, but tenuretrack.

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El regreso de los patos a ESU G aby A mparan g a m pa r a n @ e s u b u l l e t i n . c o m

Para celebrar el regreso de los patos, la oficina de la presidenta en conjunto con la página de twitter “ESU Ducks” organizaron un a fiesta de bienvenida el jueves pasado en el patio del Memorial Union.

Se tocó música de patos para aliviar el ambiente y se sirvieron galletas en forma de pato para los atendientes.

“Estoy muy contenta saber que hay gente que les gusta los como yo”, dijo Kathryn Jackson, estudiante de primer año de pre-medicina y creadora de la página ESU Ducks.

Aunque el evento fue en la tarde, sin embargo, los patos regresaron al campus esa mañana. Fueron soltados a Wooster alrededor de las 9 a.m., según Patrick Renfro, técnico de sistemas de edificios y cuidador de los patos durante el invierno.

“Los patos se acoplaron muy bien con el resto del grupo y no hubieron problemas”, dijo Renfro.

“Durante el invierno, los patos estuvieron en un corral. Y si el clima estaba cálido, se les permite estar, libres y caminar un poco más, dijo Renfro.

“Espero que nos toque un verano mejor este año y que

más gente mantenga sus perros correados”, dijo Renfro.

La agencia de aseguranza Aflac local proporcionó bolas de estrés en forma de patos para publicar este evento, según Gwen Larson, directora asistente de relaciones de los medios.

“Me encanta ver los patos”, dijo Jackson. “Me relaja cuando voy en camino a clase o a donde sea”.

Se espera tener otra fiesta de bienvenida para los patos el próximo año. Jackson está aceptando sugerencias para mejorar el evento a través de la página de Facebook “ESU Ducks” o la página de twitter.

Disfrazada como pato, Bobbi Rookstool, estudiante de primer año en educación, agarra una galleta de pato durante la fiesta de bienvenida de los patos en Wooster Lake el jueves pasado. En el evento tocaron música de patos y Kathryn Jackson, estudiante de primer año de pre-medicina y creadora de la página de los patos, le habló a los estudiantes. Abigail Ponce | The Bulletin

Beacon for Hope organiza evento de arte inspirado por esperanza 10:00 a.m.

Hora: registración: caminata: 12:00 p.m.

Día: 7 de abril Lugar: Kellogg Circle Costo: Gratis facebook.com/beaconforhope Infographic By Kalliope Craft | The Bulletin

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“Beacon for Hope” organizó un evento de arte inspirado por esperanza el sábado pasado donde mostraron arte submitido, una subasta silenciosa para las tres mejores entradas y murales cuales la gente podía pintar. El evento originalmente iba ser el viernes pero fue empujado hasta el sábado por causa

de Hornet Connection que fue el viernes.

“Por ser la primera vez hubo gran participación”, dijo Melissa Kurtenbach, directora ejecutiva de Beacon for Hope. “Lo que queríamos que pasara era que las diferentes piezas, las diferentes interpretaciones de las personas sobre la esperanza, las diferentes personas podrían conectarse con las diferentes piezas, ellos podrían

relacionarse con lo que se estaba enseñando en el arte y lo que pasó así que fue muy emocionante”.

El evento de arte inspirado por esperanza fue concebido durante una junta donde estaban (Beacon for Hope) pensando en ideas en cómo poder alcanzar grupos de individuales en nuestra comunidad que utilizan el arte como una forma de expresarse, mecanismo de supervivencia o profesión.

“La meta del evento fue para conectar nuestra comunidad por medio de las diferentes piezas de arte con las cuales puedan relacionarse”, dijo Kurtenbach.

Poder identificarse con las piezas creadas asegura los individuales que no están solos en sus peleas con sus problemas personales”.

26 artistas entraron el evento y las tres mejores piezas fueron subastadas como parte de la subasta silenciosa. El arte incluyó

dibujos, pinturas, soplados de vidrio, una cobija tejida y arte de madera y clavos.

“Tuvimos como jueces a cinco profesores y también dos estudiantes de tercer o cuarto año”, dijo Beth Wright, estudiante de tercer año de educación de arte y de terapia de arte y presidenta de Beacon for Hope. “Creamos una hoja donde iban ser criticados en técnica, composición, diseño, conceptos involucrados, eficacia general y artesanía. Eso fue para los adultos y los niños. Normalmente en un concurso como este estarian separados, pero como fue al empezar del evento, no habían tantas piezas así que se tuvieron que juntar”.

El evento juntó más de $500. 40 por ciento de lo que fue subastado se regaló a los artistas y el resto del dinero se va usar para entrenamientos.

“Nos (Beacon for Hope) enorgullecemos que 100%

de nuestras donaciones fueron locales”, dijo Kurtenbach. “Nuestra primera prioridad es proveer fondos a los miembros de la comunidad para atender entrenamientos formales de salud mental y prevención de suicidio. Los fondos ahorrados del evento del arte y también de la caminata pagarán por el entrenamiento formal de la prevención de suicidio que será el 27 de abril en Emporia State University a la 1:00 p.m.”.

El entrenamiento se llama “Pregunta. Persuadir.

Referir” (QPR) y será ofrecido sin ningún cobro para 25 estudiantes, facultad y personal. Debido al espacio limitado, gente interesada debería de mandar un correo electrónico a melissa@hopelinks.org. Las tres mejores piezas y algunos dibujos serán mostrados en el próximo evento de primer viernes en la tienda de Ellen Plumb.

Beacon y Hornets for Hope organizan caminata para la prevención del suicidio J ose M edrano jmedrano@esubulle tin.com

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Hornets for Hope se está asociando con Beacon for Hope, una organización local sin fines de lucro para la prevención del suicidio, para tener una caminata llamada “Light the Way for Hope”. El objetivo de la caminata es ayudar a conectar la comunidad de Emporia State y Emporia para que los participantes puedan hablar con otros miembros sobre sus problemas de salud mental.

"Será una forma en que las personas en campus se junten y hablen sobre sus emociones y sus experiencias, y realmente establezcan conexiones con las personas", dijo Beth Wright, estudiante de primer año en terapia de arte y educación de arte, presidenta de Hornets for Hope y miembra de Beacon for Hope. "De eso se tratan nuestras caminatas. Haciendo conexiones con personas porque realmente ayuda con todo el proceso de curación", dijo Wright.

El evento es gratis, pero contará con una rifa y venta de pasteles donde el dinero juntado ayudará a

enviar a las personas a recibir entrenamiento “QPR” de prevención de suicidios, según Wright. "Esperamos que si esta caminata funciona bien, podamos financiar eso", dijo Wright.

"Si todo va bien, podemos tener más entrenamientos, y entre más gente podamos capacitar en campus, más saludable será campus".

Los participantes tienen la opción de caminar por la ruta negra o correr por la ruta dorada y también pueden participar en la caminata de listón. Los mapas de las rutas se pueden encontrar en la página de Facebook del evento Light the Way for Hope.

"La caminata de listón va ser de listones amarrados a lo largo de la caminata y la gente podrá escribir pensamientos positivos, nombres de personas que han perdido, conexiones, historias de sí mismos", dijo Wright. "De esa forma, realmente podremos visualizar cuántas personas realmente han sido afectadas".

Melissa Kurtenbach, directora ejecutiva de Beacon for Hope, organiza las caminatas de “Out of the

Darkness” en Emporia y está ayudando con este evento. "(La) caminata de Light the Way for Hope es para unir a los miembros de nuestra comunidad a través del apoyo y la esperanza", dijo Kurtenbach. "Nuestras caminatas se centran en las personas que asisten, no a la cantidad de dinero recaudado.

Tener un evento donde las personas tengan un lugar seguro para hablar con otros miembros sobre sus problemas de salud mental es nuestra principal prioridad. Medimos el éxito de nuestro evento por la cantidad de personas que asisten ".

Junto con las caminatas, también habrá un estudiante, Lucas Lord, quien discutirá su historia junto con mecanismos de afrontamiento, una pared conmemorativa y burbujas.

La caminata de la prevención de suicidio de Light the Way for Hope es este sábado. La registración comienza a las 10:00 a.m. y la caminata comienza a las 12:00 p.m. Debido al pronóstico del clima más frío para el fin de semana, registración será en el Union Square.

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Rives talks teaching, shielding students from bullets S arah S poon sspoon@esubulle tin.com

Nang Rives spoke about how she lived much of her early life under an authoritarian socialist dictatorship in Burma, where her “heart still belongs,” before traveling to live in the United States where she eventually obtained eight degrees, including two PhD’s.

She returned to Emporia State, where she received a masters in library science, to speak about her life last Thursday in the Sauder Alumni Center.

“In my days (as a teacher at Hopong High School), there were insurgents, even in the daytime,” Rives said. “They often came to raid the town. You Nang Rives speaks to a group last Thursday in the Sauder Alumni Center could see them on their as ESU wrapped up Women’s History Month. Rives spoke about her life un- horses galloping to come der an authoritarian regime in Burma and her experience with the #metoo movement. Sarah Spoon| The Bulletin

Beacon, Hornets for Hope to hold suicide prevention walk D ustin B ittel dbit tel@esubulle tin.com

Hornets for Hope is partnering with the local suicide prevention non-profit organization, Beacon for Hope, to put together a Light the Way for Hope walk. The purpose of the walk is to help connect the Emporia State and Emporia community so participants can talk with other members about their mental health issues.

“It’s just going to be a way for people on campus to get together and talk about their emotions and their experiences and stuff and really make connections with people,” said Beth Wright, president of Hornets for Hope, board member for Beacon of Hope and freshman art education and art therapy major. “That’s really what our walks are generally about. Making connections with people because it really does help with the whole healing process.”

The event has no registration fee but will feature a raffle and bake sale where the money collected will help send people to receive ‘Question.

Persuade. Refer’ suicide prevention training, according to Wright.

“We’re hoping that if this walk goes well we can fund that,” Wright said. “If that goes well we can have more training and the more people we can get trained on campus the healthier campus is going to be.”

Participants have the option to either walk the black route or run the gold route while also being able to partici-

pate in the ribbon walk. Maps of the routes can be found on the Light the Way for Hope event page.

“The ribbon walk is just going to be ribbons tied down the walk that the walk goes through and people will be able to write positive thoughts, names of people they lost, connections, stories of themselves,” Wright said. “That way you can really visualize how many people have really been affected.”

Melissa Kurtenbach, executive director of Beacon for Hope, used to organize the Out of the Darkness walks in Emporia and is helping with this event. “(The) Light the Way for Hope walk is to link our community members together through support and hope,” Kurtenbach said. “Our walks focus on the people who attend versus the amount of money raised. Providing an event where individuals have a safe place to talk with other members about their mental health issues is our top priority. We measure the success of our event by the number of individuals who attend.”

Along with the walks, there will also be a student speaker, Lucas Lord, who will discuss their story along with coping mechanisms, a memorial wall and a bubble release.

The Light the Way for Hope suicide prevention walk and fun run is this Saturday. Registration starts at 10 a.m. with the walk starting at 12 p.m.

Due to the predicted colder weather for the weekend, registration will take place in the Union Square.

kidnap the town’s socialist party leader...The kids were coming back to school from their lunch break and they were scattering everywhere. They were in a field running around.”

Rives had to think quickly to save the kids under her protection.

“I was able to get them to come back and lie down on ground,” Rives said.

“Just imagine, I was in my early 20s, so I had kind of fierceness in me still. I was able to keep the kids from getting hit by bullets.”

Rives spoke about how she was a teacher in Burma and hoped that people would gain an appreciation for the culture and scenery of Burma.

“Women are very powerful in Burma,” Rives said.

“They are well-respected.”

Rives spoke about the specific challenges she faced as a woman, especially with dealing with sexual harassment.

“In honor of Women’s History Month throughout March, Emporia State University is celebrating the accomplishments of women, including Dr. Nung Rives,” said Mirah Dow, professor of the school of library and information management and former professor of Rives.

Rives currently lives in Lawrence, KS. “This is a great collaboration between the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and very own SLIM program here at Emporia State,” said Jason Brooks, assistant dean of students for diversity, equity and inclusion.

Beacon for Hope holds art event D ustin B ittel dbit tel@esubulle tin.com

Beacon for Hope held their Art Inspired by Hope event on Saturday where they showcased the artwork submitted, held a silent auction for the top three entries and had murals for people to color. The event was originally scheduled for Friday but was pushed to Saturday due to the Hornet Connection happening Friday.

“For our first time it was a decent turn out,” said Melissa Kurtenbach, executive director of Beacon for Hope.

“What we really wanted to happen was the different types of pieces, people’s different interpretations of hope, different people would be able to connect to different pieces, they could relate to what was coming through in the art and people did so that was exciting.”

Art Inspired by Hope was conceived during a meeting where they (Beacon for Hope) were brainstorming how they could reach groups of individuals in our commu-

nity who utilize art as a form of expression, coping mechanism, or profession.

“The goal of the event was to connect our community through pieces of art that they could relate to,” Kurtenbach said. “Being able to identify with the pieces created reassures individuals they are not alone in their fight with their own personal struggles.”

Twenty-six artists entered the event and the top three pieces were auctioned off as part of the silent auction. The art ranged from drawings and paintings to glass blowing, a crocheted blanket and some wood-nail art.

“We had five professors and then two third or fourth year art students to do judging for that,” said Beth Wright, president of Hornets for Hope, board member for Beacon of Hope and freshman art education and art therapy major. “We made up a sheet and they were judged on technique, composition, design, concepts that were involved, overall effectiveness and craftsmanship.”

The event raised over $500. Forty percent of what was auctioned went back to the artists while the rest of the money that was raised will go to training.

“We (Beacon for Hope) pride ourselves on the fact that 100% of all donations stay local,” Kurtenbach said.

“Our top priority is to provide funding for community members to attend formal mental health or suicide prevention training. Funds raised from the art event as well as the walk will pay for a formal suicide prevention training that is being held on April 27 at Emporia State University at 1 p.m.”

The training is called ‘Question. Persuade. Refer,’ and is being offered free of charge for up to 25 Emporia State students, faculty and staff. Due to limited spaces available, those interested should RSVP at melissa@ hopelinks.org.

The top three pieces along with a few sketches will be featured at the next First Friday event hosted by Ellen Plumb’s bookstore.

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ASG passes resolution unfavorably in regards to ESU’s handling of sexual harassment

Caylie Ratzlaff, sophomore social science and English education major, reads from the resolution regarding sexual harassment on Thursday March 15 in Senate Chambers. The resolution condemned the university’s actions in handing sexual assault on campus, and passed unfavorably 9-2, with nine abstentions. Gabriel Molina Maruda | The Bulletin

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A senate resolution condemning ESU’s actions handling sexual assault passed unfavorably during the ASG meeting March 15. The vote

was 9-2, with nine senators abstaining.

“A Resolution to Condemn ESU’s Actions in Regard to Handling Sexual Assault,” was written by Caylie Ratzlaff, sophomore social science

and English education major, regarding the handling of a sexual assault case at ESU in which, “Jane,” an anonymous international student alleged that tenured psychology professor Brian Schrader took her to a storage room, touched her inappropriately and attempted to kiss her.

“This is an intricate and important discussion, and we owe all the victims and survivors of sexual harassment, violence, and assault the discussion,” Ratzlaff said.

Ratzlaff said that according to an old parliamentary procedure from Robert’s Rules of Order, because the bill passed unfavorably it cannot be signed, but it did not technically fail, according to Ratzlaff.

“Even though it can’t be signed, I’m still glad it made the headlines and people are aware that there are people who are upset with ESU’s actions,” Ratzlaff said.

Ratzlaff also spoke on the issue brought about in the last

meeting that suggested taking out names and all individual identifying marks from the resolution.

“We cannot raise the issue of how we disagree with the university’s actions if we do not call them out for the very event they failed to have any remorse for until The Bulletin broke the story,” Ratzlaff said.

Brady Lund, graduate business student, said that the resolution could call for an independent investigation that could end in termination, but shouldn’t call for the termination itself.

They also discussed “A Resolution of Demands Upon the Administration of ESU,” which was written by Gage Simpson, ASG senator and political science major.

This resolution called for the university to take the following actions: Removing Brian Schrader from staff/ pay, increase transparency in these types of cases, educating students, staff and

administration on the issue of sexual assault, what is available to victims in these cases and launch an investigation of all levels of sexual assault including actions of staff, spread a message to perpetrators about the consequences of such actions and more transparency and availability to victims.

“If these demands are not put into action by the administration of ESU it will show that Emporia State University is complicit in sexual violence and will continue to put violent constraints upon victims,” Ratzlaff read from the resolution.

The bill passed unfavorably 9-2 with eight senators abstaining, and included the call for termination of Brian Schrader and the mentions of specific details and identifiers in the resolution.

The next ASG meeting will be held at 5:15 p.m. April 12 in the Senate Chambers on the third floor of the Memorial Union.

ESU to host TallGrass Science and Nature writing workshop C aleb M oes cmoes@esubulle tin.com

The Ross Natural History Reservation and Plumb Hall will be hosting the TallGrass Science and Nature Writing workshop April 20 and 21.

The cost of the workshop is $95, which includes the barbecue dinner Friday and a lunch Saturday. The cost to participate Saturday only will be $60.

Pre-registration will be from 4-6 p.m. on Thursday, April 19. Registration will be from 8-9 a.m. on Friday, April 20.

Kevin Rabas, chair of English, modern languages and journalism, Amy Sage Webb, director of the creative

writing program and professor of English, modern languages and journalism, Brent Thomas, dean of liberal arts and sciences, Max McCoy, professor of journalism and adviser to The Bulletin, and others will all be helping to put on this event.

On Friday, activities will take place at the Ross Natural History Reserve starting at 9 a.m. There will be activities such as exploring the reserve, taking field notes, and aerial kite photography, working with drones, and a hike at the tallgrass prairie reserve.

The night will conclude with a barbeque, that includes storytelling and a

jam session, according to a pamphlet by the Center for Great Plains Studies.

“The Tallgrass Science and Nature Writing Workshop aims to help communicate the importance of the natural world to a general audience by bringing together writers, and scientist, journalist and artist, poets and photographers” according to the Center for Great Plains study website.

During this workshop participants can expect to participate in field work on Friday and a full day of presentations on Saturday.

“We are putting writers and scientists together in hopes that both groups

Cancer survivor performs in Kellogg Circle

Union Activities Council sponsored Krigare yesterday in front of Plumb Hall while students listened to the live band and dyed shirts. Krigare, who survived cancer twice, has been a pianist for Kelly Clarkson’s Grammy Award Performance. Gabriel Molina Maruda | The Bulletin

can benefit,” said Thomas. “”We need people who can effectively communicate to the world.”

Directions to the Ross

Natural History Reservation can be found on Google maps or by typing https:// goo.gl/XzGVb1.

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Because the EOS is federal law, Schallenkamp said that they did not want to mislead ESU students and give them an assumption that they could offer protection for sexual orientation, which they could not by law offer.

“It was inconsistent with all other campus documents, and so after a lot of soul searching, we decided that it was perhaps inserted in error,” Schallenkamp said. “That was the assumption, because there was no evidence to support that it had been approved.”

Schallenkamp said that she also felt she needed to protect the integrity of the shared governance process, and bring the catalogue verbiage in line with the rest of the campus documents.

“I did not want to do this,” Schallenkamp said. “It’s in my makeup to protect students and to help students.”

Schallenkamp said that a few months later, one of ESU’s retired employees who was gravely ill told a visiting friend that she was the one who put the protections into the EOS. “She said, ‘I put it in. I put it in because I thought it was the right thing to do. And I now know that was wrong,’” Schallenkamp said. “But that woman died shortly after that, within the year, but I remember that employee coming into the

office and saying ‘you’re not going to believe this.’ That this is the statement that she made.”

Because of this incident, Schallenkamp said she implemented a system that required all recommendations for policy changes to come through on a sign-off sheet, which would leave a paper trail and keep track of what recommendations went through.

“I think another thing that I’m very proud of that happened while I was there that I think demonstrates my philosophy toward students and toward individuals from different backgrounds was the Muslim center,” Schallenkamp said.

“We were the first campus to endorse and support the Muslim center, and we worked with the faculty and the students.

While it was all private funding, we worked to help them through some of the hurdles that they needed to purchase that property.”

Schallenkamp, 68, left ESU in 2006 to become the 9th president of Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota. She retired in 2014, and still lives in Spearfish.

“I want the campus to understand that we were not mean and capricious and arbitrary,” Schallenkamp said. “In fact, we were quite the opposite. We were very deliberate, very careful, very thoughtful, very thorough in trying to get to the bottom of it. And did what we thought was the right thing to do.”

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Top three finishes for ESU track at ESU Relays

Duke Tibbs, senior sprinter, Taysean Goodwin, junior sprinter, and Luke Stenzel, sophomore sprinter, finish the men’s 400 meter dash at the Emporia State Relays on Saturday at Welch Stadium. Tibbs finished with a time of 49.13 in third place, Goodwin with 48.88 in first place and Stenzel with 48.99 in second place, and assisted with the men’s team’s first place finish. Abigail Ponce | The Bulletin

with a first place finish and Dominating the track, the the women finished third at men came away with five mthornton@esubulle tin.com the ESU Relays last Saturday gold medals. The 4x100 took The men walked away at Welch Stadium. first, along with the 4x400.

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The 4x400 relay was made up of Taysean Goodwin, junior sprinter, Luke Stenzel, sophomore sprinter, Duke Tibbs, senior sprinter, and Parker Evans, junior sprinter The men’s 1600 sprint medley also grabbed a gold medal. Kaleb Barber, redshirt freshman sprinter, Malcolm Dade, junior sprinter, Tanner Raubenstine, freshman multievent, and Jacob Gerber, sophomore distance, took the win with a time of 3:40.86.

Individually, ESU placed first, second, and third in the 400-meter dash with Goodwin in first, followed by Stenzel, then Tibbs.

Alec Garcia, senior thrower, also won first place in the shot put and his throw of 17.08m landed him fourth in school history.

For the women, Lati Yeargin, senior sprinter, placed second in the 100meter dash. Her race contin-

ued her record setting season and time of 11.89 put her third in ESU’s record book.

The women’s 4x100, made up of Jazmin Williams, sophomore sprinter, Hannah Shield, junior sprinter, Malacia Lee, senior sprinter, and Yeargin, placed first.

In the 4x400 relay, the Hornets took a second place finish. Williams, Elizabeth Blevins, graduate sprinter, Brianna Schmitz, senior multi event, and Kaycee Mayfield, junior sprinter, ran in the race. The women’s 4x800 also grabbed second place, with Devlyn Brill, freshman distance, Devyn Smith, sophomore distance, Joanna Strecker, freshman distance, and Nora Wheatley, freshman distance, and a time of 10:33.

ESU will travel to Maryville, Missouri for the MIAA- NSIC Challenge today.

Hornets go 1-3 against Washburn C hristina W ankum c wa n k u m @ e s u b u l l e t i n . c o m

The Lady Hornets played last Friday and Saturday against Washburn University. They played two double headers for a total of four games. The Hornets ended up going 1-3 over the two days of playing.

“The one thing we are really focused on the rest of this season is executing and scoring our base runners,” said senior infielder Hailey Cope.

“Another big thing is that we have fun playing the game we love.”

The first game of the first double header was played on Friday.

This game got off to a slow start for both teams as neither one of them scored in the first three innings. The Hornets ultimitely fell in

the first game, 0-4.

Ending the second game of the day with another loss, the Hornets got off to a better start as they scored within the first three innings. However, the Hornets were again outscored on the offensive side as the Ichabods scored six runs in the first three innings.

Both teams played very defensive games as there were no more runs the remainder of the game, the final score being 1-6.

The first of two games the following day proved to have similar results for the Hornets. ESU got off to a rough start as Washburn scored eight points in the first two innings as the Hornets had another scoring drought that lasted the remainder of the game.

The Ichabods’ eight points were the last points of the game as all runs

scored were scored in the first two innings, ending the game, 0-8.

The Lady Hornets, however, would not give up despite adversity.

Scoring the first two runs of the final game, this game got off to a positive start.

The Ichabods quickly responded in the bottom of the second inning, tying the game, 2-2. Both teams were neck in neck the remainder of the game as they both went scoreless the third and fourth inning and both scored one run in the fifth inning.

They continued this pattern into the sixth inning where they each scored three runs and into the seventh inning, in which they each scored one run.

The Hornets prevailed in the eighth inning where they scored two final runs

The softball team huddles together during a game against Washburn Friday at the Trusler Sports Complex. The Hornets lost both games against the Ichabods and will have another home game Tuesday, April 10 against Newman University. Xiangru Chen | The Bulletin

to end the game, victorious over Washburn, the final score being 9-7.

“We are working at finding consistency at the plate and stringing more hits together.” said senior utility player Annelise Rockley. “As many runs

as we have scored on our defense, we need to come back with on offense.”

The Lady Hornets will be back in action today as they take on The University of Nebraska Kearney in Kearney, Nebraska. First pitch is at 12 p.m.

Hornet baseball wins two, drops one at home

Mason Brown, senior catcher, bats against Fort Hayes State University Friday at the Trusler Sports Complex. After the two wins on Friday, the team holds a 17-12 for the season. Xiangru Chen | The Bulletin

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The Hornet men took on Fort Hays State University last Thursday through Saturday.

They played three games in three days at the Trusler Sports Complex. The men won two games and lost one, ending the weekend with a 2-1 record.

“We had a few big innings that produced some runs for us and our starters really took the bats out of their hands.” said junior second baseman

Brian Grove, “I think from an offensive standpoint we are putting together more and more quality at bats. This is going to be critical when we face better pitching as the year goes on.”

The first of the three games played against Fort Hays State was played on Thursday. This game started out strong for The Hornets as they cored the first three runs of the game in the bottom of the first inning, while the Tigers did not put any runs on the board.

This streak continued into

the following innings as the Hornets scored a run in the second inning and another in the fifth inning while the Tigers were still scoreless.

The Tigers were eventually put on the board in the top of the eighth inning, scoring one point. However, the Hornets responded doubly, scoring two more runs. The Tigers scored four runs in the ninth inning, but this was not enough to top the Hornets, who won the game 7-5.

The second game of the weekend also proved promising from the beginning for the Hornets.

After a dry first inning, the Hornets scored two runs to take the lead in the game, 1-2.

Continuing on this progress, the Hornets scored four runs in the next two innings while the Tigers kept the same score, not gaining another run until the top of the fifth inning. The Hornets continued to run away with the game as they scored six more runs, four of which were in the seventh inning, while the Tigers scored only two more runs for a total of four runs, ending the game 12-4, Hornets.

The third and final game proved to be a lower scoring game for the Hornets as they took a loss. Fort Hays took the lead in the beginning of the first inning, scoring three runs in the first two innings while Emporia State saw a dry spell until the bottom of the fourth inning where they tied the game, 3-3.

The Hornets would only score one more run until the conclusion of the game as the Tigers proceeded to score four more runs in the fifth and sixth innings. The Hornet

Men fell in the final game of the weekend with a final score of 4-7.

“We did a pretty good job taking care of business on Thursday and Friday,” said senior pitcher Layne Downing. “(We) lost focus on Saturday and it cost us a game.”

The men’s baseball team will be back in action this Saturday as they will take on the University of Nebraska Kearney at the Trusler Sports Complex. The first pitch will be thrown at 1:00 p.m.